Dubai: Mogaveera – UAE Organized Maiden Family Event at Zabeel Park
by Vinod Anchan - Dubai
Daijiworld Media Network – Dubai (RD)
Dubai, Jan 2: Mogaveera - United Arab Emirates, organized their first family event at Zabeel Park on Friday, December 28.
Eminent personalities from the Mogaveera community, Lokesh V Puthran, senior partner, Puthran Chartered Accountants, Dubai, Chandrashekar Salian, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Harish Amin, Union Beverages, Dubai, Niranjan Kunder, proprietor, Prime Mover, were present at the occasion.
The program commenced with community prayer, followed by introduction of dignitaries and group games for a crowd of over 250 community brethren.
Lokesh V Puthran Kudroli, in his key note address, emphasized the importance of organizing such community gatherings which would help, in order to familiarize with the community brethren in Dubai, where it’s not possible to meet all of them regularly. He has also recalled his association with Mogaveera Mandali in Mumbai who had assisted him in securing education loan for completing his Chartered Accountancy. He has lauded the yeomen service done by Mogaveera Mandali, Mumbai for the benefit of poor students among the community and conveyed his sincere thanks to the governing body of Mogaveera Mandali, Mumbai. Moreover, he has appealed to community brethren working in UAE, to pool funds, with the objective of helping the lesser privileged brethren to pursue their studies and adore good positions in future. Mean while, he has thanked the organizers, Balakrishna M Salian, Yadav Laxman Kotian ,Vinod Kanchan, Deepak Raj Kotian, Dhananjay Kanchan, Shasidar Kotian and others for organizing such event besides urged them to organize such events very often; thereby every community brethren gets an opportunity to attend.
Five groups were formed to enable the maximum participation by all families. Traditional delicacies, namely, mackerel curry, prawns fry, pompret fry, sardine chilly, cat fish curry, was served to flash back the memories of native living, followed by Indian food and beverages.
A brilliant performance was given by all groups on community skit, complete from fishing using traditional hook and net, auctioning at the jetty and at last selling in fish market.
Manoj Acharya, disciple of musical mastero, Zakir Hussain gave a live tabla performance, for the delight of community brethren.
Budding talents were emerged in singing and other activities.
The event was concluded with the distribution of prizes including ‘Lucky Prize of Mogaveera – ‘07’ which was won by Govardhan Karkera.
Yadav Laxman Kotian proposed vote of thanks