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Jersey Power Elite Greet Consul General Of India In New York

The activist and actor says most Americans don’t agree with Donald Trump over his racist, anti-women, anti-LGBT practices

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Fauja Singh’s Vaisakhi Run

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The 16th New York Indian Film Festival featured independent, art house, alternate, and diaspora films

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By Michael Cavna onald Trump says he wants to make America great again. But in the view of at least one Captain America, the presumptive nominee for president is making America hate again.

“Donald Trump has certainly been a candidate whose words have been alarming for someone like me, who happens to be at the front lines of bigotry in post-9/11 America,” said Vishavjit Singh, a Washington-born Sikh artistactivist in his mid-40s.

By day, Singh is a political cartoonist. But on occasion, he transforms into Sikh Captain America, a costumed soldier with a traditional head wrap who fights bigotry and champions cultural understanding through public appearances and talks.

And ahead of Friday’s opening of the film “Captain America: Civil War,” Singh draws a stark contrast between Trump and Cap’s alter ego, Steve Rogers — two iconic New York characters born in the ’40s.

“Captain America as a character would stand in complete opposition to Donald Trump and his candidacy,” said Singh, who now lives in New York himself.

“Today, besides ISIS, the festering of extreme right-wing and supremacist forces at home will be targets for Captain America’s wrath.”

The artist also creates cartoon campaigns, such as the Send Sikh Note To Trump postcard campaign, in which he and some of his fans send Trump a postcard every day “with a message focused on processing our anger inspired by his jingoistic madness into small kernels of humor and compassion. He might be full of himself, overstuffed with his achievements with a towering skyscraper of an ego, but even deep inside him resides seeds of benevolence,” Singh said. “I wish him well; I wish him compassion; I wish him to realize the violence of his words; I wish him a landslide loss in the elections for his own good.”

Captain America was born in New York during World War II, from the minds of Jewish creators and

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Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed by her two Sikh bodyguards, mobs carried out an anti-Sikh massacre. “I grew up in a family that looked Sikh with turbans, beards, long unshorn hair, but we were not a religious practicing family,” he said. One time a potentially murderous crowd hovered outside his home in Punjab before moving on, his family safe but scarred.

Singh had learned about the Sikh faith through illustrated books. “Some of the most amaz-

future comic-book legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, who introduced their super-soldier by having him deliver a haymaker to the jaw of a reeling Hitler.

Sikh Captain America was also born in the Big Apple for sociopolitical reasons, as Singh was planning to attend his first New York Comic-Con as an exhibitor in the fall of 2011.

“Some of my art is informed by my own experience on the streets of America and being targeted as an outsider — at times as a threat

‘Sikh Captain America’ He wears the superhero's costume to fight intolerance - and Trump just based on my looks,” Singh said. “So I had this vision of an American superhero fighting hate and intolerance.”

Months earlier, the first Captain America film had been released. “No other superhero seemed better placed for this task — I don’t think I would have selected Superman or Batman,” Singh said.

He created posters showing an illustration of Captain America in a turban and beard for his exhibitor booth.

One fan was Fiona Aboud, a New Yorkbased Brazilian American photographer who was working on her

art project “Sikhs: An American Portrait.” She said he should come back next year dressed as Captain America. He said no — until about 10 months later, when a gunman entered a Sikh temple in Milwaukee and killed six worshipers.

“I decided to get out of my own way and engage my vulnerability — body-image issues, being skinny all my life, and getting stereotyped all my life,” he said.

“So in June 2013, I stepped out as Captain America with anxiety, sweaty palms and not knowing how people will respond. It turned out to be one of the most amazing days of my life.”

It was the mid-’70s, and Singh was nearly kindergarten age, when his family left the Maryland suburb of Hyattsville to move to India. Young Vishavjit went to school in New Delhi, where he showed a talent for art but was told to drop that interest by seventh grade. “Family and culture decided there are only two professions in my future: medicine and engineering,” Singh said.

Some superheroes don glasses to shield their identity, but a young Singh had to begin wearing glasses while in grade school — which for him, he said, was “aesthetic suicide.”

“I got subtle digs from family and friends, which never stopped. Having a handsome brother to be compared to did not help. By the time I was in high school, I was finally convinced of my ugliness.

This would inform everything I did or not,” said Singh, who compensated by “studying my rear off.”

In 1984, after

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ing real-life superheroes from the young, 500-year-old faith were men and women who gave their lives in pursuit of their beliefs, defending others’ right to practice their faith, community service,” said Singh, who did not become truly politicized until after he started his pre-engineering studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His turn toward the Sikh faith also grew in his 20s.

Today, Singh gets frequent requests to dress as Sikh Captain America. He’ll appear at, say, the University of Kansas one week and L.A.’s Japanese American National Museum the next. This summer, he’ll also be part of Marvel Comics’ gallery of 75 Captain America cosplayers from across the nation, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Captain America’s creation.

Singh also donned the costume for a comedy segment on “Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell” and appeared in SikhLens Productions’ 2014 short film, “Red, White and Beard.” Plus he gets “love letters from strangers, messages from armed services members, a responder for 9/11 from Arizona police force,” he said.

Whenever he steps into his Cap uniform, he said, “suddenly, I am like the ultimate patriot for fellow Americans — someone to be embraced, saluted, captured in pictures. Someone who represents America; someone who is one of ‘us.’

“In costume, I only had two young men attending a Puerto Rican parade who called me a terrorist,” Singh recounts. “I asked them: Are [you] really calling Captain America a terrorist?

They apologized profusely.” That negative reaction, he says, was uncommon, yet only fuels his sense of costumed mission.

“Near unanimously,” he says of public response, “it has been love across the board.”

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Clinton Promises To Recruit More Asian-Americans In Her Administration

By Ela Dutt t was a love-fest between the sitting president, a potential Democratic incoming president, and the Asian-American community at the star-studded Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies’ awards gala, May 4 in Washington, D.C. President Obama owned the community as his own and praised its achievements, and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promised to hire members of the community in her administration were she to win the White House Nov. 8.

“I want to let you know that I will make sure that you are well represented in my administration if I am fortunate enough to be your president,” Clinton said, according to news reports.

In a video snippet of her speech on the Web, the presidential hopeful urged the enthusiastic audience which shouted her name repeatedly, that they needed to join her campaign, adding, “I want you to be involved not just in my campaign, but more importantly, really governing our country in a way that keeps alive the promise of America,” President Obama, who made it

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to the event directly on his return from Flint, Michigan, praised the community in his keynote address, and took credit for hiring more Asian-Americans than any past administration. “You’re part of the lifeblood of this nation.

You are our teachers and our faith leaders, our doctors, our caretakers, our artists, our shopkeepers, our police officers and firefighters,” Obama said. “You are our soldiers and our sailors, airmen, marines, coast guardsmen, defending our freedom every day. And, increasingly, you are a powerful, visible force in American political life.” But he urged them to be more politically active.

Sekhar Narasimhan, founder of the super-PAC AAPI Victory Fund, told News India Times, the takeaway for him from the President’s message was that Asian Americans needed to get moving, get to the polling booths, to make a difference. “Only 56 percent of Asian-Americans are registered to vote, and IndianAmericans probably even less,” said Narasimhan who is also cochair of the Democratic National Committee’s Indo-American Council. “Indian-Americans are very apathetic, even in the simple act of voting. Our data shows that in the 6 swing states, Nevada,

Colorado, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida, we are the margin of victory.”

Comedian and author Aziz Ansari was presented with the Vision Award at the gala, along with actor Alan Yang who was the co-star in his latest feature documentary “Master of None. “We need more minority creators,” Ansari said in his acceptance speech, NBC News reported.

“Don’t wait for white people to open the door for you,” he added.

The event was emceed by two Indian-Americans, actor Parvesh Cheena and economist and entrepreneur Sonal Shah. Cheena best known for his role on NBC’s sitcom Outsourced and as the voice of the Transformer Blades on Discovery Family Channel’s “Transformers: Rescue Bots.”

Shah is currently executive director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation and previously was the director of the White House office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.

The 22nd annual gala was attended by more than 1,000 guests including members of Congress, among them Rep. Ami Bera, D-California, political activists, community leaders, and celebrities as well as White House Champions of Change.

Cricket Bee Champion From California Bags $10,000 Prize By a Staff Writer

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harat Jayakumar of Sunnyvale, California bagged the first-ever MoneyGram Cricket Bee champion and $10,000 in prize money at the competition held in Edison, N.J., May 7. .

Jaykumar gave the correct answer that took him to the top Australia was the winner of the first U-19 cricket title.

The second runner up, Auroshish Mishra of Belmont, California was the runner up and took home $2,000 in prize money.

The MoneyGram Cricket Bee was launched earlier this year and is a game of Cricket Trivia that is conducted in a bee format More than 800 people registered to play and to qualify through the rounds and secure one of the 9 slots at the Finals.

Contests were held in Edison, NJ, Hayward, CA and Toronto, Canada from where the top three were invited to the finals. Cash prizes of $500, $300 and $200

Judge Orders Questioning Of Clinton Aides About Emails – WASHINGTON federal judge has ordered questioning of Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton’s top aides about her secret email server.

Top Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl D. Mills will be deposed, as will Bryan Pagliano, who reportedly maintained the clintonemail.com server and Clinton’s email account tied to the secret system, The Washington Times reported.

Clinton herself could also have to answer questions in the open records case brought by conservative foundation, Judicial Watch, according to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s order issued on Wednesday.

“The circumstances surrounding approval of Clinton’s use of clintonemail.com for official government business, as well as the manner in which it was operated, are issues that need to be explored in discovery to enable the Court to resolve, as a matter of law, the adequacy of the State Department’s search of relevant records in response to Judicial Watch’s request,” Judge Sullivan wrote.

He gave Judicial Watch eight weeks to conduct the inter-

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Winners of the first-ever MoneyGram Cricket Bee championship pose for a group photo after the competition in Edison, New Jersey, May7. From left Rahul Walia, founder of the MoneyGram Cricket Bee, Ivy Wisco of MoneyGram, Bharat Jayakumar, National Champion of the cricket bee, H.R. Shah, CEO of TV Asia, and Aurosish Mishra, National Runner-up of the cricket bee.

were given out at the regional levels as well.

MoneyGram, along with its marketing agency, AAAZA, commissioned Touchdown Media to conduct the competitions.

According to organizers estimates, there are more than 10 million cricket fans in North America.

“To watch the Finals yesterday

were no less gripping than the last few overs of a hotly contested One day Cricket match, It was nail biting and intense. So very happy and proud of the Bee to have been able to provide a great platform for Cricket Enthusiasts,” Rahul Walia, founder of the Cricket Bee is quoted saying in a press release. The event was broadcast by TV Asia.

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views, meaning they will be finished just weeks before Clinton hopes to accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s national convention in Philadelphia in late July.

The emails have affected Clinton’s presidential campaign from the start and have damaged her standing among many voters, who question her honesty. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump openly speculated that Clinton will be indicted at the end of an FBI investigation into the server.

Clinton set up the server at her home in New York in 2009, soon after she became state secretary.

Her messages were erroneously shielded from disclosure for six years, until she belatedly returned some 30,000 to the department in December 2014.

Clinton said there were 30,000 other messages from her time in office that were strictly private and did not implicate her government activities. She declined to turn over those messages, saying the law gave her the obligation of deciding what was official and what was personal.

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Jersey Power Elite Greet Indian Diplomat

Yogesh Mehta

Consul General of India in New York continued her introductory forays into the Tri-state area, this time to meet with elected officials, business leaders and professionals at a reception hosted by Chairman and Publisher of Parikh Worldwide Media Dr. Sudhir Parikh and Dr. Sudha Parikh at their home in Watchung, New Jersey, May 1.

Above, New Jersey Republican Senator Samuel D. Thompson, meeting India's Consul General in New York Riva Ganguly Das as Dr. Sudhir Parikh looks on. Below, the consul general meets with New Jersey Democratic Assemblyman Raj Mukherji. Prakash Dalal, a New York-based wealth management advisor, is standing next to Mukherji.

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Dr. Sudhir Parikh and Dr. Sudha Parikh hosted a reception for Consul General of India in New York, Riva Ganguly Das, in a bid to introduce her to leading New Jersey politicians and business people at his home in Watchung, New Jersey, May 1. About 90 guests from New York and New Jersey attended the dinner reception, including Samuel D. Thompson, New Jersey state Senator from the 12th District, New Jersey Republican Assemblywoman Maria Rodriguez-Gregg from 8th district, and Democratic state Assemblyman Raj Mukherji from 33rd district. Photo above, clockwise from left, Dr. Sudha Parikh, Dr. Sudhir Parikh, Consul General Ganguly Das and Deputy Consul General Manoj Kumar Mohapatra. Below, Dr. Sudhir Parikh welcoming the guests of the evening.

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Ganguly Das being welcomed by Dr. Sudha Parikh.

New Jersey Assemblywoman Maria Rodriguez-Gregg with Dr. Sudha Parikh at the reception.

Ambassador Ganguly Das flanked on her right by Vijay Nambiar, U.N. Secretary General's Special Advisor on Myanmar.

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Physicians Dominate 2016 List Of South Asian Ellis Island Awardees By a Staff Writer our Indian American physicians, including Dr. Ajay Lodha, presidentelect of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, were among seven South Asian Americans who were last week given the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor. The awards bestowed on 88 people during a glittering ceremony in Ellis Island May 7 by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations paid homage to the immigrant experience and the contribution made to America by immigrants and their children.

NECO chairman Nasser J. Kazeminy noted that “each of our medalists will know that NECO and the citizens of America, appreciate their work on behalf of our nation and that we hope their good work will inspire others to continue to ‘pay it forward’ for our greater good.”’

Besides Lodha, the other South Asians honored were Rekha Bhandari, Akkaraju V.N. Sarma, Prerna Mona Khanna, all of them medical doctors, as well as Asad M. Madni, executive managing director at Crocker Capital, Padma Lakshmi, host of popular

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Dr. Ajay Lodha

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reality show ‘Top Chef’, and Pakistan-born Mehmood Khan who is the vice-chairman and chief scientific officer of PepsiCo. “I am humbled for being chosen to receive this prestigious award,” Lodha said soon after receiving the award.

“I feel there are lot more Indians here in the United States,

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who are doing outstanding job and make us feel very proud. This award is for all of them,” he said.

A former chief medical officer and senior vice president of Caritas Health Care System representing St. John's Hospital and Mary Immaculate Hospital, Lodha is an Internist training.

A graduate of RNT Medical

College, Udaipur, Rajasthan, Lodha completed his residency at Flushing Hospital, New York. He lives in Long Island with his wife Dr. Smita Lodha and their two children.

Lodha, who is the past president of Rajasthan Association of North America, Rajasthan Medical Alumni Association

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received the award during the 30th annual Ellis Island Medal of Honor ceremony.

Lodha, who will assume office as the AAPI President during its convention in July this year says that he would like see the organization lobby Congress for an increase in the number of available residency positions so as to help alleviate the shortage of doctors. Although 2016 was a banner year for Indian-American physicians given that four out of seven awardees are medical doctors, in the past three decades since the medal was instituted, many distinguished members of the community, including Dr. Sudhir Parikh, publisher of Desi Talk and Padma Shri award winner, as well as H.R. Shah, chairman of TV Asia, have received the coveted award.

New York City Launches Multilingual Campaign To Help Uninsured Immigrants By a Staff Writer

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ew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, with the support of the New York State Health Foundation, launched a campaign May 5, to reach uninsured immigrant New Yorkers eligible for DACA (Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals).

The launch was held at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism’s Center for Community and Ethnic Media.

The campaign aims to reach more than 300,000 immigrants through targeted advertising, public education materials, and centralized resources in English, Bangla, Urdu, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Haitian-Creole, and Polish.

“DACA recipients are often unaware that they are eligible for Medicaid and other benefits, leaving countless immigrant New Yorkers uninsured,” Mayor de Blasio said, adding that MOIA’s campaign efforts would ensure that DACA recipients are aware that these benefits are accessible and obtainable. “This will not only help decrease the number of uninsured immigrant New Yorkers, but it also will encourage others to come out the shadows and apply for DACA and it’s numerous benefits,” the Mayor

said.

According to officials, this campaign is the largest effort across the country to highlight DACA recipients’ potential Medicaid eligibility and other benefits. Despite the Affordable Care Act helping many New Yorkers, some groups still lag far behind, especially immigrants, they said.

According to the City’s estimates, about 85,000 New Yorkers

are eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. However, less than half of eligible New Yorkers have applied for these benefits.

The two-month campaign will include transit ads, ads in ethnic and community newspapers, social media, and info-cards displays in local businesses, in order to reach immigrant New Yorkers in the communities in which they live and in the languages that

they speak. The campaign’s visuals reflect the diversity of DACAeligible individuals across communities, in order to better connect to individuals who are parents, workers, and/or college students. For more information, visit nyc.gov/DACA. Democratic City Council member Daniel Dromm, who represents Jackson Heights and Elmhurst, areas heavily populated by South Asians and other minorities, said New York was

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leading the way to ensuring DACA recipients have access to the healthcare.

“As a Council Member representing one of the largest and most diverse immigrant communities in New York, I am proud to work alongside the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs to promote this important campaign,” he added. Authorities believe this campaign could impact roughly half of New York City’s DACA-eligible population.

That equals more than 38,000 arrivals who are largely unaware they may have access to health coverage for the first time in their lives, not including the root benefits of the program, according to State Senator Martin Malavé Dilan.

In 2013 approximately 63.9 percent or 345,000, of the City’s undocumented individuals were uninsured. The uninsured rate for undocumented immigrants is more than three times that of other noncitizens in New York City (20%) and more than six times greater than the uninsured rate for the rest of the City (10%).

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All Eyes On Marathoner Fauja Singh At Vaisakhi 5K Run

By a Staff Writer his time he was not running the race, nonetheless Fauja Singh, believed to be the world’s oldest marathoner at age 105, seemed to be the cynosure of all eyes at the 3rd annual Vaisakhi 5K Run in New York last month.

The British Sikh centenarian was the chief guest at the Vaisakhi 5K Run that has been organized

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as a celebration of Vaisakhi, or the Sikh New Year, and as a means to promote sport and fitness within the community.

The April 24 event at Victory Field in Forest Park, Woodhaven, was conceived by Dr. Avtar Singh Tinna, a New York-based medical doctor and a marathon runner himself, some years ago and has drawn hundreds of runners every year. This year close to 1,000 runners from New York and New Jersey, including women, took part in the event, making this

Left, Fauja Singh addresses the runners with words of inspiration before the start.

Right, first-place male runner, Gursimran Singh of Belleville, N.J. being awarded the trophy by dignitaries. Others in the photo include from left Gurdev Singh Kang, Nasrin G. Ahmad, Kuldeep Singh Dhillon, Dr. Avtar Singh Tinna, Gursimran Singh, Fauja Singh and Harbans Singh Dhillon.

Bottom, runners at the starting point.

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year’s race the largest Vaisakhi 5K event to date.

“Every year, we produce another race, and we learn new things. We learn our demographics, and the demographics we need to reach out to. We gain a better understanding of what runners want from the event, and hope to continue to provide the best spring-time experience,” Tinna, president and CEO of the race’s organizing committee, said.

Fauja Singh, who arrived in the city from London a week before the run, brought registrations from all parts of the tri-state area, and from as far as states like California thanks to his name that often is a magnetic attraction. Singh’s attendance as the chief guest at the Vaisakhi 5K marked his return to New York City after 13 years since running the ING New York City Marathon in 2003.

The first place runner — Gursimran Singh of Belleville, N.J.—finished the race in 18 minutes and 5 seconds, followed by

With a variety of dance, choreography, music, poetry and yoga postures, the Ninth Natraj Indian Folk Arts Festival was held May 7 at Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Among those who performed included Lalitha Cosme, who presented a dance on Holi and a Rajasthani dance; Ninaad Haarsole, who has since his school days has done choreography; Yoga by Pradnya Navalgundkar and her students; Somreeta Mukherjee, a software designer, who is trained in Indian classical music and Rabindra Sangeet, and Bindeshwari Aggarwal, who teaches Hindi at New York University, and is a famous Hindi poet. The Mallakhamb Federation USA presented Mallakhamb which is a combination of yoga, martial Arts, and gymnastics. Photo above, Mallakhamb items being presented by the Mallakhamb Federation USA.

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brothers Ajay Singh and Jaspal Singh of Carteret, N.J., taking second and third places, respectively.

Among female runners, Riti Dhillon of Floral Park, N.Y., Jinny Khanduja of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Sonya Chhabra of Princeton Junction, N.J., finished first, second, and third, respectively.

Fauja Singh arrived at the park shortly before the race, escorted by the organizing committee officials, and throughout the day, was accompanied by professional security personnel shielding him from the bystanders and photographers and autograph hunters.

Fauja Singh welcomed the runners prior to the start of the race and awarded trophies to each of the winners. Following the awards ceremony, he continued to meet with the many runners who were inspired by his athletic feats.

One day prior to the Vaisakhi 5K Run, the record-breaking runner was a chief guest at the Sikh Day Parade in Manhattan.

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Connecticut Teenager Tops Wells Fargo National Essay Contest By a Staff Writer 13-year-old girl from Connecticut was named the 2016 grand prize winner of ‘Succeeding Together’ national essay contest that has been created by Wells Fargo to celebrate the huge impact The First Tee, a youth development organization through golf, has on students across the country.

The written contest was held ahead of the 2016 Wells Fargo Golf Championship held last week in Charlotte, North Carolina, to which the grand prize winner, Meghna Mazumdar, won a trip.

The competition was specifically created for the 30,000+ teenage participants of The First Tee that introduces young people to golf and its inherent values at approximately 170 chapters across the U.S. The ‘Succeeding Together’ written contest asked participants to write about the importance of having and being a part of a “Go-To Team,” a core life skill of The First Tee that fosters partnership and teamwork in all areas of life.

While Mazumdar from The First Tee of Connecticut was named the grand prize winner,

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Defending champion of the Wells Fargo Championship, Rory McIlroy, who is a four-time major champion, hits the links with 2016 Wells Fargo ‘Succeeding Together’ contest winner Meghna Mazumdar during the event’s Pro-Am May 4 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C. The contest offered eligible participants of The First Tee the opportunity to celebrate working together with their “Go-To Team.”

Arthi Chandra, 14, from The First Tee of Silicon Valley, Derrick Ow, 18, from The First Tee of Monterey County, also from California, and Janane Tan, 16, from The First Tee of Greater Dallas, were named the first prize

winners, the financial services company announced last month.

Wells Fargo says that with one in five students dropping out of public high schools, the need for quality youth programs is critical.

Thus, The First Tee golf program

can be part of the solution to challenges facing today’s youth.

“The First Tee reaches young people aged 5-18 through golf instruction and life skills lessons administered at chapters, military installations, and to students in

elementary schools,” the company said in a press release.

To a question as to why working with a “Go-To Team” important for her, Mazumdar said that while bright, mature, thoughtful and resourceful are some characteristics that describe her, even on her best day, she cannot possibly solve all the problems she is faced with.

“A Go-To Team’ gives me a feeling of security, support and the reassurance that I am not alone.

Having that team makes me feel like I am a part of something bigger (and more powerful) than myself. The collective brainpower, energy and spirit of that group help empower me to be a better me. That is the importance of having a Go-To Team!,” she said.

All the four contest winners received a four-day/three- night trip for two to Charlotte last week to attend the 2016 Wells Fargo Championship and experience the excitement of a PGA Tour event from inside the ropes.

Mazumdar, as the grand prize winner, played in the tournament’s Pro-Am with a PGA Tour golfer May 3.

Last year, Wells Fargo deepened its relationship with The First Tee by becoming a national trustee and further supporting the organization, its participants and volunteers.

ACF Holds Two-day Cricket Coaching Clinic In Queens By a Staff Writer

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two-day cricket coaching clinic was held for more than a dozen trainers from New York area at the Idlewild Cricket Facilities of Queens United Sports Club in Queens April 30-May 1.

The clinic was conducted by American Cricket Federation’s director of coaching Jatin Patel at the level 1 and level 2 stages for more than a dozen coaches.

Most of the participants in the two clinics have played cricket at the first-class level, which made communication of game strategies, awareness, and basic bowling and batting techniques somewhat easier. As part of the clinic, an under-15 boys cricket match featuring the Queens United Cricket Academy and Cricmax, based in New Jersey, was held as well. The match gave the participants an opportunity to observe the coaching styles of the teams’ coaches as well as to address issues such as scoring, game analysis and team strategies on the field.

The participants praised the clinical instruction and the delivery mechanisms of the seasoned ‘Cricket Australia’ certified cricket coach Jatin Patel for his “thinking

American Level 2 coaches, including two female coaches, with ACF Coaching Director Jatin Patel, third from right, at the Idlewild Cricket Facilities of Queens United Sports Club in Queens April 30.

outside of the box” approach.

“Your coaching style was inspirational. I learned a lot from your practical presentation of the game and its nuances. Your coaching style has motivated me to want to learn more about coaching. Thanks for everything Jatin,” one of the level 2 partici-

pants, Desmond Thompson, remarked.

Ashok Adikoppula, who traveled from Albany, New York, for the clinic said, “Coach Jatin Patel was excellent, he shared some awesome techniques and coachable moments.”

The second day session May 1

was held at Storm Academy, an indoor sports facility on Long Island, where participants engaged in practical applications of the techniques taught by Coach Patel.

Club president Tony Hinds remarked, “I thought Mr. Patel was very knowledgeable in his

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trade, simple in his presentation, and very effective in his methods of teaching/communication. The very first minute into his teaching I threw aside the cricketer in me, or what’s left, and began my new journey into becoming, what I believe is now truly my calling, coaching the next generation.”

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New Jersey Man Sentenced For Distributing Child Pornography From News Dispatches

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n Indian-American man from New Jersey was sentenced May 6, to four years in prison for distributing child pornography on the Internet.

Nil Choudhury, 27, a resident of Margate, N.J., was arrested in 2013. He pleaded guilty this March. On May 6, Atlantic County Superior Court Judge Bernard E. DeLury, sentenced Choudhury to four years in state prison. He must also register as a sex offender under Megan's Law, the

Shorenewstoday.com reported.

In his guilty plea, Choudhury admitted he had distributed child pornography and that he used file sharing software to make it available to multiple users who could download it from a "shared folder" on his computer. He was caught when a detective from the New Jersey State Police Digital Technology Investigations Unit downloaded some of these files while monitoring a network popular with sex offenders. They traced it to Choudhury's home where they found many images and videos of child pornography

on his computer.

“Anyone who views and distributes child pornography takes part through their actions in the sexual exploitation of children,”

Indian Descent Stock Broker Charged In Alleged $131mn Stock Market Scam –NEW YORK stock broker of Indian descent has been charged in an alleged $131 million stock manipulation scheme after investigations by a task force set up for President Barack Obama’s war on financial crimes, federal officials announced May 4.

Pranav Patel of Tamarac, Florida, participated along with eight others in the multi-state scam “through a dizzying round of unauthorized trades” to pump up the share price of a company with no business operations, Robert L. Capers, the federal prosecutor in Brooklyn said. The 35-year-old Patel was scheduled to appear later Wednesday in a federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for legal proceedings to bring him to Brooklyn for trial.

The case involved the NASDAQtraded stocks of ForceField Energy Inc., which claimed to be a world-wide distributor LED lighting products.

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across the US were charged with securities fraud, conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering and making a false statement to law enforcement officials.

The charges followed actions by the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force that “was established to wage an aggressive, coordinated, and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes,” Capers’ office said.

The nine, who included Naveed Khan of Staten Island, New York, “designed an elaborate but fraudulent scheme built on lies, kickbacks and manipulated trading activity to defraud the securities markets, the investing public and their clients,” Capers said. “They took a company with essentially no business operations and little revenue and deceived the market and their clients into believing it was worth hundreds of millions of dollars through a dizzying round of unauthorized trades and decep-

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jinka Kelkar, a 20-yearold resident of South Brunswick who allegedly sought to take a revenge on a man who was dating his ex-girl friend, accidentally targeted the wrong house and caused $10,000 in damage to vehicles parked in the driveway.

Police said that Kelkar damaged five vehicles parked outside a house on Friendship Road in South Brunswick. He was arrested within a few hours after the incident May 8 and arrested Kelkar who was seen damaging the vehicles on home surveillance camera. He was charged with trespassing, vandalism and third-degree criminal mischief. He posted $10,000 bail and was released, police said. If convicted, Kelkar faces

up to five years in prison.

According to Tapintonet.com, the family members of the house targeted head some hissing air noise around midnight outside, and came out to check. They found that tires of some of the cars, including guests at home, were slahed and one car had obscenities scratched in to its door and fender and called police.

Officers and family members reviewed the home surveillance tape and found that the suspect moments earlier damaging the vehicle in their driveway. Police recognized the image in the videotape at Kelkar. The report said that police went to Kelkar’s residence but were told by his parents he was not home. Later, officers on surveillance outside his home found that Kelkar was inside his home at 6:30am and took him into custody.

New Jersey's Acting Attorney General Robert Lougy is quoted saying in Shorenewstoday. “By sending these offenders to prison, we hammer home the deterrent message that sharing these repulsive materials is a very serious crime.”

According to New Jersey State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes, sharing the images fuels demand for distribution. “Our message is clear: We are going after the producers, distributors, and users alike, and we are going to hold them accountable for their horrendous crimes," he said.

Chouhury's arrest was the result of a 3-month investigation under the "Operation Ever Vigilant" child pornography sweep by state police which netted 25 men offenders in February 2013.

The case against Choudhury was presented to the grand jury

by Deputy Attorney General Anand Shah.

Anyone with information about distribution of child pornography should contact the New Jersey Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Tipline at 888-648-6007.

Former Mortgage, Loan Officers Sentenced To Prison

tive promotions.”

“The scheme ended up costing investors approximately $131 million in losses,” according to Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Directorin-Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) New York Field Office.

The prosecutor’s office alleged that a ForceField official hired Jared Mitchell, the managing partner of a financial firm, to pay kickbacks using offshore bank accounts in 2014 to Patel and four other stock brokers for buying ForceField shares in their client’s accounts to manipulate the price.

The announcement did not identify the official, but Richard StJulien, who was ForceField’s chairman and founder, was arrested in April last year and charged with securities fraud conspiracy and paying through a Belize-based company the alleged participants in a scheme to manipulate the company’s share prices.

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ohsin Raza, 51, and his wife, Humaira Iqbal, 40, of Woodbridge, Virginia, were sentenced April 29, to 24 months and 15 months in prison, respectively, for conspiracy and wire fraud affecting a financial institution.

They along with two others, four defendants were convicted by a federal jury on Feb. 3. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, in 2005 Raza was hired by SunTrust Mortgage (STM) as a vicepresident tasked with opening an office in Annandale, Virginia.

Raza hired his wife and her brothers, Farukh Iqbal, 41, and Mohammad Ali Haider, 33, both of Chantilly, Virginia, to work as loan officers at

SunTrust Mortgage.

From 2006 until 2007, when the defendants left SunTrust Mortgage, they falsified loan applications for borrowers and purchased fake tax documents to support the false loan applications, according to a press release from the Justice Department.

SunTrust Mortgage underwriters in Richmond approved the loans totaling several million dollars based in large part upon the fake documents in the files, and ultimately borrowers were given loans to buy homes that they could not afford.

Raza and Humaira Iqbal were also ordered to forfeit two properties and $40,000 and pay restitution to victims in the amount of $1.9 million.

The brothers Iqbal and Haider were each sentenced to one year and one day in prison.

Woman Who Aided Massive Credit Card Fraud Masterminded By South Asians Is Sentenced By a Staff Writer

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Philadelphia woman who participated in one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever was sentenced May 6, to 40 months in prison, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Paul J. Fishman announced.

Vernina Adams, 34, previously pleaded guilty before Judge Anne E. Thompson to an information charging her with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

Judge Thompson imposed her sentence in Trenton federal court.

In addition to the prison term, the judge sentenced Adams to five years of supervised release.

Adams was originally charged in February 2013 as part of a conspiracy, led by Tahir Lodhi, Babar Qureshi, Ijaz Butt, and others, to fabricate more than 7,000 false

identities and obtain tens of thousands of credit cards. Since then, 19 people, including Adams, have pleaded guilty in connection with the scheme.

The scheme involved a threestep process in which the accused would make up a false identity by creating fraud identification documents and a phony credit profile with the major credit bureaus; pump up the credit of the false identity by providing bogus information about that identity’s creditworthiness; then borrowed or spent as much as they could without repaying the debts – causing more than $200 million in confirmed losses to businesses and financial institutions.

The network included maintaining more than 1,800 “drop addresses,” including houses, apartments and post office boxes, across the country, which the

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defendants used as the mailing addresses of the false identities.

Adams and her conspirators also used sophisticated methods – including a network of blackmarket businesses called “tradelines” providers – to commit fraud. Tradelines are lines of credit in a credit history.

During her plea proceeding, Adams admitted advertising on Craigslist for individuals willing to add someone onto their credit cards. She also admitted selling other members of the conspiracy fraudulent tradelines, including by working with Acapulco Jewelry, a complicit business in California.

Adams would extend a fictitious line of credit to a false identity, backdate the line of credit so it appeared to have existed for a longer period of time, then falsely report the line of credit had been paid.

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Nehru Who? Indian Textbooks Delete Nelson Mandela, English Poets And Country’s First Prime Minister

By Annie Gowen n independent education panel in Rajasthan caused a firestorm by almost completely erasing the legacy of the country’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, from a draft school textbook, the Indian Express reported.

In an omission akin to deleting George Washington or Thomas Jefferson from American history books, a new secondary school textbook posted online contains a few scant references to Nehru but no discussion of his role securing India’s independence from Great Britain or overseeing the country’s tumultuous early years as a new democracy, the report noted May 8.

The secondary education board in the state -- led by India’s governing conservative Bharatiya Janata Party -- earlier removed the work of Western poets like John Keats and T.S. Eliot and excised a chapter on Nelson Mandela from its textbooks -calling it “meaningless.” The Mandela chapter was replaced with writing on India’s tribal communities, according to the Times of India.

Leaders said that they wanted to bring the work of Indian authors closer to students.

“It is strange and unfortunate Rajasthan students have been reading chapters on Africa and poems by foreign authors while they are ignorant about our own tribals and poets. These textbooks giving undue importance to foreign authors and chapters are meaningless,” a senior committee member told the Times of India.

The move comes as the country’s central government is set to unveil a new national education

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policy which some historians and educators fear could bring similar changes. India’s education minister, Smriti Irani, came under fire in recent days for a plan for India’s ancient Sanskrit to be taught in its prized engineering and technical universities, whose alumni include Google’s Sundar Pachai, among others. She later

said it would be taught as an elective. Changing or rewriting Indian history has long been a source of controversy and political debate.

A similar effort occurred during the last Hindu nationalist-led government of 1999-2004, where educational texts were rewritten to celebrate the lives of Hindu Kings over the Mughal emperors.

Hindu nationalists have long argued that much of Indian history has been written from a Eurocentric, colonial perspective and needs to be adapted.

Back then -- and now in Rajasthan -- the assassination of Mohandas K. Gandhi, regarded as the father of the nation, was glaringly omitted from textbooks.

Gandhi was assassinated by a member of the Hindu right wing in 1948 by a man who believed his policies had appeased Muslims.

The man, Nathuram Godse, had briefly been a part of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Hindu nationalist group closely associated with the B.J.P.,

the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Not surprisingly, India’s Congress Party leaders -- led by the descendants of Nehru, including vice president Rahul Gandhi, his great-grandson -were not pleased by the move.

Congress party leader Sachin Pilot said in a tweet that deleting Nehru from textbooks was a demonstration of the party’s “petty thinking.”

– The Washington Post

Modi’s Education Record Made Public To Halt Row

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rime Minister Narendra Modi’s party May 9 made public his university degree certificates in a bid to disprove allegations by a political opponent that he had fabricated his qualifications.

Since winning an election last year, Arvind Kejriwal, the ambitious chief minister of the Delhi regional government, has stepped up his attacks on Modi.

Kejriwal has not said why Modi would want to claim a fake degree but the allegations, which set off frenzied speculation on social media, struck a nerve in the prime minister’s Hindu nationalist party, upset about the risk to his reputation.

Modi has often cited the journey from his humble begin-

nings as a tea vendor’s son to national leader to win support from the country’s poor. Having a degree fits the narrative of a man with the grit and determination to succeed.

Senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held aloft what they said were Modi’s degrees, a Bachelor of Arts from Delhi University and

a Master of Arts in Political Science from Gujarat University.

“It is very unfortunate that we have to clarify the prime minister’s educational qualification,” party president Amit Shah told a news conference in New Delhi at which he was flanked by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

Spokesmen for the two universities declined to comment on whether Modi’s degree certificates were genuine.

Kejriwal says he has evidence Modi misappropriated the degrees of someone with the same name. A spokesman for Kejriwal’s party stood by the accusations, saying there were inconsistencies in the dates and names on Modi’s degrees.

“We are happy to have an illiterate prime minister,” said

the spokesman, Vikas Yogi. “But not a prime minister who lies about his degrees.”

Modi’s party distributed photocopies of the certificates to journalists, with its officials saying Kejriwal should apologize to the country for doubting Modi’s credentials.

“The degrees are in the public domain, but such allegations debase our political discourse,” said party president Shah.

Kejriwal, a self-styled antigraft crusader, has been at loggerheads with the BJP since last year.

In December he accused Jaitley of allowing fraud at the Delhi cricket association that he ran for a decade from 2003.

Jaitley has denied any wrongdoing and sued Kejriwal for 100 million rupees for slander.

– Reuters

Armed Guards Protect Last Water In Drought-parched Tikamgarh City

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uthorities in this droughtparched city in Madhya Pradesh have deployed round-the-clock armed guards at a river-fed community reservoir to prevent farmers from siphoning the remaining water for irrigation.

With rainfall in Tikamgarh district this year 52 percent below average – the second dry year for the area – water is now available to city residents only sporadically, with fears even that may run out during the peak heat months of May and June, authorities say.

Forty-seven-year-old Suryakant Tiwari, one city resident, said his family and many others now have drinking and household water supplied only once every five days.

“I have not seen such a condition in my lifetime. Almost every water source in the area has dried up. We don’t know how we will survive,” Tiwari he said.

Farmers have been prohibited from drawing water from reservoirs to irrigate their crops. But Tikamgarh Municipal Corporation officials fear farmers from adjoining Uttar Pradesh whose farms border the Bari Ghat dam, fed by the Jumuniya River are poaching water to try to keep their crops alive.

“If crops continue to be irrigated using the river water, it is not going to last long and there will be severe crisis during the summer season,” warned Laxmi Giri, the Tikamgahr municipal corporation president. “Our priority is to supply drinking water to the people.”

The Jamuniya River is the only

source of drinking water for over 100,000 people in Tikamgarh, she said.

But “farmers of the neighboring state try to open the gates of the dam and draw water illegally using pipelines. We’re therefore compelled to deploy guards,” Giri said. Tikamgarh is hardly alone.

The drought-ravaged Bundelkhand, a region in central India spread over the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, is suffering some of the worst drought in memory.

Crops in the area have been badly hit, cattle are dying of thirst and lack of grazing, and there are growing fears that even drinking water could run dry before the monsoon is expected to begin in June.

“All the ponds, reservoirs and water bodies which earlier supplied water in areas of Tikamgarh

have dried up. With no water available for irrigation, farmers have abandoned their crops and are migrating to nearby urban areas in search of livelihood and for sustenance. Life is really hard for them,” said Rajendra Adhvrayu, a local journalist who writes on water issues in the region. “The situation has never been so bad,” he added. “This is for the first time that the tussle over water has degenerated into a battle of sorts. We fear the situation will be grave during the coming months.”

The Jamuniya River separates Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh states along some of its length. A 1974 water sharing pact gives Madhya Pradesh 17 percent of the water stored in the Jamuniya Dam in Uttar Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh stores its share in five dams, including the

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Bari Ghat. But this year, water is available only in Bari Ghat dam.

Water in the four other dams – Harpura, Charpuva, Madiya and Sudan – has run out.

Giri said authorities in Tikamgarh had shut off the electrical supply to farmers in Uttar Pradesh to try to prevent pumping of water from the dam for irrigation.

Farmers have instead turned to using diesel pumps to pull water from the reservoir, he said.

“The administration has failed to convince them not to draw water illegally from the dam,” she said.

Meanwhile, the Indian Met Department’s prediction that the entire country could be abnormally hot in May and June, with longer and more severe heat waves, has unnerved many people in the Bundelkhand.

– Reuters

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Inside Indian Kitchens

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Above left, devotees prepare "roti" (Indian bread) at a community kitchen in a Gurudwara or a Sikh temple on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh in Chandigarh, India, January 16, 2016. Guru Gobind Singh was the last and the tenth Guru of the Sikhs. Above right, a woman cooks food in her kitchen illuminated by solar energy at Meerwada village of Guna district in Madhya Pradesh June 18, 2012. Below right, a worker prepares snacks inside a workshop in Kolkata March 10, 2011. Below left, Workers prepare food in a community kitchen at a Muslim shrine in Kolkata August 4, 2010.

Left, a worker takes out baked patties from an oven at a bakery at Noida in Uttar Pradesh January 20, 2011. Right, a cook prepares local cuisine, Pav Bhaji, at a beachside restaurant in Mumbai June 24, 2010

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Most Americans Don’t Agree With Donald Trump: Kal Penn – NEW DELHI ndian-American actor Kal Penn, who served in the Barack Obama administration, feels most Americans don’t agree with Republicans’ presumptive nominee Donald Trump’s racist views.

“I seriously believe that most of the Americans don’t agree with Donald Trump over his racist, anti-women, anti-LGBT practices.

We are not that country.

Hopefully, elections will prove that,” Penn, who was associate director in the White House Office of Public Engagement from 2009 to 2011, said at the “Cultural Connections in U.S.-India Relations” at the American Center here.

Trump, who is expected to clash with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in November, has been opposed by peoples and critics, and often been tagged “anti-immigrant”, “misogynist”, “racist” and “worse”.

During the event, Penn’s 2007 film “The Namesake”, which also stars Bollywood actors Irrfan Khan and Tabu, was screened.

Sharing his experience about campaigning for Obama, Penn said that it would not “weird” for him to shift from acting to politics.

“For me it was an honor to get a chance to serve for your country,” said Penn, whose real name is Kalpen Suresh Modi, and is best

yogis. “The Ashram” also features Melissa Leo, Sam Keeley, Hera Hilmar and Radhika Apte.

Talking about Indian cinema, Penn said he is more inclined towards watching off-beat films,

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known for his role of Kumar Patel in the popular “Harold & Kumar” film franchise. He has also appeared on TV shows like “House”, “How I Met Your Mother” and “The Big Brain Theory”.

Penn is in India for the shooting of Guneet Monga’s upcoming project “The Ashram”.

With Ben Rekhi as the director, the film is an English-language spiritual fantasy thriller set in the mystical world of Himalayan

Nargis Fakhri Wants To Work In Pakistani Entertainment Industry – NEW DELHI ctress Nargis Fakhri, whose origins trace back to Pakistan, says that at a “time when there are divides between cultures and races” she would like to cross borders for work. She would like to spread one message -- we’re all the same inside and working together is the

–MUMBAI ilmmaker Omung Kumar believes he is an independent filmmaker and that if you are independent you get the freedom to do whatever you want to do.

What are his views on independent filmmakers?

“I’m an independent filmmaker. If you are independent, you will get the freedom to do whatever you want. In independent films, you just come out with a good story. So obviously, the film will be made well.

“But we have to ensure that we take out the best acting out of people,” the “Mary Kom” director, who worked with filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali on films like “Black” and “Saawariya” as an art director before helming his own movies, told IANS. Asked if he would support “I am a Film maker, I am Independent”, initiated

by We Manage Filmz, founded by Gaurav Pandey, he said: “100 percent. If there is something where all first-time directors come together and strive, and if it can be an inspiration for them, I would obviously like to join them.”

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that too of Amitabh Bachchan and Irrfan Khan.

He also said that loved watching 2013 film “Mere Dad Ki Maruti”.

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key to moving forward.

Be it Ali Zafar, Fawad Khan or Mahira Khan, Bollywood has welcomed Pakistani actors with open arms. And Nargis shares that she would like to travel to Pakistan with her craft.

Asked if she would consider working in the Pakistani industry, Nargis, who picked an action-

comedy film “Spy” for her first Hollywood outing last year, said: “I’m not the one to rule anything out.”

“With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there,” Nargis told IANS in an email interaction.

The actress, who will be seen portraying Mohammad Azharuddin’s second wife Sangeeta Bijlani’s role in “Azhar”, feels that with stardom comes responsibility.

She said: “I believe that as actors, we have a phenomenal platform to spread positivity and influence people in the same way.

In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we are all the same inside and working together is the key to moving forward.”

Nargis took the first step towards the world of glamour as a model in 2005. After “Rockstar”, she did films on a wide variety of topics ranging from serious to fun like “Main Tera Hero” and “Madras Cafe”.

Post “Azhar”, Nargis will be seen in “Housefull 3” and “Banjo”.

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–MUMBAI ost the gripping act in “Kahaani”, actress Vidya Balan will be back on the silver screen with the second part of the film - “Kahaani 2”. The sequel will release on November 25. The actress, who floored one and all with her act as a pregnant woman on a mission to find her husband in the movie, also asked her fans and followers on Twitter to brace for “another mother of a story”.

Vidya took to Twitter to share the news via a 20-second video.

“Kahaani 2” is co-written and directed by Sujoy Ghosh.

The “Paa” star captioned the video: “Another mother of a story”, which also is the tagline of the film. The sequel, which went on the floors in March, also stars Arjun Rampal.

“Kahaani” revolved around a pregnant woman named Vidya Bagchi, who came to Kolkata from London in search of a man.

The 2012 film also featured Parambrata Chatterjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Indraneil Sengupta, Dhritiman Chatterjee and Saswata Chatterjee among others.

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Irrfan Khan Not Starring In ‘Dreaded Gangster’ –MUMBAI nternationally acclaimed Indian actor Irrfan Khan has denied reports that he will star alongside actor Priyanshu Chaterjee in the upcoming film “Dreaded Gangster”.

Filmmaker Suvahhdan Angre, who will direct the film, earlier claimed that Irrfan would be a part of the film.

However, Irrfan says he has

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never heard or read any script related to this movie.

“This news is false. If and when I’m part of any project, everyone will know directly from me,” Irrfan said in a statement.

Irrfan was last seen onscreen in “Jazbaa”. He also lent his voice for the Hindi version of Hollywood fantasy adventure film “The Jungle Book”.

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As expected, it is a very stressful time for thousands of potential H­1B workers.

Until the prospective H­1B employers or their legal representatives start receiving receipt notices, and the dark clouds of uncertainty over prospective H­1B visa holders move past, the question worth asking and exploring is: “Do I still have a chance of getting an H­1B visa even if my H­1B petition does not make it to the H­ 1B cap?”

Unfortunately, the regular (bachelor’s) H­1B cap remains at 58,2001 and the master’s cap cannot accommodate more than 20,000 specialty occupation work­ ers. However, there are certain categories of cap­exempt H­1B visas. One such cate­ gory is for beneficiaries of employment offers at: (1) institutions of higher educa­ tion or related or affiliated nonprofit en­ tities; or (2) nonprofit research organizations or governmental research organizations. Thus, to get a cap­exempt H­1B visa using this category the funda­ mental question to ask is: whether the offer of employment is from an institu­ tion of higher education, or related or af­ filiated nonprofit entities, or from nonprofit research organization or gov­ ernmental research organization.

For the purposes of H­1B cap exemption, the H­1B regulations have adopted the definition of institution of higher educa­ tion set forth in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965. To be clas­ sified as an institution of higher educa­ tion, the educational institution must satisfy five (5) requirements. First, the educational institute must be a public or other nonprofit institution. Second, the master’s degree issuing institution must be accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association.

Moreover, the educational institution must satisfy all of the following three re­ quirements: (1) admits as regular student only persons having a certificate of grad­ uation from a school providing second­ ary education, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate; (2) is

legally authorized within such state to provide a program of education beyond secondary education; and (3) provides an educational program for which the insti­ tution awards a bachelor’s degree or pro­ vides not less than a 2­year program that is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree. The previous article in this series discussed in detail which educational in­ stitutions may or may not qualify as an institution of higher education.

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Assuming that the academic institution will qualify as an institution of higher education, the next two questions that have perplexed immigration practition­ ers and potential H­1B employers are: (1) what is the difference between employed “by” and employed “at”; and (2) how does one determine if the nonprofit insti­ tution is “related to or affiliated with” an institution of higher education.

The 2006 Aytes memo clarified the differ­ ence between employed “at” and em­ ployed “by’, and the purpose2 behind it.

This memo explained that commonly, qualifying institutions petition on behalf of current or prospective H­1B employ­ ees and claim this exemption. In certain instances, petitioners that are not them­ selves a qualifying institution also claim this exemption because the prospective H­1B beneficiary will perform all or a portion of the job duties “at” a qualifying institution. Such petitioners are referred to as “third party petitioners.” Thus, USCIS allows an exemption in situations where the employee is employed by a “third party petitioner” but the prospec­ tive H­1B employee will perform job du­ ties at a qualifying institution that directly and predominately furthers the normal, primary, or essential purpose, mission, objectives or function of the qualifying institution, namely, higher ed­ ucation, or nonprofit research organiza­ tion, or governmental research organization. Thus, if the petitioner is not itself a qualifying institution, the bur­ den is on the petitioner to establish that there is a “logical nexus” between the work performed predominately by the beneficiary and the normal, primary, or essential work performed by the qualify­ ing institution.

In this context, the issue that has been source of frequent litigation is: “How to determine whether the nonprofit institu­ tion is “related to or affiliated with” the institution of higher education?” The Ad­ ministrative Appeals Office (“AAO”) has always deferred to the USCIS approach as to whether the nonprofit institution is related to or affiliated with the institu­ tion of higher education. to be continued...

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virtual reality and GOOGLE glass. Craig Schlosser, another vice chair, showcased how panel discussion will happen and who can be expected to participate on those panels. He also emphasized the role that different chambers of commerce are play­ ing to make the event a huge success.

He urged all technol­ ogy enthusiasts to join hands and come forward in support of this event.

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Dada recognizes neither creed, nor class, nor color. To him, all human beings, aye, all crea­ tures, are the children of the One Mother Divine.

He believes in the unity of all races and religions in One Spirit.

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How much more necessary it is to have a Guru if you want to live the life of the Spirit!

He elaborated the need of IT Connect and fo­ cused on how they had been planning for the event for more than 18 months. One of its vice chairs, Nishil Parikh, explained in detail about the journey of ‘IT Connect’ and thanked all the board members and participants for their un­ conditional support.

Later, vice chair Harry Mehta talked about the ‘event flow’ and the kind of technology display that can be expected at the upcoming ‘IT Con­ nect’ event in September in New Jersey. The team is focused on bringing the technology of

ing defense technology to the conclave while another from the Middlesex County suggested bringing Robotics to attract youth from the Tri­ state area.

Participants came from all different walks of life which made this event unique. There were pro­ fessionals from health care, medicine, chamber of commerce, entertainment, education, infor­ mation and technology, retail and aviation.

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A: Science is the study of the laws of the external world. Spirituality is also a science, but it studies the inner world. Now the time has come where both of them are drawing close to each other.

Physics for instance studied the atom, but after quantum physics the atom is asking about who is the one who studied me? So they are coming closer. But one is concerned with the outer sphere while the other is concerned with the inner sphere.

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Evil in itself has no existence of its own. Dark­ ness has no existence of its own. Darkness is ab­ sence of light. A room may have been in the dark for 100 years. You go and light a match, a single match, will remove the darkness. The darkness will not tell you ­ I have lived here for 100 years.

How can you drive me out immediately? No, darkness has no existence at all. Darkness is only absence of light. Likewise, evil is only absence of good.

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Indian Film Festival Features Film World’s Elite And Newbies

By Ela Dutt – NEW YORK he 16th annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) held its inaugural gala May 7, at the Skirball Center for Performing Arts. Billed as the oldest, most prestigious Indian film festival in the U.S., this year’s smorgasbord of independent, art house, alternate, and diaspora films, screened over the period May 7-14, includes 40 screenings (35 narrative, 5 documentary), all seen for the first time in New York City. In addition, the festival also features five programs of short films.

Numerous film-makers with their cast appeared on the red carpet speaking about their films.

Celebrities spotted at the gala included author Salman Rushdie, filmmaker Mira Nair, author and actress Madhur Jaffrey, India’s Consul General in New York Riva Ganguly Das, and author Suketu Mehta.

The dance troupe, Manhattan Andaaz performed. The master of ceremonies was Sree Srinivasan, chief digital officer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Aroon Shivdasani, executive and artistic director of the IndoAmerican Arts Council, which puts the show together, welcomed the guests.

Nair, who is “Face of the Festival” according to Shivdasani, spoke about the growing influence of the festival and dwelt on her new film about Uganda, her second home.

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The 16th Annual New York Indian Film Festival opened May 7 at the Skirball Center for Performing Arts, showcasing new filmmakers.

Seen in photo, from left, Aroon Shivdasani, executive and artistic director of the Indo American Arts Council which organizes the festival; Bardroy Baretto, director of Nachom-ia-Kumpasar (Let’s Dance to the Music), a Konkani film celebrating Goan music and culture of a forgotten era, which was screened at the gala; Aseem Chhabra, NYIFF director; and Palomi Ghosh, lead actress of the film.

various cinemas of India’s different regions, all subtitled in English. Among the languages this year were Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Assamese, Haryanvi and Urdu.

“Each of these language films have been gems,” Shivdasani said.

“And another thing different in this year’s festival is we’ve never had so many panels before,” Shivdasani noted. Panels where representatives of each of the language films discussed their experiences; an LGBT panel, a new directors panel, among others.

The festival also features the National Film Development

filmmakers and celebrities, concluded the evening. Ghosh, the lead character in the Konkani film, upon request, sang a few songs impromptu at the gala, bringing people to their feet to dance.

“It was a very exciting night,” Shivdasani told Desi Talk. “We never actually had a language film for opening night. This was a complete departure and what that means is we are getting bolder,” she laughed. Baretto is an emerging filmmaker and neither the director or the cast are well known. “Still we had a lovely opening,” Shivdasani said.

The 7-day festival highlights

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The film, Nachom-iaKumpasar (Let’s Dance to the Rhythm) was screened, followed by a discussion with director Bardroy Baretto, producer Angelo Braganza, and actress Palomi Ghosh, moderated by NYIFF Director Aseem Chhabra. The Konkani feature film is a tribute to Goan music and musicians of the 1960s and 1970s, narrated through the emotional rollercoaster of a love story, telling the nostalgic tale of musicians who lived and died unrecognized, unappreciated and unsung.

A high-priced ticket gala benefit dinner attended by some 250 invitees rubbing shoulders with

Corporation of India-restored first films of filmmakers, and a threegenerations sidebar, films of Bimal Roy, Basu Bhattacharya and Aditya Bhattacharya. Two National Award winners, Famous in Ahmedabad and Daarvatha, are among the 40 or so shorts being screened. The lineup also includes 2016 National Award winners, A Far Afternoon, Birds With Large Wings, and The River of Fables, an Assamese language feature film.

Among diaspora films is Good Ol’ Boy, a feel-good, coming-ofage story of Smith, a 10-year old growing up in small-town America in 1979, featuring some well-known actors in Samrat Chakrabarti (Midnight’s Children, The Waiting City) and Poorna Jagannathan (Delhi Belly, Nirbhaya).

Soumitra Chatterjee Bengali starrer, Peace Haven, is the story of three septuagenarian friends who embark on a journey to build their very own mortuary. Multiple award winner and fresh from the international film festival circuit, Parched, is about four ordinary women in rural Gujarat who talk unapologetically about men, sex and life as they struggle with their individual boundaries.

The highlight is the world premiere of Kagaz Ki Kashti (Paperboat), which tracks the life of a down-to-earth, small-town boy, who made it big in the Ghazal world breaking through the norms and mixing western instrumentation. to make this classical genre simple and hummable.

From left, an unidentified guest, author Salman Rushdie, film-maker Mira Nair, and author and actress Madhur Jaffrey at the inaugural gala benefit dinner May 7.

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From left, Inder Shivdasani and India’s Consul General in New York Riva Ganguly Das at the inaugural gala benefit dinner of the New York Indian Film Festival May 7, at the Skirball Center for Performing Arts.

Actress Shilpa Sinha, producer of ‘Kaagaz Ki Kashti’ Bhramanand Singh, writer Tanvi Jain, actressses Deepa Mishra and Sunita Dubey.

People behind the film “Misaligned,” from left, actor Kabir Chopra, producer Sheetal Vyas, film maker Paul Moon, an unidentified guest and producer Sammy Gallo.

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ARIES: A long pending decision gets finalized at professional front.

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LIBRA: With your high confidence you will be able to cross all hurdles at professional front. Evening enjoyed with family and close relatives brings immense pleasure. Your brilliant ideas would help in bringing financial gains. A romantic encounter is likely to add spice to life. Your energy level will be high. Better to channelise it in a positive direction. A trip that stimulates and gives opportunity for work is coming ahead.

TAURUS: Plans for new ventures get streamlined with the help of seniors. Charming nature and pleasant personality would make you the attraction of family function this week. Long pending arrears and dues will finally be recovered. The company of love partner makes you forget about the work. A pleasure trip gives the much-needed tonic to health. You can make your vacation extra special by planning it with your family and friends.

SCORPIO: Timely help of associates will not only pass difficult times at work but also help in regaining professional edge. You are likely to plan a short trip with family. A promising week to earn profits in real estate and financial transactions. Romantic partner would try innovative methods to catch your attention. A luxurious getaway type vacation with your spouse waiting for you. A good deal for your new property is ready to be made.

GEMINI: Female colleagues lend a helping hand in completing important assignments. Family members appreciate the changes made in & around the house. this week investment concerning residence will be profitable. Sudden romantic encounter will lift your spirits. If you wish to achieve a good deal in property then try at commercial basis. You use latent talent to fight adverse conditions with courage and conviction.

SAGITTARIUS: A promising week to start a new venture in partnership. All are likely to be benefited. Unexpected visit by old friend could give you a pleasant surprise. An improvement in monetary position makes it convenient to purchase essential items. Thrilling experience is on your way, as your trip is full of excitement Buying overseas property will be beneficiary for you. You strive to mould orthodox thinking to benefit you.

CANCER: At work you will be a part of something big, bringing appreciation & rewards. Friends and family members would encourage to work harder. Financial hassles seem to get over as someone lends a timely helping hand. Attending a social event/family function brings a romantic encounter. A beneficial week to work on things that will improve your health. Vacation full of beauty and history as well as exciting is waiting for you.

CAPRICORN: Your technical expertise gives a decisive edge over competitors at work. Good advice from family members will help in reducing mental tension/pressure. This week long-term investment would enable to make substantial gains.

Your generous attitude would contribute much in your love life this week. Meditation and self-realization prove beneficial. Pack your bags as a happy, fun-filled holiday is looking forward.

LEO: You are likely to establish yourself a good manager on managing people and situation without any problem. You are likely to hear a good news from close relatives.

Promising week to invest surplus money in real estate. Your physical charm would catch the attraction of opposite sex. Traveling on your own, with a friend or with the whole family will be exciting and comfortable too.

AQUARIUS: Hard work of the past brings rich dividends. However continue enhancing your skills/adopt techniques for further development. Sudden good news in the evening will bring cheers for the entire family. Financial hassles will be eased out with the help of your friends. Extremely supportive & loving partner would help in withering away your troubles.

VIRGO: You will be successful in realising your targets at professional front. An old friend makes a pleasant visit later in the week.

A sound financial health would enable to invest on lucrative schemes. Love life blossoms paving the way for lovely times ahead. A week when smile will perpetually be on your face and strangers will seem familiar. Travel in comfort with kids to an adventurous place might be possible. Looking to buy property, then go for commercial one.

PISCES: Dedication & loyalty at work would bring desired results.

Your efforts bring success & happiness at family front.

Certain important plans will be executed, bringing fresh financial gains.

Romantic vibrations from someone unknown would lift your spirits taking imaginations to scaling heights. Sound physical health will enable to participate in outdoor activities. Turning thoughts towards love and fun would immensely benefit.

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‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’: Life Of A Mathematical Genius Is Snuffed Out Young

By Michael O’Sullivan he life of the imagination is difficult to capture, let alone to contain, onscreen. For that reason, movies about such original thinkers as famous writers and artists - or, as in “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” the pioneering mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan - suffer from an inherent difficulty. How do you show, in ways that are at least vaguely cinematic, the stroke of genius?

Dev Patel plays Ramanujan, a self-taught mathematical prodigy from India who died tragically at age 32 after doing groundbreaking work at Cambridge University in the early years of the 20th century.

For simplicity’s sake, the film focuses on only one aspect of Ramanujan’s work: his pioneering exploration of number theory, particularly as related to parti-

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ber grows larger, approaching infinity, could there be a formula, Ramanujan wondered, that would calculate the number of its partitions?

He thought he had found one.

All he had to do was prove it to a skeptical, Anglo-centric academic community.

This is math at its purest math for math’s sake - and it’s heady, if hardly cinematic, stuff.

We watch Ramanujan shuffle back and forth between his digs at Cambridge and the office of his mentor, professor G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), who suspects his protege is right but unrigorous.

Hardy pushes him to be more diligent in his proofs.

Ramanujan, meanwhile, equates his grasp of number theory to a religious experience - to a glimpse of God, in short - as something that comes to him intuitively rather than through cold, hard calculation.

“Every single positive integer is one of his friends,” Hardy’s col-

league Littlewood (Toby Jones) aptly observes after Ramanujan notices that the number of his taxi, 1729, happens to be “the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.” (Such anomalies have today come to be called “taxicab numbers,” after Ramanujan.)

Of course, our hero is also quite ill with tuberculosis through all of this, so the movie benefits from the poignancy of a brilliant life about to be extinguished.

Other sad sub-themes - antiIndian racism, Ramanujan’s pining for his wife back in Madras add little to the film except cliched sentimentality. Based on Robert Kanigel’s well-received 1991 biography of Ramanujan, “The Man Who Knew Infinity” tells a great story. It’s just that it’s a little too by-the-book to make anything other than a so-so movie.

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Amitabh, Kangana Win Top Honors At 63rd National Film Awards – NEW DELHI he 63rd National Film Awards ceremony here on April 3 got a dash of glitz and glamour of Bollywood with Amitabh Bachchan and Kangana Ranaut getting Best Actor and Best Actress honors.

President Pranab Mukherjee presented the awards at the ceremony at Vigyan Bhavan, which got talent from all the regional cinematic worlds across India under one roof.

A total of 21 awards were given by the President in the NonFeature Film category while the number of awards in Feature Film category were 51. And to add to it, three awards were given to Best Writing on Cinema.

While Amitabh, dressed up in a black suit, picked up the award for his act as a Bengali father in “Piku”, which also starred Deepika Padukone, Kangana looking radiant in off-shoulder gown got the honor for her superlative dual act in “Tanu Weds Manu Returns”. She has previously won National Awards twice for her roles in “Fashion” and “Queen”.

In the Feature Film category, the award for the Best Feature Film was given to filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli’s southern magnum opus “Baahubali: The Beginning”, produced by Shobu Yarlagadda and Arka Mediaworks Pvt Ltd. The talent of the Hindi film industry was lauded along with regional film industries like Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Assamese.

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included newcomers as well as legends of Indian cinema, and added that the awards this year reflected all aspects of cinema, including digitization and technology.

It was the tragic romance saga of Maratha warrior Peshwa Bajirao I (played by Ranveer Singh) and Mastani (Deepika Padukone) in “Bajirao Mastani” that shone through the ceremony

as it scooped up many honors.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali got the Best Director award for it as Remo D’Souza won the award in Best Choreography.

Shriram Iyengar, Saloni Dhatrak and Sujeet Sawant won for the movie’s production design.

In the audiography section, Biswadeep Chatterjee’s sound designing and Justin Ghose’s rerecording of the final mixed track

for the Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone starrer, have been honored.

“Masaan” directed by Neeraj Ghaywan and produced by Phantom Films received the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director.

Superstar Salman Khan’s onscreen journey to Pakistan from India via “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” became the Best Popular Film providing Wholesome Entertainment.

The film’s director Kabir Khan, looking sophisticated in black bandhgala, received the award.

The gala also witnessed the performances by 63rd National Film Award winners - Monali Thakur, who won the Best Female Playback Singer for the song “Moh moh ke dhaage” from “Dum Laga Ke Haisha” and Mahesh Kale, who won the Best Playback Singer (male) for the Marathi film “Katyar Kaljat Ghusli”.

Filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj bagged the Best Screenplay Writer (adapted) Award for “Talvar”. The Best Screenplay Writer (original) was shared by Juhi Chaturvedi (“Piku”) and Himanshu Kumar (“Tanu Weds Manu Returns”).

Just post the announcement of the award winners back in March, many questions surfaced pretaining to why regional cinema and talent was sidelined.

Hinting at the stir, the President also spoke of the importance of films in context of variety and diversity of India and the important role it played in unifying the nation.

Amitabh, who has earlier won the National Film Award thrice for films “Agneepath”, “Black” and “Paa”, was cheered by his family

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Veteran Tanvi Azmi also won the Best Supporting Actress award for her act in “Bajirao Mastani”, and actress Shabana Azmi and her husband Javed Akhtar were seen lauding their relative. In fact, they were so excited that they went on photo clicking spree when her name was announced.

The award for the Best Children’s Film was given to “Duronto” (Hindi) produced by Code Red Films. Master Gaurav Menon was conferred award for Best Child Artist for movie “Ben” (Malayalam).

The Award for the Best Music direction (songs) has been conferred on M. Jayachandran for “Ennu Ninte Moideen” (Malayalam) and the award for the best music direction (Background Score) was given to Ilaiyaraaja for “Thaarai Thappattai” (Tamil).

It was Bollywood touch in music as well. The award for the best lyrics has been conferred on Varun Grover for the song “Moh moh ke dhaage” from the film “Dum Laga Ke Haisha”.

A special jury award has been conferred on Kalki Koechlin, who exuded charm in a off-white sari with green border, for the film “Margarita with a Straw”.

This year National Film Awards included a special award given to the state of Gujarat for being the most film friendly state in the country and veteran film actor and director Manoj Kumar was conferred with the 47th Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the function.

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Monsoon Wedding May 13 , 9:30 - 11:15 PM at Rubin Museum Secrets, traditions, and Western technology mix when an Indian family gets together for a four-day wedding celebration during the monsoon season in New Delhi. Mira Nair takes us to the heart of a vital tradition in Indian culture in this film that is equal parts comedic and dramatic and, in true Bollywood spirit, musical.

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Nepalese Seasons:Rain and Ritual May 6, 2016 – March 27, 2017 Featuring almost fifty objects from the Rubin Museum’s premiere collection

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May 18, 7:00–8:30 PM at Rubin Museum In a discussion moderated

by Sadia Shepard, the two Indian American authors Hirsh Sawhney (South Haven) and Karan Mahajan (The Association of Small Bombs) will present their latest novels and discuss political violence in India and its reverberations around the world.

With performances by Samrat Chakrabarti and Kamran Khan. Presented with the Indo-American Arts Council.

to as the ZCAMP will be held the weekend of June 17h19st at Camp Ma-He-Tu, located along the shores of Lake Kanawauke in Harriman State Park. This is a wonderful opportunity for getting the youth together to have fun and create friendships in the Zoroastrian community. There will be many activities as in past years, including a hike up Bear Mountain, team competitions and a bonfire.

Children between the ages of 5 and 10 are welcome to attend with at least one parent. Please register by Sunday, May 8th. For more info visit mahetu.org

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June 10 , 9:30 - 11:15 PM at Rubin Museum Set in the holy city of Varanasi, Deepa Mehta’s Water follows a group of widows forced into poverty at an ashram. Life takes a new turn for Chuyia, a young widow who finds love with Narayan, a young Gandhi supporter. The couple is faced with a tough challenge: will they be brave enough to fight tradition and find a way to make their love grow?

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IHCA is organizing 'Natya Darpan' a multi-lingual short play festival, on May 14th, 2016 at North Brunswick High School, North Brunswick, NJ. Many highly acclaimed and the award-winning US based theater groups will be performing eight exception-

One of India’s renowned music masters, Rajeev Taranath brings a rare performance of classical Indian music to New York during his United States spring tour. June 3, 7-8:30PM at Rubin Museum

Sanjoy Banerjee with Namami Karmakar Raga is a Sanskrit word that means “coloring.” In musical terms it represents a feeling or emotion. One of the characteristics of Indian music is the assignment of definite times of the day and night for performing raga

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Hindi Drama Chanakya Friday May 13, 8PM at Community Center Auditorium, 143-09 Holly Ave, NY 11355. For Ticket info contact Prria Haider 516-3036597

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Walkers from all over the state will come together to celebrate NAMIWalks NJ efforts to raise awareness and raise funds for NAMI programs of support, education and advocacy on Saturday, May 14th. Check in time 9AM, Event starts at 10AM at Seaside Park Reach out to Samantha Culloo at walk@naminj.org.

Submit your event listing at calendar@desitalk.com Desi Talk publishes the listings under the Directory of Events free of charge as a service to our readers. Organizers are welcome to send details of programs and these should reach us at least two weeks in advance of the date of publication. Readers are advised to reconfirm the events with the organizers.

Next edition of LaGuardia and Friends happening on Thursday, May 12 at WeWork’s new location at Studio Square in Long Island City. LaGuardia and Friends is a free and informal event.

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CLASSIFIED MORTGAGE

REAL ESTATE

PROPERTIES IN INDIA Star Hotel on Marina Beach, Chennai, India for Sale, 26 rooms, conference hall, bar & two restaurants.

Contact 011 91-9444 115105

05/06-05/27-jg

FOR RENT Commercial Space for Rent New Jersey Commercial Space for Rent in Washington, NJ. DMV is an Anchor & Ideal Mix of Tenants. Busy shopping Center.

1600 SqFt/4800 SqFt. Price: $10 - $15 /SF/Year www.portcoldenmall.com contact 908-689-4400

05/06-05/27-SL

Apartment to Share Female student visiting New York for four months, May - August, for an internship requires accommodation in New York or in area of New Jersey easily accessible by train going to Grand Central. Will require own room with family or professionals or students.

Contact (905) 894-4116 IQ

LOTS & ACREAGE ADIRONDACK LAKEFRONT! 131 acres– ½ MILE OF WATERFRONT - $299,900 Pure, clean lake teeming with fish and wildlife! Mature woods with trails, trophy deer and valuable timber!

40 Mins from Albany! Owner terms!

(888) 701-7509 WoodworthLakePreserve.com 05/13-ny

ATTORNEY SULLIVAN COUNTY REAL PROPERTY TAX FORECLOSURE AUCTION. 400+/Properties June 8+9 @ 10AM. “Ramada Rock Hill�, Route 17, Exit 109.

800-243-0061 AAR, Inc. & HAR, Inc. Brochure: www.NYSAuctions.com 05/13-ny

MISC FOR SALE KILL BED BUGS & THEIR EGGSBuy Harris Bed Bug Killers/ KIT Complete Treatment System. Available: Hardware Stores. The Home Depot, homedepot.com 05/13-ny

HUNTING/ TIMBER LAND SACRIFICE! 111 acres - $159,900 Trophy deer hunting, huge timber value, private access to 2 lakes! 3 hrs from the GW Bridge! Terms avail!

888-905-8847 WoodworthLakePreserve.com

05/13-ny

3 CABINS ON THE LAKE! 30 acres- $249,900 MUST SELL! Rustic cabins on a beautiful unspoiled lake just 3 hrs NY City! Mature woodlands, tumbling stream, incredible setting!

888-479-3394 WoodworthLakePreserve.com

MISCELLANEOUS

VACATION RENTALS OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND. Best selection of affordable rentals. Full/ partial weeks. Call for FREE brochure. Open daily. Holiday Resort Services. 1-800-638-2102. Online reservations: www.holidayoc.com 05/13-ny

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05/13-ny

DONATION

INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY DC Metro & Baltimore

May 12th at 11am 10725 Demarr Rd, White Plains, MD

TRANZON.COM

Income Producing Facility

Tranzon Fox, VAAF423

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May 12th at 2pm 2100 VanDeman St., Baltimore, MD

888-621-2110 04/15 & 04/22 - SL

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CLASSIFIED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

Business for sale Big Apple Bagels Naperville, IL. 60564 Well established for 30 Years Annual Gross 365k No Franchise fee.

Serious Buyers Only!

Manoj Patel : 630 338 5779.

Cigar Store For Sale Upscale cigars and tobacco shops for sale in the city of Geneva and Plainfield, Ilinois. Well established,positive cash flow and fully stocked. Both in great visible location. priced to sell.

Call Jamal @ 815-274-0285

5/27 MV

5/20 MS

EDUCATION

HELP WANTED Fast growing New Brunswick, NJ company seeks to add one motivated member to our team for a challenging position. Can require travel, responsibilities include sales, and general help around our business. Sales experience preferred. Starting Salary 28K. Email resume: pieceofindia@yahoo.com or Fax (732) 246-1700

Aap International Student ho?

Ban na chaahte ho?

Computer Systems Institute International students can choose from multiple career training programs in

WINE & LIQUOR STORE FOR SALE Good location in Long Island-NY, low rent & expenses, long lease, busy Lotto & highly profitable 347-844-3800 | ibazar@yahoo.com 5/13 SL

Small scale business for sale Wholesale Indian ice cream manufacturing plant in NW Suburbs is for sale. Good potential. Owner is relocating.

We will help to get loan to the person who has good credit history. We will train.

Serious inquiries only.

Please contact: 847-322-1624

Nail Space for Rent in Richmond Hill Queeens, New York 718-790-8712

5/20 ss

Absolute Love: Married, financially secure couple ready to adopt newborn.

Expenses Paid. Stable & safe home.

Endless opportunities!

Call: 888-505-369 Text: 929-267-2866 www.isaacandpiaadopt.com

05/13-ny

& marketing. Multiple ESL programs

Travel Agent Need a sales agent in a well established Travel Agency.

Late hours and weekend must.

Phone 212 564 8989

also available.

Classes start Aprill 11, 2016

or visit csinow.edu

888.642.4620 VENDER

5/20

ADOPTION

5/13 JG

Enroll Today!

$350K + inventory

5/6 SD

customer service, hospitality and sales

WANTED TO BUY

HAND CRAFTED ONLY for Nassau County's LARGEST family fair 30th yr Attendance 120,000 +, 150-200 hand crafted vendors display.

9/17 & 9/18 (516) 809-5892 bellmorecrafts@yahoo.com

05/13-ny

CASH FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS Up to $35/Box! Sealed & Unexpired.

Payment Made SAME DAY. Highest Prices Paid!! Call Juley Today!

800-413-3479 www.CashForYourTestStrips.com

05/13-ny

MISC FOR SALE

Donate your car to Wheels For Wishes, benefiting Make-A-Wish.

We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible.

Call (855) 376-9474

05/13-ny

05/13-ny

KILL BED BUGS & THEIR EGGSBuy Harris Bed Bug Killers/ KIT Complete Treatment System. Available: Hardware Stores. The Home Depot, homedepot.com

NEED WORKING CAPITAL or QUICK CASH? Unsecured Lines of Credit with No Collateral, Startups OK, Term Loans to $2 Million, Call TODAY! (718) 285-0806 or info@expresscapitalfinancing.com

05/13-ny

FINANCE

04/29-SD

7-Eleven Must have convenience store experience. LIE Exit 39 206 Glen Cove Avenue

Restaurant Help Indian restaurant needs Cook, Helper & Catering Sale manager. Contact in person at Big Suchir, 2437 W 75th St, Woodridge, IL 60517 or Call 630-730-8254 5/20 MS

IMMEDIATE HIRE : * Need 2 persons for Deli and C-Store in Long Island. * Need 2 persons for Gas Station in West Chester County, PA. Legal Status must.

Call Sai (718) 213 3831.

5/20 SL

Salon Help IMMEDIATE HIRE Experienced FT/PT Eyebrow Threader & Hair Stylist for a busy Indian Salon in Edison, New Jersey.

Contact (732) 423-1725 Email : njtbs@yahoo.com 4/22 SL

(516) 676 8668 / 516 749 1221

MONEY TO LAND

KILL BED BUGS & THEIR EGGSBuy Harris Bed Bug Killers/ KIT Complete Treatment System. Available: Hardware Stores. The Home Depot, homedepot.com

DRIVER Wholesalers In Syosset-L.I requires Driver, clean driving record, Good Salary & Benefit.

Pickup/Drop-off from Flushing.

Contact: 516-921-4440

5/13 MV

Glen Cove, NY 11542

MISC FOR SALE

05/13-ny

AUTO DONATIONS

5/13 JG 04/01 - 06/17 - IQ

Restaurant for Sale including liquor licence. 150 seats on corner property of a busy location in Central New Jersey.

Contact owner for more information Peter 609-505-7118

Restaurant Help Need Experienced HAANDI COOK with Curry and Tandoor Experience for Fine Dining Indian Restaurant in Midtown Manhattan.

Call 917-687-3463

(*Call after 11.00 am) 4/29 SL

DUNKIN DONUTS Bridgewater, NJ WANTED IMMEDIATELY Experienced Full time Manager Baker, Counter persons Call : (732) 261 5445 Email: srini.chandra.dd@gmail.com 6/10 SL

India Employment Agency Computer Programmers, Jewelry Production Manager, Textile Designer, Garment Warehouse Supervisor, Import/Production Mgr/Merchandiser, Traffic Coordinator, Chemist, Pharmacist, R&D, Secretary, Receptionist, Admin. Assist, H.R Associate, Marketing, Data Entry/EDI, Clerk, CA/CPA, Accountant/Bkkpr.

Phone: 212-564-0620 Interviews in NYC by appointment only.

HOUSEHOLD HELP Suffolk VA Gujarati family need help.

Live-in women for 'Strict Vegetarian Cooking & light work at home, Suffolk VA, Call 757-573-3051 6/3 MV

Maryland Gujarati Jain family in Maryland needs live-in help for cooking+ Light household work for the month of June only. Leave message at 301-997-1642 5/13 sd

Lancaster, PA Need experienced Nanny to look after 2 kids in Lancaster, PA. Household chores included. Accommodation and meals provided. Couples welcome.

For details call Rupa (732) 533 3407 6/10 SL

Weekend workers needed for DEMO MARKETING (6-8 weekends) & FLIER DISTRIBUTION in NJ (Iselin, Edison, Jersey City, Parsippany), NY (Hicksville, Flushing & Jackson Hts), PA, CT, IL, CA, TX and several more cities in USA. Young women & men Must be personable, well-mannered and able to work on their own. Demonstrate top Indian brands ranging from instant tea to cookies. Excellent 'in-yourface opportunity with customers' to learn and earn.

Must have own transport. Call 917-331-4924 Hiring immediately.

HEALTH

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CLASSIFIED MOTEL MOTEL HELP WANTED

MOTEL HELP WANTED

MOTEL HELP WANTED

MOTEL HELP WANTED

Michigan Looking for Front Desk Agent to work night shift for a Franchise hotel located in Michigan. Must have Basic computer skill and speak English.

Call Victor 224-800-5395

ILLIONOIS HOTEL HELP NEEDED English speaking couple for Front Desk and Housekeeping for franchise hotel in Moline IL. Accommodation provided.

Can start immediately. Legal status must. Call: (312) 405-2236 or email resume at QualityInnMoline@gmail.com

Oregon SINGLE / COUPLE FRONT DESK HELP NEEDED for 46 room Hotel in Eugene, Oregon. Fluent in English, Computer Literate and legal must.

Willing to work nightshift. Fixed salary & Accommodation Provided.

Call Tina (541)-521-6835

South Carolina Need experienced maintenance person for 125 room motel in Ramada @ 200 Museum street, Hilton Head Island, SC 29926 (45 minutes from Savannah, GA), Free accommodation and pay based on experience.

Call Mina Bhakta @ 620-655-8088

6/3 MV

IOWA Looking for help Young Housekeeping couple Motel in Iowa.

Accommodation will be provided.

Ray 319-512-9039 6/10 MV

Atlantic Beach, NC Immediate Hire : Single / Couple wanted for Front Desk help, Housekeeping and Maintenance for Econo Lodge Motel in Atlantic Beach, NC. MUST BE ENERGETIC AND HAVE LEGAL STATUS AND SPEAKS ENGLISH. Pay based on experience.

Call Manny @ (910) 474-6418 6/3 sd

Niagara Falls, NY 73 rooms Super 8 Franchise motel at Niagara Falls, New York needs two couples for housekeeping. Legal status must. Accommodation will be provided.

Contact: 716-864-4015 Email: shkang59@gmail.com 6/3 SD

Richmond, Virginia In Richmond, Virginia (VA) on I-95 Independent motel need full family to manage and franchise motel need housekeeping/desk clerk couple. Good salary & accommodation provided. legal Status must. Contact Patel 804-819-9339 6/3 SD

Minnesota 39 Rooms franchise motel in Sauk Centre, Minnesota need a couple for front desk. English and basic computer knowledge is must. legal status required. Accommodation will be provided. Contact: 612-481-6311/ 612-385-6168.

6/3 SD

Asheville,NC Franchise Motel in Asheville, NC needs couple for Front desk (Fluent English required) & Housekeeping Supervision.

[NOT FOR ROOM CLEANING] .

Also looking for young Housekeeping couple. Accommodation will be provided. Legal status must.

Mayank Patel (727) 430 1809 Email: mjpatel7777@yahoo.com 6/3 SD

Chicago Housekeeping couple needed for busy Hotel in Wisconsin dells, WI. Experienced couple prefered.

Accommodation provided.

Contact Chetna 704-607-4532.

5/13 ss

South Carolina Immediate opening for experienced Front desk, Laundry and Maintenance person in Ramada @ 200 Museum street, Hilton Head Island, SC 29926 (45 minutes from Savannah, GA) . Free accommodation and pay based on experience.

Call Mina Bhakta @620-655-8088 5/13 SD

IOWA Immediate opening in Franchise Hotel(s) in Iowa about 3 hours from Chicago. Currently looking for couple for housekeeping. No experience is necessary and also looking another couple for front desk. Must speak good English. Legal status must.

Accommodation will be provided.

Please call Rica at 319-671-1465 5/13 sd

Tennessee A Young couple need in Memphis TN for front desk. Accommodation Provided. Legal status must. Call serious Person only Call 901-412-3949 or Email: mem6050@yahoo.com 5/27 MS

Maryland Baltimore, Maryland Choice hotel seeks legal Housekeepers & 7-day & Front Desk, Excellent oral and written communication skills in English, legal status required and experience preferred. Proficient in Microsoft Office and basic understanding of office technology and hotel operations.

Accommodation provided & pay based on experience.

Call 410-231-3621 5/27-MV

New York 37 ROOMS PLANTATION INDEPENDENT MOTEL IN ISLAND PARK, LONG ISLAND, NY 11558 need Single / Couple General Manager, Front Desk and Housekeeping person including Laundry work.

Accommodation provided.

Call (516) 978 7125.

6/3 SL

Maryland Good Opportunities in Baltimore, Maryland for Legal & experience front Desk clerk, night auditor(Computer knowledge and English must) maintenance, Housekeeping, Laundry & General work. Call Hemant: 443-472-2805 Hiren : 443-803-0029 Email: greenhospitality@gmail.com 5/20 SD

32 Rooms Independent Motel, 65 miles North NYC need Couple for Front Desk & light maintenance.

Experienced, Fluent English, Computer literate and legal must.

Accommodation provided.

Nina (914) 805 9345.

5/13 SL

5/27 SL

5/13 SD

6/3 MS

Columbia, MO Wanted Front Desk Clerk at independent motel in Columbia, MO. Must be fluent in English and of legal work status. Accommodation provided. Please contact Vinod (573) 639-1112.

5/20 SL

Kansas 52 ROOMS INDEPENDENT MOTEL IN KANSAS NEED Single for Front Desk help (Experienced, Computer knowledge and English must) and need experienced couple for Housekeeping help. Accommodation provided.

Call (443) 504 7955.

Texas Days Inn Kerrville, Texas need Night Clerk, Housekeeping and Maintenance help. Minimum 2 years experience with Legal status must. Competitive pay.

Accommodation provided.

Contact 210-363-7387 Email: Jobapp0123@gmail.com 5/13 SL

5/27 SL

Franchise Motel In NY/NJ. Need couple for Housekeeping and Single for Front Desk Help (Computer Literate, Fluent English must) Legal Status required.

Accommodation provided.

Call Nishith: 732-500-8425 Nick (516) 655 5288 / (201) 637 5062

IMMEDIATE HIRE : FRONT DESK CLERK & NIGHT AUDITOR NEEDED FOR 2 FRANCHISE MOTELS in St. Louis, Missouri. Experienced, Fluent English, Computer Literate and legal status must.

Accommodation provided.

Call Priti (618) 567 3273 5/27 SL

To advertise in HOTEL/MOTEL INDUSTRY CALL: 212-675-7515 FAX: 212-675-7624

Franchise Hotel in NJ is looking for Single/Couple for: Housekeeping, Front Desk, Maintenance. Good salary and accommodation will be provided.

Also looking for Hotel Sales Associate.

(Experience and good communication skills required) Call: Nick 201-637-5062 (Contact between 9 AM to 7 PM.

• Vivian (757) 620-9207 • Hina (201) 936-8762 TFN-SD

N. DAKOTA Franchised Motel in MINOT, N. DAKOTA looking for front Desk clerk with fluent English, and housekeeping couple. Only people call who has Legal status. Accommodation will be provided. Good pay. Experience prefer Contact ND: 701-240-3220 5/13 SD

Virginia Franchise Choice Motel in Virginia required only experienced Single or couple for front desk and night audit.

Legal status must. Good salary & accommodation provided and independent Motel also needed English speaking couple for housekeeping, laundry and light maintenance. Please Call : (757) 487-5796 757-472-5796. email: sirdrpatel@gmail.com 5/27 SD

LEASE

Ohio Excellent 33 Units Motel for Sale with 3 BDRM & 3 Bath Manager's Apartment on I-75 Corridor in Ohio.

Room Revenue $235K. Asking Price $680K. Serious only. Call Danny Talwar (567) 242 3167.

6/3 SL

OHIO 43 ROOM FRANCHISE M STAR MOTEL FOR SALE in Downtown Mansfield, OH 44902.

Asking Price $900K. Owner moving out of State.

For Details contact (516) 943-2535 / (567) 307-5990.

FOR SALE/

Delaware FRANCHISE DAYS INN 142 ROOM MOTEL IN NEWARK, DELAWARE NEED Front Desk help & General Manager with experience, fluent English and computer literate. Also need experienced Housekeeping couple. Accommodation provided, Legal Status must.

Call (732) 423 1725 / joinmyhotel@gmail.com 6/3 SL

Indiana West wood motel southbend Indiana 10 rooms plus one apartment plus 3 bedroom managers quarters 219000 available on Land Contract 847-830-5361 or 574-246-1556

MOTEL

5/27 SS

FOR SALE/

5/13 SL

08/14/15-08/13/16 SL

Wanted Housekeeping Couple for Motel. Good salary and accommodation will be provided Contact 314-330-4621 314-497-3292

MOTEL

LEASE

5/27 MS

MOTEL SALE - NORTH CAROLINA : EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR A FAMILY TO RUN 48 UNIT FRANCHISE MOTEL IN GOLDSBORO ( AIR FORCE BASE ) NC - 27534. WELL MAINTAINED HAVING MANAGER LIVING QUARTER. SERIOUS BUYER. CALL 770-286-0174.

5/27 SL

Michigan 20 rooms locally owned motel.

Located in cadillac,MI. Close to lakes and downtown. Very motivated seller.

Any serious and fair offers will be considered. Motel includes three bedroom home with garage and basement. For price and more detail Please contact Chirag Patel: 231-942-9594.

5/27 MS

Virginia 23 ROOMS COLONIAL MOTEL WITH MANAGER'S QUARTERS FOR SALE in Chesapeake, VA. Asking Price $650K. For details call Sailesh Shah CCIM on (757) 695 3180 Office (757) 617 5188 Cell Email : shailesh.shah@svn.com 5/27 SL

Chicago 45 ROOM FULLY RENOVATED FRANCHISE MOTEL FOR SALE NEAR CHICAGO, IL (NEAR HWY 74) Asking Price $1.75K including all.

Busy Location, Safe neighborhood.

Call Satish Bhatia (630) 709 4644 5/13 SL

Hannibal, Missouri 24 ROOMS & 42 ROOMS MOTELS FOR SALE IN HANNIBAL, MISSOURI ON I-72, MO 63401, Facing River view and Office attached to Laundry room with 2 Bedroom Manager’s Apartment.

Recently re-modelled.

Call Patel (618) 530 0390 5/27 SL

Pennsylvania 26 ROOM MOTEL FOR SALE IN POCONOS MOUNTAIN, PA including 3 BDRM Living Quarters.

Easy access to I - 80 & all major attractions. Asking Price $1.6 Million.

Owner Finance.

Call Rick (570) 517 2428 5/13 SL

Texas Motel for sale Price reduced Remodeled 16 rooms Motel for sale in Texas with 3 bedroom house. Big truck parking. Newly Painted & with new roof. Owner finance available.

Call: Rashmi shah @ 254-413-3886 5/27 MS

Michigan 102 UNITS INDEPENDENT MOTEL FOR SALE IN FLINT, MI. 500K GROSS ,CASH COW, MUST SELL DUE TO ILLNESS ASKING JUST 1.15M CALL 248-214-1711 5/13 MS

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CLASSIFIED Matrimonial

Matrimonial

Matrimonial

Matrimonial

Matrimonial

FEMALE

FEMALE

MALE

MALE

MALE

Gujarati Jain Doctor Citizen, 29/5’ 9” in Michigan.

Correspondence invited from highly educated vegetarian Gujarati girl.

Send bio-data & pictures. harsh1.shah1@gmail.com Call (734)377-7764

Never married, Agarwal, good looking, caring, humorous, successful Attorney, 55 yr, NJ raised and educated, seeks family oriented woman for early marriage.

Veg. preferred. contact: matri1960@yahoo.com

Hindu Punjabi-Khatri parents from south USA seek match for their financially secure, exceptionally beautiful daughter 25/5’3”, office administration professional. Preferred suitor is a college graduate, under 30, living in US/Canada. Responses with personal details and recent photographs given serious consideration. mailer.yashpal@gmail.com 5/13 JG

Gujarati Patel parents invite correspondence for their US Citizen daughter, 27 yrs 5'6", Business Management education. Interested in family oriented, educated man. Send bio data with photo to patelmonisha88@gmail.com

NORTH INDIAN HINDU PARENTS SEEK PHYSICIAN MATCH for Cultured, beautiful, US Born 1982 Physician daughter with good family values. Caste no bar. Email bio-data with recent photo : 62028rain@gmail.com 5/27 SL

Parents invite matrimonial correspondence for their 25 years beautiful, smart Pharmacist daughter.

Family oriented MD and Pharmacist Match only.

Call 917-635-8181 4/15 MV

4/8 Jg

GUJARATI Patel parents invite correspondence for USA born daughter, slim, beautiful, 37 yrs/5’ 71/2²”, tall, doctor.

Please email bio data & recent photograph: vpd1302@gmail.com

GUJARATI Patel parents invite correspondence for USA born daughter, 33/5¹31/2², tall, slim, beautiful, doctor. Caste no bar.

Please email bio data & recent photograph:shubhspd@gmail.com

Gujarati Thakkar family seeking match for their son 27/5 9” well educated with double postgraduation in software technology; working for MNC in India as a computer engineer. US citizen, welleducated; good family girl can correspond their biodata with recent picture (NO CASTE BAR). Contact: (302)-249 2208 Email: sapanshah1@yahoo.com 5/27 SD

6/3 MV

IQ

Gujarati Brahmin parents invite correspondence for US born 30 /5’11’ studying in medicine.

Send biodata and recent photo to: djani99@gmail.com 5/13 JG

Gujarati Bajkhedaval Brahmin family invites correspondence for their nirdosh divorcee son 46/5'8" Master of Science (IT-USA), working as the director of customer support in a reputed firm, Virginia-USA, PR vegetarian. Please send bio-data with latest photo to Email: dweej2020@gmail.com

4/8 SL

Gujarati Leuva Patel family seeking match for their son 35/5'6", IT Business Analyst, Microbiologist. US Citizen from Gujarati good family girl. Contact : nap004@hotmail.com Ph: 904-826-1700 (between 10 AM to 6 PM) ask for Sudhaben.

5/20 SD

Sikh Arora NY base family seeks match for their US Citizen son 27/6`2”, IT Professional NY/NJ with athletic body, looking for tall, educated and sikh cultured girl.

Email: snystore@gmail.com

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