Sindhi Links to Surnames in India.

Directories of Sindhi Bhatias :http://sbb.org.in/

Sindhi Panchayats in Mumbai

New  Mumbai Sindhi Panchat trust

Vashi

#9A, Sindhu Bhavan,
Shop #7 ,Vashi,Mumbai -400703

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Pujya Sindhi Panchat Trust in Panvel, Mumbai

Mahakali Caves Road
Panvel
Mumbai -410206
Phone:022-27455927

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Sindhis:Gulab Jagasia (Dubai)

http://en.netlog.com/gulabjagasia

Sindhi tragic Lovestory- Hema Sakhrani & Shaleen Wadhwani (1993)

In 1993 In USA :New york:

Dressed as bride and groom, Hema Sakhrani and Shaleen Wadhwani were mourned yesterday as they lay a few feet from each other in a funeral parlor in Queens. She wore a red sari with gold trim that her uncle had brought from Bombay. He wore a bejeweled turban and a black suit. An orange sash, a symbol of the bond between man and woman in Hindu marriage rites, joined the two coffins.

Their parents held two services for the young couple, whose lives had seemed so promising until a man who the police said was obsessed with Miss Sakhrani gunned down Mr. Wadhwani last Wednesday. She was so overcome by grief that she killed herself two days later.

Early yesterday morning, there was a kind of wedding ceremony. Later, several hundred relatives and friends crowded into the same room for the funeral. July Wedding Was Planned

Mr. Wadhwani and Miss Sakhrani, both 20, were students at New York University who fell in love and planned to marry on July 16. He was about to start medical school on a full scholarship. She excelled in chemistry. Their parents, immigrants from India and Pakistan, reveled in their children’s happiness.

Yesterday, the sadness seemed tempered only by a sense that the two would never again be apart.

“In this world, they could not be united through their marriage,” said Nathir N. Lalchandani, a close friend of the two families, “but at least their souls will be together.”

The police said Mr. Wadhwani was killed by Chandran Nathan, 35, a friend of Miss Sakhrani’s family who seemed to be obsessed with her. He is accused of going to the Wadhwani home in Manhassett, L.I., ringing the bell and then firing numerous times into Mr. Wadhwani’s chest with a high-powered rifle. ‘Why Did It Happen?’

Mr. Nathan, an actuary for the City of New York who is married, was arrested on Thursday near his home in Richmond Hill, Queens. He was charged with second-degree murder. Miss Sakhrani leapt from the window of her family’s 16th floor apartment in Rego Park, Queens, on Friday. Moments before she jumped, she reportedly cried, “Why did it happen?”

Just like the lives of Mr. Wadhwani and Miss Sakhrani, the service at the Neufeld Funeral Home in Elmhurst seemed to reflect the merging of two cultures. Nearly all the mourners were immigrants to the United States from South Asia. Some wore the saris and kurtas — knee-length collarless men’s shirts — of their homeland. Others were dressed in suits or skirts. The prayers were in Hindi, the eulogies in English.

After taking their shoes off, the mourners sat on the floor of the funeral home, which has become accustomed to holding Hindu funerals as a growing number of South Asian immigrants have settled in Queens.

A brahman, or member of the priest caste, led family members in reciting verses and chants from the Hindu holy books. As incense burned and candles flickered in the dimly lighted room, relatives sprinkled the bodies with sandlewood oil, colored powders and clarified butter. “Rest in peace,” they chanted in Hindi.

Deepak Wadhwani referred to the Hindu belief in reincarnation when he spoke about his brother.

“He was a wonderful inspiration to me,” he said, sobbing. “He was probably too good for this world. He’s probably in a much better place. I’m sure I will meet him again.” A Trip to India

Sunder Sakhrani told the mourners that he had traveled to India to buy his niece’s wedding dress, robes, jewelry and other gifts. He said that when he learned of the deaths, he felt as if his own daughter had died.

“Here is proof that death does not do us part — that they remain married even after they die,” he said. “Give your blessings to this couple as if they were alive. And let them take those blessings with them to another life.”

After the service, mourners filed slowly past the coffins, dropping flower petals and swaths of translucent silk on the bodies — as if so much beauty would forever banish the tragedy. The bodies were then cremated. The families said they would sprinkle the ashes on the Ganges, which the Hindu religion considers the holiest river in India, at the city of Benares.

“They both were so great,” whispered Narayan Wadhwani, Shaleen’s father, as he greeted mourners after the funeral with the traditional pressing of the palms. “They both are so great. Because they are alive. I am telling everybody that they are going on their honeymoon tomorrow.”

Sindhis:Pahuja Tarun ( Computer Security expert USA)

Worldwide Expert from USA: Tarun Pahuja,

(R&S, Security, Service Provider, Voice, Storage),

CCSI

Details at :http://www.intexpert.com/

Sindhi:Tushar Raheja (Author)

Tushar Raheja:

Graduated from IIT Delhi in 2006 with a degree in Industrial Engineering.

Schooling:Apeejay School, Faridabad and DPS, Faridabad.

His first book ‘Anything for you, ma’am’ was published while he was still at college and continues to be a bestseller.

A rhythm guitar player, he has also writes and composes songs. His first love, however, is cricket.
Tushar can be contacted at tushar@raheja.org

Sindhi fabric:Malmal Khas :origins Indus Valley Civilisation 2200 BC

2200 BC:

Fabrics have been discovered in the Indus Valley. Cottonseeds were discovered at Mehrgarh towards Quetta,west of Indus River.

The earliest documentation of woven fabric in the Indian subcontinent is found on the sculpted bust of King-Priest of Mohenjo Daro-Indus Valley Civilization-2200-1800 B.C.

The 3 sun shaped discs “Trefoil” show the unity of sun earth & water gods .

This shawl pattern is still reproduced today in Sindh . The same trefoil was found on the Hathor cow and on the bodies of Sumerian bulls in Mesopotamia.

The word cotton is from the Arabic “al-qattan” . The Sanskrit word for cotton is Karpasa.

The Greek word Karpasos and the Latin term Carbasus have evidently been derived from Sanskrit.

It was only in 1607 that cotton was introduced to North America in Virginia.

Cotton was called `”White Gold“ and ‘King Cotton’ as it built the fortunes of farmers in North & South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi, on the backs of the infamous black slave labour. Later the use of Sea Island [extra long staple cotton –ELS- greater than 1.3 inches long] and “Upland” cotton made USA one of the largest cotton producers in the world along with China, India, Pakistan and Uzbekistan.

The ancient Indian magnum opus Vedas, show a time in the Atharva Veda where one of its passages personifies day and night as two sisters weaving. The warp symbolized darkness, and the woof symbolized light. The sacred place that thread and weaving held is illustrated in many hymns of the Vedas. The Hindi-Urdu words for warp & weft areTana and Bana. (Warp = Vertical thread wound on a Roller. The Woof=Weft = thread at right angles to the Warp/ Horizontal Thread.)

Buddhist literature chronicles the work of the skilled weavers and spinners of Kashi who excelled in fine muslin, so fine that oil could not seep through. It was women who spun, and the cotton cloths were washed, calendered, starched and perfumed. Fine cotton muslin was used to wrap the bodies of emperors and also the Buddha when he attained enlightenment nirvana.

The woven cloth, textile design and iconography in early India was based on the principles of different Vedas – hence the trefoil motif of the King Priest from Mohenjodaro showing the unity of sun, earth, and water gods.n all its cycles, illusions and dreams.

Sindhis: Motwani Rajeev Late(Professor Computer Science)

He was a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, whose research focused on theoritical computer science. He was an early advisor and supporter of companies including GOOGLE & PAY PAL, and a special advisor to SEQUOIA CAPITAL. He was a winner of the GODEL PRIZE in 2001.

Stanford University and Google Inc have created an endowed chair in memory of Rajeev Motwani, a computer science professor who died accidentally earlier this year at age 47.

The announcement came at a memorial service for Motwani, who guided many graduate students in computer science, including Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

“The breadth and depth of Rajeev’s contributions in academia and industry are unparalleled in computer science. Yet they pale in comparison to the impact he had through the many researchers and entrepreneurs whom he taught and mentored,” said Brin, Google’s president for technology. “While I am sad to lose a good friend, I know his spirit will live on through generations of technologies and technologists to come.”

Educated in India and the United States, Motwani had been at Stanford since 1989. In addition to his groundbreaking research into data mining, he was known as a savvy angel investor.

He drowned in a backyard swimming pool following an annual party for graduate students.

Sindhi:Sad story of Geetanjali Nagpal(Model)

The saga of  Geetanjali Nagpal, an upcoming and promising model of the nineties is one that is hard to believe.

The media is abuzz with narrative tales of the model who had once sashayed down the ramp with the likes of Sushmita Sen and was recently rescued from the pavements in the national capital by a team from Delhi Commission for Women.

Geetanjali, daughter of a naval officer, who completed her schooling from Mount Carmel and her higher studies from the prestigious Lady Sri Ram College, was found begging in the streets of Hauz Khas village in New Delhi.

But what is the reason behind such a state of apathy is something that perturbs every mind.  Many speculations were raised including Geetanjali being a drug addict. But doctors at VIMHANS, where she is presently being treated have ruled that out.

The model who was violent and rude with the media on the first day has been described to be a decent, calm and a ‘model’ patient to deal with.There are many who also feel that it is when the models fail to keep up to the pressure of the fashion arena, they succumb and fall prey to the pressure associated.

Sindhi: Daryanani Deepti (Bollywood actress)

Deepti Daryanani

Bollywood Actress: Acted in Tum (A Dangerous Obsession 2004) & yeh kya ho raha hai.