VOICE HINDI/REGIONAL JUDGES

Dr. Sumita Chakraborti-Ghosh serves as the Professor of Curriculum Instruction/Special Education and as a coordinator of the Doctoral program at the Department of teaching and Learning, College of Education at Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN. She also serves as an Executive Director of their private nonprofit foundation named as Soumit’s World Foundation, provides supports for academic, artistic, and personal health development to fulfil the dream of underprivileged children around the world. She has been awarded "Excellence in Education" by Global Education Forum for Leaders, by PRISM international, Excellence in Leadership by Shuddh Desi Radio of Nashville. Dr. Chakraborti-Ghosh is a nationally and internationally renowned speaker and researcher, an advisor, a professor of preservice and in-service teachers and doctoral students in the field of gifted education, special education curriculum development and more; a musician, an author, a poet; a wife and a mother and a visionary philanthropist.

Preeti Gajjar is an Indian origin renowned playback singer. She has learnt various styles of singing (semiclassical, light vocal, ghazals, folk, etc.). Preeti is "A grade" artist at All India Radio and Doordarshan. She has sung in several Gujarati films, audiovideo albums, TV series and commercials. Preeti won T-Series StageWorks Academy organized "Singing Superstars" and Channel-V talent hunt show. She has been awarded "Best singer of the year" by the State of Gujarat and several other organizations. Preeti holds a Masters degree in Performing arts (Hindustani Classical Vocal major). She has performed several times in presence of the Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi. She has been invited as a judge in the vocal category multiple times by several organizations and TV channels like Zee Gujarati, ETV Gujarati, DD-11 in Gujarat, India as well as USA.

Neil Bhatt is a resident of Nashville and works at BNA Airport as Director of Project Controls & Contracts overseeing the expansion and renovation of BNA Airport.

Neil has a deep interest in Indian music and performs Hindustani music on electric mandolin. Neil is a self-taught musician and considers himself a life-long student of music.

GRAND FINALE 03:00 p.m.

F A S H I O N

S H O W

Anamika Mazumdar - Choreographer

Vaishnavi Sawalkar – Music and Beats

Kishkindha Kabaria

Rekha Uttekar

Sonaja Tambekar

Shweta Saini

Dr. Snigdha Priyadarshi

Nisha Garg

Meenu Saini

Purnima Gupta

Dr. Amita Shah

Mridu Deora

Shalini Dixit

D A N C E

Guru Smt. Aparna JagadisanChoreographer

Jasmita Parvatareddy

Jeshmitha Peethala

Ashritha Raj

Aditi Shankar

Megha Karthikeyan

Anushri Mukherjee

Lakshmi Suraparaju

Neha Masani