Month: July 2021

ટંકારીઆ સહીત પંથકના ગ્રામ્યવિસ્તારોમાં ધમાકેદાર વરસાદનું આગમન થતા નગરજનો સહીત ખેડૂતોમાં આનંદ ની લાગણી ફેલાઈ જવા પામી છે. ગત જૂન માસમાં ટોકતે વાવાઝોડા વખતે વરસાદ વરસ્યો હતો અને ત્યાર બાદ છૂટો છવાયો વરસાદ થયો હતો જેને પગલે ભેજવાળા વાતાવરણને લીધે સખત બફારાનો અનુભવ થયો હતો. ત્યારબાદ લાંબા સમય થી વરસાદે વિરામ લીધો હતો જેથી ખેડૂતોએ વાવેલ બિયારણ નિષ્ફળ જવાની ભીતિ સેવાઈ રહી હતી. આજે સવારથીજ લાંબી પ્રતીક્ષા બાદ આકાશમાં કાળાભમ્મર વાદળો ગોરંભાયા હતા અને વરસાદ ખાબકી પડતા લોકોએ તથા ખેડૂતોએ હાશકારો અનુભવ્યો હતો. તેમજ વાતાવરણ એકદમ ઠંડુ થઇ જવા પામ્યું હતું. હજુ પણ આકાશમાં કાળાડિબાંગ વાદળો છવાયેલા હોય હજુ પણ વધુ વરસાદ થવાની શક્યતાઓ નિવારી શકાય તેમ નથી.

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On a warm summer day, Tankarvi friends from across England, UK got together for a meal. After a long year with heightened pandemic restrictions, its really great to be able to meet everyone in a now relaxed environment at a truly enjoyable evening. Here are some pictures from a wonderful gathering. Many Thanks to brother Faruk Ughradar of Bolton, UK for sharing these memories with My Tankaria family. Thank you!

As we all know by now that the situation in certain cities of S Africa is very critical. It all started with former president Jacob Zuma handing himself over to the authority on charges of corruption which led to protests and eventually rioting, looting and vandalism of offices & businesses. As of today, there are two cities port city of Durban and Johannesburg are mostly affected.

The current situation is very worrisome for many of us. We have a huge community of Gujaratis in those two cities. Looting and vandalism have resulted in businesses losing all of their inventories with no date of re-opening. Lot of community members are unable to to go to work out of safety concerns and then there is shortage of basic necessities such as grocery, gas and medicines. News agencies are reporting that military and local organizations are working tirelessly to get people basic necessities and creating safe environment for businesses to re-open.

We would like to let our brothers and sisters in S Africa know that we all at My Tankaria family feel your pain and sufferings and pray that Almighty Allah SWT to ease sufferings of all affected and improve situations. We pray for the safety and security of of all of you and for situation to normalize as quickly as possible. Ameen.