Sharjah Karnataka Sangha’s holds 17th anniversary; ‘Mayura’ award conferred on Ramachandra Hegde

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November 19, 2019

Sharjah: Karnataka Sangha Sharjah celebrated its 17th anniversary along with 64th Karnataka Rajyotsava Day, Children’s Day and ‘Mayura Vishwamanya Kannadiga’ Award presentation on Friday the 15th of November, 2019 from 4 pm at Sharjah Indian Association Auditorium, Sharjah.

The programme opened up with hoisting of Karnataka state flag with all due respects by the Convener Mark Denis and all Executive Committee Members of Karnataka Sangha Sharjah.  Also present were K.B. Ramesh of Al Ain Karnataka Sangha and some of their members.  Mark Denis read out the report on the progress of Karnataka Sangha Sharjah and its activities all these years.

The cultural programme started with the students of Symphony Music Institute who presented the welcome dance which was very well applauded.  Followed were dance presentations from students and members of Radical Dance Studio, Billawas Dubai, VishwakarmaSevaSamithi, Disciples of Mamatha, Sukanya, KannadaPata Shale who all presented Classical, Semi-Classical, Folk and Cinematic dances.

Children’s Day

On the occasion, Children’s Day was celebrated and importance was given to the Children especially dance and singing were highlighted.  Sannidhi V. Shetty, PrapthiPakkala, AmoghaVarsha Bhat, Ninadh Bhat, Aisiri Roshan Shetty, Amisha, Shaun Christen, Annika Siona, Soorya Santosh and Shreyas Krishna gave appreciated performances loudly applauded by the audience.

‘Mayura Vishwamanya Kannadiga’ Award presented to Ramachandra Hegde

The formal stage programme started with lighting the traditional lamp by the main guests of the evening who were all welcomed over to the stage and honoured with flower bouquet and shawl of Karnataka Flag.

President of Sharjah Karnataka Sangha AnandBailoor did the welcome speech and later invited the Awardee for the honours.  The award presentation were done in midst of all the Guests on stage viz., President of UAE Karnataka NRI Forum Praveen Kumar Shetty, Managing Director of Emsquare Engineering Mohammed Mustafa, President of Indian Association Sharjah, I.P. Johnson, Convener of Sharjah Karnataka Sangha Mark Denis, Ex-President of Sharjah Karnataka Sangha Ganesh Rai and General Secretary Noel Almeida.  Later MLA of Karnataka State Umanath Kotian and MD of NammaKudla TV Channel Karkera arrived and were honoured on the stage.  Umanath Kotian spoke well on the occasion and said he prefers to be called as a social worker instead of leader.  He highlighted some of the prevailing issues and promised he will serve his people to the best possible.

This year ‘MayuraVishwamanya Kannadiga’ Award was presented to the identified and chosen simple, and broad hearted Businessman Ramachandra Hegde of AmchigeleSamaj who is also the Managing Director of Spraytek Construction & Coating Company in Dubai.  He along with his wife Kalpana Hegde and daughters Archana &Aishwarya received the Award with flower bouquet, Shawl, Appreciation Letter, Fruit basket & ‘Mayura’ Award in the glittering ceremony.  In return Hegde thanked the organization and appealed to the audience to promote Kannada by teaching our mother tongue to our children and also said thathe is now committed to do more to Kannada and the society at large.

Long serving member of the Sangha, Vishwanath Shetty along with his wife Usha Shetty were felicitated and honoured during the programme.  He was bestowed with Shawl, Appreciation Letter and Memento.

All the Sponsors, Well-wishers, participants, Community Heads of various organization and the Media persons were all honoured with Shawl and Mementos.

Kochikar Devadas Paihonoured with ‘Sangeetha Kala Rathna’ Award

Vidwan Sitar RatnaKochikarDevdasPaiwho was invited exclusively for the programme  performed lively during the Sharjah Karnataka Sangha Anniversary and was accompanied by Manoj Kumar on melodious Tabla.  This was his maiden performance in Dubai and appreciated by all while he played ‘Bhagyada Laxmi Baaramaa’, ‘Shankarabharana’ and few other Kannada Filmy songs in his electrifying Sitar.

Devdas Pai had performed all over the world and has acclaimed appreciations and awards wherever he performed.

Appreciating his contribution to Indian Music, Sharjah Karnataka Sangha President & Members honoured him with ‘Sangeetha Kala Rathna’ Award on the stage during the ceremony.

ArathiAdiga, Vighnesh&Amogha Bhat controlled the whole programme in various intervals smoothly, flawlessly and were highly appreciated by the whole audience.

It was the Members of Sharjah Karnataka Sangha who put their whole effort in presenting such a beautiful programme which got concluded late evening.

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July 6,2020

The Chairman of Intellectual Council Jeddah, Syed Nasir Khurshid, called for a Zoom meeting on 2nd July, 2020 to celebrate the oath taking ceremony of the D K Shiva Kumar who took over as the President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee. Mr Khurshid opened the meeting with a very enthusiastic and sincere note of congratulations to newly appointed president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, Mr. D.K.Shivakumar.

The chief speaker for the evening was Saleem Khaleefa, vice Chairman of the Council, he said, for more than 4 decades, he is monitoring the politics of the Karnataka state very closely and also monitoring the role of crises management DK Shiva Kumar in the last 2 years, whether it is Rajya Sabha election of Mr. Ahmed Patel or managing the MLAs of Madhya Pradesh. He said, he is one of the best leaders of the party and the best leaders use “their brain, their heart, their soul and their guts.” And his leadership is fit in the size of all these characters. Growth is a very powerful word and fundamentally, party growth is the responsibility of the President and he can take a holistic approach to close the gap between and among the party cadres. 

Every effort is to be made to preserve the sense of unity within the party. We need to unite party base while appealing to voters. He should identify on ground challenges and find the mechanism to address them. He further pointed out that a President’s chief responsibility is to bring all the party leaders and office bearers on the same page with a Mission to bring back the congress party into power in the next assembly election. His smart strategies, road map, mechanism, booth management, better connected with the party workers, taking everyone along with him, will be a direction for the presidents of the party in other states to take party into power.

He pronounced his leadership is totally remarkable and has a track record of his very sensible leadership and he also known for his collaborative and crises management leadership style. Engr. Nasir suggested that his first task is to address the formidable challenges faced by the party and bring the Congress members together, on a very single aspect how to win the election. The party backbone and strength is gross-root workers who can play a significant role to take the party in a very strong and popular position in public. He emphasized that unity is the main strategy and ingredient to win the election, because a party divided will hurt, cannot win the election. Planning is everything and a good planning goes a long way, helping to win the election.  

All the members of the Council expressed their views and everyone is very much hopeful that he is the right person to lead the party from top.He has commanded immense respect from party workers, office bearers, all communities, groups, including opposition parties. He is a very experienced, have immense experience and hard-work leader and he is a strategist and knows the art how to motivate the party workers and unite all in a single rope.

Engr. Amjad Ali said, we are very much confident that he will re-structure from bottom to top, panchyat, taluka and district committees will be re-structured and will induct caliber and talented leaders who can understand and realize their responsibilities and accountability as head of the party at their levels with only one point how to win the coming election with thumping majority.

One of key members of the Council, Sajid Shaikh expressed joyfully that every single member of the party have confidence on the leadership of Mr. D.K Shiva Kumar and his appointment to the top position says a lot of nice things about him.  He has shown his great leadership and expert in crises management on many occasion.  The party in Karnataka is in good hands and I am sure he will sort-out all the difference between and among the party leaders and cadres, which has hurt the party in the last election and will bring all on the same page. Congress party and its workers are lucky to have such a passionate and hardworking president who is ready to work day in and day out to bring party in power in 2023 assembly election.

Prominent members of the Council, Engr. Azher Parvaiz, Engr. Abdul Wahid, Hazrat Qadri, Engr. Abdul Ameed, Saleem Khan, and Rafiuddin Kharadi commented, we looking forward his dynamic and result oriented leadership in organizing and re-shaping the party in the state, he will hold all congressmen together with a noble purpose, motivate every party worker to work with dedication so that congress can come back to power with absolute majority and he can count on our absolute support in booth management as well  suggest a few points to be included in the manifestos, running a high  successful voltage campaign highlighting the failure of the BJP government at the Center and at the state, between and among in the NRIs community across the Gulf Countries, including Europe and America. Council will do the value-based politics and will present the image of the Congress party, as the rational political party, with secular and inclusive, where people of all religions, caste, race and gender, feel wanted in the party, as its main ideology.

Syed Nasir Khurshid thanked entire team for attending the meeting he expressed his gratitude towards Vice Chairman of the council Saleem Khaleefa for speaking as chief speaker and giving updates, he said, team members are excited to meet in person with Mr. D.K. Shiva Kumar, when members visit India during their vacation.

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August 6,2020

Dubai, Aug 6: Non-resident Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist Dewakara Alva passed away on Thursday August 6. He was 63.

Alva, who hailed from Mangaluru, was the director of Federal Insurance Brokers LLC, Dubai and was residing in Dubai for around four decades. He was reportedly suffering from health problems for last few months. 

He was a patron of Tulu and Kannada language and culture in United Arab Emirates. He was a member of various NRI organizations including UAE Tulu Koota and UAE Bunts

Alva is survived by wife Saritha, daughter Powshali, and son Manal.

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May 2,2020

Karnataka Sports and Cultural Club (KSCC) organized Blood Donation Camp at Latifa Hospital, Oud Mehta Dubai on April 23rd, 2020 in association with Dubai Health Authority (DHA) and with support from Community Development Authority (CDA) Government of Dubai.

Blood Donation Drive started in the morning at 7:30 am to 6:00 pm. Around 48 people participated in this drive and donated blood to support the Dubai Blood Bank.

A potential shortage of blood for transfusions has been occurred due to a significant reduction in voluntary blood donations during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. The current pandemic, health services are now running with shortages of blood availability. To support the DHA Blood Bank KSCC taken initiative to ensure that blood donations continued and are safe for both the donor and the recipient.

After taking safety precaution and safe distance during the blood donation donors feeling happy and honored to participate and donate blood at this pandemic situation. Club Manager Mr. Mohammad Shafi was also present during this event.

KSCC appreciated all the blood donors and be grateful to Dubai Health Authority (DHA), Community Development Authority (CDA), and Government of Dubai for their association for this event. They also thanked the volunteers and supporters.

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