JULY 2018 EDITION Yugabda, 5120

JULY 2018 EDITION

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PROUDH SHIBIR: BAUDDHIK Dr Ramji Vaidya explained the universality of Hindu Dharma, how Sanatan Dharma relates, and connects everything from the family to the universe! He highlighted the eternal values, philosophy and teachings of Vishwa Dharma, which is not rigid but flows with the challenges of change, time and circumstances while keeping core teachings, values intact, undiluted. Shri Chandrakantji Sharma highlighted

PROUDH SHIBIR: RANJAN SABHACompered by Shri Ratilal Mistryji the one hour Ranjan Sabha started with a Stuti and Hanuman Chalisa by Shri Nanjibhai and group.

Nine participants sung very good patriotic songs, ending with a final Stuti by Shri Nanjibhai.

Subodh ThakerRanjan Sabha Pramukh

We’ve got good reason to be Proud of our Proudh - not content with one publication, the Proudh team are back for more…this time sharing their mental prowess [in addition to last months Physical prowess] at Proudh Shibir

PROUDH SHIBIR: DHARMO RAKSHATI RAKSHITAHProudh Shibir is a gathering of senior Swayamsevaks over the age of fifty. It is held every year at Woodhouse, near Loughborough. The green picturesque camping site has been host to Proudh Swayamsevaks for the past twenty three years! The objective of the Shibir is to review Sangh Karya, refresh and update our coming work skills and mingle with Swayamsewaks from other shakhas.

The main activity for the Proudh Swayamsewaks is baudhik. This includes listening, questioning, chanting and evaluating. There were four main themes for baudhik – the universality of Hindu Dharma, Challenges to Hindu Dharma, Distortion of Indian History, and Sangh Expansion.

Kanubhai GohilShibir Karyawaha

Swayamsewaks were given time to mingle, study the Hindu dharma exhibition and demonstrate their community work skills. The shareerikvibhag also organised various activities such as warm up exercises, outdoor walking, chair yoga and games. Bhojan, prepared on the site was enjoyed by all. It was delicious.

The Shibir Karyalaya had prepared an attractive Praveshika, appreciated by all. At Samaropan the sankhya was 98

challenges to Hindu Dharma, making us aware of the various national and international agencies denigrating Hindu ethos and values. There was an appeal to ProudhSwayamsevaks to think of becoming "Wanprasthi Pracharak" and serve the society, country citing inspiring examples. Professor Sudarshan Rao, a scholar of ancient Indian history narrated how Indian history was distorted and written to suit the needs of rulers. Maneneeya Shri Dhirubhai Shah narrated the expansion of Sangh work from one Shakhain 1966 to around 90 Shakha in 55 towns and 23 organisations of UK Sangh Pariwarworking in various fields to unite, strengthen, and support Hindu society in the UK. In his Samarop Bauddhik – Shri Kanubhai Gohil, asked all participants to devote time to self study (swadhaya) for qualitative participation and contribution in next year's Shibir..

Rajnikant Mistry Shibir Bauddhik Pramukh

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GLASGOW BG: OPEN DAY

JUL 2018 Glasgow Balgokulam hosted an Open Day on Sun 15th Jul. With the support of Sri Chandrakantji and Vibhag Karyawaha Sri Pareshji we welcomed 50 participants for the 1-hour session. Sri Chandrakant ji led activities, supported by Ms. Shrutiji from Edinburgh Balgokulam who kindly accepted the local team’s invite to join and support the open day.

Currently the local team is working on further team development, BG skills practice, expansion strategies and further community outreach via Gath-paddati making one-to-one connections at a personal level with potential families in certain localities.

A glimpse of most recent Glasgow BG activities may be available on recently created Facebook page & You-Tube channel

Dr Shrawan JhaGlasgow BG Karyakarta

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CHELTENHAM BG: ONE BIG FAMILY

JUL 2018 Cheltenham Balagokulam organised a Parivar Milan on Sunday 22 July 2018 at Pittville Park, Cheltenham. It was a fun filled day attended by 11 families and 37 participants. As well the delicious food lively conversations and energetic khel, we also discussed how we improve our Balagokulam sessions.

Cheltenham BG runs every month, on the third Thursday from Sept 7pm-8pm at the local mandir.

Poonam Manocha

SHUBHAM BG, CUMBRIA: YOGA FOR DAILY LIFE

JUL 2018 July 1st Shubham Balagokulam - Cumbriacelebrated International Day of Yoga at TorpenhowVillage Hall. The theme was ‘Yoga for Daily Life’.

The overall feedback was excellent and everybody enjoyed. Sankhya of 35 #IDY #YogaForLife.We’d like to extend our thanks to Acharya Attriji who came from Newcastle to lead the session.

Kishore DattuKaryawaha

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BLOOD DONATION – LIVERPOOL

JUL 2018 – In association with SEWA UK, Adarsh Pariwar Shakha, Liverpool organized blood donation drive at Liverpool donor center on Jul 7th.

Inspired and motivated by our very own Harkishanji [UK Project Manager, Sewa Day] at NKV in Bradford, Adarsh Pariwar shakha unanimously decided to organize their own blood drive.

With the support of Harkishanji and the Donor team, they were able to fill all available slots within within two days of sending out information. Most were first time donors and full of understandable trepidation. They need not have worried with the team on hand to answer questions / address concerns. There were a total of 6 donors.

For those wishing to organize their own blood drives, Priyanka Mohtashares some useful tips: 1- Overbook – cancellations will be inevitable 2- Inform regularly – provide logistics, time to address questions, do’s and don’ts. It makes things easier on the day

Priyanka MohtaMahila Milan (Samiti) Karyawahika

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BLOOD DONATION – H1 2018

• Sewa Day has organised 35 Blood Donation Sessions in Total so far in 2018.

• 23 have been completed so far, 5 have taken place at Mandirs inspired by Sewa Day

• In total 609 people attended these sessions with 128 from the BAME community [21%]

• In total we had 182 Blood donors, of which 147 were first time blood donors [81%]!

• There is a big need for Male donor (currently 67% of new donors are female), in our case 69% are Male

Harkishan MistryUK Project Manager, Sewa Day



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VAN SANCHAR – THAT’S A PICNIC TO YOU AND I!JUN 2018 On a bright sunny day, approximately eighty families, and more than two hundred adults and children from Sale, Altrincham and Didsbury met up on the 24th June at Delamere Forest, Cheshire.We split into four groups broadly of forty persons in each group, headed by a group leader. The elderly and very young chose to rest under the tree shades to watch and cheer. We started with familiarising with other group members, warm-up exercises and basic yoga. We then had rounds of traditional sports helping us to bond with each other and develop those all important teamwork skills. The combined games were followed by a community lunch, every family had brought with them freshly cooked vegetarian meals, with more than fifty varieties of food on display - authentic Indian cooking at its best!

A sing-off between the girls and boys discovered a few gems amongst us, whilst we also managed to keep an eye on Harry Kanes hat trick that day as well! We concluded the day with a plenary session and a group photo. This away day (Van Sanchar) was hosted by Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh Manchester branch, which takes place on Sundays at 1230 at Ashton-on-Mersey School, Sale.

Kaushik Chakraborty

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA TALK – CROYDON

JUL 2018 Croydon Mahavir Shakha together with FISI Croydon chapter organised a talk on Swami Vivekananda on Friday 6 July 2018 at the VHP Swami Vivekananda Centre.

The riveting talk, with a sankhya of 25, was delivered by Shri RaahuljiSolpurkarji a famous Marathi cinema and theatre actor. He is also a scholar and authority on Swami Vivekanandji, Veer Savarkar, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Indian saints and history.

Along with his theatrical performances he has toured many countries including England, America, Australia and delivered lectures on various subjects. He has been invited to Chicago conference to mark the 125 anniversary of Swami Vivekananda address of 1893

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GITA WALK: RAISING MONEY FOR HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE WATFORDThe Gita walk is an initiative to bring the community together in order to raise money for the Haveli, a new hall and centre at the Hare Krishna temple in Watford which will allow more facilities and larger temples.

For the walk we will be walking from Krishna Avanti School in Edgwareto the Hare Krishna temple in Watford on the 16th September. We are looking for 700 people or families to walk, each will get a verse from the Gita and if each person raises a target of £700 we will raise £500,000 on the day! However even if you cannot raise £700 don’t worry you can still walk raise what you can! The famous Gaur Gopal das will be joining us for the walk too!!

The Haveli is an opportunity to bring our community together for more cultural activities, education and spiritual rejuvenation and no matter who we are, each of us can contribute to building this spiritual oasis.

By supporting the Gita Walk you will be investing in the cultural and spiritual life of future generations by providing a sanctuary where ancient wisdom and culture will be preserved and shared through classical and innovative ways of teaching. The Haveli will also provide our children with a community hub in which they can celebrate and rejoice under the shelter of Sri Krishna.


VHP UK: Hosts its first British Hindu Conclave of 2018JUL 2018 Scientists, lawyers, philosophers, writers, social workers, medical doctors, armed forces personnel and members of various Hindu organisations came together on Saturday 21 July 2018 for a day long conclave at the Bushey Academy to analyse and highlight the British Hindu contribution to society as well as the challenges the community faces. The event was hosted by the VishwaHindu Parishad UK (VHP). The proceedings were conducted by Professor Nawal Prinja, Dr Poonam Kakkar and DrTribhovan Jotangia (VHP UK President) chaired the event.

VHP invited guests from all National Hindu organisationsand local community leaders and prominent Parliamentarians such as the Rt. Hon. Keith Vaz MP and Lord Jitesh Gadhia also presented their views on how to better facilitate interest between British Hindus and the authorities and Hindu representation in British politics respectively.

British Hindus are the third largest religious faith group in the UK and the community is the most law abiding, hardworking and tolerant, yet are marginalized on a mainstream level when it comes to considering issues they face collectively. On the backdrop of their contribution not being recognised, VHP put together this conclave to address how to raise awareness for the British Hindu community.

The event was attended by 200 delegates representing over 30 British Hindu organisations. There was a lively Q&A session full of positive ideas for the future. The findings will be formally published at the House of Commons later.

Lord Jitesh GadhiaRt. Hon. Keith Vaz MP

Q&A speaker session (from left to right):Chandrakant Sharma, Sachin Nandha, Anil Nene, Dr Aruna Bhala, Dr Tribhovan Jotangia, Dr Manish Tayal MBE and Jayesh Jotangia.



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EXHIBITIONS – AVAILABLE!If you are looking for any exhibitions to use for Utsavsor other events, then please email Jitesh Sevani on [email protected] . Exhibitions currently available are: • Hindu Civilisation• Swami Vivekananda• Ramayan• Mahishasura Mardini

VAANI SPEAKERS ACADEMY – RAISING YOUR VOICEWe are proud to announce the launch of our new Sanghproject: Vaani Speakers’ Academy.

Vaani was born from the aspiration to up-skill karyakartasthrough a unique value-based methodology.

Successful Applicants will:• Be over the age of 25.• Hold some responsibility in Sangh or in a

Vividh Kshetra• Proficiency in English.• Have a message to communicate.• The capacity to commit to all Abhyas vargs

and Samarop• Have a desire to continue as ambassadors

of Hindu samaj post-Vaani.

We endeavor to ensure our karyakartas come out as a confident, skilled and effective orators, ready to impact society through your voice.

If you know of strong karyakartas who may be interested please see more information at www.vaani.org.uk


OUR CONDOLENSCES JUL 2018 Shri Valji Natha Khimani (88) passed away in Nairobi. Valji was the father of Kunverben Patel of Woolwich [an active Mahila in Woolwich PannabaiShakha]. You can convey your condolences to Kunverben on 07960921363Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti

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