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UAE Bunts to honour Dr Sunitha Shetty with Bunta Vibhushana

Shodhan Prasad
May 8, 2018

Well known writer poetess from Tulu Nadu, Dr. Sunitha Shetty will be bestowed with ‘Bunta Vibhushana Award’ for the year 2018 during the 44th Anniversary celebration of UAE Bunts on 11th May, 2018.

UAE Bunts have all set to celebrate their 44th anniversary programme this Friday the 11th of May, 2018 in the Ball Room of Hotel J.W. Marriott, Dubai.  Main Convener of UAE Bunts, Padmashree Dr. B.R. Shetty will do the honours along with the Chief Guest Shashikiran Shetty, CEO & Managing Director of All Cargo Logistics Global who will be gracing the occasion.  World Bunts Federation President Aikala Harish Shetty will also grace the function as Guest of Honour.

Film Actor Ashok Shetty along with Karnoor Mohan Rai will be the guests while famous Namma TV personality Naveen Shetty Yedmar will carry on the entire programme as Master of Ceremony.

Awardee Dr. Sunitha Shetty’s foot prints

Hailing from a small town of Kalavaaru near Mangalore Dr. Sunitha Shetty was born in the year 1939.  She graduated from Government College Mangalore in Economics, Political Science majoring Kannada language.

She later moved to Mumbai to join her brother and started serving as a Teacher there.  After serving there for 10 years she achieved Post Graduation and did her M.A. in Kannada from Mumbai University.  Later with the invitation from Mumbai University she served there as a Professor for over 25 years and got her retirement at the age of 60.

During her time she saw lot of community issues mainly on the marriage formalities in the society she was living.  High ‘dowry system’ was one such issue in the community which resulted with many girls from the low income homes remaining un-married though they pass the age of marriage.  Looking at these issues and also of those atrocities being done by male dominated society, she took up a fight against these systems and founded ‘Young Congress Swayam Sevak’ movement.  She led the movement and with this herself she decided that she will not marry until the society changes with the dowry system.  Her movement got such a tremendous response that many young men came forward voluntarily supporting her movement and marrying without demanding any dowry.  This lead to the downslide of the ‘dowry system’ and the system changes came to the society in large.  Later a youngster came forward and proposed to marry her without demanding dowry. This proposal was then supported by her uncle who arranged for the marriage and today Dr. Sunitha Shetty is blessed with three children.

As a writer Dr. Sunita started with the weekly Kannada magazine ‘Prajamatha’ with her short stories published in the magazine from time to time.  Later it got developed as she started teaching the students in her college with poem recitation.  Started earlier with poems in Kannada and later she also started writing in Tulu language which was her mother tongue.  Her bouquet of Poems ‘Pingara’ gave her big popularity and later she wrote and published ‘Ninada’, ‘Antharanga’, ‘Payana’, ‘Nanna Doni Ninna Theera’ and various other short stories, dramas etc., and around 23 books are released to her credit.

Dr. Sunitha gained gathered more experience with her travelling to places which improved her knowledge towards literature.  She was also invited to America as a Guest of Vishwa Buntara Sammelana.  Later years she travelled to Europe, Dubai, Kuwait, Bahrain, Andaman Nicobar Islands, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal and also in and around India.  Daring to travel all alone to so many places made her strong and courageous.  Blessed with this she shared and wrote her experience in a Book of Tourism titled ‘Pravasiya Hejjagalu’ which received honour of ‘Matoshree Ratnamma Heggade’ Award.  Later she wrote ‘Sanskrati Payana’ describing the various art and folklore of various destinations. Looking at the various books she wrote especially about the well-known artiste K.K. Hebbar’s life story, the Sahitya Academy gave her an opportunity to write about Literature, Art, Folk & Tradition in Kannada & Tulu Languages.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES BESTOWED

Dr. Sunitha from the past five decades have been writing and still at the age of 79 going strong with her literature, drama and poems writings.  Appraising her work she has been honoured by various Organisations in both Kannada & Tulu including appreciations from the government.

Some of the awards include:-

1. Veera Rani Abbaka Award in 1998 by Abbaka Prathistana Karnataka

2. Jayadevi Thayi Ligade Award in 2012 by Vidyadhar Kannada Prathistana

3. Karnataka Kalashree Award in the year 2012

4. Siri 2018 Award by Buntara Yane Nadavara Sangha Mangaluru

5. Alvas Nudisiri Award

6. Guru Narayana Sahitya Award Mumbai

7. Dhana Chintamani Athimabbe Award by Government of Karnataka

8. Pusthaka Prashasthi Award by Tulu Sahitya Academy

9. Khille Prashasthi Award by Khille Prathistana Puttur

10. Sadhaka Prashasthi Award by Karnataka Sangha Mumbai

11. Sahitya Prashasthi Award by Shree Krishna Prathistana Mumbai

12. Nethaji Puraskar

13. Felicitation by Vashi Kannada Sangha

14. Felicitation by Tulu Koota Kuwait

She was Guest of Honour at ‘Akhila Bharatha Kannada Sanskriti Sammelana’ held in Surat in the year 2012.

Dr. Sunitha always keep encouraging youth and thus leading more and more young writers.  She keeps supporting female gender equality and still helping those downtrodden in the society.  Her support towards social cause is very well remembered, recognized and honoured even today.

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Media Release
May 14,2020

Dubai: A non-profitable social organization, KSCC is delivering a great service to the community during this pandemic situation.

Karnataka Sports and Cultural Club is a civil organization registered under Community Development Authority (CDA) involved in implementing various UAE government initiatives, blood donation drives, health campaigns, sport events, charity works, awareness programs and much more.

KSCC is currently actively liaising with Dubai government authorities in discharging the needs and requirements of the people in these challenging covid-19 pandemic times. It is also involved the activities such as logistics, coordinating stores, mobilizing isolation centers, equipping quarantine facilities and volunteering services.

During these testing times, KSCC is also facilitating the Guidance to the general public, follow-up up to 122 covid positive cases, counselling the affected, assisting the references and providing the ever-necessary emotional support by setting up a team of 24 reserved persons for call center helplines.

As per the request from DHA (Dubai Health Authority) KSCC has successfully organized the blood donation drive and donated upto 141 units of blood with the help of KSCC members & supporters.

Apart from above, KSCC is also engaged in serving needy by distributing the food provisional kit (Yestahloon) from the very 1st day of lockdown till day by their special task force team under guidelines of CDA, and also taking into consideration the month of Ramadan, team is successfully distributing Iftar food & provision kit with the help of donors.

In the 1st Phase, KSCC covered 2421 beneficiaries by providing 440 provisional food kits, 435 food pack and 529 Iftar kits.

As per the CDA guidelines, club is also engaged in following up the health condition of senior citizens living in UAE.

KSCC special team is also engaged in clearing documentation and formalities related to dead body repatriation until its final procedures and handing over to relatives with help of UAE governments authorities. Total 5 dead bodies are repatriated in their 1st phase of service.

KSCC is also having a center controlled special task team to assist all above activities during the covid-19 pandemic to continue the services to general public.

KSCC thanks all Government authorities, Members in different task team, supporters and Sponsors company MAERSK, MALABAR GOLD & DIAMOND and TAMIL ENTREPRENEUR for their support and also request extend their support to consolidate the above demanding service and deliver our best possible assistance not only because it is the month of Ramadan, but also our responsibility to reach out to the poor and needy, during this fight against Covid-19.

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Media Release
March 15,2020

Markaz Al Madeena Association, Eastern province, conducted JALS-E-UCHILA get together program at Dammam, Saudi Arabia on March 5,2020 on account of celebrating 28 years of social service dedicated by the organization.

The event chairman Noushad Uchil inaugurated the function. The organization president presided the program and delivered talk about the intention of the organization. Hashim Uchil has intorduced the social and academic contribution of the organization of past 28 years. Jamal Uchil welcomed the gathering and Ismail G.I. host the program.

Games, Quiz and prize distribution to the winners and senior social workers was the special attraction of the event. The planning committee of the event includes Iqbal, Farooq, Shahul Hameed, Ramza, Nabeel, Afthar, Ashraf and Shafi.

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Media Release
June 4,2020

Dr Soofi Anwar, Director Academics of University of Stirling RAK, UAE Campus, has achieved the prestigious professional recognition of Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) UK. He has achieved this milestone through the Stirling Framework for Evidencing Learning and Teaching Enhancement (SFELTE), the Continuing Professional Development Framework (CPD) for learning and teaching at University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. 

He was recognized for this achievement on recently concluded virtual Learning & Teaching Conference-2020 organized by University of Stirling Campus in UK.  He has secured his Ph.D. in Management from University of Azteca, Mexico.

Dr. Soofi Anwar has over 20 years of experience in teaching and academic leadership at higher education level and has worked in leading universities in UAE, Bahrain and India. He was conferred the prestigious Middle East Education Leadership Award, as the Best Professor in Management-2018 in recognition of his academic excellence, exemplary leadership in higher education. Prior to his current role, he has worked on leadership position in Birla Institute of Technology Offshore Campus RAK.

He has completed his MBA from Dept. of Business Administration, Mangalore University in 1999 and his B. Com degree from Canara College Mangaluru.

He has published numerous research papers in management and in the area of teaching and learning in higher education in reputed academic journals and international conferences proceedings. He is a member of editorial board of two leading management journals and engaged in reviewing faculty research publications in the area of management and marketing. 

He is a son of Haji Abdul Khadar Kodijal and Mrs. Mariyamma from Konaje, Mangaluru.

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