kochi acknowledging the contributions made by the gujarati community to build kerala the times of india on saturday honoured seven community members shri cochin gujarati mahajan president gobind prasad goyal was honoured by the times of india as a representative of the nonmalayali diaspora as part of kerala piravi celebrations he was honoured with a ponnada and a memento by assistant commissioner of police mattancherry benoy m at a garba and dandiya night organized here toi also felicitated leading gujarati businessmen and founder members of the shri gujarati school and college at mattancherry kakkubhai chakkubhai bhammer and dilip mehta vishwanath agarwal a member of the gujarati school and college board for the past 36 years was also felicitated i feel i am a malayali i studied in malayalam and all my life i have been in kerala it just happens that i am from north india agarwal said honouring the contributions of the community that came to the city as traders toi also felicitated three shri cochin gujarati mahajan members mulraj ved ramesh jethabhai and chetan shahwho made worthy contribution to the city the felicitation ceremony was followed by a night of garba and dandiya where the young and old danced to the tunes of heartbeat a band led by anand mehtatodays programme on sunday the times of india will salute the contributions of the sindhi kannada punjabi and andhra communities the function will be held at fine arts hall here deepak aswani from the sindhi community srikanth anavatti president kannada sanga kochi satwant kaur who has been residing in kochi for last 60 years from the punjabi community and m harihara naidu secretary andhra cultural association kochi will be felicitated