Monday, September 17, 2007

Bengalis in UK (BiU) will celebrate Bijoya Dashami & Dussehra on 21st October in London. This event will also mark the first anniversary of the formation of this community. Talented BiU members and other artistes will perform music, dance and other cultural activities. The cultural evening will be followed by a sumptuous Indian buffet dinner.
A leading Bengali television channel and a widely circulated Bengali daily's Robibasoriya (Sunday) edition have kindly agreed to cover this programme as part of Overseas Puja coverage.

BiU in collaboration with Indians in London and Delhites In London Communities, cordially invites you to attend this event and make it a grand success.

Venue: Brent Indian Association Hall, 116 Ealing Road, Wembley, London, HA0 4TH

Time & Date : 6.30pm - 9.30pm on 21st October, 2007 (Sunday)

Ticket: A nominal participation fee of £10 will be charged to cover food, logistics, lucky draw and other expenses. Please contact (on Orkut/Facebook) Navin Arora, Rish, Suman, Nandini, Debu, Ana, Taps, Rudra for ticket.

About Bengalis in UK: Bengalis in UK (BiU) started as an online community of Bengalis (an ethnic community from India who speak Bangla as their native language) residing in United Kingdom. This community was created in a social networking website owned by Google in October 2006 and initially had very few members. Over a period of time this community has grown manifold and currently has 550+ members.

For more details, please visit
http://www.bengalisinuk.co.uk/
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=21593406

About Durga Puja/Bijoya Dashami: Durga Puja is the greatest festival of Bengalis and celebrated over a period of 10 days. It is a festivity of Good winning over Evil. The tenth day is known as Bijoya Dashami - families and friends wish & greet each other - distribute sweets.


List of confirmed people


Navin(IndiansInlondon) + 8
1)Suman
2)Debu+2
5)Radhasree
6)Ana (IndiansinUK) + 11
18)Pooja
19)Rish
20)Shekhar
21)Bhaskar
22)Kakol
23)Abhishek

24)Madhubanti
25)Nandini+2
28)Sumeet
29)raj
30)Mandar
31)Nirmalya
32)Samiran
33)Shyamalee
34)Rudra
35)Taps+4

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Its the thames festival again. 16th Sep - Sunday - 6:00PM

http://www.thamesfestival.org/cn/about/index.php

Location: Westminster Bridge - Tower Bridge
Time: Noon - 10pm
16th Sep - Carnival and Fireworks.

Meetup Point - Blackfriars Bridge
Meetup Time - 16th Sep - Sunday - 6:00PM





2007-Sep-16 Thames Festival
Visitors So far :-