Cultural extravaganza to mark World Tulu Convention to be held in Dubai
Vishwa Tulu Sammelana to be held on Nov 23 and 24
Dubai, August 31: The preparations are in full swing for the ‘Vishwa Tulu Sammelana-2018, a two-day World Tulu Cultural Convention, to be held at Al Nasr Leisureland Ice Rink & Nashwan Hall in Dubai on November 23 and 24.
Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Padma Vibhushan Dr D. Veerendra Heggade will inaugurate the Convention in which, Patron of Tuluvas in Dubai Padmashree Dr BR Shetty, Bishop-elect of Mangaluru Rev. Ft. Peter Paul Saldanha, Editor of Varthabharathi, Abdussalam Puthige, Rev. Fr. Ebenezer Jathana of CSI Mangaluru, Akhila Bharata Tulu Okkuta President Dharmapal Devadiga, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy President AC Bhandary, Educationist Dr Mohan Alva, Various Poets, Scholars, Journalists, Tulu film Personalities, Dramatists of Tulu Nadu will be present.
A statement from the Convention Reception Committee said that preparations were in full swing under the leadership of its chief coordinator Sarvotham Shetty, event manager Shodhan Prasad and Core Committee members Ganesh Rai, Dev Kumar Kambli, Satish Poojary, Yogesh Prabhu, Ajmal Sayyed, M.E. Muloor, Alwyn Pinto, Afroz Assadi, Noel Almeida, Jyothika Shetty, Smitha Bhat, Suvarna Satish and Shashi Shetty.
Various sub-committees were formed to carry out all the activities and preparations. The event will be conducted with the license of Rhythm Events Dubai under the management of Sandhya Creations. It is expected that more than 4,000 audience including participants across the world will participate in the convention.
As part of the preparations, a meeting of the Cultural Committee and Convention Committee headed by Vishwanath Shetty and Prakash Rao Payyar Met respectively held at Quick Bite Restaurant on Friday to discuss the programme. Ajmal S M, Alwyn Pinto, Dev Kumar Kambli, Ganesh Rai, Shashi Shetty and Shodhan Prasad from the Core Team, other members including Vaishnavi Shetty, Raviraj Shetty, Sangeetha Shetty, Jayanth Shetty, Ashok Anchan, Girish Narain, Krishna Prasad, Nithyanand Beskoor, Vasu Bayer, Dinesh Shetty Kottinja, Kiran Shetty, Devesh Alva, Jasmitha Vivek and Usha Shetty were present.
Event manager Shodhan welcomed and briefed the developments. Vishwanath said that Tuluvas have offered a number of programmes to present voluntarily across the world including host country UAE. On Friday, the committee finalized the events to be held at the convention. Group folk dance competition exclusively for Tuluvas from Gulf countries, Tulu Nada Parbhola Natya Roopaka, Yaksha Natya Ghana Vaibhava, Talamaddale, Pili Nalike, Daivaradhane and Bhootaradhane session, comedy, limerick, poets meet, Tulu theatre, Tulu film session, NRI Tuluvas session, Tulu orchestra, Siri Tulu Nalike, Yelver Daivolu Tulu Nritya Roopaka and Telipale Stand-up comedy by various teams including Prashamsa Kaup & Umesh Mijar Team will be conducted for two days.
Tulunada specialties to include some of the sumptuous lip licking traditional food delicacies which may create eating cravenness among the visitors. Tulunada Exhibition will display some of the rare vintage artifacts in a different style.
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England sticking with Key, McCullum and Stokes despite Ashes humbling
London (AP): England is not sacking anybody following the 4-1 Ashes loss in Australia.
A review of the tour by the England and Wales Cricket Board, announced within hours of the final match in January, was concluded on Monday. Firing people would “be the easy thing to do,” ECB chief executive Richard Gould said but he insisted, "This is not the time to throw everything out."
Managing director Rob Key, coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes kept their jobs after the best England side to go to Australia in 14 years lost the Ashes in 11 days with two games to spare.
“Moving people on can sometimes be the easy thing to do. That's not the route that we're going to take,” Gould said. “I've seen the driving ambition and determination that we're lucky enough to have within our leadership group to take the lessons from the Ashes and move forward.”
Gould previously was the chief executive of Bristol City soccer club and said the ECB would not follow the same route as soccer's hire-and-fire culture.
“Cricket is a very unique sport in that it takes a team of leadership ... it's not like football where there's a single point of failure or success with a manager," he said. He added the ECB would not “select or deselect management based on a popularity campaign.”
The main criticisms of England's tour were poor preparation, player misbehavior, and selection mistakes.
At a press conference at Lord's, Gould and Key said McCullum and Stokes have not had a “bust up,” they did not want McCullum to “completely change” but “to evolve,” the behavior of some players was “unprofessional,” there will be more consequences for underperforming, and a commitment to “better long-term planning” ahead of major test series.
Some changes were already implemented for the Twenty20 World Cup, where England reached the semifinals. Gould implied that performance saved McCullum.
Key acknowledged that England supporters would be disappointed to see the management team go unpunished.
“I know people want punishment and that people then should be sacked for that,” Key said. “That doesn't mean we don't feel like we've gone through some serious pain: Brendon, myself, Ben. It's been as tough a time as I think I've had.”
