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August 22, 2010
Movie Festival
Click here
to see movie festival pictures.
May
15, 2010
Vasantik 2010
- Click here
to watch 'Athavaninchi Shidori' Part 1(Marathi senior citizen
familes in CANADA)
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May
1, 2010
Maharashtra
Day
| Marathi Bhashik Mandal of
Toronto and the one and only Marathi Radio program of North America,
“Saptarang FM101.3” celebrated the 50th Anniversary
of “Maharashtra Day” with a vigour and enthusiasm
on Saturday, May 1st’2010 at 8:00am in the morning. The
special Saptarang program was organized to commemorate the golden
jubilee of Maharashtra on May 1The
program was sponsored
by the Marathi Bhashik Mandal and was
conceptualized together by MBM president Mrs Pravina Kale, |
Most importantly, this
Marathi pride and joy about the historical, cultural and social
heritage of Maharashtra was shared with other Indian and Indo Canadian
communities through this broadcast.
It was a proud moment for us to bring the vital chapter in the history
of Maharashtra live on the radio for listeners. The “Samyukta
Maharashtra Samiti (संयुक्त महाराष्ट्र समिति)”,
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The program was sponsored
by the Marathi Bhashik Mandal and was conceptualized together by MBM
president Mrs Pravina Kale, very active, enthusiastic and long standing
MBM member Mr Amod Kelkar and the Sapatrang radio DJs Dr Ravi
Jategaonkar and Mrs Meena Jategaonkar and the idea of this broadcast
was energetically supported by all MBM executive members.The main
theme of the
program was to display the history of separate
(Samyukta) Maharashtra Movement in 1950s and to pay tribute to all
martyrs whose great sacrifice resulted in today’s prosperous
''Samyukta Maharashtra state".
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was the organisation that
spearheaded the demand in the 1950s for the creation of a separate
Marathi-speaking state with the city of Bombay (now known as Mumbai) as
its capital. Marathi language based state with Mumbai as its capital
was important for Marathi identity and pride.
This MBM sponsored Saptarang radio program also admired
Maharashtra’s progress during the last 50 years. |
| The main theme of the
program was to display the history of separate (Samyukta) Maharashtra
Movement in 1950s and to pay tribute to all martyrs whose great
sacrifice resulted in today’s prosperous ''Samyukta
Maharashtra state". They have contributed tremendously to the
development of this state and therefore, it was our duty as a
Maharashtrian to salute their vision and courage. The Samyukta
Maharashtra Samiti achieved its goal on May 1, 1960 to have the
Marathi-speaking State of MaharashtraMost
importantly, this
Marathi pride and joy about the historical, cultural and social
heritage of Maharashtra was shared with other Indian and Indo Canadian
communities through this broadcast. |
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| The program played some
new and old chorus songs “Gaurav Geete”. These
melodious patriotic songs brought back a lot of memories for some who
witnessed the time period when this movement gained momentum in 1950s,
and the program was also educational for today’s’
Marathi speaking young youth migrated to Canada as well as the second
generation Canadians who were born and brought in Canada and heard
about Maharashtra only from their parents. It was a
proud moment for
us to bring the vital chapter in the history
of Maharashtra live on the radio for listeners. The “Samyukta
Maharashtra Samiti (संयुक्त महाराष्ट्र समिति)”, was the
organisation that spearheaded the demand in the 1950s for the creation
of a separate Marathi-speaking state with the city of Bombay (now known
as Mumbai) as its capital. Marathi language based state with Mumbai as
its capital was important for Marathi identity and pride |
Maharashtra has provided
leadership in
areas such as technology, science, business, literature, music, arts
and entertainment. We got the message of equality a long time ago from
our scholarly saints Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Tukaram, who shaped the
Maharashtrian culture through their literature. Chhatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj, has a unique place of reverence in Marathi hearts and we owe
him for today’s successful state whose leadership in the 17th
century paved the way for Marathi pride and sow the seeds of freedom.
Bravo to the joint efforts of MBM and Saptarang Radio to bring the
colourful Maharastra history live and bravo to Mr Amod Kelkar for his
excellent narration that took us down the memory lane. Meena
Jategaonkar
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April
3, 2010
Congratulations!
Mrs. Pranita
Deshpande(Mississauga,
CANADA) has won BMM Chicago 2011 logo competetion.
The news is displayed on their website
http://bmm2011chicago.org/
Well done!
Check out the news posted by BMM on their website below: |
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March 6, 2010
Namaskar!
With
great support from
our marathi community the 6th march program of Sahitya and
Sangeet Samelan was quite a success. From the feedback received so far
majority of people present were happy that it was timed well and got
over on time.
With a few exceptions most of the people really enjoyed the food and
specially the way it was served i.e. covered and hot in plates with
compartments for different delicacies.
The sahitya samelan was before dinner and went on well within time with
Mr. Aditya Azgaonkar winning the prize for best poem and Mr. Shriram
Mulgund winning the prize for essay.
The Sangeet Samelan was a variety entertainment program with songs from
Bhaktisangeet to Lavni, Stand-up comedy
and dances from again lavni, gidda, mujra and
disco.
There was also a very good short film made by Ajay Pawar to felicitate
the great cricketer Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar for his
latest records.
So taking this opportunity to thank the supporters and the people who
made possible this event we look forward to more attendees for the
Vasantik Utsav which we will celebrate with puja and prasad with
entertainment on 15th of May 2010.
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Check out links below for the photos of Sahitya and Sangeet Sammelan.
- Link 1
- Link 2
* Click here to
check the Sachin Tendulkar Short Movie about his success
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