Bengalis inUK , Bengalis in London and Indians in London the virtual cyber communities go "real" again ...to celebrate Deepavali and Kali Pujo in an evening of food, music and pure fun with old and new friends.
Everybody can join in... sing as you like , dance as you like, be as you like.. there are no commercial hosts of the event and no guestlists as well... its open for all . Delicious Indian food will be served as well. Bring your friends and family too.

The Venue: The Welldon Centre, Methodist Church, Angel RaodHA1 1JZ
Time:7Pm to 10:30 Pm

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P.S.: To cover the cost of logistics etc we will be collecting a very nominal £5 per person at door

Three Events In one Day:- 3rd Nov 2007
Event A:- Bollywood Dance Nite On a Cruise On River Thames
Event B:- Diwali Party from www.ashanet.org/london
Event C:- Cry Charity Event

More Details on Event A:-
Bollywood Dance Nite on Cruise! Saturday 3rd November
More info for this event:- http://www.bollywood-rocks.co.uk/
Quote "IIL group" On phone and ticket will be £10. (Sorry this option is sold out now.. IIL group booked more than 50 Tickets for the event and our quota was for 50 tickets only- Sold Out As of 1st Nov 2007)
Otherwise Normal price is £15. ( This is the minimum price you would have to pay now)
Call - 0800 612 8737 for tickets (Ask for Tarang if any problem)

Ppl expected to attend:-
1) Amit
2) Pearl
3) Freddy
4) Ram + GEETA
5) Shiv +2
6) Ranjan +2
7) Anuj
8) Bobby + 8
9) Avneet +3
10) Deepali + 2
11) Rajesh + 2
12) Yogi + 4
13) Kavitha + 3
14) Sunny
15) Kartik + 1
16) Amit.M
17) Anamika + 1
18) Puneet agarwal
19) iRFAN(Iffy) (Names in blue have got confirmed tickets)


More Details on Event B:-
Asha, www.ashanet.org/london is a global, non-profit organisation aimed at improving the lives of underprivileged children in India. The great thing about it is that it is made up entirely of volunteers (there are no paid members) so all the money we raise (from fundraisers such as this) goes towards educational projects in India that we choose to support.

Last Two Years Diwali Parties were a huge success. This year's Diwali party (like the ones before) will basically be an evening of some great bollywood clubbing , amongst a chilled-out crowd, with some Diwali decoration and lots of enthusiasm to create that "Diwali" spirit! As an extra, we are having some (nice and cheesy) bollywood and bhangra lessons to kickstart the evening.

Tickets are only 14 pounds (if bought in advance) and as we have no overheads (in the form of paid members), all proceeds will go to charity. This year, our chosen project focus is a residential school for underprivileged children in Bengal. Pay by Paypal to ashabookings@gmail.com

Venue: The Saint, Rose Street, Paternoster Square, London,EC4M 7DQ
Nearest Statioin - St Pauls/Bank
Time: 8pm - 2AM
Ticket on Door - £16
Information Source - Ms Pooja Sinha (orkut Id - basanti)

More details on Event C:-
This Diwali light up a cause
Bring a different sparkle to this Diwali by lighting up a cause. CRY UK and IIM Alumni Association bring to you a grand Diwali gala. You can look forward to some mouth-watering Indian food and great music by DJ Dynamix! The significant part however, is that this is an opportunity to support the rights of childhood for marginalized children, especially in India.

Date: November 3, 2007Time: 7:30 pm onwards
Venue: The Abbey, 1, Abbey Orchard Street, Victoria, London, SW1P 2LU
Ticket: Entry for Adults £25£11 for children between 5 - 10 years
Get your tickets!To book tickets please transfer money to CRY (Account Name), 61049433 (Account Number) 600823 (Sort Code) and contact the people mentioned belowContact people:Poonam Joshi: cryuk.london@crymail.org 0790 307 4379
Ritu Arora: rituarorajain@blueyonder.co.uk 0790 363 9239

Bijoya Dashami & Dussehra on 21st October in Wembley, London. (Sold Out)

This event is now overbooked (120+ ppl coming) and we are not taking any more bookings. For event details please scroll down a little. For more info about the communities and people on orkut who are organising it please visit..


BIU Durga Puja And VijayaDashmi

http://www.bengalisinuk.co.uk/
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=29070232
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=21593406

Cheers
-Navin

13th oct 2007 - Dandiya Meetup @ Harrow Leisure Center

Navratri Festival 2007. Date: 13th Oct 07
Location: Harrow Leisure Centre. (Garba, Ras) & Devi Bhagvat Katha ...
timings: 8:00 pm - 11:30 pm
Walking Directions here - http://tinyurl.com/32jzep

This is supposed to be the best in london and last time (2006 Meetup - http://indiansinlondon.blogspot.com/2006/09/23rd-sep-06-dandiya-night-meetup-some.html) it was really good.

List of ppl expected to attend (around 25 ppl) :-
1)Mridula + Alok
2)Puneet + Ashlesha
3)Raunak
4)Jimmy
5)Ram
6) Minal
7) Ashish
8)Gauri
9)Raj
10)irfan
11)Mani
12)Navin + 1
13)Geeta + 1 (Ramk)
14) Puneet

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

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

Soho Spice @ 24 Aug 2007 @ Friday 9:30PM

Start the bank Holiday with a bang.

It was the start of clubbing scene for IILOrkut Gang... Most of the clubbing birds met first time at soho spice same day last year.. most IIL orkut ppl hv find memories of soho spice then after... good music and makes u feel like a private party... List of ppl expected to attend..
1) Amit Barve
2) Pearl
3) Ram
4) Sanjay
5) Mitesh
6) Amit Marwaha
7) Karan
8) Irfan
9) Minal
10) Bobby
11) Debanjana
12) Debarshi
13) Sakshi
14) Bhupender
15) Mandar
16) Ekta
17) Anuj
18) Sonal
19) Rajshekhar
20) Prashant Sachdeva
21) Pooja
22) Nitish
23) Blanca Louise
24) Sneha
25) Abhijit
26) Pankaj
27) Rege
28) Teena
29) Viru
30) Anamika
31) Pooja
32) Taposhri
33) Rish

IIL Crowd will be going to Canary Wharf on 23rd August 07 To cheerup their buddies for a Bollywood Dance Competition.

23 & 24 August6-8pm
Thursday 23 AugustJay Kumar’s DanceAsia
Friday 24 AugustBollywood Grooves
Performers for the celebration are:-

Bollywood Grooves, who will execute their wonderfully fast paced and exciting ‘Bollywood movie’ style performance to the backdrop of Bollywood songs with influences ranging from Folk to Jazz with some fantastic Dhol beats.
Also on the bill are Jay Kumar and his DanceAsia production, with Kumar being renowned as one of London’s top Bollywood dance entertainers. The group will perform an energetic dance routine that even has a chance for the audience to participate in, if the mood and captivating music takes them!
This is a great opportunity to become engrossed and enchanted by an increasing London cultural entertainment that is growing rapidly in popularity across the capital.
http://www.mycanarywharf.com/whatson/calendar.html

London Asian Mela - 12th Aug Meetup (Free Entry- Everyone is welcome, Just show up there)

Pics of All the Fun We had This Year ( 12 Aug 2007)


2007-08-12 London Asian Mela
Videos from This year Meetup.


I won't miss this event.... Its probably the biggest asian mela in this part of continent.. celebrated around our Independence day..it was gr8 fun last year...
Plan - Meet At 1PM At Acton Town Tube (Piccadilly Line, District Line) Station. Max wait till 1:30Pm. When you come out of station, U'll see on ur left lots of (Mainly Asian) people walking like there is a free langar ;) a few blocks ahead. Just follow the crowd. U will reach Gunnersbury Park in No time. :).. Call up each other when you reach there and join the gang... Atleast 30-35 Ppl from orkut community are expected to attend:-

Official London Mela site- http://www.londonmela.org/map.aspx

Navin + Kanika + Pooja M + Nitish + Kakoli + Abhishek + Kirti + Pankaj + Nishtha + Deepti + Bobby + Vivek + Jassi + Dinesh + Bhaskar + Sonnel + Natasha + C.Arora + Debanjana + Debu
3)Sumeet 4)Raj 5)Mandy 6)Ram+Geeta+Stine 7) Prashanth 8) Amrish 9) Raj 10)Freddy 11) Nish 12) Anuj 13) MIts + Neeta	14) Divya 15) Raunak 16) Ajay 17) Sowmya 18) Vivek 19) Abhi 20) Kaarthik 21) Vivek 22) Sharma 23) Ashok 24) Shesh 25) Hina 26) Smitha and Satish 27) Chintu 28) Kiku 29) Priyanka 30) Amit + Pearl 31) Bibin 32) AMit M 33) Sumeet and Subarna 34) Jimmy

Slough Asian Mela - 05th Aug Meetup.

Roughly 10-12 People expected to attend from orkut group.

http://www.sloughmela.com/

Pics will be posted online soon.