The Sindhi Association of UK
(SAUK) is a registered charity which started in the eighties. Our main goal is
to serve the Sindhi community living in London (and UK) and create
awareness of our Sindhi identity, cultural and religious heritage.
Regular Community News is posted on the SAUK
Yahoo Forum. So check regularly for news, events, or
announcements. Or sign-up to receive regular emails.
The annual SAUK Diwali Ball presents Fusion - the most
extravagant, elegant and exciting evening ever organised.
This year's Diwali Ball has received a make-over. With an all
new look and feel, the event promises a mix of glamour and
tradition.
This year’s theme pays homage to the famously old and dazzling
new stars of Bollywood, with choreography by Kunal Mirpuri and
performances by our talented young Sindhis. This exciting theme
will extend to every aspect of the evening. An event not to be
missed.
Meet and mingle over cocktails while being served with a
delicious range of canapés. Indulge in a full 3 course Indian
meal and help yourself to complimentary drinks all night at the
open bar.
Tables can be booked for a maximum of 12 guests. Tickets are £60
each and contain a free bonus of £5 in the raffle. Children
under 12 are not permitted. Please use
booking
form.
Payment needs to be received in full by 24th October. You can
make your own table of 12 or be allocated to a table of
likeminded individuals by purchasing a ticket.
If you would like to sponsor the Diwali Ball or advertise in the Diwali Ball
Brochure. Please see
Sponsorship brochure.
Diwali Ball 2007
This year's SAUK Diwali Ball was a sell-out and a resounding
success! Take a look at the photos of the event.
Despite the Sindhi community contributing significantly to the
economy of India. Many of India's states have their own language
TV channels, but not Sindhis. This situation is unfavourable to
the Sindhis in India.
Television media, without doubt is the
most powerful media for promoting our language. Not only this,
but our own TV Channel will help form a bond to the Sindhi
communities that are scattered throughout the world.
Sindhi Films Released
A new Sindhi movie 'The Awakening' has been released. It is a
story of a girl names Sindhu from New York's village who decides
to visit the land of her root.
Pyar Kare Dis is the new Sindhi
movie after many years. It is a love and drama story about a NRI
Sindhi. It is rare to see a Sindhi movie and has been produced
by Sindhis in Denmark. The movie is available from
Sunico Films. It is
available purchase on DVD or via download.
To Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Partition is a
new book
Sindhi Reflections by
Lata Jagtiani which
is a personal account of 140 Sindhis who went through the Partition
of India. Lata Jagtiani's book aims to preserve the experiences of Sindhis
during the Partition.
The book is available directly from the author in Mumbai
.
Extract from her book : "Narayaan
Malkani's story (Karachi / USA) - The purpose of reliving this
experience some sixty odd years later is only to describe what
Sindhi Hindus went through at the time of the Partition of
India, namely, the atrocities, the scare, the terror, the mass
migration of the population, the parent's concern for the safety
of women, girls and children, the murder of innocent people, the
leaving of our birthplace and the leaving behind of all our property and precious belongings with a genuine hope of returning
to our homeland. The traumatic experiences are now history, it
is the dead past. No one can change it and no on can do anything
about it, all we can do is to talk about it.
But it is a matter of pride that
we Sindhis who migrated to India empty handed with just the
clothes on our body, have survived and prospered. Not only have
we prospered but the area that we settled in, have prospered as
well. The Sindhi community has proved itself a dignified and
strong enterprising community. We even managed to re-establish ourselves in India after having been uprooted from our homeland,
Sindhi....."
Dada JP Vaswani
A beautiful and inspirational video message from Dada Vaswani
given in Sindhi language.
In this book by Dada Vaswani talks of the
Hindu Sindhi diaspora that was driven away from its native land to
become refusgges in their own country and rose like a Phoneix from the
smouldering ashes of the Patition to become on the most successful and
philantropic people in the world.
Dada J.P Vaswani's book is a gripping account of the Sindhi
civilisation and culture. It catalogues the dawn of the Vedic
civilisation and culture. It catalogues the dawn of the Vedic
civilisation which grew on the banks of the sacred Sindhu river, and
traces its history to the present.
Sindhi Classes in London
Sindhi Classes speaking course this Summer
are being organised by the Sindhi Mandhir.
Panchatantra Stories in Sindhi
What
are the Panchatantra Stories?
The
Panchatantra stories are fables based mostly on animals which always end
with a moral. The animals portray a constant character, e.g. the lion is
always strong, the fox is always cunning etc. These stories illuminating
the qualities of human nature, are as relevant today in the space age,
as they were, when they were first written and form a wonderful part of
the Indian heritage.
The
Panchatantra stories were written by Pandit Vishnu Sharma.
The
Panchatantra is a 'niti shastra' or textbook of 'niti' - 'wise conduct
of life'. The original stories were written in prose. It begins by
saying that the King Amarshakti of Mahilaropya in South India had four
mischievous sons, who were badly in need of being disciplined. The king
put them in charge of Pandit Vishnu Sharma, who taught them all about
politics, administration and morals through a series of stories or
fables.
It
is said that an ounce of sense contained in the Panchatantra is better
than a ton of books. The word, 'Panchatantra' means, the 'Five Books'.
The tales, primarily about animals, are organized into five books on
such topics as winning friends, losing property and waging war.
The
Panchatantra is broken up into 5 volumes which are:
Differences Between Friends
Union With Friends
Friendship Of Former Enemy Is Untrustworthy
Unwavering Intelligence Even During Emergencies
Accomplishment Of Ones Task Using Discriminative Intelligence
There is a weekly one hour Sindhi radio show hosted by Amar Ochani
called 'Sindhi Ji Shaan' being broadcast from Vancover on
Sunday's at 4-5pm UK Time. The program can be heard over the Internet by
visiting
www.RedFM.ca and listening live over the web.
Alernatively, if you are live in Vancouver you
can tune in to RedFM on 93.1 FM.
Happy listening!
Sindhi TV
British Sindhis were lucky, for a few months that Sindhi
programme were being shown Sindhi TV programmes on DD-India on
Sky. However, the channel got pulled.
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