Registered with Posted at Mumbai Patrika Channel Sorting Office Mumbai 400001. Registrar of Newspaper under RNI NO. 47090/88 Licensed to post on 10th or 11th of every month Published on Regd. No. MCS / 151 / 2019-21 Total 8 Pages 10th of every month. olume 31 # 10 V 1th January 2020 Issue Price Rs. 1 1 The Khudabadi Amil Panchayat of Bombay Wishes All Its Members A Happy New Year From the President 's Desk Season greetings to all the KAP and YAC members! I take this opportunity to wish all the members of the KAP and the YAC a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2020. A new beginning, a new year, a wonderful feeling, strive together for a good cause! To build the spirit of Christmas, the YAC team had a fun - filled Sunday evening with secret santa games and exchange of gifts. The Clothes donation drive also received a fantastic response. The Founder's Day Celebration will be held in the month of February 2020. The Arambh of the Path Sahib will be on Sunday 2nd February, 2020 at 10:30 am, Navjivan Society, Mumbai Central. We look forward to another eventful year and we do hope the Amil Community will come forward to increase the resources of the KAP. Warm Regards, Dr. Indu Shahani 'JASHAN' to commemorate Sindhiyat in Hyderabad (Sind) Collegiate Board Institutions Catastrophic as it was, losing land and language, so closely related, Hyderabad (Sind) Collegiate Board (HSNCB), from its resurrection in 1949, has had a generation of women and men leading its institutions with drive towards educational excellence while asserting to keep alive the rich traditions of Sindhi: language, culture, ethos, values and way of life. December 11, 2019 witnessed celebration of 'JASHAN', at R D and S H National College, Badnra, on the theme: ''A Typical Sindhi Wedding", organized under the leadership of its dynamic Principal, Dr. Neha Jagtiani. The program was organized in collaboration with Sindhi Chamber of Commerce and students from 13 colleges from Mumbai and Thane District participated. A great bonhomie was witnessed between Trustees, HSNC Board, Principals, Vice Principals of the Board Colleges and Dignitaries. Continued on page 2 Amil Samachar January 2020 Continued from Page 1 students while sharing Sindhi cultural activities and, ofcourse, savouring the delicious Sindhi cuisine. The Board of Governors of HSNCB have deep commitment to the cause of promoting Sindhiyat and have decided that such a themed commemoration, promoting rich Sindhi values and culture will, by rotation, be held in every one of their institutions, yearly, to re-affirm, promote and keep alive this resolve. As an adjunct to the HSNCB's close collaborations with Sindhi Chambers of Commerce and such other institutes of merit, HSNCB is fashioning a strong stable of activities to keep alive and promote Sindhiyat. Dr. Kishu Mansukhani receiving Memento presented by Joyful Audience! Mr. Bharat Ajwani, President, Sindhi Chamber of Commerce Mood of Celebration! KHUDABADI AMIL PANCHAYAT CELEBRATE ITS 68th FOUNDERS DAY ALL MEMBERS ARE REQUESTED TO GRACE THE OCCASION BY THEIR PRESENCE IN LARGE NUMBERS. The Arambh of the path Sahib will be held on 2nd February 2020 Sunday at 10.30 am at Navjivan Society Gurmandir, Lamington Road, Mumbai Central, Mumbai. The Bhog will be on the 23rd February 2020, Sunday at 11.00 am, followed by Prasad. Ethos Literary Award for Poetry Presented Ms. Menka Shivdasani, a well-known Mumbai-based poet, received the prestigious award in Kolkata recently. Menka Shivdasani, poet and journalist, received the Ethos Literary Award for Poetry at the Ethos Literary Festival in Kolkata on November 24, 2019. The festival, organised by Ethos Literary Journal and powered by Hawakal Publishers, took place over two days, on November 23 and 24, and awards were presented to both English and Bengali writers in various categories. Menka's award was for a poet who has authored at least three print books in English. Unfortunately, as reported by Mumbai Mirror, she was unable to bring the award home as the airline lost her luggage. (https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/airline-offers-rs- 5 0 0 0 - f o r - l o s i n g - p o e t s - l u g g a g e - p r i c e l e s s - award/articleshow/72569784.cms), Menka, whose first verses were published when she was ten, thanks to the encouragement of late Rajika Kirpalani, is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent being Frazil (1980 - 2017), published by the leading independent poetry publisher, Paperwall Media & Publishing Pvt. Ltd. It encompasses poems from her previous three books and some new ones. Her first book, Nirvana at Ten Rupees, published in 1990, was described by the critic Bruce King in Modern Indian Poetry in English, (Revised Edition, Oxford University Press, 2001), as being: "A careful selection spanning twelve years' work, it remains one of the best first books of poetry to appear during the 1990s." Menka is co-translator of an anthology of Sindhi Partition poetry, Freedom and Fissures, (Sahitya Akademi, 1998), with Anju Makhija and late Arjan 'Shad' Mirchandani. The book was subsequently translated into both Marathi and Gujarati and January 2020 Amil Samachar published by Sahitya Akademi, taking Sindhi poems on Partition to new readers. She has also edited the English section of Sindhi author Mohan Gehani's bilingual book of poems, Brittle Ice, published by Copper Coin Publishing. Her work with Sindhi literature includes special features for the reputed literary e-journal Muse India (Issue No. 39, Sept-Oct 2011) and for Sahapedia in 2017 (https://www.sahapedia.org/post-partition-sindhi-literature-india).The Sahapedia feature includes video interviews with eminent Sindhi writers such as late Moti and Kala Prakash, Lakhmi Khilani, Dr. Satish Rohra and Pritam Varyani, which were done during her 2011 visit to the Indian Institute of Sindhology. Menka is the editor of two anthologies of contemporary Indian Poetry in English for the American e-zine, www.bigbridge.org and is the editor of an anthology of women's writing for Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women (SPARROW). As Mumbai coordinator of the global movement 100 Thousand Poets for Change, she has been organising an annual poetry festival at Kitab Khana book store since 2012. Her work as a journalist includes stints with various leading publications, such as South China Morning Post in Hongkong and Business India and columns for Hindu Business Line, the Daily Star in Bangladesh and the Pioneer, among other things. The Business Line columns, which focused on the television industry in India in its formative years, ran for more than a decade. Menka is Director of The Source, a content company which conceptualised and produced Times Property and various other publications for the Times of India group for 15 years. She has co-authored / edited 18 books with Raju Kane through The Source,three of which were released by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In 2018, she wrote Reach for the Stars (Platinum Jubilee edition), the corporate history of Blue Star, founded by Mohan T. Advani. Her book on the Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board on the occasion of its 70th anniversary, is expected to be released soon. An interview with Menka Shivdasani may be found here, on the website of the e-journal Kitaab: https://kitaab.org/2016/04/07/kitaab-interview-with-menka-shivdasani-a-book-must-be-a-distillation-of-a-lifetimes-worth-of- thought-feeling-and-experience/ Secrets of Successful Scale-up: Enabling Growth of SME Organisations Shanu Deepak Malkani – the daughter of late Dr. Mrs Kaushalya Arjan Advani, who has been KAP Committee Member and one time YAC President and the Former Principal of Government Law College and KC College of Law, Shanu is the wife of nephew of late Mr. Kewal Malkani, the Governor of Pondicherry. Shanu founded the unique start-up IndusGuru Network Partners – an online curated market place for Independent Freelance business consultants –had her second event on 27th Nov 2019. It was an insightful event titled Secrets of Successful Scaleup: Enabling Growth in SME Organisations was organised by IndusGuru Network Partners, in collaboration with Wadhwani Foundation Advantage on 27th November and was attended by founders of 100 leading SMEs in the Maharashtra and Gujarat regions. The event discussed the growth challenges and experiences of successful SMEs and was led by an eminent group of Key Note speakers - Mr Ramesh Damani, stock market maven and Chairman of Avenue Supermarkets, the holding company of D-Mart and Dr Niranjan Hiranandani - founder & Chairman of the Hiranandani Group and Former President of the HSNC Board. Mr Ramesh Damani opened the event with an intriguing presentation which was a virtual walk down the history of what made and broke some of the biggest companies. His prized wisdom on investing in a business and not the value of its stock resonated with the audience, as did his insights on the need for transformation and innovation. Dr Niranjan Hiranandani took to the stage next and left the event at a crescendo difficult to match. The audience cheered in agreement on Mr Hiranandani's exuberant take on all that matters in an SME's journey, dream and scale-up, and his advice to SMEs to transform, adapt and astutely focus on finances. The audience also got to hear the Hiranandani Group's stories of achievements and challenges in the words of the man who built the whole empire ground-up. Amil Samachar January 2020 The panel discussion that came up next, engaged a panel of both young and veteran business visionaries, owners and drivers in a round of Q&A to unearth the real secrets of successful scale-up.