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WE ARE READY FOR 2009 GREETINGS FROM U.S.A

MERRY XMAS FROM SHALINI AND SANJAY RAMCHANDANI
OF HARTFORD, USA.

Varsha and Dinesh Moorjani in San Francisco during a festival.

Indian origin Russell Peters is pictured here with Varkha Chandiramani

DADA VASWANI DHARSHAN MELA
held at New Jersey a super success.

A huge tent was put up with activities for children, games and stalls set up all throughout the Sadhu Vaswani Center's site.  

As in the past years, there was home made vegetarian food, such as Dosas and Pau Bhaji and drinks and desserts such as Falooda, Kulfi and Thadaal. A stage was set up where young children danced and bhajans and ladas were sung all through the afternoon.  In keeping with Dada's philosophy, children are encouraged to get involved in every Mela held at the Center and have been doing so for many years. The pictures show just a few of the dances performed by our own Sindhi youth.

In 1990 the first Sadhu Vaswani Center was established in the Tri-State.  Since then it has been regularly conducting various activities such as pujas, langars, weddings, thread ceremonies and other events. Each Sunday they hold a Satsang with an important pre-recorded message from Dada Jashan. They also currently hold Sindhi Classes for the youth as the center realizes that to know your mother tongue is a very important part of ones heritage.  
In the future they plan to start a day-care center for the working parents which would teach religious and cultural classes.

Congratulations.

First Sindhi Float in the New Jersey Independence Day Parade

The Indian Business Association and the New Jersey Federation of Indian Associations hosted the Independence Day celebration Parade on August 10.

The first major Independence Day Parade in the Tri-State area this year had a Sindhi Float, sponsored by the Sindhi Association of New Jersey.  Members of our Sindhi community featured a float, with Julelal’s picture gracing its front and back.  Sindhi songs and Ladas blared all along the parade routes, mixed in with the sounds of Bollywood music from the surrounding floats.  Samir Wadhwani, Nikhil Sadarangani and Simran Sadarangani were amongst many Sindhi youth who participated with pride in this first ever representation of Sindh in a major Parade.

This grand event featured marching bands, costumed characters, ethnic dancers from over 90 participating Indo-American cultural, social and religious organizations. 

Amongst the talent was Mauli Dave of the Zee Tv show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa and Indian Television actress Roshni of “Kasam Se” who marched as Grand Marshall and Guest of Honor respectively.

Later in the month, Governor Corzine signed an official proclamation recognizing and congratulating New Jersey's Indian American community for their contributions to the state and for the official India Day Parade.
Well done to our fellow Sindhis and to our youth for participating!

VINESHA MALKANI  met Indian Super actress KAREENA KAPOOR recently.

EDITORS:

New Jersey
ASHVIN MELWANI
He is a freshman in High School. Born and brought up in USA he has always been conscious of the importance of surrounding himself with Sindhis and other Indians to maintain a link with his Culture. He recognizes that many of his peers too are doing so much to maintain this same link which is why he would like to share with the rest of the Sindhis around the world what our Sindhi Youth are up to in USA. He may be contacted at VINIMEL@aol.com

Chicago
NICK MIRPURI
nick@doublebus.com
Naresh "Nick"  is an Computer expert, and was a former New York official 

Connecticut
KUSUM RAMCHANDANI
kusram@aim.com
Kusum Married to Sanjay Ramchandani who is in the Tailoring Business.

Los Angeles
KUMAR SAJNANI
kim@luxurusa.com
Kumar Kim is in the import business, married to Dina, and both from the Phil.