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A Magnificent Donation to Sindhulogy
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Sunday, Oct 21, 2007
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A Magnificent Donation to Sindhulogy
It gives us pleasure to reproduce hereunder a letter which we at Sindhulogy have received from Mr. Bhagwan Lokumal Mansukhani. He has kindly offered us kind donation of US $10, 000.
The entire text of his letter is worth reading . In particular, I draw your attention to the following extract from his letter:
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In honor of parents, my father Lokumal Hemandas Mansukhani, My mother Parpati L. Mansukhani ( nee Mirchandani) and their ancestors who made it possible for me to be here and ingrained in me the duty of sharing what I want need for my survival. It gives me a lot of pleasure to set a challenge for all Sindhi's to reflect back and find out about their heritage. I will be happy to give $ 10 for every Sindhi who will give $ 10 to further the work of the people of Sindhulogy. I promise to provide $ 10,000* in the memory of my mother and father. In the event the first 1000 Sindhi step to the Challenge within a year from the 15th day of this month, I will do my best to plan an additional $10,000 for the following 10 years if I am live or dead.
God Bless you all and the work you do to highlight Sindhi's who inherited a creative and tenacious streak that enabled them to make the world their home after losing their country in 1947.
* I will send a check of $ 1000 for the 1st 100 Sindhi's this week.Ater receiving the names of more Sindhi's ( in confidence) who accept this challenge, in installments of 100 or more will provide the rest of the money in whatever time you attract other Sindhis"
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Our Appeal To You
We appeal to you all to send us urgently your kind response. We shall appreciate your donation of $10/ or more to enable Sindhulogy to match his donation. Those who oblige us with this donation of $10/ or more, will receive our warm thanks along with a CD of the Song of the Sindhu Hindu composed on the banks of Sindhu River, 7,000 years back by Karkarta Bharat (the elected supreme of the Hindu clan of Sindh from 5,106 BCE.) . The CD presents the English narration and melodious songs in Hindi and Sindhi with magnificent musical accompaniment.
Please let us have your mailing address to enable us to send you the CD. Meanwhile, E Mail me urgently at [email protected]
your pledge of donation of $10/ or more. You can pay by PAY PAL.
AIS await your response and we shall feel grateful if you would kindly treat this as immediate.
Yours Sincerely,
Dial V.Gidwani - Founding President
Narain V.Hingorani - President
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The Complete letter from Mr. Bhagwan Lokumal Mansukhani
Dear Mr. Gidwani,
The letter to Oprah has gone from my wife and me. Thank you all at Sindhulogy to show your love for your heritage in helping your own people to learn and understand our history, history of our parents, our parent's parent's and their parents and on and on. All these parents were more loving, tenacious, generous and loving than we understood in the first 25 years of our life, in the second 25 years we started to realize the importance of our parents and in as we went into our 3rd 25 years we gradually started to standard the important role parent's played in out life. As we approached our 4th quarter century Some of us were lucky enough that we started to explore where did all these parents were, who they were and what they did to enable us to be looking forward to our 4th Quarter century. By the grace of God and the love of all these parents, we are here today in this electronic age able to do.
Our parents and in my case as the 13th child I am very happy and alive in a warm and comfortable home to be looking back at all the parents and our ancestors who made all this possible.It took me so long to start appreciating all their love and hard work that made it possible.
I pray and wish you all good health to continue the good work at Sindhulogy, words alone could not express how much it means to me to know now, how visionary my humble parents were. They were truly humble, I have in the last 5 years learnt that my father ( he died when I was 15 in his 70's) had to go back to work because of my un-planned arrival in 1937. He was a inspector in food market in Hyderabad and my mother was just like all mothers we call 'housewife" today . She made sure we were all had safe food & shelter just as he made sure he would bring home enough money to enable that to happen.
But being that they were Sindhi's, they faced a challenge of how they would keep is all safe & togeather as we Sindhi's born in Sindh were about to lose our country for ever and ever. My children and their children would not even begin to imagine what it must have been like. Most of my sibilings were luckier than most because of their vision and tenacity. We all came out alive several months before August 15th 1947.
This was possible I believe because they somehow saved enough to send the eldest son to Bombay many years before who managed to get his next 2 brothers out and eventually with his leader ship I believe these elder brothers also saved up and got every one out and safely in a rented house in Bandra. In this house my parents also welcomed the family of my eldest sister, brother and their family, that is all I have been able to find out.
No one is sure if I was 6 or 7 or 8 when we all left Hyderabad to be in Bandra, I do remember that there were many, many of us in the large ( it seemed large to me at that time) . I remember one important things in the first few months, my sister and I spent a lot of time with a teacher every day learning English. This enabled us to go to an English speaking school. How did I manage to live & learn and build up the courage to leave my second country by the time I was 21 or 22 ? What was it that my parents had ingrained in me or given me that enabled me to find my way around various parts of Europe and America and finish up in England by the time I was 25. England I tell people is my adopted home, my ethinic origins go back to India, the part of India which is now Pakistan.
15 years later, for the third time in my life I moved from my adopted home England, to a new country and a new continent. Looking back I have managed to live my 70 years on 3 continents. I hope to explain to my children how all that was possible.
I do know all of that was made possible by and the example that my parents set. I have learnt enough to be sure that it had do with genetic origin that my parents and all the Sindhi's were able to do not what little I have done is but a drop in the ocean ,compared to what the people of the land of Sindhu's did over the last 50 centuries.
In honor of these people, my father Lokumal Hemandas Mansukhani, My mother Parpati L. Mansukhani ( nee Mirchandani) , it gives me a lot of pleasure to set a challenge for all Sindhi's to reflect back and find out about their heritage. I will be happy to give $ 10 for every Sindhi who will give $ 10 to further the work of the people of Sindhulogy. I promise to provide $ 10,000* in the memory of my mother and father. In the event the first 1000 Sindhi step to the Challenge within a year from the 15th day of this month, I will do my best to plan an additional $10,000 for the following 10 years if I am live or dead.
God Bless you all and the work you do.
Born Indian as
Bhagwan Lokumal Mansukhani
Lived as Roy Lokumal Manns as
a British Citizen in England & Wales
and since 1978 in USA.
Marshfield Hills MA 02051-0358
781 834 7448
* I will send a check of $ 1000 for the 1st 100 Sindhi's this week.Ater receiving the names of more Sindhi's who accept this challenge, in installments of 100 or more will provide the rest of the money in whatever time you attract other Sindhis.
Sd. by Mr. Bhagwan Lokumal Mansukhani
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