NOURSHING THE MOHLAJEE BLOG

NOURSHING THE MOHLAJEE BLOG


Dear Family,

Greetings and Namaskar to you all!

The MOHLAJEE’S WORLD Blog started by dear Ajaya in June has grown tremendously during the past few months. We have learnt that we are Punjabi Sarsawat Brahmins, belong to the Mohla Clan, are a part of Panchjati of Purohits, and our Gotra is Somastam. And thanks to the well researched Ajaya’s Posting, we have a Visiting Card to proudly announce our roots and heritage to the Purohits of Mandirs and Tirathsthans.

Our known Vanshavali goes back atleast to 300 plus years. However, probably no historical records exist that could describe as to how did our distant ancestors live? Purohits or other work?Moved from? Moved to? When? Dresses? Social customs? Family traditions? Marriages and other ceremonies? Names of womenfolk and children? These and similar questions will remain unanswered in our mind for ever. We will , however, continue to do research. May be with the information from the Tirathsthan Purohits , that you all will gather, some of the questions may be answered.

Together we can answer similar questions about Thula Misr Ji and his descendants. Recent postings of Sharda bahinji, Prem bhai, Jyoti bhabhi, dear Shivani, Ajaya, Anjali, and Nakula are a good start. We now are familiar with their families' lives and also have a glimpse at the lives of Thula Misr Ji and Bhaiyaji.

Now, we are at cross roads. The Blog needs more nourishment from the family for it to continue to grow. Madan bhai has given us an outline of a job for each one of us to fulfill the mission of our Blog.

As posted by Ajaya, it reads:

“ I received another interesting comment(s) on my postings from my learned Uncle Lall (Madan) over telephone last night. He said:

1. Try and find date of birth and death and place of living of all those mentioned in the english(version) Vanshavalli.

2. To begin with start from the latest generation and the immediate elders.

3. Try and place their individual pictures and sketch their bio data or brief note about them.

4. Reach out to people who are mentioned in the Vanshavali and currently out of touch to expand the horizon.e.g. he will search for contact details of M.L.Jhingan (Murari) mentioned therein, who is a learned scholar of economics and potentially great contributor to our blog.

5. Most important task assigned: download all the entries in print and store someplace for future archives or library of Mohla Clan so that it remains an eternal document for future generations to come.I think great ideas and we should work on them.”

Here are my suggestions to the family to accomplish our "Blog" mission:

Family Photos: The photo idea was originally suggested by Anshu when we were preparing the English Vanshavali. Anjali tried to locate the photos but it was difficult for us to decide which photos to use. Finally, we came to the conclusion that it should be left to each family to decide which photo to publish.
So please post your family photos making reference to the Vanshavali sheet like V-2 etc. Alternately, you can send the photos to Ajaya or me for posting.

Birth and death and place of living: Please send information to Ajaya or me for adding the information to the Vanshavali.

Bio data or brief note: Jyoti bhabhi, and dear Shivani and Ajaya have posted very commendable bio-data of their families. We need contributions from each and every one of us about their families, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings and children. We all are busy; please do find a few minutes now and then to this.

Bhaiyaji, Bhabhoji, Dadaji and Dadiji: This is urgent! Only a few us have knowledge about and memories of our recent ancestors’ lives. We should follow the example of Sharda bahinji and share our memories with the family and upcoming generations. Please write SOON.

Unansered Queries: Ajaya and others have queried about certain individuals and facts in their postings. Please read the postings and post your responses and/ or comments as new Postings.

Travels: Ajaya has posted his impressions na video of his trip to Sheetla Mandir in Lahore.
We all need to share our interesting travles with the family.

Please share this posting with your family, read it to them, print for them to read, and translate in Hindi if need be.

Spread the mission of the Blog! And encourage every one to contribute.


Thanks
Mahender

Note: Most sections of the posting was sent as an e-mail to the addresses that I had.