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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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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,
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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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Media Release
July 25,2020

In a humanitarian gesture to help fellow citizens in distress, the first in the series of chartered 
flights arranged by Thumbay Group, UAE and the Bearys Cultural Forum (BCF) Trust, 
Mangalore to repatriate stranded Kannadigas in the UAE took off from Ras Al Khaimah 
International Airport in the wee hours of 21st July 2020. The flight was fully occupied, with 186 passengers, all of them desperate to fly back to India for various reasons.

The initiative was conceived and implemented under the leadership of Dr. Thumbay Moideen - Founder President of Thumbay Group & Founder Patron of BCF and Dr. B K Yusuf, the 
President of BCF. The flight was organized on a purely charitable basis, with all necessary 
steps and precautions in place to ensure the safety and comfort of passengers. Thumbay Group assigned its fleet of buses to transport the passengers free of charge from their residences in Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman to the airport. The organizers also provided free meals and refreshments to the passengers, in addition to PPE kits and face-shields distributed free of 
charges.

The passengers on the first flight included many elderly individuals, people with serious 
illnesses like heart-related health issues and diabetes, pregnant ladies and little children as well as people who had lost their jobs and those with expired visas. Dr. B K Yusuf – BCF President, Dr. Kaup Mohammed - BCF General Secretary, other office bearers of BCF, as well as Thumbay Group’s representatives Mr. Farhad C – Director of the Hospitality Division of 
Thumbay Group and Engr. Farwaz P. C. – COO of the Construction Division were present at 
the airport to see off the first group of passengers.

Commenting on the initiative, Dr. Thumbay Moideen said, “This joint initiative of Thumbay 
Group and BCF is to support our fellow Kannadigas desperate to fly back home. We are happy that we have been able to reach out to many of them, to help them fly home to their families. We thank the Governments of the UAE and India, and the Indian Consulate, Dubai, for their support in making this happen. In the coming days, many more stranded Kannadigas would be repatriated under this joint initiative.”
Dr. B K Yusuf thanked Dr. Thumbay Moideen and the office-bearers and members of BCF for 
their efforts to make the initiative a success.

“We are proud that this initiative has brought relief to many Kannadigas and their families today. BCF is grateful to Thumbay Group for its support and partnership for all our humanitarian programs for the support of the needy.”

Dr. Kaup Mohammed said that it was a matter of pride that the much-awaited Thumbay-BCF 
repatriation flight had been carried out successfully. “Measures have been taken to ensure the safety of the flight and its passengers throughout the journey,” he said. He also thanked all the social organizations including Bhatkal Jamath, BCCI, BWF, KCF, DKSC, Kodagu Kannadigas, 
Kannadiga Help Line, Dubai Konkans and KSS, for their support. He specially thanked Mr. 
Syed Hassan Razeen, the owner of ARISTOCRAT Travels for his support in the ticketing, 
boarding and related processes. On behalf of Milano Optics Group and Maxcare, free gift 
hampers were distributed to selected passengers.

The passengers were received at Mangalore airport under the leadership of Mr. Mumtaz Ali - patron of BCF and other distinguished personalities of Mangalore including Mr. Moidin Bava - former MLA, Mr U. T. Ifthikhar, Mr. S. M. R Rashid - President of BCCI central committee and many others. The passengers were transferred to the hotels where they had registered for the mandatory quarantine.

The second flight under this joint initiative is scheduled to take-off from Ras Al Khaimah airport to Mangalore on 24th July 2020. A few more similar repatriation flights are to soon follow, in the coming weeks.

 

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