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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
August 9,2020

Kuwait City, Aug 9: Indian social forum organised Blood Donation Camp in association with central blood bank kuwait on Friday, 7th August 2020.

The forum organised camp to support the high demand of blood in the context of COVID-19.

All arrangements to maintain COVID-19 protocol were made in the camp including segregation of donors as branch wise batches along with strict safety measures of participants.

Forum also had donated blood to many patients during the lockdown period. 

Hundreds of people donated blood in the camp. The camp organised in Blood Bank, Jabriya was successfully managed by Dr. Asma Rafat and leaders of Indian social forum Vice President Aslam, Secretory Sayyid Bukhari Thangal, Moideen Koya, Khaleel, Aseem, Mohammed Sha, Shihab, Naushad,
Indian Social Forum expressed their deep appreciation and gratitude to the doctors, staff and management of blood bank, forum’s members and donors.



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Agencies
August 8,2020

Dubai, Aug 7: One may call it good luck, but for two Indian expats it was God who prevented them at the last minute from boarding the Air India Express plane that crashed in Kerala, killing at least 18 people on board.

According to India's Civil Aviation Ministry, the Boeing 737 aircraft on a flight from Dubai to Kozhikode overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport on Friday evening. There were 184 passengers including 10 infants, 2 pilots and four cabin crew onboard the aircraft.

Noufal Moin Vetten, an Ajman resident working as an office boy in a Sharjah school, was booked to travel on the flight and had checked in as per schedule.

Recounting his miraculous escape, Vetten, a resident of Malappuram, Thirunavaya, whose visa was cancelled a week ago, told Gulf News: “I was handed my boarding pass, but when I reached immigration, they told me I had to pay a fine of Dh 1,000 (Rs 20,430) for overstay. I had only Dh 500 (Rs10,215) with me.

"I called my school PRO and he told me to come back. He said they would follow protocols and pay the fines before sending me,“ he said.

Vetten was disappointed and called his family to let them know.

“When I heard about the crash, I was saddened for all the passengers. But I'm so relieved I missed it. God has been really merciful,” said Vetten.

Afsal Parrakodan, a resident of Abu Dhabi, had a similar stroke of luck.

“My work visa was cancelled about a week ago. After getting my boarding pass, I was told I had to pay a fine of Dh1,000 at the immigration counter, but I had only Dh500 on me.”

“I was very keen to board the flight and be with my family. So I called a friend who brought me the additional Dh500, but by then, my baggage had been offloaded and the flight's doors were closed,” said Parrakodan.

“I was feeling very sad and called my mother to tell her I had missed the flight. But a few hours later, when I learnt of the crash, I couldn’t help but feel relieved and thankful to God for saving my life,“ said an overwhelmed Parrakodan who plans to fly back next week. 

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May 20,2020

Jeddah: Indian Pilgrims Welfare Forum (IPWF) under the patronage of consulate General of India Jeddah related to welfare activities connected to Indian hajj pilgrims in particular and welfare functions of Indian community at large, organized Quran recitation competition for Indian students of age 10 to 14 residing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Grand Finale was conducted Live online via Zoom virtual conference on Friday 15th May 2020 at 14:45 Hrs.

The Consul General Of India, Jeddah and Vice Patron IPWF, H.E.Mr. Md. Noor Rahman Shiekh graced the Grand Finale as honorable Chief Guest. The HOC, Consul Hajj and Director IPWF - Mr. Y Sabir attended as Guest of Honor, while the ever-exuberant President of the forum Mr. Ayyub Hakeem lead the event. A large number of Indian dignitaries and media personnel also joined this live event.

Judges panel included three experienced youths. First judge was the Prominent Hafiz and one of the best Qaris of his calibre, Hafiz Ismail Yahya Bilal, well educated in Qirat from Umm Al Qura University Makkah and currently persuing Masters. He also holds many honors and accolades from various international competitions and appreciations from Imaams of Haramain. The other judge, Hafiz Abdullah A.Mateen Usmani, first position winner, a record for being youngest Indian to win Jeddah Quran competition 2018 under patronage of Jeddah Governor.  Hafiz Farhan Abdur Rab, was the third judge, an Engineer by profession, as well as current Treasurer at IPWF.

Winners; Humeirah Masood Kazi and Furqan Mohammed Vasi Ahmed won Gold position. Maryam Jaffar and Adil Abdul Rasheed ranked Silver while Khatija Ehtesham Ali and Nadeem Noorisha ranked Bronze. Consolation prizes were given to Aamina Mustafa and Mohammed Ahsan Ali. The event was organized to encourage and boost the ambitions of young generation and inspring them to bring out their best in Quran Recitation

While speaking at the event Chief Guest H.E.Mr. Md.Noor Rahman Sheikh appreciated the social works of IPWF for Indian Community, praised the brilliant performance of students, He said it gives us great pleasure seeing that all participants, Judges and Jury members are Indians, he said the recitation of the children was fantabulous, and congratulated to the winners and participants. Chief Guest further said President Ayyub Hakeem and his IPWF Team deserves to be appreciated for their relentless efforts for this Noble cause, even in this period when the world is observing lockdown.

HOC, Consul Hajj Mr. Y Sabir appreciated IPWF team for organizing this virtual competition, he said it’s really amazing that 111 students registered to participate for the contest, he appreciated the hard work of children and efforts of parents for preparing their children.

Mr. Hakeem welcomed all and informed that this competition received overwhelming response from Indian community locally and internationally in short time since its launch was just couple of days earlier. Which compliments events Objective to encourage children “mainly Indians residing in Saudi Arabia” especially during the month of Quran “Ramadan” and lockdown period #COVID-19. 

40 contestants made it to the Semifinals, and 15 Students reached the Grand Finale, 2 young children were given consolation for their enthusiastic recitation. 

The President also appreciated his IPWF Team for unwavering support in preparation of this event.  He thanked the Chief Guest, HE Mr. Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh and Guest of Honor Mr. Y Sabir for gracing this glorious competition. He Thanked the audience and announced that all contestants will be awarded appreciation “digital certificate’

Syed Nasir Khursheed anchored the program, and entertained with beautiful Urdu couplets. Farhan Abdur Rab and Abdul Rahman Poyakkara conducted the contest flawlessly on time. Farhan, concluded the event with Vote of Thanks and soleful dua.

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