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Our subscription has now more than doubled since we
launched eNews in January 2006! Thank you for all
your support. Get your Lohana friends and family to subscribe
free at www.Lohana.info
- backdated copied of eNews and articles from our Culture
Corner and Readers Contributions can also be found there. |
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Community
News & Events |
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LCUK
Election Results |
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LCUK
Election Results - The annual LCUK Delegates Conference was
hosted in Leicester on Sunday 30th July 2006. Congratulations
to Kiritbhai Karia of North London - elected LCUK President,
Pannaben Raja of North London - elected LCUK Secretary
General and Subhashbhai Rajani of Birmingham - elected
LCUK Treasurer. Details of the other Executive posts will
be published when available after the first LCUK Central Council
meeting. |
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Lohana
Community South London Tirth Yatra To Wales |
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LCSL
are organising a coach trip to leave from Thornton Heath on
Saturday 2nd September with a stay overnight at a local
Travel Lodge and a pooja the following morning at the Skanda
Vale Temple in Wales. Tickets are only £50 per person
including overnight accommodation charges. Very few tickets
remaining - for more details click
here.
To book tickets please call Deepakbhai Pattani on 0208 408
9814. |
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RCT
(North London) Sponsored Walk |
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Raghuvanshi
Charitable Trust (RCT) North London is organising a Charity
Walk in conjunction with LCNL on Sunday 10th September
from 10:30am to 4:30pm - starting and finishing from the
RCT Centre in Headstone Lane, Harrow. Various incentive prizes
will be awarded and caps and T-shirts will be available for
all walkers. The programme includes a lunch and BBQ - Contact
Kantibhai Kakad on 020 8421 1257 or Click
here
for more details. |
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Lohana
Mahajan Toronto Golf Day & Musical Evening |
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Lohana
Cultural Association Toronto are hosting a Lohana Golf
Day and Musical Evening on Saturday 9th September 2006
- Click
here for
more details. |
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Young
Lohana Community South London Careers Fair |
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Unsure
of which degree to do? Which A-levels to pick? Where to go
to university? Or simply bored with your existing career and
looking for a change? YLCSL is to host a Careers Fair in London
in October 2006 - venue and date to be confirmed. A good opportunity
for Lohana Youths to meet a variety of professionals who have
chosen different career paths. Something for everyone. Please
e-mail Careers@YLCSL.org.uk
to register or to get further details. Any support in organising
this event, especially if you can come and share your career
experiences with us on the day, please call Poonam Pattani
on 07932 815557. |
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Lohana
Association Manchester Newsletter |
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Click
here
to see the newly launched newsletter for the Lohana Association
Manchester's events. This includes details of their Sports
Day on 17th September, their first ever Golf Day on
24th September and Navratri and Diwali programmes. |
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Northamptonshire
Mahila Mandal Rath Yatra & Loti Utsav |
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Lohana
Mahajan Northamptonshire Mahila Mandal successfully hosted
a Rath Yatra and Loti Utsav programme on Sunday
23rd July 2006 at the Hindu Temple in Wellingborough. This
was a first Rath Yatra for the Mahila Mandal. The Yatra was
followed by Bhajan Kirtans, Aarti and Maha prashad. |
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Lohana
Samaj USA (New Jersey) Website |
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The
Lohana Samaj in New Jersey, USA have their own website at
www.LohanaSamajUSA.org
- check it out. Their 15 plus strong Committee organises various
events including a very recent successful Summer Picnic in
August - the website has photos and more details. |
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Forthcoming
Religious & Cultural Events |
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Chinmaya
Mission UK presents a seven-day series of discourses on
Life Management Techniques - by Param Pujya Swami
Swaroopananda from Sunday 3rd September to Saturday 9th
September at The Great Hall, Kensington Town Hall, Hornton
Street, London W8. Topics covered will include Managing
Sorrow, Managing Stress, Managing Wealth & Managing Love
& Relationships. Timings are 7.15pm - 9.00pm daily.
Talks are in English. All are welcome.
Click
here for more details. |
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Lohana
Achievers |
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Ashokbhai
Rabheru Received At Buckingham Palace |
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The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh gave an
afternoon party in July in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, The Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester, The Duke of Kent, Prince and Princess
Michael of Kent, and Princess Alexandra, the Hon. Lady Ogilvy
were present. The Duke of Edinburgh, Patron, received Mr Ashok
Rabheru, Trustee of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, at Buckingham
Palace. Our congratulations to Ashokbhai on this honour and
for his active participation in the prestigious Award Scheme. |
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Dynamic
Duo Organise Ram Katha |
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Congratulations to Pramodbhai Thakkar
and Hasubhai Manek for very successfully hosting Shree
Ram Katha to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Shree Jalaram
Mandir Leicester. The Katha was recited by Param Pujya Shree
Morari Bapu and was hosted at Soar Valley Community College,
Rushymead in Leicester from 15th July to 23rd July 2006. The
two gentlemen have found the time and had the commitment and
dedication, despite having their own businesses to run, to
organise this very special event for the Jalaram Mandir. VIP
visitors at the Katha included Keith Vas MP and Amitabh Bachan
bollywood superstar. |
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Jaymal
Nathwani, Aged 16, Embarks On Expedition To Peru |
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Jaymal,
son of Vijay and Bindu Nathwani is the youngest of the 40
young people selected to go on a month long expedition to
Peru. The expedition entails a combination of backpacking
and charity work and Jaymal hopes to take part in local refurbishing,
environment projects and teaching English to young Peruvian
children.
Three
years ago Jaymal spent 3 weeks at University of Warwick
studying a combination of Economics and Business subjects
at under-graduate level and at 14, he was selected through
the Centre for Talented Youth, to spend 3 weeks at Dickinson
College in USA where he wrote a brief paper on dyslexia
as part of his Psychology course. We wish Jaymal every success
and our congratulations to proud parents Vijay and Bindu
Nathwani.
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Jeet
Savani - Face Of Asia 2006 |
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Jeet Savani aged 16 was the runner up and youngest
finalist for Face of Asia 2006. He is the Youth President
for Northamptonshire Lohana Mahajan and now in Mumbai for
media work experience and Hair, Skin, Fashion Model Assignement
with Harish Bhatia of BigBoss Fame. Jeet was awared the Art
of Threading, Mehndi and Body Art from Guiness Book Holder
Harish Bhatia of BigBoss and a Diploma in Colorkeys by L'Oreal.
Our congratulations to Jeet and we wish him continued success
in his ventures. |
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Educational
Achievements |
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Congratulations
to Meera Tanna of Harrow, North London who graduated
from the London School of Economics with a Masters in Economics.
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Send
in details of educational achievements and we will publish
them in LCUK eNews - we are proud of the achievements of our
Youth. |
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LCUK
Culture Corner |
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A
bumper release of articles for this issue from our Culture
Corner writer Ami Gadhia - a young Lohana's view on
our varied and interesting culture and heritage. |
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Ganesh Charthuthi |
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A
celebration of Lord Ganesh's birthday. What is the significance
of the Ganesh Puja? Click
here to find out. |
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Naag Panchami |
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Snakes
are believed to have power over secret treasurers and sexual
viritility. To find out the story behind this celebration
click
here. |
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Raksha Bandhan |
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What
does the Rakhi represent? How has the view of raksha bandhan
changed in this modern day and age? To find out more click
here. |
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Janmastami |
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The
story of Lord Krishna and Janmastami the festival. Find out
more about the role Krishna, Devki and Vasudev have in this
celebration - click
here. |
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All
Culture Corner articles are hosted on the www.Lohana.info
website. If you have any cultural articles then please email
them to eNews@LCUK.org.uk
- please let us know if you have got the articles from another
website so we can acknowledge them. |
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Readers'
Contributions |
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Old
Age - Family & Friends |
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Old Age - Family & Friends - What can an aging generation
do to help themselves -
Click
here
to read an interesting article from Chandubhai Radia of
San Antonio, Texas. |
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Pass The Butter |
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Do
you know the difference between margarine and butter?
Click
here to
read and if you want to "butter your friends up". |
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The Value Of Indian Lives |
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Is it true
that just because the population of India is more than 1 billion,
the value of a human life in India is that much less as compared
to an American, British, Israeli or any other European life?
Click
here
to read the article. |
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The Need For
Cultural Education In A Commercial World
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We live
in a society where people use email and SMS text, rather than
actually talk to each other. It may sound very old fashioned
and out of date, but the need for communication and interaction,
in particular building good social and cultural skills for
children becomes a huge upward struggle. Click
here
to read the full article. |
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Choghadiu Correction
For British Summer Time |
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During
summer time the clocks are put forward by one hour i.e. 7
pm BST is 6 pm GMT. Therefore the time for the Choghadia table
published on eNews previously has to be changed for summer
time. Click
here
to see the corrected versions for winter and summer. |
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Articles
from our Readers are hosted on the www.Lohana.info
website. If you have any interesting articles then email them
to eNews@LCUK.org.uk
- please let us know if you have got the articles from another
website so we can acknowledge them. Any comments and feedback
welcome for all these articles - write to Feedback@LCUK.org.uk.
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Community
Announcements |
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Weddings
& Engagements |
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Purvi, (youngest
grandchild of Late Shree Kakubhai Kalidas Radia of Kampala,
Uganda) and beloved daughter of Dilipbhai Kakubhai Radia
& Ramila Dilipbhai Radia got married on 26th August
2006 to Ameet, beloved son of Kiranbhai & Shailaben
Acharya at the Satya Sai Spiritual Centre in Ottawa,
Canada. Congratulations to the couple and their families.
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Nikhil,
beloved son of Mukund Hiralal Sonpal & Anila Mukund
Sonpal of Birmingham got engaged on 23rd July 2006 to Dina
beloved daughter of Devji Naran Bhalsod and Diware
Devji Bhalsod of Luton. Congratulations to the couple
and their families. |
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Nikeshkumar,
son of Doctor Sureshkumar Premjibhai Badiani of Kisumu
Kenya was married to Meghana, daughter of of Jashwantbhai
Patel of Northampton in Milton Keynes on 4th June 2006.
Congratulations to Nikesh and Meghana and their families on
their special occasion. |
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Shane
Morjaria, grandaughter of Vandravandas and Ramaben Morjaria
and daughter of Malaben and Arvindbhai was married to Akhil
Markanday, son of Neelamben and Vijaybhai Markanday on
19th August 2006. Heartiest congratulations to Shane and Akhil
and their families. |
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Bereavements |
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Smt. Gomtiben Gopalbhai Davda of Hounslow (formerly
Ndere, Kenya) sadly passed away in July 2006 at the age of
83 years |
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Shree Bhupendrabhai Jamnadasbhai Raja of Elstree (formerly
Bukoba, Tanzania) sadly passed away on 12th July at the age
of 56 years |
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Shree Rugnathbhai Karia of Kenton (formerly Kisumu)
sadly passed away Tuesday 18th July at the age of 90 years. |
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Shree Vallabhdas D.Raja, brother in law of Shree Prakashbhai
Sachdev, sadly passed away in Kandivali, Mumbai on 25th July
06 |
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Shree Chimanlal Hansraj Raja of Montreal, Canada (formerly
of Jinja) sadly passed away on Sunday 30th July 2006. |
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Smt. Vijyaben Kantilal Khanderia, the mother of Sureshbhai
Khanderia of Canada, sadly passed away on July 30th in London
at the age of 82 years |
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Shree Kantibhai Virjibhai Rajani of Harrow (formerly
Malawi) sadly passed away on 1st Aug 06 at the age of 73 years |
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Smt. Shobhnaben Prabhudasbhai Ruparelia of Pinner (formerly
Mwanza) sadly passed away on 3rd August at the age of 59years |
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Shree Bhagwanjibhai Maganbhai Thakrar sadly passed
away in Mumbai on 3rd August at the age of 82 years. |
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Smt. Godavariben Narsidas Simeria of Edgware (formerly
Kaliro) sadly passed away 8th August at the age of 77 years |
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Shree Jitubhai Chunilal Savani (of Mombasa) sadly passed
away on 12th August at the young age of 49 years in Mombasa.
He was son in law of Pujya Rambapa and Kantaben Bhimjiyani. |
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Shree Chunibhai Mohanlal Savani of Mombasa sadly passed
away on 24th August. He was father to late Jitubhai Savani
who passed away a few days before. |
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Shree Ramniklal Jamnadas Gandecha of Kisumu (Kenya),
sadly passed away on 18th August at Leicester aged 69 years.
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Contributions
& Feedback |
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