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.
Newsletter
Sindhi Association produces a Newsletter. You can read the April 2010
edition
Twitter
The Sindhi Association of UK is experimenting with Twitter.
Twitter is a great way for the SAUK to keep you up to date news and information.
In addition, we can can re-Tweet snippets of information which may be relevant
to the Sindhi community. We aim to use Twitter to create an 'informal' chatter
with the Sindhi community.
Our Twitter feed is aimed at all Sindhis throughout the world. So you don't need
to be a British Sindhi to follow us!
Do sign up
to Twitter and follow us on Twitter or you can visit the SAUK
web site and read regular Tweets here.
Let us know what you think of this new feature!
For those that are beginners to Twitter can read information below down.
Live Feed from Twitter**
Our Twitter id is @Sindhi_SAUK
Upcoming SAUK Events
The following some of the events that are planned for this year.
Goal Maar on 10th July 2010 at Mill Hill Power League
Summer is near and it’s almost time for 'GOAL MAAR 2010'. The
Sindhi 5 a-side football tournament. This is the 3rd year of
this exciting sporting event bringing a day of great talent on
show for everyone to enjoy and a fun filled evening of
celebration and dancing at the 'Goal Maar After Party'. Players
must be over 18 to enter. For further information see
Newsletter and for registration please e-mail:
sindhifootball@gmail.com
Sai Satsang at the Sindhi Centre Sunday 11th July 2010
6pm – 7pm conducted by Mr Vijay Mirpuri
Langar will be served. Everyone is welcome to attend this
one-off satsang.
Family Day Trip to Cadbury World Sunday
25th July 2010
We will be stopping at the Balaji Temple prior to Cadbury World.
Our Coach departs from the Sindhi Centre at 9am sharp and
arrives back at 8pm.
Hard and soft drinks will be made available. Bring a packed
lunch and wear comfortable clothing. Don’t forget your camera
too! The cost is £15 per person to cover travel. The ticket to
Cadbury World is optional and will cost you an extra £14 at the
very most. We have 49 seats on the coach and these are available
on a first come first served basis.
Family Days are to be held on the third Sunday of every
month at the Sindhi Centre from 1pm to 4pm
Summer Mehfil at the Sindhi Centre - Saturday 7th August 2010
80 tickets are available at £20.00 person and will include an
Indian meal. Tickets allotted on a first come first served
basis. As ever, thank you to those who support and sponsor this
popular musical event. This event is open to 21 years and over
only.
INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY BBQ at the Sindhi Centre on Sunday 22
August 2010
Free entry. This is a casual gathering of
friends & family to celebrate an important date in our history.
A range of favourite snacks, BBQ and drinks will be available.
We will witness the raising of the Indian flag with some music
and entertainment too. A children’s fancy dress competition will
also be taking place with some lovely prizes for the very best
costumes!
Grand Diwali Ball at a luxury London hotel on Saturday 6
November 2010
Diwali Open Night at the Sindhi Centre (to be confirmed)
Christmas Party - Sunday 12th December 2010
Yes!
A Christmas fiesta with all the trimmings! Vegetarian options
will be available.
New Years Eve celebration (to be confirmed)
REGULAR EVENTS AT THE SINDHI CENTRE
Yoga classes with Madhu Vyas a qualified expert. £3.50
per session - Every Friday 7pm-8pm
Reflexology - Every Thursday at 8pm
YSUK (Young Sindhi UK)
YSUK also plan events for youths (students and
young professionals). Please see the
YSUK page on Facebook (restricted entry).
The Sindhi Sammelan is an International gathering of Sindhis.
You can find more details in the Sammelan
brochure.
New Year Eve Ball 2009
NEW YEAR
EVE BALL
HILTON WEMBLEY PLAZA
This years New Years Ball was held at the Hilton Plaza.
Sindhi Association Diwali Ball
This year Diwali Ball was be held
at the Novotel Hotel in Hammersmith on Saturday 3 October 2009.
You can see a promo video which includes highlights from the
2008 Diwali Ball.
if you would like Diwali photos to appears please send them to
Fund Raising for
rebuilding of Sindhi Centre
The Sindhi Centre in Kenton is to be
completely rebuilt due to a major r subsidence problem.
The community will need to come together to ensure we can
execute our new building plans successfully. The new building
will be multi-purpose and fit to hold a variety of events and a
Sindhi library for yourr children. Shortly, members will receive
a fundraising request via post.
With your blessings the new Centre will be a part of everyone’s
lives. However, we do have to raise the necessary cash and your
help is needed. The year ahead will be very challenging. I urge
all of you to show us that being Sindhi matters and having our
own Sindhi Centre is important by assisting in any way possible.
The committee and I would like your views in order to move the
Association forward. Please remember that we are here to serve
our community and listen to you.
Donations and sponsorships are welcome from overseas and non-members.
Please contact
Harrow Council's Planning Department will decide whether to
grant or refuse planning permission. Without planning
permission the Sindhi Centre cannot be re-built and it will
leave the Sindhi Centre in a difficult position.
Latest Update:The architects
have re-submitted the Planning Application for re-building of
the Sindhi Centre. The original Planning application was
withdrawn and a new planning application P/1316/10 was
re-submitted on 3 June 2010. The Council has requested that any
comments / observations should be received within 21 days. You
are encouraged to write in this planning application.
Please go to the Harrow Council
Planning web site and search application number
P/1316/10
(re-submited application)>
If you have previously written in to support the Planning
Application you should re-submit your support with the new
planning reference number.
The previous application
was numbered
P/2874/09.
Sindhi Voices Project
We Need you!
Natasha Raheja is a MA student in the Department of Asian
Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has started
the Sindhi Voices Project.
She will be travelling
across the United States, Pakistan, North and West India. She
aims to document the life narratives (audio and video) of our
Sindhi elders who lived through the 1947 Partition of British
India and have memories of growing up in Sindh and life
post-partition.
She is excited about this oral histories project and wants to
develop an archive of oral history.
In addition, she is looking to volunteers to record memories of
their loved ones and elders in the community and send in
their interview to form the Sindhi voices archive.
Everyone has a story to be told and we want to hear it. All this
is part of our culture and heritage our history. Also, if you
have photos, family trees and diaries of family members.
A field kit is available for conducting interviews.
You can now keep up to date on all the latest news and events in
the Sindhi Association by following SAUK on the free
social networking site Twitter.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a free internet site which enables friends, family,
and co-workers to communicate and get simple news updates. It
works by users answering one simple question: What are you
doing? The reply is then available for everyone to see.
Twitter is free to use and can be accessed by visiting the
Twitter website. Twitter lets you keep up to date with the SAUK
News
Feeds or ‘tweets’ as they are known on the site.
Do I need to sign up to
Twitter?
You don’t have to sign up for a Twitter account to find out the
SAUK latest tweets, but if you do you will be given the option
of ‘following’ the SAUK, which will then ensure the SAUK latest
updates are sent straight to your twitter account.
Follow us, tweet us, and retweet us to all
your friends—we’ll see you on Twitter!
What will the SAUK put on
Twitter?
We will use Twitter as an additional way of keeping our
community and members informed on the latest news, upcoming
events. It will also feature information on any emergency
situation – for example extreme weather causing cancellation of
an event and we may re-tweet another relevant message.
Is this service only available
to Sindhis in the UK?
Sindhis throughout the world can follow the SAUK tweets.
Petition for Sindhi TV Channel
Sindhi Sangat is leading the way in campaigning to get our own
Sindhi TV Channel, but it needs the support of our community.
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
A new Sindhi movie 'The Vaaeesar ee Gum' has been released in
Mumbai and in being shown in selected Cinema.
A 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
a Sindhi
movie. 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
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
have been running at the Sindhi Mandhir. Classes have been taught by
Professor Vijay Soni.
Many students have taken both Level 1
course (basic) and Level 2 course (intermediate).
New classes have started in Level 3 in March 2010. Classes are held at
the Sindhi Mandhir between 11 and 1pm. Lunch is followed. There is a
one-off fee of £20 to cover the entire course and this is a donation to
the Sindhi Mandhir for use of facilities and food.
If there are sufficient students it is hoped Sindhi reading and writing
classes is started.
If you are interested in taking Sindhi Classes in the
future register your interest please contact
Students at the Sindhi Mandhir, who were awarded certificates for
completing both Level 1 and Level 2 Sindhi.
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
For Sindhi Recipes visit
www.SindhiRasoi.com which now has
over 100 mouth-watering, delicious recipes, all
Traditional Sindhi Homestyle Food.
From Dal
Pakwan - the most famous Sindhi breakfast to
Sindhi Curry, Sai-Bhaji Pulav and much more...
Alka Keswani
is doing a fantastic job by adding new Sindhi
recipe every week. She has won various awards
for her contributions online
It is said the best way to get into a Man's heart is
through his stomach.
So why wait, learn to cook the best of Sindhi
Food!
Sindhi Radio Programme
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 4.00-4.30pm UK Time. (please do check correct 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 on Sky in the UK. However, the
DD-India channel has closed down.
Regular Community News is posted on the SAUK
Yahoo Forum. So check regularly for news, events, or
announcements. Or sign-up to the Yahoo message board to receive regular emails.
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