Volume No. 10 Jan to April 2007 Issue No. 30 SAMVAD SHREE THATHAI BHATIA COMMUNITY BULLETIN -: SPONSORED BY :- Thathai Bhatia Shewa Fund Thathai Bhatia Panchayat Kewal Baug Trust BOOK - POST Devlee|JekeÀeme [Devlej cece efJekeÀefMele keÀesjes ] ns peerefJele efJeMJe kesÀ peerJeve ! cesje Devlej efJekeÀefmele keÀjes ! efvece&ue keÀjes, GppeJeue keÀjes, WHAT'S INSIDE megvoj keÀjes, peeieefjle keÀjes, l Cover Page / Poetry Geetanjali 1 efvece&³e Deewj GIele keÀjes, l Editorial/Share a Resource/Announcement2 efvejeueme Deewj MebkeÀejefnle keÀjes ! l Chintan 3 ns peerefJele efJeMJe kesÀ peerJeve ! l Letter to Editor 4 cesje Devlej efJekeÀefmele keÀjes ! l yegæ{eHee 5 cesje Debleë keÀjCe DeefKeue efJeMJe l Yatra 5 l ieCeleb$e efoJeme keÀe DeLe& 6 kesÀ meceeve Gvvele keÀjes., l The Road To Independence 7 cegPes yevOeve-cegkeÌle keÀjes ! l Palms / Panchayat 9 cesjs meye keÀeceeW ceW lesje l Bhatia History 10 Guueeme Yeje ieerle Yej pee³e! l Do you worry 10% or Enjoy the 90% 11 DeHeves ®ejCe-keÀceueesb Hej l Vallabh Sukhdham 12 cesje ef®eÊeefmLej keÀjes! l News From Dubai 16 cegPes Deeveefvole keÀjes Deeveefvo keÀjes! l News From Bahrain 16 ns peerefJele efJeMJe kesÀ peerJeve cesje l je<ì^er³e HeJe& nw cekeÀj meb¬eÀeefle 18 Devlej efJekeÀefmele keÀjes l Institutional News 20 l Shradhanjali 25 jJeervÍveeLe ˛ekeg¿j [ ieerleebpeefue mes ] For Private Circulation only. FAMILY COPY 1 EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Let me begin this wishing all of you a happy Dear Readers, prosperous new year. It seems like SAMVAD presently is sent by either post yesterday when 2006 downed and now it or courier. Gulf-Bahrain & Dubai - few has set 2007 must be the fastest year to copies are sent through willing passenger. disappear from the face of the earth or so Often complaints are received for it seemed to me. Did you too share that nonreceipt of Samvad. experience? It may be incomplete address, Change of The only nice thing along a year going so address or Postal mistake whatever the fast when we are happy and it seems to reason. To eliminate such complaints, we drag when we are sad and unhappy so if propose that those readers who possess the year flew fast it means one of 2 things Email ID and willing to receive it on their we were happy or we were busy or both. Email should write to us addressed to And both are good and both are time in the Editor Samvad . case of samvad. My email address is as follows & Membership Since 2005 Samvad is published thrice a Number Panchayat / TBSF. year i.e. Jan-April/May-Aug and Sept-Dec. I would like to receive my Samvad copy on To do justice to all the articles - all email. unpublished articles have been put in our Name Address archives.Let us put interesting articles from them for the readers to enjoy this a mixed bag of articles but thoroughly enjoyable. We invite from our readers contribution on the Ram C. Bhatia following topics relevant to our community :- HeeþkeÀeW mes 1. My vision of our community in the year 2010. 2. Decline in Pushtimarg value in our ''mebJeeo'' DeeHekeÀer DeHeveer Heef$ekeÀe nw~ GmekeÀes DeefOekeÀ Community. mes DeefOekeÀ ©ef®ekeÀj kewÀmes yevee³ee pee³es? ke=ÀHe³ee 3. Need of the community functions that brings the community together. DeHeves efJe®eejeW mes nceW DeJeiele keÀjJee³eW~ DeeHemes Je 4. Rising trends of divorces in our community - DeeHekesÀ HeefjJeej mes nce DeeMee keÀjles nQ efkeÀ DeeHe malady and solution. mebJeeo cesb meef¬eÀ³e ³eesieoeve keÀjWies~ DeeHekeÀer j®eveeDeeW The two best contributions in each category will keÀe nce Fblepeej keÀjWies~ meeLe ner nceW efueKe³es efkeÀ be suitably rewarded. Editorial committee's decision will be final. Contribution may be in ³en DebkeÀ DeeHekeÀes kewÀmee ueiee~ English, Gujarati, Hindi or in our diction of mecHeeokeÀ Thathai Sindhi (Gujarati or Devnagri) Please send the advertisement money by cross SHARE A RESOURCE A/c. Payee cheque in favour of SHREE THATHAI BHATIA PANCHAYAT. Mail your articles to: Together with the material for publication. We The Editor, invite advertisement for 'SAMVAD' from our well Samvad, Thathai Bhatia Shewa Fund. wishers.. Shanker Galli, Kandivali (W), Advertisement Tariff : Mumbai - 400067. 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The way city of Mumbai is growing and the We are in a situation where we must first circumstances as described many times assert ourselves and create sufficient assets through this column will become still fully in our own control. tougher to face we shall have very little This very important and vital aspect of our chance to expand here any more. With this physical existence here must never be out I come back, to our foresighted proposal of sight. Mind you Properties like ours are at DEOLALI. Mind you this one piece of constantly watched by greedy elements land is just a token start to infuse from the various sections of society and the confidence in the minds of our people to builder's nexus in particular. While we must go for more independently, like other take all necessary precautions to safeguard persons from all the communities settled our assets from external elements we must in Bombay are doing very vigorously these also guard them from the people who for days. Our Sindhi friends from Dubai have sake of their personal reasons though wish already done so as I wrote in the brochure to donate but at the same time desire certain of this proposal. Generally speaking it is concessions which are beyond the strange but true that mostly rumours on jurisdiction of elected members and trustees unfounded assumptions do great harm to of a public trust. More important is the the issues of our common concerns. aspect of not getting them so converted Rumours are mostly like weeds and as function wise that in the process external we all know weeds are sort of parasites authorities become more in control and we which for the reason of their own growth are reduced to mere spectators. In zeal to make turn a most beautiful garden into a rush with such proposal some of our hopeless and barren looking landscape. brethren though repeatedly reminded about During the last few decades due to a clear such dangers keep pushing for such vision and foresight a solid foundation proposal. This attitude must be curbed been already laid by our people for us to taking into account our long term interest grow here and move beyond in the same as a community. May be one day the spirit and with their blessings we have authorities will realize these facts and permit fortunately marched ahead in the right full control of institutes like ours. It is not directions and tried further to enhance our possible for us to go in more details about achievements at Deolali, the project is just such factors in these columns at this stage. an extension of that foresight except There exist many willing and capable donors unfortunately presently we are too much from the community but every one wants a occupied multiplying our wealth in currency big marble plaque of their name put in the but mind you there is no substitute to institutes in Kandivli only. It is very much having a land as an asset which in present desired that our prospective donors and times is may be more than gold as an stalwarts living in foreign lands realize the asset. We as a community have done need to go out of Mumbai where the better than others residing in the vicinity conditions like ever increasing density of of this suburb called Kandivli by adding to population and all type of related ever our assets in accordance to our priorities increasing pollution do not exist. It may of space and time. It is true that we have 3 sound to some not very convincing but the Letter to Editor donors for our Deolali project will go down RISING TRENDS OF DIVORCE IN OUR in our community history as the pioneers of sorts and it is not a statement to flatter COMMUNITY - MALADY AND some one in order to get a contribution. It SOLUTIONS is indeed unfortunate that many among us The word solution is the basic concept of here and abroad are unaware about the life between a man and wife. merits of choosing this site. Most of us have good contacts here in Bombay with When a man marries someones daughter several communities and they can make he takes oath at marriage ceremony that their own enquiries and find out for come what may be I shall be with you until themselves whether we have moved in a death. right direction for a right reason. So far Money,sex,tolerance and patience is the personally speaking I have not come across a single person from my ingrediant essence of life after marriage and neighborhood or other contacts who have should be understood by both the partners not appreciated the concept of a as they go along living in life after marriage.