Udaydada Rajaramseth Lad Foundation


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Earlier when awards like Shiv Chatrappati & Dadoji Kondev did not exist, in such times few stalwarts and sports mentors had produced great players/workers who later received “Chatrapati – Kondev – Arjun Puraskar” from Government.

URL foundation was founded by UdayDada Lad to mainly felicitate these selfless servers from earlier generation of the game with URL Foundation Krida Puraskar. He organised these awards from his personal funds.

As Literature and social work were essential part of his life ,he later felicitated the great literaries and social personalities with respective awards.

Experts from each field shortlist the nominees and the committee declares the awardees. For literature known poets Shri Ramdas Phutane & Shri F M Shinde, Mallkhamb Shri Uday Despande (Dadoji Kondev Puraskar), Carrom Shri Arun Kedar (Chatrappati Puraskar), International Kabadi Refere Shri Vishwas More, KhoKho Shri Arun Deshmukh.

URL foundation continues the legacy of rewarding ‘1,00,000 (One Lakh) to well deserving Social activist and NGOs’ for doing excellent work in Maharashtra.

Manogat


I n 1981, I survived a major car accident. My friends decided to celebrate my new life, adding to which I thought of including all those who are part of my life and society at large. As arts and sports were in my genes I thought of promoting the same through URL Puraskar.

Without any expectations, my father Shri Rajaramsheth Lad was active in freedom fighting movement. Because of his cultural and social values; being blessed by SANT GADGE BABA and having met BABA AMTE, their selfless continuous work and social reforms is carved deep into my heart, leaving back impressions on my mind about contributing to the society by all possible ways. Thus these awards are small way to recognize, appreciate and promote the talent; motivate, inspire and make us socially aware about the future.

I pray to GOD, that as my current and next generation realize our privilege in what we offer to our society, I hope that future generations will also selflessly continue to do so.

My Love For Gazals


I We had the honour to start two new awards from 2011 in the category of Marathi Gazals namely URL Foundation Gazal Gaurav and Gazal Unmesh puraskar.

I fell in love with Urdu Gazals due to the depth in it. I saw a program on Doordarshan tv “ Pratibha ani Pratima”, My friend Mr. Ramdas Phutane and Dr. Sureshchandra Nadkarni interviewing Bhausaheb Patankar.He (Bhausaheb Patankar) mesmerized me with Marathi shayri .Ramdasji agreed with me to organize Bhausahebs program at Ritz Hotel in the presence of many dignitaries and celebrities who enjoyed it till early morning.

Through numerous programs of great Music Directors, C.Ramchandra and Snehal Bhatkar (Hamari Yaad aayegi Fame) I got Influenced with Marathi Gazals written by Suresh Bhatt.

Soon earning the reputation of Gazal lover, I met and listened to Gazals from Suresh Bhatt, Ilahi jamadar and many contemporary poets. We started interacting more through various modes of communication. On personal invitations of Suresh Bhatt, I attended many of his Mehfils, which were eternal.Many of his masterpieces were bought by me to make a new music album and to be used in my own production house feature films.

I came in contact with other Gazal writer such as Ilahi jamadar, Sadanand dabir, Manohar Ranpise, Dilip Pandharpate, M.B. Chavan, Sardesai, Raman Randive, Chandrashekar Sanekar etc. All these great personalities and myself always had a mutual admiration. They admired my love for gazal I admired their talent.

My search for more such talented persons is always on.

My Love for ghazals made me compose tunes as well ,resulting in creation of 3 music albums of Marathi Gazals.