Jai Mahesh
It gives us immense pleasure to write about our fantastic MMUK Diwali 2019 event which took place at the beautiful The VIP Lounge, Edgware. With this 12th year of MMUK Diwali event, MMUK has entered in its teens now!! and what this naturally meant was an exuberant display of talents and so the theme -MMUK’s Got Talent.
There has been an overwhelming response since we announced the programme and the theme. With 21 rocking performance entries from our community talent pool, with helping hands to get guests registered and to support the programme in various ways.
As a tradition to be a platform, to showcase talent and enhance skills specially for youngsters, we had Nimai Jajoo , 15 yrs , Mrs. Anjali Somani and Ms. Sanjana Karnani to host the programme. The event began with canapes and pre-event networking followed by our tradition of 56 bhog, Annakut Aarti and a warm welcome to all 250 + guests and specially invited guests for this year. MMUK had a great pleasure to host MP Mr. Bob Blackman as guest of honour, Shri Arun ji Mundra from MMNA, who specially made a 1 day trip from Houston,USA to attend event, and Shri Harendra ji Jodha from The Rajasthan Association UK.
A vibrant show of performances mostly from our youngsters and kids was put on. It began with Ganesh vandana followed by Indian National Anthem on Flute to classical songs on piano, from English and Bollywood singing to blindfolded piano, from solving Rubiks square in 3 mins to 1min maths calculations, from group Bollywood dance dhamaka from boys and girls to dance on skates and some impromptu performances. And finally Dr. Archana Tapuria added another dimension to the evening by her talent, performing a Robotic dance on various Bollywood numbers.
MMUK President Shri Ramnaresh Sonee and Treasurer Shri Deepak Kabra formally welcomed our guest of Honour MP Mr. Bob Blackman with a momento and flowers. Mr Bob Blackman expressed his gratitude for the invitation and praised the young talent of the community. He further strongly condemned the troublemakers of the recent atrocities Indian community and Indian High commission has suffered in UK on 15th August 2019 Independence Day celebrations. He expressed forthright his views and unconditional support to Indian Diaspora in UK and to India, a first of its kind so openly we have witnessed.
President’s note was delivered by Mr. Ramnaresh Sonee. He briefed the community on recent activities and MMUK long term objective to build a Maheshwari Bhavan in UK and the pledge he has received towards this cause so far and encouraged wider community to come forward to support this objective.
MMUK President Mr Ramnaresh Sonee & Secretary Ms Sanjana Karnani formally welcomed Shri Arun ji Mundra with flowers and shawl.
Mr Arun Mundra is NRI Rep. North America for ABMM, International Convener and Global Business Expo.
Arun ji appreciated the efforts and the programme put up by kids and youth and also the efforts by parents to prepare. He expressed his heartfelt thanks for the warm welcome he received by the community.
Dr Archana Tapuria was awarded the Achievement Award of the Year by the hands of President Mr Ramnaresh Sonee and MP Mr Bob Blackman.
Archanaji is an a paediatrician and a biomedical engineer working as a ‘Digital Health Consultant’ with King’s College London. It just doesn’t stop there she has also an Jury for the national Womennovator Awards, 2019 to be held in Delhi, by the ministry of MSME and also for Digital pharma awards, 2018 and 2019. Her research paper has been published in American Medical Informatics Association conference 2019.She also won a title of Mrs. Intellectual, Mrs. India UK, 2018 and has done auditions for a role in Marathi film in UK.
Archanaji’s dedication to her profession and family is an inspiration for all of us and specially to our rising stars. It’s pride that we have people like her as part of our MMUK family.
Lastly we would like to thank all members who attended, performed and volunteered to make this event a grand success. We would like to thank Shri Harendraji Jodha for gracing the event and for support he has extended to MMUK families in times of need. Again a very special thanks to Shri Arunji Mundra to make a last minute trip exclusively to attend MMUK Diwali event.
All the event performances were fantastic and rising star’s of MMUK were presented a small trophy as an token of appreciation and encouragement.
Before opening the dance floor for more hidden talents!! vote of thanks was given by join-secretary Shri Ashish Somani and Diwali Greetings received by video from Ms. Kiran ji Maheshwari, MLA, Rajsamand, Rajasthan were played.
MMUK is grateful to the all event supporters and special thanks to Shri Sharad Chandak of State Bank of India and Shri Sumit Agarwal of DNS.
MMUK Diwali event is a mega event for Maheshwari community in UK. The true success of this event was exhibited by the TEAM work of organising team who worked tirelessly for months to engage and mobilise community members. Every attendee went back home with community pride and gratitude for the volunteers who made it happen.
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