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.

Kuch Kuch Night @ Bar Alibi @ 28th Jul - The most Rocking Bollywood Night in london.

For pics from last month's meetup click here..
http://indiansinlondon.blogspot.com/2007/06/kuch-kuch-nights-30-june-2007.html

Around 20-30 ppl from Orkut's Indians in London Community are expected to Attend.
The Usual Gang and new people mix with each other pretty quickly. Its a fun night with decent folks.

DJ San-j-Sanj's Bolly City - 21 July 07

Start Time: Saturday, July 21, 2007 at 10:00pm
End Time: Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 3:00am
Location: Agenda Bar Street: 3 Mincing Lane, EC3R 7AA
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=3+Mincing+Lane,+EC3R+7AA,+London&ie=UTF8&ll=51.511988,-0.081046&spn=0.00617,0.019956&z=16&iwloc=B&om=1



2007-07-21 Bolly City First Party
18-Jul(20 hours ago) Latest List !!

mitesh + 2 Amit Pearl Debu Pankaj SoNal Ram n Geeta Mandar Raunak Amit M Bibin Rashmeeta Jasleen Jimmy FreDDy

Vikas+1 Pushpa Shweta Sanz CAROL nitesh Pooja RaJ Yogi + 2 Farooq Minal Vivek Singh Iffy Santosh Sandeep Shiv

Taj Mahal in River Thames: India Now launch: Tue July 17, 2007, Free
http://londonist.com/2007/07/taj_mahal_float.php


Source - Daily Telegraph 17 Jul 2007



2007-07-17 Tajmahal Floating On Thames

Programme Info - Take a trip to the Southbank on the morning of 17 July to see the Taj Mahal take to the Thames. Taj Mahal replica to be unveiled by a selection of famous Indian and London cultural ambassadors between 8am to 10pm at Millbank Pier and London Bridge. Look out for the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, captain of Indian national cricket team Rahul Dravid and Indian actress Shilpa Shetty.

Plan : to meet at embankment/southbank from 6:30Pm Onwards...
Ppl expected to attend:

Navin
Rishu
Debu
Bobby
Shweta
Jasleen
Ashwin
Kirti

Indians in london's Paintballing Adventure 07th July 2007



2007-07-07 IIL’s PaintBalling Adventure

Ppl attended

bobby - confirmed
ashwin - bobby??
navin - confirmed
kanika - bobby??
Mitul - confirmed
Sohail - confirmed
Bhakti - confirmed if well
Ram - confirmed
Geeta - confirmed
DJ - confirmed
Archish - confirmed
Mitesh - confirmed
Neeta - tentative
Rakesh - need your confirmation
Leena [Spectactor only] - likewise
Neha - confirmed
Raunak (after the trek) - err raunak ur say
Amit B - confirmed
Pearl - confirmed