The Hindu Council of Australia
Deepavali fair festival of lights
The Indian Festival of Lights, is the most widely celebrated festival of the people from the Indian sub-continent and across the whole world. Deepavali means rows of lights, it is the festival symbolising victory of good over evil, light over darkness, and knowledge over ignorance. Though there are many mythological explanations to this wonderful festival, however, in the current world what the festival of lights really stands for is a reaffirmation of hope, a renewed commitment to friend ship, religious tolerance, spreading the word of peace and harmony and above all, celebration of “simple joys of life”.NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
National Team (2017-18)
President: Mr. Prakash Mehta
Vice Presidents:
Mr Ashwani Sharma,
Mr. Bhagwat S Chauhan,
Mr Kanti Jinna, OAM
Mr. Surinder Kumar Jain
Secretary: Mr Vikas Chopra
Joint Secretary: Mr Bimal Joshi
Treasurer: Mr Rajendera Jalpota
National Cultural Secretary : Mr Ajoy Ghosh
Executive Members:
Mr. Akhil Verma, ( Media)
Ms. Bharathy Rengarajan,
Mr. Chirag Trivedi, ( SA)
Mr. Himanshu Pota, ( ACT- Education )
Ms. Madya Leela, ( QLD- Multifaith)
Mr. Prabir Maitra,
Mr. Sai Pravastu, (Karama Kitchen)
Ms. Shareena Jadhav,
Mr. Sukhendra Shandilya
Mr. Vijaykumar Halagali
Project Teams – Diwali 2018
National Projects/Activities:
1.- Sydney Diwali Team (Jay Raman, Bhagwat Chauhan , Sanjeev Bhakhri , Sai Pravastu, Vikas Chopra, Ashwani Sharma, Ashwani Jain, Bimal Joshi, Manishi Dave, Vikrant, Anil Yadav, Akhil plus many more )
2.- Social media, web site, newsletter (Surinder Jain, Vijay Kumar, Madya Lila, Naga Setty, Sachin Chaudhry)
3.- Press releases to media (Akhil Verma)
4.- Religion team and Hindu educational courses (Himanshu Pota, Meena Srinivasan, Ram Achari, Surinder Jain)
5.- Women team and Gargi awards (Anita Sharma, Bharati R, Vanya Sibal, Shobha Deshiken, Jay Raman, Ashwani Jain, Surinder Jain)
6.- Youth team, Youth Parliament of World’s Religions (PoWR) (Vincy Jain, Surinder Jain)
7.- Art space team (Sonali Pathak, Gopinath Rao, Ashwani Jain, Jay Raman, Surinder Jain)
8.- Marriage celebrants (Kanti Jinna, Makarand Bhawagat)
9.- Hindu benevolent fund (Ashwani Sharma, Sanjeev Bhakri , Rajive Bhandula, plus others)
10.- Interfaith (Madya Lila, Vijai Singhal, Surinder Jain, Surendra Prasad, Snehal Thaker, Kanti Jinna),
11.- Ecology and Vegetarianism (Vijai Singhal, Surinder Jain)
12.- Yoga (Sagar Raghavendra ( NSW) , Sanjeev Bhakri, Vani Shukla-SA, Damaji Koria, WA) )
13.- Hindu watch (Sanjeev Bhakri, Karthik Subramanium, Himanshu Pota)
14.- Government issues (Surinder Jain, Jay Raman, Prakash Mehta, Kanti Jinna)
15.- Membership drive and Liaison with members (Prakash Mehta, Nihal Agar, State President)
16.- HCA company admin and finance (Bhagwat Chauhan, Rajendra Jalpota)
17.- Constitution amendments (Tara Sharma, Bhagwat Chauhan and Vijai Singhal)
18. Policy & Procedures Team ( Tara Sharma, Sanjeev Goyal , Vikas Chopra)
19. Volunteers (Bimal Joshi)