Vision Statement from The Secretary

Reaching Out… to ALL

It is with great humility I say that I am proud to be the Hon. Gen. Secretary of The Borivli Malayali Samajam in its Golden Jubilee year. Without doubt it is a great challenge. And at this moment, I wonder if at the end of the 50^th year I would have been able to do justice to the legacy of the Samajam.

The big challenge would be for me to measure - What is it that I have done different? Well, I guess that is how my efficiency will be ascertained. And to get my act together every Managing Committee member, every member and the Society in general will have to keep the torch burning and burning bright.

When I say society, I mean all the linguistic communities and not restricted to Malayalis alone. Tough Call… hai na. But the point is why not?

For more than 50 years we have made this vibrant city of Mumbai and particularly Borivli our Home. It is the place where we have studied, been nurtured, earning our bread, butter and jam. So what if we get into a traffic jam once in a while. But this has been our place of livelihood. We need to admit that. And I think it is pay back time. It is time for us to be recognised as giving back to the place we live, to the society and we can do that as a community and as Borivli Malayali Samajam.

Our School, the admission criteria of the School, the activities in the school from Karate Classes to Dance Classes are all in that direction. My pledge is that the Borivli Malayali Samajam is not about being in a silo limiting ourselves to only us, we are now on the threshold of reaching out to the other communities as well. And why not? Why limit the spread of our intelligence to reach out only to us. Let us spread this word the word that The Borivli Malayali Samajam is here to provide ideas and platform for every community to prosper by way of knowledge and skills.

And this we are doing because we are indebted to the friends that we made, and each of those friends are not necessarily only Malayalis they were from all walks of life and different communities. Since each one of them has never thought of us as a member from different community why should we differentiate when we can give back? …. Kyon hai Na?

I think by doing so we are ascertaining ourselves as leaders in our city.

And the big thing is that we are not doing it first time. For years we have been having competition on Folk Dance, Inter School Athletic, Painting and Elocution Competition for students across schools from Bandra to Dahisar and mind you it was not limited to Malyalis – the competing students belong to all communities.

So here I am - pledging to ensure that the participating communities will be from all walks of life economically and linguistically. And I want each one of you to be part of this milestone that we create for the 50th year.

And mind you we are talking to a generation where webcams connected at both ends allow conferencing and when the 5g comes… well life will move @ speed of thought. Join in now.

Maybe our children will be proud of us, and maybe they will not stray to other communities. Cos… the big question is besides asking them whether they know Malayalam what else have we given them to be proud off???

This Onam program on October 2^nd will be a measure of how you have contributed towards the goal of bringing in your non – malayali neighbour.

And we will count that.

Best regards,

Anil Kumar

Hon.Gen. Secretary

Respond Please… on secretary@borivlimalayalisamajam.com