Project 2025

1st January 2025 Subodh Sangeet Program

Radharang Foundation's Subodh Sangeet program was held on 1st January to welcome the new year. The program runs on the guidelines suggested by RRF Founder, Raghunath Sarnaik. Both amateur and eminent singers are given the opportunity to showcase their singing talent. In this program which lasted for two hours, 32 participants including singer and kirtankar from Parula Shri. Daji Samant Gosavi, Hanumant Teli, Madhura Khanolkar, Dr. Prashant Samant, Amey Desai, Jyoti Desai, Aruna Samant, Varda Samant, Prathamesh Naik performed karaoke songs. At the end of the program, food was served to the attendees.

5th January 2025 Scholarship Award Function

The Pandurang Pundalik Sarnaik Prize for the school year 2024-25 was presented to Shreyas Chandrashekhar Barve and Amulya Hemant Satam. The scholarship programe was started 20 years ago at ASD Topiwalla High School where Aba Sarnaik, the patriarch of the Sarnaik family matriculated in the first batch.

28th January, 2025 Table Tennis Competition

Radharang Foundation organized a table tennis competition for the year 2024-25 at Annasaheb Desai Vidya Mandir, Parule in three groups. Mr. Panchalinge of the high school conducted the competition efficiently. 26 children of this school participated. On this occasion, Shri Amey Desai and Mrs. Aruna Ramakant Samant of Radharang Foundation were present. Many thanks to the school's headmaster Shri Sachin Mane and the school executive committee for allowing us to use the school premises for conducting the competition. On behalf of Radha Foundation, we also thank all the children who participated in this competition. The results are as follows-

Older Boys Group

Isteyaq Ansari

Aryan Raul

Ninad Rane

Younger Boys Group

Om Rane

Vedant Bagul

Ashish Parulekar

Girls

Ranjana Rane

Rukmini Parab

Varada Samant

2nd February, 2025 Radharang Foundation Half Marathon

Radharang Foundation organised its much awaited annual Half Marathon. Over 500 participants, young and old participated. Here is the testimony of one of them:

By running today, I completed my 93rd half marathon. I am 64 years old and I have achieved this milestone in just about one and a half years. On 15th August, 2024, I ran the "Amrit Mahotsav 75 half marathon" to pay tribute to the freedom fighters who made invaluable contributions to the independence of my country. For my efforts, I was felicitated by the founder president of "Obesity and Diabetes Free World Mission" Dr. Jagannath Dixit in Pune on 05.01.2025. Similarly, The Radharang Foundation felicitated me in Sindhudurg district on 02.02.2025 at Parule by giving me a badge of honor. I was overwhelmed by this honour.

I am grateful to the founder of Radharang Foundation, the Sarnaik family, the President of the Foundation, all the office bearers, all the members and Dr. Prashant Samant Sir for this recognition. 

Prakash Chavan, Katta, Tal. Malvan.

12th March, 2025 Essay Competition

51 students from 18 secondary schools in the district participated in the competition instituted in the memory of Sushila Ganesh Gavankar.

Heartiest congratulations to the prize winners:

First place- Sejal Balkrishna Shivdavkar (Shivdav Secondary School, Shivdav)

Second place- Atharva Vijaykumar Shinde (Vidyamandir Prashala, Kankavli) 

Third place-Karthiki Sunil Vardam (Kalsulkar English School, Sawantwadi)

Consolation Prize-

Shambhavi Shashikant Parit (New English School, Madura)

Diya Prasad Satam ( Sarambal English School, Sarambal)

Sushila Ganesh Gavankar, known as Mai was born in the village of Sonawade near Kudal. She was affectionate by nature and beloved of everyone, from young children to the elderly. Moving to Mumbai, she worked as the headmistress of a Hindi medium primary school at BPM High School in Khar. She was always curious and had an alert mind which kept her young until she passed away at the age of 98. It is appropriate that her memory is kept alive through the essay competition instituted by her daughter, Niranjana Gavankar.

One of the prize winning essays is shared here.

20th March, 2025 Anant Krishi Yojana 2025

Under the Anant Krishi Yojana of Radharang Foundation, a poultry farming activity was implemented for school students on a 50% subsidy basis. A total of 431 chickens were distributed to students of two schools, Madhyamik Vidyalaya Madyachiwadi and Annasaheb Desai Vidyamandir Parule. 86 students have taken advantage of this scheme and Rs. 43,100 was spent for the scheme. This scheme is getting a good response from the students and parents, too, are urging RRF to continue the scheme every year. Special mention must be made of Deepak Samant who has made special efforts to ensure the success of the programme.

8th July, 2025 Anant Krishi Vikas Yojana 2025

Under the Anant Krishi Yojana of Radharang Foundation, simple loans are given to farmers to help them broaden their crops. The idea is for the recipient to return the funds so that they may benefit others. From this year, the aim has been changed to make the funds a donation. In the first such transaction, Vitthal Ganpat Bodekar was given Rs. 25,000 for the purchase of a cow. We wish him every success going forward.

26th July, 2025 "Anil/Anuradha Tirodkar Sadaprem" scheme 

One of the many initiatives of Radharang Foundation is to provide financial assistance of Rs. 5000/- each to 2 needy girls from rural areas of Sindhudurg district. Radharang Foundation and Dr. Urmila and Dr. Tanmay Lal donated the cheque  in memory of Urmila's father Late Anil (Hari) Sadashiv Tirodkar. 

The cheques were presented to

1) Kumari Sanika Sanjay Shirodkar  

2)  Kumari Aditi Laxman Talwadekar  

The ceremony was held at the annual general meeting of the parents of Malgaon English School.

4th August, 2025 Scholarship instituted by Pushpatai Chittal

One of the many activities of Radharang Foundation is a scholarship instituted in memory of the former principal of Narmadabai Anant Shivaji Desai Vidyalaya, Walaval, Late Govind Mukund Ambeskar and his wife Late Sumati Govind Ambeskar by their daughter, Pushpatai Chittal, Bangalore and in the memory of Kishore Pandurang Sarnaik by the Sarnaik family. A promising, needy, intelligent student of the school, Kumar Kaustubh Krishna Chavan is identified for the award. Current principal of the school, Shri Kothawale Sir thanked the donors. Mrs. Aruna Ramakant Samant gave a brief information about Radharang Foundation, Late Kishore Pandurang Saranaik, Late Govind Ambeskar, Late Sumati Govind Ambeskar and respected Pushpatai Chittal and thanked Anant Shivaji Desai and other teachers and students on behalf of Radharang Foundation. This program was planned very well by Shri Shripad Sahadev Desai. The three first rank students of this school, Class 7 Kumari Anushka Gangaram Kochrekar, Class 8 Kumar Jayesh Love Raul and Class 9 Kumar Atharva Vilas Mathkar were also given cheques.

7th August, 2025 Financial support to a deserving college student

One of the many initiatives of Radharang Foundation is to provide financial assistance to needy college students in the memory of late Prabhakar Veling. The award was instituted by Mrs. Preeti Sanjay Sarnaik, daughter-in-law of Shri Raghunath Pandurang Sarnaik, founder, mentor of RRF. A cheque of Rs. 5,000/- was given to Kumari Trisha Sachin Warang, a hardworking, intelligent and financially needy girl from Parule. Mrs. Aruna Samant also informed about the work of Radharang Foundation.

7th August, 2025 Financial support to a deserving college student

One of the many initiatives of Radharang Foundation is to provide financial assistance to needy college students in the memory of late Prabhakar Veling. The award was instituted by Mrs. Preeti Sanjay Sarnaik, daughter-in-law of Shri Raghunath Pandurang Sarnaik, founder, mentor of RRF. A cheque of Rs. 5,000/- was given to Kumari Trisha Sachin Warang, a hardworking, intelligent and financially needy girl from Parule. Mrs. Aruna Samant also informed about the work of Radharang Foundation.

26th September 2025 Art Competition for Standard 3rd and 4th children

An art competition was held for children studying in 3rd and 4th standard. The competition, organised by Ameya Desai,  is an annual feature held in memory of Late Mohan Subrao Samant and Maruti Suryaji Naik. The motive behind this fun event is to give children an opportunity to display their talent and creativity. It was heartening to see the enthusiasm displayed by the children. The results are as follows-

Third Standard

First Prize-Girija Girish Gogate

Second Prize-Govind Damodar Parab

Third Prize-Srushti Keshav Latam

Consolation Prize First-Kalpesh Yogesh Parab

Consolation Prize Second-Varada Ganesh Vetorkar

Consolation Prize Third-Shivam Vikas Sawant

Fourth Standard

First Prize-Bhavesh Radho Haldankar

Second Prize-Ananya Pradeep Parab

Third Prize-Gandharva Amar Durtondkar

Consolation Prize First-Harshada Radhakrushna Khavanekar

Consolation Prize Second-Khushi Prasanna Prabhu

Consolation Prize Third-Anish Nandakishore Raul

19th October 2025 Diwali at Jivhala Sevashram

Goods, clothes and snacks were presented to residents of Jivhala Sevashram under "Anil/Anuradha Tirodkar Sadaprem". This is a program which has been made possible thanks to a donation by Dr. Urmila and Dr. Tanmay Lal. The joy on the faces of the elderly as well as the children was indescribable. Jivhala Sevashram is run by Shri Suresh Birje and his family. RRF committee members, Mrs. Swati Walawalkar, Shri Prathamesh Naik, Mrs. Purva Naik, Shri Amey Desai, Shri Sachin Samant, Shri Santosh Samant and Mrs. Aruna Samant were present to wish the residents a happy Diwali. 

9th November 2025 Pre-Secondary and Pre-Upper Primary Scholarship

Meena Ambeskar was a well beloved teacher at Narmada Anant Desai Vidyalaya, Walawala who understood the importance of education. Her son, Subhash Zarapkar and his daughter Bhakti Mendonsa have created a scholarship in memory of Mrs. Bhavana/Meena Subhash Zarapkar to be awarded to meritorious children in 5th and 8th standard. This year, 21 names were nominated from Sindhudurg schools for consideration this scholarship. The following children have been given an award of Rs 2000 each.

Pre-Secondary Scholarship

1st-Yashashree Gurunath Tamhankar, New English School, Malgaon
2nd-Vaibhavi Govind Parab, Malgaon English School, Sawantwadi
3rd-Samriddhi Chandrakant Raul, Malgaon English School, Sawantwadi
3rd-Kasturi Santosh Khanolkar, S. L. Desai Vidyalaya, Pat

Pre-Upper Primary Scholarship

1st-Utkarsha Praveen Kerkar, S. L. Desai Vidyalaya, Pat
2nd-Gauresh Sundar Gawde, S. L. Desai Vidyalaya, Pat
3rd-Swara Krishna Gavas,Malgaon English School, Sawantwadi

16th November Donation of an Oxygen Concentrator

Ashok and Karuna Parulekar and Aditya and Aparna Khurjekar have made this invaluable gift through the RRF HELPING HANDS PROJECT which provides useful equipment to sick patients in villages for their comfort free of charge. RRF needs more such equipment to assist sick and needy patients especially from villages. Please contact Amey Desai and Sachin Samant from Parule and Hemant Khanolkar from Malgaon, Sawantwadi for more details. 

15th November 2025 Poetry Writing and Recitation Competition

This poetry recitation competition was organized in memory of Mrs. Anuradha Anil (Hari) Tirodkar in the Chintan, Hemant, Shailaja Parab Hall of Malgaon English School Malgaon . Like every year, this year too, this poetry recitation competition was organized for students of Sindhudurg district. The topic of the competition was Rain". The competition received an enthusiastic response from the students. The program was inaugurated by lighting the lamp and offering a wreath to Goddess Saraswati by the dignitaries. On this occasion, Radharang Foundation President Hemant Khanolkar, Madyachi Wadi Principal Deepak Samant, Malgaon English School Principal M. B. Phale, Radharang Foundation members Aruna Samant, Prathamesh Naik, Treasurer Sachin Samant, Member Gurunath Narvekar, Examiner Shankar Prabhu Mangal Naik-Joshi, parents and teachers, guides etc. were present. The results are as follows-

First place-Nilesh Morajkar, Khemraj Memorial English School and Dr. V. K. Toraskar Junior College Banda
Second place-Harshita Sahdev Raul, Malgaon English School, Malgaon
Third place-Gauri Rajan Gawde, Zilla Parishad Purna Primary School Kas No. 1
Consolation-Sanvi Sachin Desai, Khemraj Memorial English School and Dr. V. K. Toraskar Junior College Banda. 

Singing Competition, 29th December 2025

The last event of 2025 was The Late Vasant Desai Memorial SwarVasant Singing Competition which was sponsored by Radharang Foundation and Swaryog Mumbai, and organized by the Parule Yuva Kala Krida Mandal to commemorate the 50th death anniversary of the renowned composer, a son of Sindhudurg. The competition was held at the Shri Adinath Temple in Parule. 28 contestants from Sindhudurg and Goa had registered for this competition, out of which 17 had been selected for the final round. Adding lustre to the competition, renowned accordionist Mr. Suraj Sathe and Mr. Pradeep Desai from Mumbai were present as judges for the competition. The inauguration and prize distribution was done by the renowned singer, Fayyaz. 

At the request of the audience, Mr. Suraj Sathe performed on the accordion, captivating the audience with melodious tunes, receiving a standing ovation. It was a once in a life time experience for the audience to hear a world-renowned and revered artist from the music field, who has played for numerous composers from R D Burman, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, and Madan Mohan to Nadeem-Shravan, and whose music has graced the songs of singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, and Mohammed Rafi. This opportunity was made possible thanks to Mr. Pradeep Desai and Mr. Rajan Naik. At the audience's insistence, Mr. Sathe played four delightful songs on Mr. Rajan Naik's 150-year-old accordion.

The prize winners were given their awards by the artiste. 

First Prize-Shruti Sharad Sawant, Kudal

Second Prize-Purva Dhakorkar, Sawantwadi

Third Prize-Sanika Sanjay Gawade, Sawantwadi

Pandurang Shridhar Karambalekar was awarded a certificate of encouragement.

8th January 2026 Devotional Song Competition

The devotional song competition which is organised annually was held with great enthusiasm at the Shri Dev Adinath Temple. Eleven children aged 11-17 years participated. The competition was organized along with the Parule Yuva Kala Krida Mandal. RRF's committee members, Mrs. Aruna Samant, Mrs. Purva Naik, Ajit Parulekar, Sachin Samant, Amey Desai, and Dr. Prashant Samant were present on the occasion.

The results of the competition are as follows:

First Prize: Bhavik Mestry

Second Prize: Vinayak Gavkar

Third Prize: Sukhi Samant

Consolation Prize: Gauri Vast

The winners were honored with mementos and cash prizes by the dignitaries and judges present.

All the participating children presented beautiful songs and won the hearts of the audience. The competition was inaugurated by the judges, Mr.  Atmaram (Daji) Gosavi and Mrs. Tejaswini Desai. Mr. Acharekar, Umalkar, Aba Mestry, Yogesh Prabhu, and Vinayak Joshi provided musical accompaniment for the competition.