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February 2015 @ th 29 Issue An initiative by Youth Wing of Global Bhatia Foundation For Private Circulation Only Hindu Temple at Trinidad Inside this issue »ÉÅSÉÉ«É ©ÉÉlÉÉY Hilarious Laws Chandrakant Sampat Charlie Chaplin Unnecessary surgery World’s tallest Mandir HSUÒ ~É{{ÉÖÅ Vaijapur, Dharangaon, Jalgaon Janak Toprani International R. K. Laxman Page 1 Editorial Dear Readers, Here is a Feb 2015 issue of GBF Newsletter for you. The readership is increasing every month and encouraging views are pouring in with every issue. Our team feels encouraged and we are thankful to our readers. In this issue, we have included altogether new places where our community is settled since long and didn't receive any publicity of their noble work for the society. These locations are in Marathawada region in Maharashtra viz. Jalgaon, Dharangaon and Vaijapur. Hope you'll like it. We are working on the publication of Volume-2 of "History of the Bhatia Community (Southern and Eastern India)" and shall be releasing this publication within the next 2 months. You are all encouraged to book your order in advance as the copies will be limited. More information about this volume is provided in this Newsletter. Happy reading ! Editor : Haridas Raigaga, Correspondent : Nisha Gandhi Design & Layout : Dharmesh Gandhi Dakshin Bharat Bhatia Mitra Mandal (DBBMM) is planning to celebrate their SILVER JUBILEE on August 15-16, 2015 We are Proud of you Ku. Rutuja Udeshi wins a Silver Medal at National Games held at Trivendram . On 2nd feb 2015. Event 200 mt Breast stroke on 2:47:47 and bagged 2nd position. Jeet Ved, a schoolboy from Jalgaon belonging to famous Vissanji Ved Family is a National Level Ice-Scatting Player and have won several Medals as shown in the picture Page 2 Hilarious Laws Law of equality: The time taken by a wife when she says I'll get ready in 5 minutes is exactly equal to the time taken by husband when he says 'I'll call you in 5 minutes! Law of Telephone: When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy tone. Bath Theorem: When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings. Theatre Rule: People with the seats at the farthest from the entry arrive last. Law of Proposal: After you accept a proposal you will get a better one... Law of getting late: When you reach early for something it will never start on time. Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch. Law of Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with. Law of the Result: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will. Law of Bio mechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach. Law of Queue: If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now. Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner. An Appeal to Youth Disclaimer Global Bhatia Foundation invites Bhatia Youth from the Globe to serve as volunteers. GBF youth has education, sports & cultural Views expressed by the authors need not be assumed as the events on its agenda and success of such projects is possible with views of Global Bhatia Foundation. t h e s e r v i c e o f s e l f l e s s v o l u n t e e r s . C o n t a c t : [email protected] All The Copyrights Are Acknowledged. YOUTH@GBF is an in-house ENewsletter distributed freely to the members of Bhatia community and published from Mumbai by Global Bhatia Foundation, a not for profit organization. GLOBAL BHATIA FOUNDATION 1/6, Dossa Mansion, Next to Apna Bazar, Sir P. M. Road, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001 Tel: 9167826768 Email : [email protected] Website : www.globalbhatia.org Page 3 - Nishant Vasudevan Source : The Economic Times Charlie Chaplin's 3 heart-touching statements (1) Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles. (2) I like walking in the rain, because nobody can see my tears. (3) The most wasted day in life is the day in which we have not laughed. Keep smiling and pass this message to everyone whom you want to see smiling too. Page 4 44% advised unnecessary surgery: 2nd opinion-givers `Docs Themselves Verify The Need To replacements and hysterectomies were second at Go Under Knife' 48% while infertility was third on the list with 45% discrepancy in opinions. “We have doctors Is surgery necessary? A city-based medical seeking opinions if they themselves are asked to second opinion services centre has found an undergo surgery . This says a lot about the trend,“ uncomfortable answer to this question that he added. traumatizes every family whose member has been advised surgery . Almost 44% of the 12,500 “This data shows that we have reason to be patients for whom surgery was recommended concerned,“ said liver surgeon Dr Sanjay Nagral, were advised against it by their second opinion who is on the editorial board of the Indian Journal consultants. of Medical Ethics. “Everything in Indian healthcare is increasingly getting monetized. This is an Take the case of Kandivli resident Gaurav Sharma indicator of that malaise.“ Another surgeon who whose uncle was advised cardiac surgery due to a didn't want to be named said this was indicative of severe left shoulder pain. “We were told to “market medicine“. undergo surgery the next day itself. Our entire family went into a tizzy wondering what to do.“ He “Doctors are like daily wage earners in India. They logged into MediAngel's online chat with a cardiac are paid on the basis of the `business' they bring to surgeon in Delhi who looked at the ECG and said a hospital. Obviously , a surgeon will be tempted to the patient only had an orthopaedic problem. “I recommend surgery ,“ he said. A doctor who works then sought an opinion from a shoulder specialist for a public hospital said an audit of government- based in the US, who diagnosed that my uncle's run insurance schemes would reveal a similar shoulder and arm bones were not aligned trend of unnecessary surgeries. “Most money that properly. He showed my uncle some shoulder the government pumps in for schemes such as the exercises on an on line chat,“ said Sharma and Rajiv Gandhi Arogya Yojana in Mah arashtra is added that his uncle's pain has considerably given to private hospitals that have been drafted in reduced. to do such procedures. One must investigate why public hospitals don't get as many surgeries or as Unnecessary surgery is not new in medicine. much money as the private ones do in such Orthopaedic surgeons in the US were, four schemes?“ the doctor said. months ago, accused of overdoing total knee replacement surgeries by almost a third. Closer Some specialists, though, say there is a logical home, docto rs in Andhra Pradesh rampantly reason for discrepancy in MediAngel's data. “At performed hyste rectomies in 2010 to get a higher present, there are many non-medical ways that payoff from government medical insurance compete with surgery as a form of treatment. So, schemes. in India, it is more a case of whom the patient goes first for consultationwhether a surgeon or MediAngels, a second opinion centre based out of medicine specialist,“ said Dr Nagral. Navi Mumbai, recently studied its first 20,000 consultations over the past two years and found In the UK, for instance, there are tumour boards in several people were advised “unnecessary hospitals that comprise a radiotherapist, a surgeries“ by their primary doctors. surgeon and medical specialist who decide together on the treatment plan for a patient. Dr Debraj Shome, a surgeon who owns “Radiation is emerging as a competitor to surgery MediAngels, said his centre's data showed poor in many cancers. Hence, instead of offering adherence to surgery guidelines across all independent opinion from doctors, many hospitals specialties. “We found that the discrepancy in there offer a tumour board's opinion,“ he said. In opinions (between the patient's doctors and the the US, some states require two opinions on need second opinion-giver) was highest in heart for a surgery . problems at 55%,“ said Dr Shome. Knee - Malathy Iyer Page 5 World’s tallest ISKCON Chandrodaya Mandir in Vindavan In five years' time, Vrindavan, in Uttar Pradesh, hopes to be home to the world's tallest temple. The building would cover five-and-a- half acres of land and the entire complex, which includes a helipad, twelve forests and lakes, would stretch across nearly 60 acres and cost around $81 million. The area surrounding the skyscraper temple, which is dedicated to Lord Krishna, will include a replica of some of the hundred-plus forests of Braj, where Lord Krishna is believed to have been born. In these forests, Krishna is believed to have performed his 'leelas' or pastimes. The temple was the brainchild of three members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, or ISKCON, founded in New York in the 1960s. Legend Page 6 World’s tallest ISKCON Chandrodaya Mandir in Vindavan Internal View Top View Airiel View River View Page 7 HSUÒ ~É{{ÉÖÅ HÉ{É©Éàù{ÉÖÅ ¾e~~ÉÒ«É{ÉNÉù ~ÉÖ{É: yÉ¥ÉG«ÉÅÖ Sour ce : K utchmitra, 23 Jan. 2015 Page 8 Vaijapur, Dharangaon and Jalgaon Vaijapur Bhatias welcoming Haridas Raigaga (GBF) Jalgaon Bhatias welcoming Haridas Raigaga (GBF) Sheth Gordhandas Sunderdas High School, Jalgaon Mulji Jaitha College, Jalgaon Entrance of Haveli, Vaijapur Entrance of Bhatia Mahajanwadi, Dharangaon Page 9 Janak Toprani Bhatia – from Kutch Mandvi After having obtained a diploma at Leeds, U.K., India Group, in in Video and Film production, on a British association with Council scholarship, and from Xaviers' Institute Granada) a five Of Communications, Bombay, Janak produced p a r t c o s t u m e and directed for Creators, a proprietary drama telecast on concern that is affiliated to The National Centre D o o r d a r s h a n For The Performing Arts, Mumbai.
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