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Bridging America and the Indian Subcontinent

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October 2019 IN THIS ISSUE

Gandhi’s Influence on American Civil Rights Diwali and Fall

Events Galore Business and Employment Classifieds

In This Issue

Page 40 Seeking average while being best at what’s important.

Page 28 Devika Bhise stars as the Warrior Queen of Jhansi, opening in November.

Content

The Editor’s Desk . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 12

Page 18 Community Events

Page 32 Gandhi, non violence and the American Civil Rights Movement.

Increase Your India Knowledge . .pg. 54

Community Events . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 18

Nutrition for Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 58

Film Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 28

Raajeev Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 64

Upcoming Movie Releases . . . . . . .pg. 26 Gandhi & American Civil Rights .pg. 32

Fullbright Fellowships . . . . . . . . . .pg. 36

Namaskar Y’all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 40 Diwali Sweets, Halloween Treats .pg. 44

College Admissions Insider . . . . . .pg. 46

Spot the Differences . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 50 Saathee.com

Thinking About Thinking . . . . . . .pg. 62

Immigration Matters . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 66 Kismuth & the Way . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 68 US-India Investment History . . . . .pg. 74

Subcontinental Divide . . . . . . . . . .pg. 76

Personal Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 80

Buy Right, Sit Tight . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 84 8

Mirror Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 86

News Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 94

Community Organizations . . . . .pg. 104

Youth Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 124

Pop’s Puzzles and Jokes . . . . . . . .pg. 126

Festivals and Holidays . . . . . . . . .pg. 128

Puzzle Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 128

AstroScope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 130

Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 132

Index of Advertisers . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 135 October 2019

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People like rounded numbers. Numbers like 10, 25, or 50 give a sense of ordered achievement over numbers like 9, 23, or 51. Round numbers are easy to remember. Mahatma Gandhi was born 150 years ago. This makes October 2019 the Gandhi 150 Jayanti (birth) month. The number is being celebrated in India and around the world giving props to Gandhi’s life and influence.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is a globally known icon. Say those two words anywhere in the world and people will know who you are talking about. You can debate about Gandhi’s leadership style and the end results, but he was and has become a bigger than life icon.

Sometimes the idea or ethos of what a person stands for can inspire many. We have several Gandhi-related features in this month’s issue.

Change continues to jolt America’s immigration system. Go to our column on page 66 for the latest updates and analysis.

Comments and Suggestions always welcome.

Samir Shukla, Editor

“Bridging America and the Indian Subcontinent.”

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By Samir Shukla

long-term economic partners. No other country, or trade wars, can hold China at bay as when Western democracies create economic and political alliances with India.

Road Rage 2020: Volume 6 The United States and India should be natural partners, Teetotaler Talkers and Democratic Duelers Visit Texas fully engaged with each other economically, socially, and on the security front. This will remain a key partnership through Modi and Trump in Houston next year and beyond, whether Trump wins reelection like The Texas India Forum organized the “Howdy Modi!” event for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to connect with Indian- Modi or is sent packing.

Americans while he was in the country for the annual United Democrats Keep Debating, Chapter Three, Houston Nations General Assembly and the UN Climate Summit. Modi The third Democratic debate was held in Houston on invited President Trump a few weeks before the event to also September 12, 2019, ten days prior to the speak to the crowd, estimated Modi event. There were 10 to be around 50,000, on candidates this time, as all the others didn’t make the cut September 22, 2019.

There’s no way Trump due to stricter DNC would not have attended eligibility guidelines. The this event when asked. It candidates, if they want to was a chance to speak to a beat Trump, will have to huge crowd in a state that is start inspiring people with simple passion and, yup, slowly turning blue.

Trump didn’t seem to veer far I’ll say it again, move more from his prepared speech, checking to the center. Moving to the off things he’s done, while giving some red meat (or maybe in center is anathema for contemporary progressives who this case, red chili pepper) bits to the crowd.

Modi gave a long speech that gave the crowd what they want to make massive institutional came to see. The audience was there for Modi, the venue was changes. Sorry guys, things don’t work that way. Don’t scare sold out before Trump was in the picture. Trump, of course, is people away. First things first. You have to win elections before you can enact any change, let alone sweeping changes that you never one to pass on a rally.

Both Trump and Modi love to talk in front of huge crowds. wish to see.

The debates are showing increasing friction where the Both are famous teetotalers who get a huge buzz not from booze, but from adoring crowds. Call them polarizing, but both moderate and hard progressive wings of the Democratic Party are savvy with talking points that will get a friendly audience are trying to get a foothold. The scales are tipping to the left in the primaries while the moderates try to hold the hard cheering.

Modi knows that India’s economy is slowing and he is progressives at bay. Of course this is very early in the game and going to have to make changes. Hence he is out to make more the modus operandi right now is to try to please the hardprogressive base. Just like the Republican candidates tilted hard deals with the US. Trump is the rich kid born into a life of ease, self-loving and right in the 2015-2016 primaries and debates.

The requirements for Democrats have now gotten tougher politically astute. Modi is a self-made man from a poor family, measured and politically astute. His political savvy helped him and several candidates have already dropped out, while some win his second term as Prime Minister earlier this year with a of the more flexible ones may survive until the caucuses and large margin. Trump is now ratcheting up his reelection primaries begin early next year.

In my estimation, the presumed Democratic nominee or a campaign, which he may yet win, but it won’t be by a large margin. In fact, Trump can lose the popular vote by an even clear frontrunner will emerge after Super Tuesday in early larger margin in 2020 then he did in 2016, and can still win March of 2020. North Carolina is among the states that will vote reelection, thanks to the Electoral College. Of course, a strong in the Democratic primary on March 3.

The Democratic National Committee has announced the Democratic candidate able to unite the Democrats while convincing independents and even some Republicans to vote next debate in Ohio on October 15, 2019. Currently 11 candidates have qualified, one more than the third debate, blue could seal Trump’s fate as a one-term president.

Modi likes to talk and watching Trump sitting there for an which means a second debate may be held October 16. If this extended period while someone else is in the limelight was number holds, it would be smart for the DNC to hold just one debate. An extra candidate won’t make much difference and interesting, to say the least.

Indian-Americans are becoming very active in politics. the debates are already grinding on many folks.

Trump and the Republicans also know that Indian-Americans Samir Shukla lean Democratic by a plurality. Nearly 70 percent voted for Editor of Saathee magazine Hillary Clinton in 2016. It is a politically involved community contact - Samir@Saathee.com that is growing and both political parties recognize this. follow me on Twitter: @ShuklaWrites Whatever the political leanings of Americans, IndianAmericans, and Indians, the United States and India are natural Saathee.com

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Community Events Festival of India: Charlotte, NC (October 12-13, 2019)

India is a country of diverse cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds. These cultures are connected by a common thread of history, social, and political norms that bind it as a nation. The Festival of India is organized to showcase that diversity of culture and heritage to the larger community in the Carolinas and provides an opportunity for cultural exchange in a fun setting. The festival exposes people here to the rich mosaic of different art, crafts, languages, couture and cuisine from the various regions of India in a festive setting. The 25th Annual Festival of India is set to take place on October 12-13, 2019 from noon to 8pm each day at the Belk Theater on 130 North Tryon in Charlotte. The festival is organized by the India Association of Charlotte, a cultural organization established to serve the growing Indian American Community in the Charlotte area. For the last twenty-five years this event has drawn thousands of visitors from all around the Charlotte and vicinity. This is a family event where students will find the event educational while adults will find it entertaining. This festival showcases diversity of Indian food, art, dance, music and Bollywood entertainment. Don’t miss out fun for all ages including yoga demo, get a henna tattoo, and dance on the street to live pulsating music. A large Food Court on the street offers a range of popular Indian delicacies to tickle the palate. In addition, various Indian souvenirs, costumes, jewelry and other works are displayed for viewing and buying. Tickets are $6 online until October 11 at Bluementhalarts.org, $7 at the door, and children under 10 get in free. For further info, visit www.indiafestival.net or contact by phone: 704-733-8425.

Dixie Classic Fair: Winston-Salem, NC (October 4-13, 2019)

The 8th Annual Art on the Trail event will take place in downtown Travelers Rest, SC on Saturday, October 5, 2019. Art on the Trail is a one-day immersive art experience set along the iconic Swamp Rabbit Trail. This creative gathering is being reimagined this year with fresh, new elements and unique opportunities for artists and guests alike. We invite guests to taste a slice of the culinary arts, arouse your inner artist through interactive visual and performing demonstrations, shop for artwork and keepsakes at the Art Market. To learn more, visit www.artonthetrail.com.

TTGA Bathukamma Dasera Celebrations: Morrisville, NC (October 5, 2019)

Rosewood Art & Music Festival: Columbia, SC (October 5, 2019)

The Dixie Classic Fair runs from October 413, 2019 at the fairgrounds in WinstonSalem. The event features car racing, demolition derby, live music performances including Joe Diffie, a rodeo, vendors, rides, Percheron horses, an old time tractor pull, micro championship wrestling, and lots of kids’ activities. Advanced Ride credits and Unlimited ride wristbands are also available for purchase. For more details on the fair, visit www.dcfair.com.

The Triangle Telangana Association presents their annual Grand Bathukamma and Dasara celebrations on Saturday, October 5, 2019 from noon to 7pm at Church Street Park, 5817 Cricket Pitch Way Morrisville, NC. There will be lots of food and activities for the entire family. Free more members, $15 for non-members. To learn more, visit www.triangletelangana.org.

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Art on the Trail: Travelers Rest, SC (October 5, 2019)

The Festival’s mission is to create a balance of visual and performing arts from some of the best artists both homegrown and from around the country showing original works of art, with a price range to appeal to ever type of collector, from avid to newbie, while introducing new and exciting talent for art patrons to explore. This 10th annual festival will be held at Rockaways on Rosewood Drive on Saturday, October 5, 2019 from 11am to 7pm. Admission and parking are both free for event. See artist and musician information at www.rosewoodfestival.com.

South Carolina Pride Festival: Columbia, SC (October 5, 2019)

For three decades, South Carolina Pride has been on the forefront of fighting for LGBTQ rights to live, love, work, and celebrate openly and honestly in South Carolina and has become one of the largest outdoor festivals in the city of Columbia. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, October 5, 2019 from 12-9pm all along Main Street in Columbia, SC. Guests this year include Deborah Cox, Sheena Easton, and Lorrie Morgan.

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Community Events Spartanburg International Festival (October 5, 2019)

Come to Barnet Park to celebrate and explore world cultures through food, music, dance, folk art, and much more. This year’s festival will be held on Saturday, October 5, 2019. One of the International Festival’s featured attractions, the Avenue of Nations is also the place where kids stop to get their passports stamped, and offers a chance for some Upstate residents to take a trip “back home” and reconnect with their roots. See artifacts, beautiful clothing, and authentic memorabilia. There will also be a Boulevard of Food offering tastes from all over the world. Entry is free. For more information, check out www.cityofspartanburg.org/international-festival.

Great Grapes Wine & Food Festival: Charlotte, NC (October 5, 2019)

Georgia State Fair: Atlanta, GA (Through October 6, 2019)

The Georgia State Fair returns to the Atlanta Motor Speedway for 10 Visit Symphony Park near South Park Mall in Charlotte, days of exciting attractions, live music, your favorite fair foods and NC from On October 5, 2019 for the 17th annual Great carnival rides for safe, clean family fun. Tickets and more information Grapes Wine & Food Festival. Uncork the fun with are available at www.georgiastatefair.org. over 150 wines available for tasting from 15+ Mahatma Gandhi 150 Birth Anniversary: Raleigh, NC North Carolina Wineries. The day will also feature live music, festival (October 6, 2019) eats, arts and crafts and a free kids area. Tickets are on sale now for $50 VIP admission and $35 general admission.

Military discounts are available with valid ID. A portion of event proceeds go to Spirit of Hope Children’s Foundation. See all the information at www.uncorkthefun.com/charlotte-nc/show-info.

Wilmington Riverfest (October 5-6, 2019)

Celebrate Wilmington’s Annual Riverfest on October 56, 2019 featuring a street fair with special exhibits, vendors selling art and handmade crafts, competitions, fireworks, more than 30 food vendors and more. Enjoy a car show, continuous live entertainment showcasing local musicians and bands, and more. The fest runs through Historic Downtown Wilmington on Water Street from the foot of Market Street to Cape Fear Community College.

For more details, performers, vendors appearing and more visit, www.wilmingtonriverfest.com.

The Heritage India Association of North Carolina and other Triangle organizations present “A Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi” on his 150th Birth Anniversary on Sunday, October 6, 2019 – noon to 4pm at the Marbles Kids Museum, Venture Hall, 201 East Hargett Street, Raleigh, NC. The schedule: 12:00 noon – “Dandi Kuch” Salt March around downtown Raleigh; 12:30pm – Garlanding of Gandhi statue; 1pm Snacks and Tea, 2pm - Keynote speech by Dr. G.P. Shukla (Duke Center Carolina Renaissance Festival: Huntersville, NC for International Development) on “The Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi (Oct 5-Nov 24, 2019) History comes alive with non-stop, day long in Today’s World.” Followed by Essay competition prize distributions entertainment, arts and crafts, games and rides, jousting and 3pm “Mahatma: My Life is My Message” – kids’ play by knights on horseback, 4Dimensions. For more details call 919.870.5222 or 919.434.8021. feasting and so much South Carolina State Fair: Columbia, SC more. Introduced in (October 9-20, 2019) 1994 with six acres of exhibits, attractions and Every October, people of all ages descend entertainment, the event upon Columbia to attend the South has grown into a 22-acre theme park. The Renaissance Carolina State Fair. The wide variety of Festival is a 16th century European-style art and exhibits, thrilling rides, and unique food – entertainment festival combining outdoor theater, circus such as chocolate-covered bacon, doughnut entertainment, marketplace, jousting tournament, and a burgers, and even fried coke – draws feast fit for royalty. Each weekend from October 5 to visitors from near and far! This year marks November 24, 2019 has its own theme including a Kids the 150th year for the fair with the theme, “CIRCUS at the Fair” and Free weekend, Halloween, and Pirate Christmas. Tickets will run between October 9 & 20, 2019 at the Fairgrounds on available at Harris Teeter locations, online, or on-site. Rosewood Drive in Columbia, SC. For more information including Learn more at www.carolina.renfestinfo.com.

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Community Events Fall for Greenville: (October 11-13, 2019)

Famously Hot Pink Half Marathon: Columbia, SC (October 12, 2019)

Discover a world of tempting tastes, sights and sounds, as mouthwatering aromas carry you along Greenville’s Main Street. With over 40 restaurants featuring over 200 menu items and free entertainment on seven stages, Greenville, SC invites you to enjoy this popular outdoor festival. Between October 11 and 13, 2019, indulge in a weekend full of flavor. Admission is free. Learn more at www.fallforgreenville.net.

The 29th annual Walk for Life and Famously Hot Pink Half Marathon, 5K + 10K will be held Saturday, October 12, 2019, at Segra Park in Columbia, SC. Join thousands of supporters and survivors as they walk and run to kick breast cancer to the curb. Proceeds from this year’s event will fund a ninth 3D mammography unit for Northeast Diagnostics. Sign up forms, donations and other info can be found at WalkForLifeColumbia.org.

Garba Raas with Aishwarya Majmudar: Greenville, SC (October 11, 2019)

The Vedic Center of Greenville presents a night of garba and raas with STAR Voice of India winner, Aishwarya Majmudar and band. The event is on Friday, October 11, 2019 from 7pm 2am at Greenville Convention Center, 1 Exposition Drive in Greenville, SC. Tickets are $50 for VIP, $25 for General seating, and $15 for Students with valid ID. Tickets are available now at www.vcofg.org. For more details, call 864.270.4570, 864.525.3293 email officers@vcofg.org, or visit www.vediccenterofgreenville.org.

Pynkalycious Event: Greenville, SC (October 12, 2019)

The Chapman Foundation and Sheen Magazine will be Celebrating Life, Survival & Purpose at the 7th Annual Pynkalycious Breast Cancer Awareness 4k Walk and Bubble Ceremony on Saturday, October 12, 2019 in Greenville, SC from 9am to 2pm. This event is designed to raise funds for breast cancer survivors and research to benefit the Pearlie Harris Center for Breast Health at St. Francis Hospital in Greenville. There will be entertainment, giveaways, delicious treats and other surprises. To learn more, visit www.chapmanfoundation.com/pynkalycious/.

SC Sweet Potato Festival: Darlington, SC (October 12, 2019)

Munni Begum Vocal Concert: Chapel Hill, NC (October 11, 2019)

World-renowned vocalist Munni Begum will present a live concert Shaam-e-Ghazal (an evening of song) on Friday, October 11, 2019 at 8pm at Hanes Art Center Auditorium at UNC, 121 E Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill, NC. For more details call 919.999.8192 or write to taj@unc.edu. Sponsored by the Carolina Asia Center.

Tryon International Film Festival: (October 11-13, 2019)

The 5th annual Tryon International Film Festival is one of the few film festivals in the world that employs the entire town. Six screening venues operate seamlessly during the entire three-day event as retail shops, restaurants and bars come alive with activity as filmmakers and fans walk the streets and enjoy parties, street entertainment and art. The festival will run between October 11 & The Pilot Club of Darlington, SC presents the 37th Annual 13, 2019 all along Trade Street in Tryon, NC. For more information, South Carolina Sweet Potato Festival on Saturday, October 12, 2019 from 10am to 4pm. It will be a day of vendors, games, check out www.tryoninternationalfilmfestival.org. food, music, entertainment, demonstrations, arts & crafts, car show, and more with sweet potatoes and sweet potato dishes Cary Diwali: (October 12, 2019) abound.

Throughout the day, a wide variety of entertainment Welcome to Sur Sahitya – a confluence of art, music, and literature, the theme of Cary Diwali 2019! As in years past, will also take place along with a classic/antique car show.

HumSum invites all to a day-long immersive experience in all Admission is free. For more info, contact 843-393-3526.

things Indian - from music and dance to food and shopping.

Taste of the World Food Fest: Monroe, NC Learn about the great classics of Sanskrit literature, enjoy the (October 12, 2019) enduring stories from the great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharat, and relive your childhood through the Jataka and Visit the Taste of the World Panchatantra tales, the Amar Chitra Katha comics, and RK International Food Festival Narayanan’s charming characters of Malgudi. The Cary Diwali on Saturday, October 13, performance stage will be anchored by performances from 2018 from 11am - 5pm at singers Mahalakshami Iyer and Anubhav Suman, which will be the Monroe Plaza Shopping preceded by the second edition of the popular university dance Center on 1600 Skyway competition and the town celebrities’ show. The event will be Drive.

This is an held at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, NC on Saturday, exploration of culinary culture with food vendors, trucks, live October 12, 2019. Gates open at 10am with free admission and entertainment, kids’ zone and more. Free to attend. For more $5 parking. Learn more at humsub.org or call 919.371.4470. details, visit www.communityeventsfoundation.org.

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Community Events LEAF Festival: Black Mountain, NC (October 17-20, 2019)

Lowcountry VegFest: Hilton Head, SC (October 19, 2019)

The LEAF Festival is an intergenerational celebration of world culture that uses music, arts, and creativity to champion artistic expression, instill cultural competency, and build a diverse and welcoming community. It sits below Mt. Mitchell with mountain lakes and rolling hills with 600 acres featuring rustic cabins, large camping fields with mountain views, hiking trails, barns, streams, and lakes for canoeing, swimming, and the zooming zipline. LEAF Festival will be held from October 17-20, 2019. Tickets are available for weekend and individual day rates. Kids 10 and under can attend for free. See more information at www.theleaf.org/the-festival/.

The Palmetto Plant Eaters Club will host their 4th Vegan festival on Saturday, October 19, 2019 at the Shelter Cove Community Park on Hilton Head Island, SC from 10am to 5pm. It will feature music, speakers, food, entertainment, and vendors.

Entry is free. Info at www.carlagoldenwellness.com/lcvf-about/

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan in Concert: Atlanta, GA (October 20, 2019)

Paracha Entertainment presents Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan live in concert on Sunday, October 20, 2019 at the Infinite Energy Arena in Duluth (Atlanta), GA starting at 7pm. He plans to perform a mixture Unplugged, Bollywood hits, and Qawali music. Tickets start at $54. Buy tickets at www.axs.com. Tickets are also available at The Global Mall, Suite 515 in Norcross, GA for purchase to learn more visit, www.parachaentertainment.com.

Sandeep Narayan Vocal Concert: Charlotte, NC (October 20, 2019)

North Carolina State Fair: Raleigh, NC (October 17-27, 2019)

The Classical Music Association of Charlotte (CMAC) presents on The North Carolina State Fair returns to the fairgrounds in Sunday, October 20, 2019 a vocal concert by Sandeep Narayan and Raleigh, NC from October 17-27, 2019. The fair features all sorts party, at Gandhi Bhavan, Hindu Center, 3:30pm. For more details of attractions, competitions, fair food and rides for the whole call 704.814.9355, 704.442.1186 or visit, www.onlinecmac.org. family. Parking has recently been expanded with a free shuttle Carolina Kite Festival: Atlantic Beach, NC service available. Various ticket packages are available. For more info, visit ncstatefair.org.

(October 26-27, 2019) 10am and 4pm on October 26 & 27, 2019 at The Sands just east Tamil Cultural Association Presents of 4 Corners in Atlantic Beach, NC. Also night fly on Saturday, at 6 pm. Admission is free. www.kitesbirds.com/events. a Musical Program: Apex, NC

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Taj Express: Charlotte, NC (October 30, 2019)

TCA presents a musical evening with Shri Rajhesh Vaidhya and Super Singer Malavika at The Summit Church at 3000 Lufkin Rd, Apex, NC from 7 pm to 9:30 pm. For Details visit: tcanc.org Taj Express follows the story of one man’s passion and another or email: tcanc.org@gmail.com. man’s genius. Young composer Shankar struggles with his music, and it’s only when he begins to follow in the footsteps of his idol, A.R. Rahman that he discovers his path to success.

Achal Mehta Concert: Raleigh, NC (October 19, 2019) Taj Express rhythmically blends dance with the hits of India’s Garba King Achal Mehta will perform live most iconic composers and is brought to life by performing live with the World Famous Rishabh Group on stage. Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at Knight Theatre in for the Triangle’s biggest Garba event with Charlotte. For visit www.blumenthalarts.org. garba, raas and Gujarati music. The event CASH AVAILABLE NOW! will be held on Saturday, October 19, 2019 at the Raleigh Convention Center, 500 S. Salisbury Street. Be sure to ask about receiving $5 worth of Dandiya (while supplies last). Buy Tickets online at www.TicketHungama.com.

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Upcoming Movie Releases Laal Kaptaan (Director: Navdeep Singh) Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Zoya Hussain, Deepak Dobriyal, and Manan Vij

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The Sky Is Pink is the love story of a couple spanning 25 years, told through the lens of their teenage daughter. She is sassy, sardonic, spunky and also...dead. A fact she nonchalantly mentions at the very outset. “Get over it. It’s quite cool actually. You’ll see when you get here (which you do know you will right?!)” Unexpectedly humorous, warm and heart wrenching all at once as the magic of life and beauty of death manifest in one family’s unusual, courageous journey. Directed by Shonali Bose, the film stars Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Farhan Akhtar, and Zaira Wasim. It opens on October 11.

The Current War

Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, The Current War tells dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world. Cast includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Katherine Waterston, and Matthew Macfadyen. Look for the film in cinemas beginning on October 11.

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The film stars Bhumi Pednekar, Taapsee Pannu, Prakash Jha, and Vineet Kumar Singh. It hits the theaters on October 24.

Arjun Rampal’s Next Film is the Supernatural Thriller Anjaan

Actor Arjun Rampal’s next project is an edgy supernatural thriller that will be directed by Amitendra Vats and will be co-produced by Raju Chadha and Rahul Mittra.

Anjaan revolves around the mysterious murder of three girls in a hill station. Rampal will portray a police inspector who sets off to find the killer. The rest of the film has yet to be cast. Rampal’s recent film JP Dutta’s Paltan, a war film also starring Abhishek Bachchan and Sonu Sood didn’t turn out to be either a critical or a commercial success. The release date for Anjaan will be announced in the near future.

Radhika Apte Roped in for Apple Series, Shantaram, which also Stars Charlie Hunnam

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Radhika Apte, who has starred in movies like Parched, Manjhi, and AndhaDhun, along with web series like Sacred Games, Ghoul, and Lust Stories, will star alongside Charlie Hunnam in the Apple series crime drama Shantaram. The series is based on the namesake novel and will also star Richard Roxburgh. Hunnam will be seen headlining the series playing the role of a man on the run from an Australian prison and arrives in Mumbai with a fake passport. He falls in love with India while finding love, redemption, a purpose and heartbreak. He spends time in slums, company of mafia bosses, drug dens and in a tiny Indian village where he gains the name Shantaram. Apte will be seen playing the role of a journalist hailing from India looking for answers. The series is currently filming across Australia and India.

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

Director Swati Bhise directs the cast that includes Devika Bhise, Rupert Everett, Nathaniel Parker, Ben Lamb, Jodhi May and Derek Jacobi. The Warrior Queen of Jhansi tells the true story of the legendary Rani (Queen) of Jhansi, a feminist icon in India and a fearless freedom fighter. In 1857 India, this 24-year old General led her people into battle against the British Empire earning the reputation as the Joan of Arc of the East. Her insurrection shifted the balance of power in the region and set in motion the demise of the notorious British East India Company and the beginning of the British Raj under Queen Victoria. Look for the movie in theaters beginning November 15.

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Director Martin Doblmeier’s documentary, Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story, was released on public television in February. Thurman played an important role in the civil rights struggle as a key mentor to many leaders of the movement, including Martin Luther King Jr., among others.

I have been a scholar of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King Jr. for over 30 years and I serve as the editor of Thurman’s papers. Thurman’s influence on King Jr. was critical in shaping the civil rights struggle as a nonviolent movement. Thurman was deeply influenced by how Gandhi used nonviolence in India’s struggle for independence from British rule.

Visit to India Born in 1899, Howard Washington Thurman was raised by his formerly enslaved grandmother. He grew up to be an ordained Baptist minister and a leading religious figure of 20thcentury America.

In 1936 Thurman led a four-member delegation to India, Burma (Myanmar), and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), known as the “pilgrimage of friendship.” It was during this visit that he would meet Mahatma Gandhi, who at the time was leading a nonviolent struggle of independence from British rule.

The delegation had been sponsored by the Student Christian Movement in India who wanted to explore the political connections between the oppression of blacks in the United States and the freedom struggles of the people of India.

The general secretary of the Indian Student Christian Movement, A. Ralla Ram, had argued for inviting a “Negro” delegation. He said that “since Christianity in India is the ‘oppressor’s’ religion, there would be a unique value in having representatives of another oppressed group speak on the validity and contribution of Christianity.”

Between October 1935 to April 1936, Thurman gave at least 135 lectures in over 50 cities, to a variety of audiences and important Indian leaders, including the Bengali poet and Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, who also played a key role in India’s independence movement.

Throughout the journey, the issue of segregation within the Christian church and its inability to address color consciousness, a social and political system based upon discrimination against blacks and other nonwhite people, was raised by many of the people he met.

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Thurman and Gandhi The delegation met with Gandhi towards the end of their tour in Bardoli, a small town in India’s western state of Gujarat.

Gandhi, an admirer of Booker T. Washington, the prominent African-American educator, was no stranger to the struggles of African-Americans. He had been in correspondence with prominent black leaders before the meeting with the delegation.

As early as May 1, 1929, Gandhi had written a “Message to the American Negro” addressed to W.E.B. DuBois to be published in “The Crisis.” Founded in 1910 by DuBois, “The Crisis” was the official publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Gandhi’s message stated, “Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is no dishonour in being slaves. There is dishonour in being slaveowners. But let us not think of honour or dishonour in connection with the past. Let us realise that the future is with those who would be truthful, pure and loving.”

Understanding the idea of nonviolence In a conversation lasting about three hours, published in The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman, Gandhi engaged his guests with questions about racial segregation, lynching, African-American history, and religion. Gandhi was puzzled as to why African-Americans adopted the religion of their masters, Christianity.

He reasoned that at least in religions like Islam, all were considered equal. Gandhi declared, “For the moment a slave accepts Islam he obtains equality with his master, and there are several instances of this in history.” But he did not think that was true for Christianity. Thurman asked what was the greatest obstacle to Christianity in India. Gandhi replied that Christianity as practiced and identified with Western culture and colonialism was the greatest enemy to Jesus Christ in India.

The delegation used the limited time that was left to interrogate Gandhi on matters of “ahimsa,” or nonviolence, and his perspective on the struggle of African-Americans in the United States.

According to Mahadev Desai, Gandhi’s personal secretary, Thurman was fascinated with the discussion on the redemptive power of ahimsa in a life committed to the practice of nonviolent resistance.

Gandhi explained that though ahimsa is technically defined as “non-injury” or “nonviolence,” it is not a negative force, continued on page 122

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What did I do to earn my $200 a day? It seems that even when educated to the high school level, tribal students still have trouble finding work. This is not only simple discrimination.

Students from rural areas often lack social networks of working professionals who can help them with references and interview skills, a problem we are familiar with here in the States as well.

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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations.

— Senator J. William Fulbright

Just after World War II, in the same spirit of “never again” that led to the founding of the United Nations, the United States government sold off some of its surplus war property and set aside funding for a group of international exchange programs.

Each year about 8,000 people travel to or from the USA, including students, scholars, and professionals of all kinds, to study, to perform research, or to exercise their talents in the service of their host countries. It is important to note that these are not professional diplomats, nor political appointees, but ordinary citizens of either country who have something to contribute or something to learn. India is an enthusiastic partner in this exchange, hosting the various Fulbright-Nehru programs as well as a new Climate fellowship. Details on applying for these experiences are at the pages linked below this article.

The most famous and prestigious of these programs, the Fulbright Fellowships, send students and academics to live and work in host countries around the world. It is quite an honor and commitment to take a full year away from friends and family, or to move one’s family around the world. Much less well known is the Fulbright Specialist Program, which requires just two to six weeks commitment at a time. Applicants, who do not have to be academics, can join the roster for three years.

Once approved, they can then search for short projects that match their skill sets. These “blind” matches are one way to get an assignment, but it generally works better to cultivate a partner in-country who can request one’s services more directly. Another benefit of this approach is that it allows you, the Specialist, to help shape the project from the beginning.

In my case, Emerging Ecology, an American nonprofit here in Greensboro, had a long-term relationship with another local nonprofit, the Institute for Cultural Affairs: India, which runs a boarding school for tribal children. These two groups raised money for my in-country expenses, like food, hotel, and rickshaw fares. This was a required part of the deal with World Learning (the nonprofit that manages the program by contract for the State Dept.), as the Fulbright funds only covered airfare and my salary.

As an aside for those considering applying, give yourself plenty of lead time. The Indian government approved the project almost immediately (probably in part because they didn’t have to pay for it, due to my partners’ fundraising efforts). The US State Department, however, took almost four months to reciprocate, which left only two months to make arrangements for the time period we had chosen (November December 2018). A delay could have scuttled my visit Saathee.com

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I spent my first weeks in India being driven around Panvel (because there was no way I could navigate Mumbai traffic myself!) while I interviewed businesses about the skills that they find their new hires do not have. Some of these were expected, such as critical thinking skills or the ability to use mathematics to convert between systems of measurement.

Newer machines use the metric system, but older ones may use other units, and there are many 50-year-old machines clanking away in small family-owned factories in India. Another problem for young people everywhere is being on time. Others were more surprising. A cookie manufacturer wanted for her employees to take hygiene more seriously — not spitting, for instance, or not taking it personally when she asked them to shave their arms. It seems that culture is not only an issue between countries. Professionalism is a cultural construct, and it is difficult to teach in a classroom. More personal connections are necessary. continued on page 120

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Did he even stop to think about why he wanted to possess a specific vehicle or any other materialistic product or service?

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By Shyama Parui “Boy pushes BMW in river.” “Ungrateful 22 year old.” “Rich parents, spoiled son.” Many more such headlines were recently in the news featuring a strange but true report on a young man named Akash from Haryana in Northern India. Apparently, Akash demanded a Jaguar from his parents on his birthday but lo and behold, his parents gifted him a BMW car instead. His angry reaction was to push the car into a river. Let me admit that I tried Our quest to very hard to avoid judgment and becoming or used my imagination to come up with acquiring the possible rational explanations. Maybe his parents’ money was tainted, and cream of the the boy tried to drown the “black crop can be money”. Maybe he was suffering unending. from other emotional problems and that led to a disturbing turn of events.

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The aversion to being average can be attributed to our fast paced, competitive and consumeristic society as well as the expectations that emerge from it. We are inclined to compare ourselves to someone who is more successful rather than someone who is worse off. It’s important to recognize that even the most revered role models of success such as Albert Einstein, Jeff Bezos, Simone Biles, and Serena Williams to name a few, are average at things outside of their profession.

Our quest to becoming or acquiring the cream of the crop can be unending, tantamount to chasing unicorns. One might even forget the purpose of the chase or sadly undermine the most important factors. A tragic example of this is the story of American gymnasts who were abused by Larry Nassar. The fact that it took so many years to put that unforgivable doctor behind bars demonstrates that protecting the well-being of young girls was given a lower priority than preserving the elevated status of the team’s coaches and doctors. Medals came at a price that was not worth paying for and their gleam symbolizes the failure of our “winning culture”. This scenario is more common than we would like to admit, not unlike colleges and universities that allow their top athletes to get away with bad behavior that would otherwise be considered unacceptable. The lure of victory and wealth enticing people to win the race to the top can often leave a toxic trail behind it.

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Diwali Sweets and Halloween Treats!

For Indian American children and adults, October can be an especially delightful time of the year

familiar adventure. Only us kids would receive treats and the adults would have to follow behind us, instead of the other way around. Sweets of any kind and at any time bring glee to a child’s face but the pride kids take in their collection was of a different kind.

It was part labor, which was walking door to door and equal part luck, hoping neighbors will be generous with treats such as peanut butter cups, chocolate bars and bubblegum lollypops.

Tootsie rolls, butterscotch and peppermint candies were the most detested varieties which were inevitably thrown away. At school there would always be a few classmates who claimed to have received full-sized candy bars from a neighbor. Upon asking details the narrator would feign amnesia as to details of the magnanimous giver-of-full-size-Butterfingers. Along with treats there were also incidents of rotten tricks mostly carried out by teenagers, such as throwing eggs at homes or covering property with toilet paper.

Kids don’t stand a chance against Desi parents

By Shivani Tripathi

In much of America, October can be such a lovely month.

Leaves are slowly changing from green, to bright yellow, tangerine and crimson and the cool air provides respite from the mosquitoes that were buzzing all summer long. The comfort of hot chocolate, warm apple cider and kadak chai replaces the relief iced coffee, lemonade and sharbat provided. With adults firmly in the grip of work deadlines and school kids feeling like a lifetime has passed since a holiday, Diwali and Halloween give many Indian Americans reason to revel in the autumn season.

Even adults have been known to enjoy Almond Joy

I remember a Halloween when the pumpkins and homemade paper mâché ghost my family decorated on our porch were found smashed in our cul-de-sac. Thank goodness nowadays many teens prefer staying-in and watching Netflix rather than playing mean-spirited Halloween pranks!

Costumes played a significant role in Halloween festivities as it was an outlet to profess love for a character or bring a fantasy to life. More than once my sister and I were encouraged by our mother to dress up as Indian princesses and wear the lehenga sets and Indian costume jewelry our father brought from India, but the cold Colorado weather made it far easier to layer under baggy witch costumes. And under a woolen hat and scarf who could appreciate the twinkling maang tikka jewelry and multihued chunari anyways?

One school year my sister was coaxed into using Indian clothing to dress as famed Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. With mixed emotions she went to school with short, crimped hair decorated by a golden matha patti paired with a fuchsia-colored kurta. The confusion her fusion costume created was expressed the moment she came home and put down her backpack, as if throwing in the towel. Kids don’t stand a chance against their jugadu, “Make do with what you have!”, Desi parents. Today as an adult Halloween is spent celebrating at a party a friend has thrown, or helping hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. I give a special nod of approval to the kids who show up at the doorstep dressed in Desi garb. I think about my childhood and even commiserate with the kid, but now as a grownup also approve their costume choice for appealing to my adult sensibilities: it’s quick, easy and budget-friendly!

Based on the Hindu lunisolar calendar, Diwali is typically observed between mid-October and mid-November and this year the festival of lights will be celebrated on October 27. Three days later Halloween will arrive on its regularly scheduled, Gregorian calendar date of October 31.

The celebrations would be special, but simple With both holidays falling within days of each other, for Compared to Halloween, Diwali was a quieter affair in the kids it could mean they’ll see Indian sweets such as ladoo and continued on page 117 barfi in the fridge, while trick-or-treating loot of mini chocolate bars and fruit-flavored candies will be stashed in their rooms.

Shivani Tripathi Even adults have been known to enjoy a mini Almond Joy along with a jalebi.

Shivani Tripathi cannot remember a time she As a child growing up in a Colorado suburb, Halloween felt wasn’t madly in love with Indian cinema and writing. She spends time in New York, especially centered around kids compared to other holidays. It North Carolina and Twitterpur at @Shivani510. would be a day we would dress up in costume for a parade during school, and in the evening, we would set out for a Saathee.com

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College Admissions Insider

By Lindsey Conger

Five Surefire Ways for Students to Manage College Application Stress Effectively

Applying to colleges can be stressful, and for teenagers this decision is one of the biggest they will have made in their lives.

College-bound seniors might be feeling overwhelmed and overworked as admissions deadlines loom closer, and the stress will build as they struggle to finish everything on time.

The application process isn’t easy, so students should create a plan of action on how to cope with the added pressure. Parents can also serve as a supportive shoulder to lean on during this busy time. Here are five surefire ways for students to manage college application stress effectively.

1. Start Early If the thought of applying to college causes you anxiety, then you might be overwhelmed with all the options. Start early by visiting admissions websites, talking to college students or representatives and attending information sessions to figure out where you might want to attend college.

The Common Application prompts are released before summer even starts, so you could get started on your personal statement now. By finishing that essay by the time school starts, you can alleviate some of the stress of balancing classes with the application process.

Another thing you get off your plate early is the letters of recommendation. Think of teachers, mentors or coaches that you have formed a close relationship with over the years. Give them your resume and ask them to write you a letter of recommendation early in the process to ensure they have time to write a thoughtful recommendation.

2. Stay Organized Regardless of how many schools you choose to apply to, there can still be a lot of information and conflicting dates to remember. Instead of trying to keep track of it mentally, write it down and organize it. List out all deadlines, the cost of attendance, whether you need test scores, how many recommendations schools require and if they require any supplemental essays. As you complete the items on the checklist, cross them off. That way, you are never left wondering if you forgot to answer a supplemental essay question or how many letters of recommendations you need to submit.

3. Ask For Help You aren’t expected to do this all on your own. Ask a trusted adult, like a parent, teacher or school counselor for help with an essay, your college list or any other part of the application.

You could even consider hiring an independent counselor to be your guide and assist you with more specific issues. Don’t wait until it’s too late.

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4. Reuse What You Can Luckily, the Common App makes it easier for students to apply to multiple schools a little quicker. You won’t have to refill out your basic information numerous times, and you can send your personal statement to all the universities that accept the Common App. However, some schools will require supplemental essays. As you apply to more schools, you might realize you have to write on a similar topic for multiple schools.

Reuse the content when you can, but make sure that each essay is still tailored to the particular school and fully answers the specific prompt.

5. Keep a Positive Attitude You will get in somewhere! If you have planned ahead, written genuine essays that reflect your personality and applied to a balanced list of colleges, then you will likely get into a school that is the perfect fit for you. College application season can be stressful, but by taking these steps, you can manage the workload and find your place at the college of your dreams.

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Gandhi coined the term “Satyagraha” which loosely translates to holding onto truth or truth force. It is a form of nonviolent resistance or civil resistance.

The Sabarmati Ashram (also known as Gandhi Ashram) is located on the banks of the Sabarmati River in Amdavad, Gujarat. This was one of the many residences where Gandhi lived when he was not travelling across India or was not in prison. It was from his base here that Gandhi led the Dandi march also known as the Salt March on March 12, 1930. In recognition of the significant influence that this march had on the Indian independence movement the Indian government has established the ashram as a national monument.

Through a prearranged marriage, Gandhi was wed at age 13; his wife, Kasturbai Makhanji Kapadia, was one year older. They were married 62 years. He had four sons before taking a vow of celibacy.

Gandhi fought for much more than independence.

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Nutrition for Life October 1-7 is also celebrated across the world as International Vegetarian Week. Interestingly, it is believed that the word “Vegetarian” was coined in 1842 by the founders of the British Vegetarian Society, of which Mahatma Gandhi was an active member during his student days in London.

Although it may seem like the plant-based movement has grown in recent years, the idea is not new. The International Vegetarian Union (IVU) was founded in 1908, which included vegetarian societies around the world. By 1914 there was a Vegetarian Society in almost every country of Europe and many more around the world. The IVU has been conducting conferences since 1908. This year’s IVU World VegFest was recently held on August 23-25, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

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Current Views on Plant-Based Diets The United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organization have urged a shift towards a more plant based diet for climate and environmental sustainability. For details, refer to the Saathee article from July 2019 titled, “Planetary Health.”

There are several organizations that are currently promoting plant-based diets for health reasons. The Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine, The American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Plant-based Prevention of Disease, Nutrition Facts.org, Forks Over Knives, The Food Pharmacy, Whole Foods Plant Based.org, Meatless Monday, are among a growing list of organizations that are showing proof with scientific research that plant-based diets can help combat majority of the chronic diseases.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has a Position Paper which states that appropriately planned vegetarian and vegan diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage. The Vegetarian Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy has dietitians who are trained experts on this subject.

By Parul Kharod

This October 2 will be celebrated as the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The whole world knows Gandhi as the proponent of ahimsa or non-violence.

Gandhi was born in 1869 into a devout Hindu family where vegetarianism was part of their lives. When he decided to travel to England to study law, his mother would only allow him to go if he took a solemn vow to abstain from meat and alcohol while he was away from home. Gandhi took this vow very seriously and endured many difficulties about food until he discovered that there were vegetarian restaurants in London. In the first of the restaurants that he entered, he bought a copy of Henry Salt’s Plea for Vegetarianism. Reading this was a turning point.

Until now he had avoided meat because of his promise to his mother; now Salt’s book convinced him of the moral case. “From the time of reading this book, I can claim to have become a vegetarian by choice,” he said.

Gandhi believed in living a cruelty-free life and practiced this philosophy of ahimsa in every aspect of his life, including his dietary choices. In his autobiography, My Experiments with Truth, he devoted an entire chapter titled, “Experiments in Dietetics.” In this chapter he described in detail his own views on vegetarianism. A collection of quotes from Gandhi’s writings and speeches (1921-1958) regarding diet can be found in the book The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism. When asked why he advocated for eating a vegetarian diet, he responded, “I have philosophical reasons to advocate vegetarianism. I believe that the animals have spirits and souls also.”

Summary: There is irrefutable evidence that plant-based diets can not only prevent but treat chronic diseases and help save in health care costs. The World Health Organization and other global entities have already stated that unless we limit meat consumption, and devote the land and water resources to agriculture, we will not be able to feed the world population in the next fifty years. Research shows that plant-based diets can prevent and reverse disease, reduce global hunger, and improve the health of the planet. Take a pledge of kindness towards all living beings.

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When you design something, there are many aspects to the design. A bridge needs to be strong enough to resist natural forces like the wind and earthquakes. It also needs to support the carrying capacity needed for people and vehicles to flow over it at desired speeds. It needs to look good too! We cannot design all of these disparate things in, one by one, into the bridge, because decisions about one aspect of the design will have an influence on other aspects. If you decide to make the bridge broader to allow more people to flow across faster, it may change structural aspects of the bridge that make it more vulnerable to earthquakes, or it could necessitate much more expensive material, which might make it commercially unviable. Everything needs to somehow come together at the same time. Click! When that happens, we get something that is much more than the parts of the design.

Designing the designer And so it is, with human beings, too. We design ourselves over time. How well you design yourself determines what the overall design of “you” becomes, and how that design underpins the way in which you live and operate as you go through life.

“Design?? Do I get to design myself? Really? I thought this thing came assembled out of the box!

So you’re telling me now that I have to work on this thing to put it together In the parallel so that it works reasonably well? And universe, it is you’re saying that there’s no possible to get instruction manual for this thing?

You’ve got to be kidding!” freedom from It gets worse. Life doesn’t bring all space and time. the parts with it out of the box. Things are scattered all over the place – a nut under this tree there, and a bolt of lightning from that cloud there. We have to scrounge and scavenge to find the missing pieces of the puzzle and put it together in some manner. Yes in some manner. There is not one end state for the puzzle, unlike the jigsaw puzzles you can buy at a store that guarantee to yield the one solution that their creator intended them to make.

Can infinity be contained in a little box?

So in one sense, life is kind: it gives us lots of options and lots of states that can be attained. But in another sense, it is cruel: it gives us the ability to do something, but we won’t ever know if that “something” is the best that can we do, or even one of the better alternatives available to us. “Be all that you can be” as the old Army slogan said, except you can never know in advance all that you can be.

The universe is large. Really large. And even if we draw a circle within it that boxes off most of it because it is not really accessible to us – for example, I am not counting Jupiter as one of the places I am likely to have access to in this lifetime – there are still too many things! Can I be an artist? I am sure that is Saathee.com

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possible. Can I learn the art of Japanese tree pruning? Why not!?

And on and on. There are many more options that are available than we can fit into a lifetime. The tenure of life is a real constraint that we cannot overcome. If there were unlimited time, it would be possible to do a lot more, but alas, such is not the case. The second constraint comes from the limited space into which everything needs to fit – our heads. The cognitive processing capacity of human beings is amazing, but it pales into insignificance in the face of infinity. So we have a time constraint as well as a space constraint. The box is little but infinity is big. But there is one more obstacle that makes things harder. Much, much harder.

There is something larger than infinity!

In the parallel universe, it is possible to get freedom from space and time. We can live forever, happily ever after, whatever we do. Imagination is the ruling force in such a universe. And, imagination can create an infinity that is larger than the infinity of space-time. This is because imagination is not beholden to any laws of physics. It can build on whatever reality provides, and boldly go where no reality has gone before, much like the voyagers of Star Trek’s Enterprise.

The box that we live in generates a “reality” that is immensely larger than the reality that it is pretty loosely based off of. If we recognize that there is an infinity outside the box, we must realize that there is this much larger infinity that pervades the inside of the box.

If one is able to stare long and hard at the infinity inside, much like an optical illusion, you start to see some lines in the amorphousness that you didn’t notice before. If you keep staring at it, a thing stands out in stark relief: one’s “self”.

Free the designer!

The sense of self is a pretty sticky sensation; it can be omnipresent, hanging like a dark cloud over everything that you do. If I can somehow slim this thing down, can I not reclaim some of the space inside the box that has been lost to this strange creature that almost feels like a parasite of sorts, sucking up all the resources inside and outside, without providing anything in return?

People speak about various kinds of addiction, but could the addiction to oneself be the mother of all addictions? Also, if I take a microscope to this thing that I call “myself”, it may well be that the attributes of this persistent illusion were not even created originally by my own imagination, but by the collective imagination of many many people some who live today, and some who don’t.

Maybe design isn’t about designing at all! Maybe it is about “un-designing” – freeing myself from the rubble that I’m buried under, so that I might have a chance to live in the real universe, as opposed to the parallel one that I have gotten used to inhabiting? Imaginative people might call that “heaven”. It may take some time though. It may be necessary to tear everything down, and build a stairway to that heaven.

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your father-in-law and mother-in-law, his cousins as your cousins-in-law, and all his distant uncles and aunties as your uncles-in-law and aunties-in-law? Do you promise to love him, cherish him and all the 250 members of your new family for all eternity?”

Americans generally find the concept of arranged marriage strange, even though, half the marriages in the US end up in a divorce. When we were married for about six months, we met an American couple who I knew from college. The wife asked us, “How did you meet?”

I replied, “We were introduced. Sort of an arranged marriage.” She just didn’t know how to react. Her next question was, “How is it going?”

Equally offensive to all People also want to know the secret of our happy marriage.

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By Raajeev Aggerwhil they don’t believe it and insist. So I tell them that we hired a surrogate couple in India to outsource our arguments. We give Arranged Marriage them character descriptions, a script that describes our individual objectives and our conflicts. They fight all night on As a comedian, I used to be hesitant about telling people that our behalf and report the results in the morning.

I had an arranged marriage. I used to think that my audience would judge me by thinking I came from a primitive culture. I used to say that I sort of had an arranged marriage – that we were introduced. However, after performing jokes about arranged marriage for several years, I decided that it did not matter. They would judge me anyway based on my color, my ethnicity and my accent. Now I just say, “I had an arranged marriage” and use this simple sentence as a short premise for my joke: That arranged marriage is not as primitive as it may sound. It is very much like Tinder except your mom swipes right!

When I was going through the arranged marriage ordeal, I was very nervous. There were three reasons for being nervous.

First, it was taken for granted that you would remain married forever; not just this lifetime but for all future lives. Second, all transactions were final. There were no returns, no 14-day trial periods and certainly no exchanges. There was no extended Sometimes the outsourced couple is not able to handle warranty. Third, regardless of whether you liked the girl, you had to behave properly towards the family and the girl. One complex conflicts, so I decided to get my wife into stand-up wrong move and you may be subjected to the “you-broke-it- comedy also. I thought why fight in the privacy of our own home when we can have our arguments in public. The you-buy-it” rule.

Despite the supposed handicaps, we have been married for audiences laugh and it works like free marriage therapy for us. over 25 years. It worked for me because arranged marriages We are too cheap to pay for marriage counselors. However, have a motto: No Nerds Left Behind. With the new generation sometimes my wife does not want to have unscripted of Information Technology (IT) workers and more women arguments on stage. I feel that with a scripted debate, we lose entering the industry, they have taken nerdiness to a whole the organic ingredients of a real fight. Once I managed to different level. The daughter of one of our family friends in convince her to go unscripted at an open mike. After that, we Bangalore is a Java programmer. She turned down three had an actual argument in the car on the way home which potential grooms because they all specialized in Microsoft .Net undoubtedly defeated the purpose.

Being constantly on the move and living a hectic lifestyle technology!

Parents are the driving force behind arranged marriages does take a toll and sometimes even comedy is not able to solve because a deep understanding of culture, psychology and the real conflicts. When all else fails, I remember the words of wealth management is required. A lot of strategy goes into this my father. “Divorce is a luxury for white people.” We would major project. One of my uncles married his three daughters rather stay married because we don’t want to lose what we into three different households of successful businessmen. He already have: money. There is a story from Panchtantra where also made sure the sons-in-law were the eldest in their family. two cats are arguing over a fair way to divide a piece of bread He was so happy after his youngest daughter got married. He continued on page 120 said, “All my daughters will be successful leaders … in their households. “Apne khar mein khushi se raj kerngi. They will Raajeev Aggerwhil rule happily in their household.” I thought this kind of mindset promotes a conflict. His daughters will probably give hell to LA-based comedian Raajeev Aggerwhil has their younger sisters-in-law. starred in Nickelodeon’s TV show 100 Things to Do In India, when couples marry, the families of both sides Before High School and also acted in the film based on the television series. Follow him on Instagram form a bond. The marriage vows are different too. “Mala, do and Twitter @raajeevcomedy you take Jai as your lawfully wedded husband, his parents as

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Immigration Matters

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processing times grow long and longer; a year ago, EADs used to take only about 3 – 4 months to be adjudicated – now expected wait times exceed six months. The hope for nonasylum EAD applicants is that processing times for their work cards will now come down and fall in line with what has been expected in the past.

The second change impacting the nation’s asylum system was the Supreme Court’s recent willingness to uphold a rule change requiring asylum applicants to prove that they had sought to obtain asylum from safe third countries before coming to the United States. These third countries are those nations that an asylum applicant traveled through in coming to the United States. The easiest example is Mexico, which sits between the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras) and the United States, the former from which has seen an exodus of nationals fleeing violence, drug trafficking and gang activity.

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If anything is constant in today’s immigration landscape, it is that change is consistently happening. September has been no different with US Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) changing how it will adjudicate Employment Authorization Documents (commonly known as “EADs”) for asylum applicants to be possible benefit of everyone else and the Supreme Court wading into the Trump Administration’s attempt to reduce the number of individuals eligible for asylum.

While the impact of these alterations will be limited to those seeking asylum in the United States, they reflect a broader strategy of the Trump Administration’s effort to exact changes to a system in the face of Congressional inaction.

First, USCIS announced that it will disband the standard 30day processing time for asylum-based EAD filings. This filing procedure aimed to have work authorization cards to asylum applicants within about a month of applying, helping such individuals to be able to lawfully obtain work while their asylum applications were pending adjudication. Asylum seekers must already wait 150 days after filing for asylum before even being permitted to apply for an EAD, after which time the work card would typically arrive within a month; with this new rule change, asylum seekers should expect to wait for more than 30 days before receiving permission to work.

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This change will likely increase the number of asylum applicants willing to work unlawfully and without work authorization cards, as the need to simply survive will likely push asylum seekers to do whatever they can to earn an income. USCIS has explained this change as necessary to ensure to reduce fraud and abuse while also increasing vetting and security. This policy change may be a boon for other applicants for employment authorization cards, who have seen their Saathee.com

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Under this new rule, asylum applicants at the southern border must prove that they sought asylum in Mexico (or the country through which the individual transited) before being considered eligible for asylum in the United States. The rule change generated controversy, as it bypassed the normal rulemaking process, which typically requires a public comment period before implementation. The Court’s ruling strikes down a lower court decision that had prevented the rule’s implementation only in California and Arizona and now permits USCIS to deny asylum filings nationwide unless an asylum applicant can prove he/she did seek asylum protection after leaving his/her home country and prior to arriving to the United States.

Critics have pointed out that this rule change intentionally targets people legitimately fleeing violence who should be able to seek protection in the United States; proponents of the change have indicated that most individuals applying for asylum are ultimately unsuccessful and reducing the number of applications in the system, which now faces a backlog of over 350,000 pending filings. Moreover, fewer filings will help USCIS adjudicators make decisions on those who may actually have successful claims be able to be approved and assimilate into American culture.

These changes continue to reflect the Trump Administration’s ongoing desire to put its own stamp on the nation’s legal immigration system, one of the signature issues that defined President Trump’s 2016 campaign and has animated much of the President’s current term. While these changes are not the wholesale reforms that President Trump has promised to deliver, they do feature modifications that will undoubtedly impact the lives of thousands looking to make the United States their home.

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Kismuth and the Way

By Dipika Kohli

A Westlake Story

Circling Back to Vietnam

I unlock three locks while making small talk: “What a relief, right?” She nods, says, “It’s the Mid-Autumn festival now.”

Had I been into town to see the celebrations?

She doesn’t know this about me, but I’m averse to crowds.

I say no, not really, and push the door all the way open, scoot past everyone’s moto (I could never drive one in this city, I just take buses everywhere), and out the second gate. It’s green and wide and the lock on this one is hefty. A girl on a bicycle goes by with a bucket in one hand, and the other way, an older couple crosses casually. It’s the time of day for evening walks.

No smart phones or texts or interruptions.

I like to carve out that kind of time for myself, too. Mostly, in this kind of moment, if it’s not raining, I go to the same stairs right at the edge of Hồ Tây, or “Westlake,” as foreigners call it.

I am in Hà Nội.

March was when I was last in this city. It was a different mood completely, then, when I wrote about it here. Instead of being in the midst of going somewhere new, I feel like I’m stopping for a pause, to look back on where I’ve just been.

(Latvia, for example. Slovakia. These kinds of places where I had no idea what to expect and now I’m back in a place where, well, I kinda do.)

Maybe that’s why it’s easy to pick Hà Nội to return to. Stop.

Settle into a place that feels like it might be a good one to put People sell cane juice every so often... your stuff down for a while in. Get to know the neighborhood, It’s a ten-minute walk to the water from my building, people stay a little while. Find the leafy views that remind you there is sell cane juice every so often, on the sidewalks here, but I just still nature even in this crowded, fast-paced city, and moments walk. All the way to my spot. Sit a while. Watch the kayaks, if where you can pause. I’m far from the center, this time. It’s a continued on page 122 flat west of the Botanical Garden. Which means, local. Super.

I’ve gotten to know my way around a little. The market where Dipika Kohli you can get dragon fruit and very pungent oranges, for example. is the author of Kanishka, The Elopement, “It’s about to get a few degrees cooler now,” informs my and Breakfast in Cambodia. neighbor, a woman who lives on the top floor of this shared See kismuth.com. apartment building, where it’s the hottest, of course, as we run into one another in the foyer.

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I have gathered some useful data from different sources. We have real estate price appreciation data from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). Data for GDP of the two countries come from World Bank. Stock market performance data come from Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) while those for S&P 500 total returns come from Multpl.com. The data we are analyzing is for the time period between 2009 and 2018.

For those who are impatient to get a summary of the horse race between the two countries, here is a quick view:

BIS provides an index value that starts off at a value of 100 for USA in 2009. As you may know pretty much all risk assets have skyrocketed in the US after the Great Recession since 2009.

In spite of that, you can see the real estate price appreciation in the USA dwarfs in comparison to what India has witnessed.

Indian price appreciation is almost three times that of the USA.

Stock Market When it comes to the equity markets in the two countries, the story flips on its head. US equity markets returns have been almost double that of India in the same period. Again, the returns you see in the graph are adjusted for the currency rate fluctuations.

While US dominated India in terms of stocks market returns, Indian real estate trumped USA in price appreciation.

Now for those who like to dig into the details, let us look GDP Growth While the investment returns between the two countries each of these aspects in sequence. continued on page 90

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For the past three months, the family and I have been avoiding the front yard. It seems some wasps decided to dig a hole in the grass and start an underground subdivision. Lazy as I am, I found pausing 20 feet from the nest to gauge the wasps’ state of mind a lot easier than catching angry copperhead snakes, putting them in a bucket and driving them down the road to the stream. That was a routine last year.

I have noticed that pacifism destroys your relationships faster than leprosy. Seems people will forgive much about you but not Pacifism idiotic wimpiness. The neighbors now smile and wave at me with a destroys our pitiful limp hand; they know that relationships emotional runts are not long for this faster than world, where real men slice and dice everything around them like potleprosy. bellied Rambos.

“I saw a copperhead in my backyard. Cut its head off with a shovel and buried the head under 18 feet of dirt,” one neighbor told me. “I poured 300 gallons of diesel fuel into the wasp nest in my yard and lit it using military grade dynamite. It was like 4th of July, man,” a friend said sipping on a beer. I am getting to that last stage of human detachment now that I care little about the strange violence that seems to be the fuel for our daily existence.

Leading up to the 10th day of Muharrum (Ashora), which commemorates the battle of Karbala for the Shia Muslims, I got many videos of people beating their chests on the streets around Asia and the Middle East. Some were using chains with sharp blades on them. Growing up, I had witnessed the zanjeer Saathee.com

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(chain) processions moving up the streets. Many of my uncles had scars on their backs from previous years of being part of the processions. But technology and times change. This year, I got a video of a guy who had a religious leader shoot him in the stomach with a pistol to experience the pain of the martyred Hussain and his entourage.

I didn’t sleep that night. I paced around in the blackness thinking that every religion and the very act of being in a state of faithfulness entails violence, from primitive human sacrifices to real Easter day crucifixions, to drawing blood with the most unique and up to date methods known to this ocean of confusion we call humanity.

I am no psychologist. I’m just a person looking around and scratching his head about our constant need to shed blood and destroy. If you had asked me 40 years ago, I would have said that humanity would be greatly advanced in the 21st Century.

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But we are just a few thousand short years from the extreme violence that was oxygen to our ancestors. The hysteria that is buried deep within us demands blood: Blood makes you a continued on page 100

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By Mo Vidwans

Do You Want to Retire at 40?

FIRE Devotees Are Doing It

Can you retire at age 40 or is it a trick question? What is FIRE and what does it have to do with retiring?

FIRE is an acronym and it means Financially Independent, Retire Early.

PBS put out a nice 20 minute segment on it a few months ago. The Wall Street Journal had a big article on this as to how so many people are practicing it and actually retiring before they turn 40. There are many other articles and books about the subject. There is much interest in this aspect of lifestyle and many people are actually reaching that goal. It does need much mental discipline and other qualities to carry it out and we will talk about it here.

Two things are certain if indeed you wish to retire around 40. First thing is that for the period during which you are working (for the 15 to 20 years of your working life) you have to save like crazy (like 75 percent of your take home salary) and secondly once you accumulate enough and retire as planned you have to have unwavering discipline to control your manageable expenses. If you think you can manage both of these ideas successfully, then you are in. I also should mention that the buy-in from your spouse is also a must.

The concept is simple and feasible (albeit with lots of caveats). We all know the stress of daily routine of getting up early, feeding the children and the pet(s), get ready, fight the traffic, and then navigate the stress of intangible competition at work with no real moment to stop and just enjoy a few diversions. You later come home and finish the rest of the chores of usual household duties. You get the picture. I don’t know anyone who does not have this kind of stress occasionally, if not all the time. Health problems and other unexpected happenings add to it.

If and when you quit working, some stresses go away for sure but we could add some others. I will touch base on that later.

If FIRE is to really come true, then much advance planning is required as a prerequisite. Depending on where you live and where you plan to retire, unless you are able to save at least about $1.5 million, you should not even contemplate such a move. Most people will need much more than that. It would not happen unless your savings rate is indeed 75 percent or thereabout and you can continue with that for a long time. It is clear that you have to drop out of the rat race of needless spending. It does need a totally different mindset and both spouses have to think alike and be on the same page in this regard.

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Under normal circumstances, when we retire we are around 65 and we have a span of 25 to 30 years in front of us for which we have to account for financially. When the retirement is considered at 40 under the FIRE scenario, all of a sudden we have a lifespan of 45 to 50 years in front of us that we have to account for, almost double what would normally be the case and hence the calculus changes. Not only the money we have saved should last that long comfortably but also that some of the other assumptions we make about our life like Medicare, social security, additional health or insurance coverage would not come in the picture for a long time and we have to account for that in our calculations.

Medicare would eventually kick in at 65 but social security benefits would be minimal because it is based on about 15-18 years of your working career and not on the best 35 of your 45 years of working life. Until Medicare enters the picture, we have to account for the health coverage ourselves because it is not provided and subsidized by any corporation.

Those were just a few of the hurdles to cross on the financial side. On the social and emotional side there are many more yet.

The idea of 24/7 face time with all the immediate family members could create different issues. And this is going to last not just for a year or two but for a long time. It could work just the opposite way too and create a solid bond that we would not expect when we were working 40 or more hours a week.

Knowing our emotional make-up and all the family members is a plus in this regard. When so much free time is available, it almost behooves us to have outside hobbies or at least a plan as to how the free time would be handled.

One more peril to be considered is the fact that if for some reason one has to go back to work either part-time or full time, how applicable would your skills be at the time when you reenter the workforce. Considering how fast the world of technology is changing it could be a monumental task to retrain and become employable.

Because of this reason many folks don’t completely quit the work force but still keep their fingers in the pie by either keeping a part-time job or work from home as an independent contractor. Whichever way it works out it sure takes away the thrill of forsaking work completely.

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By Amit Rupani

How to Pick a Mutual Fund?

In the United States, there were 9,599 mutual funds in 2018, managing assets worth approximately 20 trillion dollars. These 9,599 mutual funds include debt, equity, and other asset class mutual funds. Today, a DIY mutual fund investor will have to scan through thousands of mutual fund prospectus to create a well diversified portfolio of mutual funds. Also, it is like a maze hunt to dissect through opaque disclosures and financial jargons of mutual fund companies.

My goal of this article is to help a DIY mutual investor, who is willing to invest some time and effort to ensure that their hard earned savings is entrusted to right people to invest their money. Below are some of the important factors that I would look for before investing my money in a mutual fund:

Long term track-record: Don’t be swayed by chasing mutual funds which have generated good returns in last 1-2 years. Its good consistent returns over long term horizon; preferably 10 plus years that matters. Even best of the mutual funds will underperform during some point of market cycles. As long as their long-term track-record to beat S&P 500 is intact, one should be fine.

S&P 500 index as benchmark: S&P 500 is considered best diversified index of top 500 businesses of the US. Look for mutual fund that has S&P 500 or any other broader market index as its benchmark. It’s beating the market (S&P 500) that matters to the investor. There is no point in buying 10 different mutual funds of 10 different sectors and industries for proper diversification. Let the manger use their expertise to pick any businesses that they think are available at attractive price given current uncertainties. Pick appropriate broader benchmark for debt or other asset classes.

Experienced Manger: Financial markets run in cycles. These cycles can be longer than a decade some times. It’s good to have mutual fund manager who has experienced at least couple of cycles and has seen both bull and bear runs in the market. An investor can count on experienced manager to learn from their experience and not repeat any previous mistakes. “There are old investors, and there are bold investors, but there are no old bold investors.” – Howard Marks.

Close fund doors at right time: The biggest reason why a mutual fund company will decide to close its fund’s doors is that the fund’s strategy is being threatened by the fund’s increasing size. Many new investors pour new funds when fund has performed well. According to Jack Bogle, legendary founder of Vanguard, a one billion dollar fund could expect to find as many as 2500 stocks of sufficient size to accommodate a meaningful investment. However, for a ten billion dollar fund, the universe shrinks to as few as 250 stocks. So look for rationale mangers who understand their limitations very well and are not after increasing AUM (assets under management) to garner more fees.

Cost: Invest in “direct mutual funds”. This means to buy mutual funds directly through the investment companies that offer and manage your money and to cut the middleman (distributors and brokers). Most of your investment dollar goes into the fund and right to work for you. Investing in direct mutual funds would save approximately 0.50 percent every year on your total cost of owning the mutual fund. An investment of $100,000 in direct mutual fund giving 9 percent annual return for 30 year horizon would grow to $1,326,768.

Whereas, same investment in regular mutual fund would grow It can get overwhelming to create your own portfolio of to $1,155,825. It is a whopping difference of $170,943!

Mutual Funds on your own, but if one is willing and patient to learn something new and do the hard work, several thousands Skin-in-the-game: The managers of the mutual fund should of dollars can be saved. I highly recommend the book The put significant personal dollars on the line alongside yours. If Investor’s Dilemma by Louis Lowenstein to better understand they don’t invest money in their own fund, why should you? the workings of the Mutual Fund industry.

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Disclosure: Author of this article doesn’t hold any mutual funds, but invests directly in stocks and bonds.

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Seeking Cultural Unity Through Commonalities

George Lu: Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Xing Yi, Be Kua, and Shuai Chiao.

By Jennifer Allen

As I’ve mentioned in a past article, I decided to increase my fitness and be in much better health by participating in Chinese Martial Arts. Now with learning almost two years of Tai Chi and a year of both Meditation & Shaolin Kung Fu, I’ve noticed that there are a lot of similarities between East Asian and South Asian Martial Arts. It’s been mentioned through various classes and discussions at the School I attend how Yoga, Tai Chi, and Shaolin Kung Fu have much in the way of crossover moves and skills.

To understand why this is so, we have to look back at the history of how this tradition started. Legend has it that the crossover began when a Buddhist Monk known as Bodhidharma traveled to China to teach Mahāyāna Buddhism during the 5th or 6th century. During his travels he came to a Shaolin Monastery and taught the monk what would later be known as Shaolin Kung Fu. His teachings included Yoga, Meditation and the La kāvatāra Sūtra. He was often called a “Blue-Eyed Barbarian” monk and is thought to have been the third son of a Pallava King from Kanchipuram.

While the stories have been scrutinized as to their authenticity of Bodhidharma’s life, there’s no denying that his teachings have made an impact. The systems of Meditation, Yoga, Tai Chi, and Shaolin Kung Fu do have their similarities and to fully understand it’s best to actively practice all of them, if possible.

As my School, The Peaceful Dragon in Charlotte, NC does have all of these (and more) available in classes, I asked one of their teachers, Sifu George Lu a few questions about this:

Saathee: Let’s start with a little background first. What specific types of Martial Arts do you have experience in?

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S: Some think that Yoga and Chinese Martial Arts have very little in common. Where do you think this misconception comes from?

GL: Rock, country and blues are quite different but they all share the same musical roots. Kung Fu and Yoga both focus on mind, body and breath. Those misconceptions came from the observation of fighting vs holding postures.

S: Unlike some other programs for fitness, often Martial Arts Schools focus not only on physical health but also mental and spiritual health. Can you explain why?

GL: Physical training goes only so far and even top athletes retire by the time they are 40. Internal arts can take you all the way to old age.

S: The Peaceful Dragon offers various Yoga & Martial Arts programs. What would you consider a good starting platform for a new student?

GL: All of our programs focus on mind, body and breath, so any program is a good starting place. continued on page 120

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Want To Reduce Suicides?

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By Maureen O’Hagan, Kaiser Health News

HILLSBORO, Ore. — On Kimberly Repp’s office wall is a sign in Latin: Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae.

This is a place where the dead delight in helping the living.

For medical examiners, it’s a mission. Their job is to investigate deaths and learn from them, for the benefit of us all.

Repp, however, isn’t a medical examiner; she’s a Ph.D. microbiologist. And as the Washington County epidemiologist, she was most accustomed to studying infectious diseases like flu or norovirus outbreaks among the living.

But in 2012 she was asked by county officials to look at suicide. The request led her into the world of death investigations, and also appears to have led to something remarkable: In this suburban county of 600,000 just west of Portland, the suicide rate now is going down. It’s remarkable because national suicide rates have risen despite decades-long efforts to reverse the deadly trend.

While many factors contribute to suicide, officials here believe they’ve chipped away at this problem through Repp’s initiative to use data — very localized data that any jurisdiction could collect. Now Repp’s mission is to help others learn how to gather and use it.

New York state has just begun testing a system like hers.

Humboldt County, Calif., is implementing it. She’s gotten inquiries from Utah and Kentucky. Colorado, meanwhile, is using its own brand of data collection to try to achieve the same kind of turnaround.

Following the Death Investigators Back in 2012, when Repp looked at the available data — mostly statistics reported periodically to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — she could see that suicide

was a big problem and that rates were highest among older white men. But, beyond that, the data didn’t offer a lot of guidance. Plus, it lagged two years behind.

She returned to her bosses. “I can tell you who has the highest suicide rate, but I can’t tell you what to do about it,” she recalled telling them. “It’s too broad.”

So she turned to the county medical examiner’s death investigators. They gather information at every unnatural death scene to determine the cause (say, drowning or gunshot) and manner (homicide, suicide, accident). It’s an important job, but a grim one, and it tends to attract unusual personalities.

Repp mustered the courage to introduce herself to one of the investigators, Charles Lovato. “I said, ‘Hi, my name is Kim and I was hoping to go on a death investigation with you.’ And he’s like, ‘You’re that weirdo that does outbreak investigations, aren’t you?’ And I’m like, ‘You’re the weirdo that does death investigations.’”

The gambit worked. Repp accompanied Lovato on his grim rounds for more than a year. “Nothing can prepare you for what you’re going to see,” she said. “It gave me a very healthy dose of respect for what they do.”

She studied the questions Lovato asked friends and family of the deceased. She watched how he recorded what he saw at the scene. And she saw how a lot of data that helped determine the cause and manner of death never made it into the reports that state and federal authorities use to track suicides. It was a missed opportunity.

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Currency Finally, it is important to know how the currency rates have performed over the years. I would think most NRIs would prefer to see a weakening Rupee in the short term as they remit USD into their homeland. However, in the long term if you have investments in India, you would like to see Rupee appreciate or at least remain steady. Unfortunately, the story here does not favor the Rupee.

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Still, Jay Carruthers, who runs New York’s Office of Suicide Prevention, saw the potential. “To be able to close the loop and connect [the data] to prevention? That’s the beauty,” he said.

This year, the state is beginning to test a similar system in several counties.

In Northern California’s Humboldt County, public health manager Dana Murguía had been frustrated for some time that local prevention plans weren’t making a dent. “I said, ‘We don’t need another plan. We need an operations manual.’ That’s what I feel Dr. Repp has given us.”

Humboldt began using a Washington County-style checklist this year, and county officials have identified several unexpected touchpoints, including public parks and motels where people have died by suicide. Now, those sad facts can become action plans.

In Colorado, a different effort to reduce suicides also began with extensive data analysis. There, they realized that while youth suicide has understandably been a focus, the biggest numbers are among older men. They’ve not only crafted materials specifically for men in crisis, but they’ve also created materials for specialized groups, such as veterans, farmers and construction workers.

“What was unexpected to me was how empowering these data would be to so many different people to make change,” Repp said — including Lovato and the other death investigators. “To know that they’re actually keeping the living alive is really powerful.”

Reducing Suicides continued from page 88

new data collection tool through which investigators could easily record all those details in a checklist. It included not only age and cause of death, but also yes/no questions on things like evidence of alcohol abuse, history of interpersonal violence, health crises, job losses and so on.

In addition, the county created a procedure, called a suicide fatality review, to look more closely at these deaths. The review is modeled on child fatality reviews, a now-mandatory concept that dates to the 1970s. After getting the OK from family members, key government and community representatives meet to investigate individual suicides with an eye toward prevention. The review group might include health care organizations to look for recent visits to the doctor; veterans’ organizations to check service records; law enforcement; faith leaders; pain clinic managers; and mental health support groups. The idea, Repp said, isn’t to point fingers. It’s to look for system-level interventions that might prevent similar deaths. “We were able to identify touchpoints in our community that we had not seen before,” Repp said.

For example, data revealed a surprising number of suicides at hotels and motels. It also showed a number of those who killed themselves had experienced eviction or foreclosure or had a medical visit within weeks or days of their death. It revealed that people in crisis regularly turn their pets over to the animal shelter.

But what to do with that information? Experts have long believed that suicide is preventable, and there are evidencebased programs to train people how to identify and respond to folks in crisis and direct them to help. That’s where Debra Darmata, Washington County’s suicide prevention coordinator, comes in. Part of Darmata’s job involves running these training programs, which she described as like CPR but for mental health.

The training is typically offered to people like counselors, educators or pastors. But with the new data, the county realized they were missing people who may have been the last to see the decedents alive. They began offering the training to motel clerks and housekeepers, animal shelter workers, pain clinic staffers and more.

It is a relatively straightforward process: Participants are taught to recognize signs of distress. Then they learn how to ask a person if he or she is in crisis. If so, the participants’ role is not to make the person feel better or to provide counseling or anything of the sort. It is to call a crisis line, and the experts will take over from there.

Since 2014, Darmata said, more than 4,000 county residents have received training in suicide prevention.

“I’ve worked in suicide prevention for 11 years,” Darmata said, “and I’ve never seen anything like it.”

The sheriff’s office has begun sending a deputy from its mental health crisis team when doing evictions. On the eviction paperwork, they added the crisis line number and information on a county walk-in mental health clinic. Local health care organizations have new procedures to review cases involving patient suicides, too.

From 2012 to 2018, Washington County’s suicide rate decreased by 40%, preliminary data shows. To be sure, though, 68 people died by suicide here last year, so preventing even a handful of cases can lower the rate quite a bit.

Taking the Idea Elsewhere Repp cautions that the findings can’t be generalized. What’s true in suburban Portland may not be true in rural Nebraska or Saathee.com

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The Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) is the largest hotel owners association in the world. The over 18,500 AAHOA members own almost one in every Just one year from her last performance in Charlotte, Dandiya Queen two hotels in the United States.

Falguni Pathak gave another award-winning performance on Saturday September 14, 2019 at the Greensboro Coliseum. The event jump-started with Hrishika Roychoudhury Selected a World nearly 3000 attendees who danced the night away to hit songs including “Maini Science Scholar Payal Hai Chhankai,” “Meri Chunar Udd Udd Jaye” and Falguni Pathak even Hrishika Roychoudhury, a sophomore from unveiled her newest song, “Radha Ne Shyam.” She was quite pleased with the Ardrey Kell High School, Charlotte, NC was audience response and came back out to perform several more songs after the recently selected as a World Science Scholar by show closing. Organizers Gopal Haribhakti, Asia Sheik, Vimal Patel, Keyur World Science Foundation.

Joshi, Sachin Agarwal, and Delia Patel created the fundraising event to benefit This year the foundation the non-profit organization “Coping for Dementia,” which supports the selected 30 students from dementia care-giving needs of the community at large. all over the world and Roychoudhury is one of Brajeswar Mukherjee Live Performance them. The World Science Scholars program identifies Classical vocalist and selects a small group of Brajeswar Mukherjee high school students with performed live in Charlotte on September 21, 2019 at extraordinary mathematical and scientific CPCC Tate Auditorium. He talents and provides them with a unique was accompanied by a opportunity to grapple with challenging ideas and harmonium player, tabla explore new disciplines in which to apply their maestro and a young abilities. She is a science enthusiast and a student researcher. Some of her achievements in Science tambura player. and Math were participation as a finalist to present her research in the ISEF 2019 at Phoenix, AZ (Intel AAHOA Charlotte Charity Golf Tournament Raises Nearly $100,000 International Science and Engineering Fair), Finalist in the National TSA (Technology Student Association) Conference in Washington, D.C., and Nomination for participation in Stockholm Junior water prize 2019 from NC Region 6 Science Fair at UNC Charlotte. She is also an Indian classical dancer and is among the top 75 female chess players of her age in the USA. Hrishika lives in Ballantyne, Charlotte with her parents Nilanjana and Partha, and younger brother Rajorshi.

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Irish rock band U2 has been touring the world with “The Joshua Tree Tour 2019.” The band has announced they will perform their final show for 2019 in Mumbai. The band promise the show, at DY Patil Stadium on October 2019

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you there.” “We’re much looking forward to bringing a dash of Dublin to Mumbai, India,” adds Adam Clayton. “A country famous for its rich culture of art, music, movies, theatre, literature, food and so much more. There is a lot of excitement in the U2 camp.” The Joshua Tree Tour 2019 kicks off in Auckland on November 8 and will visit Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, before moving on to Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Manila… and finishing up in Mumbai. “We have been around the world with The Joshua Tree,” says The Edge.

“And we can’t think of a better place to celebrate the end of this tour. Mumbai, India, we’re coming for you, I hope you’re ready!” Lead singer Bono added, “Mumbai. Let’s rock the house…” For details, visit www.U2.com.

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy visits Akshardham in Delhi

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy visited Swaminarayan Akshardham in Delhi as part of the first official trip that a sitting governor of the state has ever taken to India. New Jersey is home to what will soon be one of the three BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham complexes worldwide, as well as seven other BAPS Swaminarayan mandirs and a robust Hindu Saathee.com

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the National Animal Disease Control Program (NACDP) to control and eradicate the Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) and Brucellosis amongst the livestock in the country, at Mathura in midSeptember.

The Rs. 12,652 Crore fully Central Government sponsored program will vaccinate over 600 million cattle in the country in an effort to mitigate the two diseases.

The Prime Minister also launched the National Artificial Insemination Program and a country wide workshop in all the KrishiVIgyanKendras(KVKs) in all the 687 Districts of the country on vaccination and disease management, Artificial Insemination and Productivity.

Addressing a gathering Modi said, “Environment and Livestock were always at the core of India’s economic thought and philosophy. And hence be it Swachh Bharat or Jal Jeevan Mission or promoting Agriculture & Animal Husbandry we always try to maintain a balance between Nature and Economy.

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We of course are ill-equipped to launch a tribal war in the middle of middle class at midday. That’s lunchtime. It is obvious that we are satisfying our hunger for blood with base and baseless cruelty that extends from anything from a parking dispute at the grocery store to refusing to give an employee a sick day.

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Over the years, my cousins and I have discussed the personalities of many in the past generation with shock and glee, but the fact remains that the person you want next to you in the ancient or modern battlefield is not always the person you want to take home to mother, wake up with, or go to work for every morning.

Yes, we fight the hysteria. We want it all. We want inner peace to come to us to stay forever; but we want the bloodthirsty protector with ancient fire around us as well—a muscular, smiling, romantic, murderous but gentle person who is all things all the time. We can’t decide, can we? I have known people who looked inward long enough and left for hippie communes, nudist camps, Greek caves, academia, and many other destinations where they thought the politics of violence was now in deep sleep.

Most didn’t survive being human. It never ends, because blood talks to us.

Excuse me, I now must go to the front yard and pore an entire bottle of Dawn dishwashing soap into the wasp nest, cover it with a brick—and run. I just must draw first blood. I am human.

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Program with focus on reducing the usage of Single Use Plastic in the country.

“We should all try that by the 2nd of October this year our homes, offices, work places should be rid of the Single Use Plastic”.

“I appeal to all the Self Help Groups, Civil Society, NGOs, and Women & Youth Organizations, every college, every school, every Government and Private Organization, every individual to join in this campaign against Single Use Plastic” “We should look for cheaper and easier alternatives for polythene bags. So many solutions can be found through our Start Ups.” The Prime Minister also launched several other programs concerning Livestock Health, Nutrition and Dairy Farming.

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Community Organizations Greensboro

Art of Living (Greensboro) Uncover the strength, peace, and joy at the core of every human being. Courses are offered in Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Greensboro which cover breathing techniques to eliminate stress; skills for improving relationships; practical wisdom; insight into the laws that govern the emotions; low-impact yoga and the breathing-based technique called Sudarshan Kriya, or the healing breath.

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BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Greensboro Features Sunday Sabhas: Shishu (Toddlers) sabha: 4 - 5pm; Bal/Balika sabha: 4:15 - 5:30pm; Kishore sabha: 2 - 3:30pm; Main sabha: 4 - 6pm; Gujarati classes: 2:30 - 3:45pm and Arti at 6pm followed by Mahaprasad. Fresh Shayona snacks available on Sundays.

For Further Details: 336.355.9798 bapsgreensboro@gmail.com 922 Gallimore Dairy Road, High Point, NC www.baps.org/Greensboro Gujarati Cultural Association of Piedmont (GCAP) The Gujarati Cultural Association of Piedmont serves the Asian Indian community through sponsored events, cultural, educational and social programs.

For Further Details: Janak Patel - 919.799.1603 127 Landmark Drive, Greensboro, NC www.gcap.us

India Association of the Triad (IATNC) Promotes social, cultural and educational interests, develops understanding between members of the Indian community and other residents of the Triad area, and make the latter aware of issues of concern to the Indian community.

For Further Details: committee@iatnc.org www.iatnc.org

Indian Association of the Carolinas (IAC) IAC promotes Indian culture by hosting community events, Diwali and Garba and similar celebration and sports events.

Their Center is located in Winston-Salem.

For Further Details: Gopal - 336.509.5943 Hasmukh - 336.971.5594 (Membership Help) indianac14@gmail.com www.indianac.org

Indo-American Society of NC (IASNC) The organization supports Indian and South Asian communities in Greensboro, NC and vicinity and other Saathee.com

individuals interested in learning the culture, traditions, and arts of India. Specifically, IASNC promotes Indo-American cultural, arts and sports events and also school-based volunteering activities.

For Further Details: Krishna Balu - balu4428@infionline.net - 336.292.9462 www.iasofnc.org

Indo-US Cultural Association of Winston-Salem Increase awareness of the cultural heritage of India which is tremendously rich in its diversity and history. Association seeks to reach out to the Indian-American community within the Piedmont and Triad areas to share the vibrant Indian culture and promote cross-cultural understanding.

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Life Mission, USA This ashram has been established to provide physical, mental, emotional and spiritual benefits. All these benefits can be achieved through the natural remedies of yoga therapy, Ayurveda, naturopathy and diet.

For Further Details: 336.421.0690 Dr. Manoj - 848.459.7401 lifemissionusa@gmail.com 8136 NC Highway 119, South Mebane, NC www.lifemissionusa.org

Sri Mata Hindu Temple of North Carolina Working to meet the community’s religious, spiritual, and cultural Needs. Panchayatana Puja is the system of worship in the Smarta Sampradaya of Hinduism. It is said to have been introduced by Sri Adi Shankara. Weekdays: 6:30 - 7:30pm; Sat & Sun: 10:30am - 12:30pm.

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Sri Sathya Sai Baba Center (Greensboro) The Sri Sathya Sai Baba Center regularly conducts Sai Bhajans, Study Circles, various service activities and SSE classes (for students) every Sunday from 9:45am - 12:15pm.

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Winston-Greensboro Cricket Club (WGCC) Everyone from Triad Area in NC are welcome. The goals are fun, fitness, and friendship. WGCC is also a member of the Carolina Cricket League. Practice Sessions during the regular season are held every Wednesday at 5:30pm in Weston Park, Winston-Salem.

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Community Organizations Raleigh

AABAJ (American Association of Bihar and Jharkhand) Organized to bring together the Indian diaspora connected with Bihar and Jharkhand. AABAJ celebrates Holi, Diwali, Chatth and other festivities while promoting and sensitizing the unique culture, music and cuisine from Bihar and Jharkhand. Also conducts Yoga and Art classes, and provides learning opportunities for the next generation.

For Further Details: Pragyan Shrivas 919-371-2800 Samarendra Kishore 919-438-0009 aabajmail@gmail.com

Art of Living (Raleigh) Art of Living gives practical knowledge and techniques to unlock deepest potential and bring fullness to life. The techniques are effective in reducing stress and increase health, physical energy, enthusiasm, self-esteem, and clarity of mind.

Advance courses are also available. Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar’s mission is to create a stress-free society.

For Further Details: 919.659.5939 rdu@us.artofliving.org 4000 Bear Cat Way, Suite 102, Morrisville, NC www.artofliving.org/us-en/raleigh

Assamese Association of North Carolina AANC promotes understanding of Assamese culture and language. AANC celebrates festivals and organizes cultural activities like Bihu Dance, music, songs and social events with Assamese culture. Everyone from Assam as well as anyone with any connection to or interest in Assamese culture is welcome.

For Further Details: Nilaskhi Phukan - 919.949.1618 nilakshi_phukan@yahoo.com 919.200.4020 assameseassociation.nc@gmail.com

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Raleigh) Dedicated to improving society through individual growth by fostering Hindu ideals of faith, unity, and selfless service. Daily Arti - 7am & 6:30 pm; Weekly Satsang Sabha held every Sunday which includes Bhajans and spiritual discourses: Adults: 4pm, Young Men (Ages 23-36) - 3pm, Young Women (Ages 23-36) 4pm, Teens - 4:30pm, and Children - 5pm.

For Further Details: 1020 Aviation Parkway, Morrisville, NC www.saathee.com/baps-shri-swaminarayan-mandirmorrisville-nc

Bengali Association of North Carolina (BANC) BANC seeks to promote Bengali culture, language, music, arts and social activities by offering varieties of programs for members of Indian-American community within North Carolina and adjacent states. The association is organized Saathee.com

exclusively for charitable, cultural, social and educational purposes for the community.

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Bhaktidham Raleigh This is a Pushtimargiya community and cultural center. The seva and bhakti of Pushtimarg Manorathas are conducted, dedicated and offered to Thakorji based on the path and teachings of “Shree Jagadguru Shri Vallabhacharya”. The center is blessed by H.H. Shree Dwarkeshlalji Mahoday Shree (Kadi Amdavad).

For Further Details: 919-610-4194/ 919-622-1126 Info@pushtimargrtp.com www.pvsr.org.

Bhartiya Senior Citizens of NC (BSCNC) The organization for seniors of Indian origin that are age 60 years and over. Members meet on 2nd Sat of each month at Cary senior center in Bond park in Cary NC from 10 am to 3 pm. The next meeting will be on Saturday, October 12, 2019.

This month the group will celebrate Navratri festival and members will receive flu shot.

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Chinmaya Mission Raleigh-Durham (CM RDU) Founded by Swami Chinmayananda and dedicated to spreading the knowledge of Vedanta and other Hindu scriptures and to provide individuals with the practical means for spiritual growth and happiness. CM RDU conducts weekly discourses (Satsanga-s) and study groups for adults and classes for youth (Yuvakendra) and children (Bala Vihar).

For Further Details: www.chinmaya-RDU.org

Dada Bhagwan Foundation (Raleigh) Every living being seeks happiness. This search ends only when the source of eternal happiness is found. It can be attained through realizing your true Self. A path to eternal happiness was discovered by Gnani Purush A. M. Patel, also known as Dada Bhagwan and revealed to the world as Akram Vignan, a spiritual science. This is based on the foundation of Self Realization. Satsangs at HSNC, Sat 5 - 7pm, followed by Aarti and Prasad.

For Further Details: 877.505.3232 x 1003 wcraleigh@us.dadabhagwan.org 309 Aviation Pkwy, Rooms 5 & 6, Morrisville, NC www.dadabhagwan.org

Datta Yoga Center (Raleigh) Spreads the teachings of Sadguru Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Swamiji. Activities: Namasankeertana Bhajans written, composed and sung by Pujya Sri Swamiji.

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Community Organizations For Further Details on Datta Yoga Center: Suresh and Madhavi Kota - 919.434.1604 www.dycusa.org

Duke Diya A student organization and forum for interaction through events relating to South Asian Americans and anyone interested in South Asian culture, politics or economics. Duke Diya represents the six major nations of South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Social events like mixers and semiformals, especially with other Duke cultural groups and S. Asian organizations at UNC and NC State, are organized.

For Further Details: diya.duke@gmail.com www.dukediya.com

EKTAA Student Organization (NCSU) EKTAA (meaning unity) is the South Asian Student Organization at NC State. The motto is “unity within diversity.” EKTAA strives to spread culture and heritage of South Asia on campus as well as the local community and works hand-in-hand with many organizations on and off the NCSU campus, as well as South Asian organizations from area universities.

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Geet Bazaar Radio (NCSU) Sundays from 10am - 12pm on WKNC 88.1 FM, join hosts Afroz Taj and John Caldwell, for a variety of music from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and beyond. They specialize in the music of the Indian film industry including ghazals, qawwalis, bhajans, and Indi-Pop. Listen worldwide using the NC State Student Media App or live streaming on wknc.org.

For Further Details: Dr. Afroz Taj & John Caldwell - 919.851.1119 geetbazaar@wknc.org

GEM Raleigh Church of God Come and join in every Sunday from 10:45am to 1pm. They have worship services, prayer meetings, Sunday school, and much more.

For Further Details: Pastor Thankachan Mathai - 919.395.6208 globalem@gmail.com 3331 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC

Gokul Bhajan & Vedic Studies (Raleigh) Weekly satsang singing bhajans and glorifying Lord Krishna are held Fridays 7pm - 9pm at the HSNC in Morrisville, NC with a dinner afterwards. Gokulam Learning Center in Durham every 1st & 3rd Saturday from 5pm - 9pm. Children learn slokas, skills, manage and lead projects such as book distribution, charity for cow protection, food for the poor, and prison seva.

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Gurdwara Atlantic Coast Sikh Association Meets Sundays for Diwans along with Akhand Paths celebrated on appropriate dates. Classes for Punjabi and religious studies are held for children at the same time.

For Further Details: Yadvinder Singh - 919.477.7035 3108 Sparger Road, Durham, NC acsikhassociation.org

Heartfulness Meditation (Triangle) A simple, heart-based system of meditation centered on the supremacy of heart that helps one realize the ultimate potential within oneself. Regular practice under capable guidance enables aspirants to progressively experience the sublime presence of the divine in their daily lives. It is offered free to seekers worldwide through Shri Ram Chandra Mission. In the Triangle area, group meditations are held on Sun at 8:30am & Wed at 7pm.

For Further Details: Raj Solanki - raj_solanki@yahoo.com www.heartfulness.org

Heritage India Association of NC (HIANC) HIANC provides Indian cultural experience through performing and cultural arts, fine arts & crafts of India. Its mission is “to preserve and promote Indian heritage and culture.” HIANC presents several annual events such as Heritage India Festival in April, Gandhi Jayanti in October, Children’s Day in November, and participates in the International Festival of Raleigh in October.

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Hindi Vikas Mandal of NC The Mandal, based in the Raleigh-Triangle area, promotes study and appreciation of Hindi and strives to foster Indian culture and traditions through Hindi. HVM has special focus on the youth for the preservation of heritage. Every year HVM organizes Kavisammelan (Poetry Reading); Independence Day, Dushera and a members’ picnic. HVM also conducts weekly Hindi classes (10:30 - 11:30am on Saturdays) at HSNC for children.

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Hindu Society of North Carolina The temple is open daily from 7am - 9pm. Morning Aarti: MonFri 10.30am, Sat-Sun 10am. Evening Aarti: Mon-Fri 7pm, SatSun 6pm. All major religious celebrations are observed. Facility rentals are also available. Activities: Yoga, Hinduism and Meditation classes; Weekend Community Classes: Jain pathshala, Hindi classes, Sanskar Gurkul Classes, Tamil classes, Balmukund classes; Youth Affairs: Ohm Squad is the youth wing of HSNC involved in the youth activities like camp, games, and arts.

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Community Organizations HumSub HumSub is dedicated to sharing the social and cultural traditions of India with the residents of the Research Triangle Park and North Carolina.

For Further Details: www.saathee.com/hum-sub

Immanuel Assembly of God A full Gospel Christian church serving the Indian / South Asian community in the Raleigh. Service is offered Sundays at 10:30am & Bible Study is Wednesdays at 7pm.

For Further Details: Pastor Sam Daniel (919.442.8537) thechurch@immanuelassembly.org samimmanuelag@gmail.com 5419 S. Alston Ave, Durham, NC www.immanuelassembly.org

Indian Classical Music & Dance Society (ICMDS) ICMDS is dedicated to promoting Indian classical music and dance in the Triangle area by inviting top artists from all over the world to perform.

For Further Details: www.saathee.com/icmds

InStepp Located in Durham, the organization has served women residing in the Triangle area and offers long-term support and training to women who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking; women who are transitioning back into the workforce following separation or divorce; women transitioning from prison or jail, and immigrant women, including women from South Asian cultures.

For Further Details: 919.680.8000 info@instepp.org www.instepp.org

International Community Church ICC is a worship center for people from India and neighboring countries. Church services at Reedy Creek Baptist Church.

For Further Details: 919.233.2900 Pastor: Joseph B. Jesudason 1524 N. Harrison Avenue Cary, NC www.icc-nc.org

International Hindi Association IHA promotes Hindi language and literature and has chapters all over the United States. The Raleigh Chapter periodically organizes Kavi Sammelans with local and indigenous talents.

Open to those interested in listening to poetry or in reciting poetry.

For Further Details: Saroj Sharma - 919.460.7830 / 919.656.5224 www.hindi.org

ISKCON of NC (Hillsborough) New Goloka temple is a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Visitors are welcome have darshan Saathee.com

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of Sri Sri Radha Golokananda. Every Sun at 4pm, there is a special program consisting of arati, kirtan, Bhagavad-gita discourse, and a prasadam feast. Also provides educational classes and programs for children and adults. Daily Darshan at 4:30 - 5am, 7:15am - 1pm, 4:15 - 5:45pm, 7 - 8pm. Sat and Sun Darshan open from 7:15am - 8pm.

For Further Details: 919.732.6492 newgoloka108@gmail.com iskconnc@gmail.com 1032 Dimmocks Mill Rd. Hillsborough, NC www.newgoloka.com

Jain Study Center of North Carolina (JSCNC) The JSCNC was organized to study and understand Jain religion, philosophy, rituals, and literature and to educate children. The center participates in many activities for youths and adults, where an environment is created making members feel like a part of the family. Jain pathshala and swadhyay are held routinely for children and adults.

For Further Details: jscnc101@gmail.com jscnc.org

Kiran, Inc. Kiran serves and empowers South Asian victims of domestic violence in NC by helping them rebuild their lives and ending the cycle of violence. Although domestic violence is rarely talked about, it is a rampant and preventable public health problem. Kiran promotes healthy family relationships and raises awareness on the prevalence of domestic violence through outreach and advocacy. Core services comprise of a 24 hour free and confidential hotline, crisis counseling, legal advocacy, translation assistance, resource referrals, skills development and other culturally sensitive support services.

For Further Details: www.kiraninc.org 24 hours Crisis line: 877-NC-KIRAN (877-625-4726) kiran@kiraninc.org Office: 919.831.4203

Krishnadham USA The mission is to foster richness of Hindu heritage in children and to provide experiences on cultural values to visitors and residents alike under the guidance of Vaishnavacharya Shri Dwarkeshlalji Mahoday. Satsangs and monthly manoraths celebrate various Pushtimargiya festivals. They meet at 4000 Bearcat Way, Suite 102 in Morrisville, NC on Sat from 5:30pm to 7:00pm for Satsang.

For Further Details: Hemant Sura - 919.608.2412 krishnadham.nc@gmail.com 795 Beaver Creek Road in Apex, North Carolina

Maitri (NCSU) A student organization at NC State that aims at unifying various cultures at university while working to help and support Indian students at NC State, but also creates opportunities for them to immerse in the global culture while retaining their rich Indian identity.

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Community Organizations For Further Details: maitri.ncsu@gmail.com www.maitrincsu.org

North Carolina Pakistani-American Anjuman The NCPAA is a non-political, cultural and social organization that strives to promote the presence of the people from Pakistan living in the Triangle area. Their mission is to provide cultural and social interaction for the families and individuals of the Pakistani community and to offer a variety of programs and services to its members.

For Further Details: www.ncpaa.org

North Carolina Tamil Christian Fellowship The Tamil Christian Fellowship meets in Morrisville/Cary/Apex, North Carolina twice a month for worship, study and prayer.

For Further Details: 919.747.4115 (Prasanth) nctamilchristian@gmail.com

Pratham - Triangle Area Pratham works towards universalizing primary education in India. It continues to evolve, grow and works to meet the continually changing needs of the children it educates. The NC chapter actively aims to collaborate with individuals, local organizations and community associations and seeks ideas, volunteers and resources to deliver the vision of “Every Child in School and Learning Well.”

For Further Details: Sri Rajgopalan - rajagoph@yahoo.com Ravi Sundarajan- ravisrajan@yahoo.com www.prathamusa.org

Radha Krishna Temple of NC Organizes keertans/chantings, havan, pooja, abshik, bhog, aratis, and all day festivities.

For Further Details: 919.685.0447 or 919.306.3175 635 Hollands Chapel Road, Apex NC

Raleigh Sai Center Parthi Sai devotees meet Sundays from 4 - 6:15pm in the MiniHall of Hindu Bhavan in Morrisville. There is also a study circle, Bhajan Practice, Veda Chanting between 4 - 5pm depending on the week, followed by bhajans from 5 - 6:15pm.

The center carries out several service activities as well, including Human Values Education (SSE) classes for children.

For Further Details: rsc.president@yahoo.com raleighsaicenter.org

Raleigh Won Buddhism Meditation Center A modern expression of Buddhism stressing equality between the sexes, between the ordained and laity and teaches practical spirituality of both mind and body. Sundays from 5-6:30pm, various forms of meditation are taught. Also contemplate and discuss practical dharma teachings. Thur from 7-8:15pm is the opportunity to rest and restore. Meditations include Qi-gong, Saathee.com

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deep silent sitting, and lying down relaxation.

For More Details: 919.933.6946 ncwonbuddhism@gmail.com 2816 Pleasant Union Church Road, Raleigh, NC www.WonBuddhismNC.org

Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of NC The Society draws inspiration from the philosophical wisdom of the Vedanta as practiced and preached in the modern day

by Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda.

Practical Vedanta and the message of the harmony of religions and the spiritual oneness are studied.

For Further Details: 919.412.8304 vedantanc@gmail.com 3109 Globe Road Morrisville, NC www.vedantanc.org

RTP Maharashtra Mandal The goal of the Mandal is to advocate the vibrant culture, the rich heritage and the language of Maharashtra. The Mandal is dedicated to showcase the cultural, social and traditional attributes of Maharashtra to the local community through variety of programs and events such as Makar Sankrant, Shiv Jayanti, Gudi Padwa, Ganesh Festival and Diwali.

For Further Details: mail@rtpmm.org www.rtpmm.org

RTP Tamil Catholic Association Formed by Catholics hailing from Tamil Nadu, the objectives are to support Tamil Catholics in worship through regular Roman Catholic mass and prayer, celebration of religious feasts and festivals and to pass on this tradition to future generations.

Also active with religious instructions in Tamil, support for Tamil heritage and charitable causes. Meets the 3rd Sunday every month at St. Lourdes Matha Church to recite the rosary and celebrate the holy mass.

For Further Details: rtptamilcatholic@gmail.com 1400 Vision Drive, Apex, NC www.rtptamilcatholic.org

Sahaja Meditation Meetings, seminars and workshops are available in Raleigh.

There is never a charge for Sahaja Meditation instruction. RSVP in meetup: Sahaja-Meditation-Triangle-Group Thursdays at 7:30pm.

For Further Details: balaram.krishna@gmail.com 919.757.3135 www.sahajamediation.com

Sant Nirankari Mission (Universal Brotherhood) Knowing about God is a knowledge and knowing God is Realization of God as “Knowing about something” is different from “knowing something”. God can only be realized with the blessing of living true master. You are invited to join for a weekly congregation.

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Community Organizations For Further Details: Sherry: 919-673-1963 sherrydayal@gmail.com

Sewa RTP Sewa RTP, a chapter of Sewa International, organizes activities ranging from local community service to fundraisers for developmental projects in India. Sewa RTP has following activities on monthly basis: Sewa Day, Workshops / Seminars, Assisting Community in Emergency situations, Chapter Meetings - 3rd Thursday of every month.

For Further Details: www.sewausa.org/chapter/raleigh/raleigh-overview

Shree Swaminarayan Hindu Temple (ISSO) ISSO’s objective is to advance the Sanatan Dharma in accordance with the principles and teachings of the Original Shree Swaminarayan Sampradaya. A weekly “Satsang Sabha” is held every Saturday (5-8pm), which includes Kirtan bhakti, Katha, Aarti and Mahaprasad. Open daily 8am to 12pm and 4pm to 9pm; Daily Sandhya Aarti: 7pm.

For Further Details: 500 SE Maynard Road, Cary, NC www.saathee.com/issonc

Sky Meditation and Kaya Kalpa Yoga Benefits include longevity, wellness and stress management.

The group holds weekly group meditation and Simplified Physical Exercises every Friday. SKY Meditation initiation and SKY Kaya Kalpa Yoga Courses are held several times a year.

For Further Details: Rajendran Kailasam - 919.824.8429 sky.cary@yahoo.com www.vethathiri.edu.in

South Indian Fine Arts Academy (SIFAA) SIFAA works to arrange and promote concerts and performances in the Triangle and Triad areas, concentrating on Carnatic music.

For Further Details: sifaa.music@gmail.com www.sifaa.org

Sri Shirdi Saibaba Mandir of NC The Mandir promotes Sai philosophy and facilitates worship and services similar to Shirdi SaiBaba Temple, located in ShirdiIndia. This organization is dedicated to sponsoring and supporting religious, spiritual, cultural, educational and charitable activities in the US and abroad.

For Further Details: 919.386.1085 info@shirdisaimandirnc.org 1150 NW Maynard Road, Cary, NC www.shirdisaimandirnc.org

SV Temple of North Carolina The temple, a tribute to Lord Venkateswara and his consorts, is designed to exacting standards of shilpa shasthra and features the only shrine in N. America to incorporate abodes to Lord Viswaksena and Lord Sudarshana/Lord Narasimha as Saathee.com

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part of Srinivasa Parivaram. The temple rituals are performed in accordance with Pancharathra Agama Shastra.

For Further Details: www.saathee.com/sv-temple-nc

Tamil Cultural Association of North Carolina (TCA NC) TCA NC was formed for the purpose of providing youths with exposure to Tamil culture. Everyone is invited to join TCA and become part of the organization promoting Tamil culture in the Triangle area.

For Further Details: tca_nc@yahoo.com www.tcanc.org

The Point Church Urdu (Cary) The Point Church Urdu is the first Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi speaking church in North Carolina. Pastor Tamran Inayat started the church so that all can pray, worship & listen to the word of God in their own heart language, and also have fellowship with South Asian community. Service is held every Saturday at 5pm with Desi food afterwards at 1503 Walnut Street, Cary, NC 27511 For Further Details: Pastor Tamran Inayat 646.220.8595 www.pointchurch.com

Triangle Area Telugu Association (TATA) TATA is committed to building a vibrant Telugu Community and promoting Telugu culture and language in the Triangle area of North Carolina.

For Further Details: www.triangletelugu.org

Triangle Bangladesh Society (TBSNC) TBSNC strives to arrange musical programs by artists who have captured the hearts and minds of millions of Bengali, Urdu and Hindi-speaking music fans all around the globe.

For Further Details: Ishtiaquem@gmail.com www.tbsnc.org

Triangle Gujarati Association (TGA) TGA’s mission is to promote and serve Gujarati culture in the Triangle area by organizing various events and programs throughout the year and impart Gujarati culture and language on the youth.

For Further Details: www.saathee.com/triangle-gujarati-association

Triangle Vegetarian Society (TVS) The mission of TVS is to build a sense of community between current vegetarians and those interested in vegetarianism and have a forum for a discussion of issues. TVS was formed promote the nutritional, ethical, environmental, and other aspects of vegetarianism. Build a sense of community among people of varying interests in plant-based diets, encouraging healthy and sustainable.

For Further Details: barman@cs.unc.edu www.trianglevegsociety.org October 2019

Community Organizations Triangle Vipassana Meditation Vipassana, which means to see things as they are, is one of India’s most ancient techniques. Group sittings are held every Saturday and are only meant for students who have completed 10-day Vipassana course as taught by S N Goenka.

For Further Details: Hitesh & Vaibhavi Parekh - 732.213.9660 / 919.601.3555 carync.sittings@gmail.com www.dhamma.org

Urdu Majlis The Triangle’s Urdu Literary Society meets monthly on the campus of UNC Chapel Hill and the life and works of major South Asian poets are discussed as well as opportunities to share original poetry and writing. Urdu Majlis is co-sponsored by the Carolina Asia Center and the South Asia Section of the UNC Department of Asian Studies. It has no political or religious affiliations.

For Further Details: Afroz Taj - taj@unc.edu - 919.851.1119 Seema & Ashraf Faruqi - seemafaruqi@hotmail.com - 919.596.4792

Vaishnav Samaj of Triangle Area A group of like-minded devotees who meet for religious worship and understand Pushti Marg Principles at large.

Bhajan recitations are held 2nd Sunday of the month from 46pm and Seniors are requested to encourage youngsters.

For Further Details: Arvindbhai Shah - 919.233.7677 Vithalbhai Shah - 919.803.9027

Vraj Education Raleigh Kendra The Kendra is conductis weekly teaching of Hinduism and Pushtibhakti Marg backed by Vraj Temple Pennsylvania.

Raleigh Vaishnav children get an opportunity to recognize, learn, and exercise Pushtimarg guidelines and leverage rich Shri Vallabh Mahaprabhuji heritage to improve lives.

For Further Details: vraj.raleigh@gmail.com www.facebook.com/VrajEducationCenter/

Won Buddhism Meditation Temple A modern, simplified expression of Buddhism that stresses equality between the sexes, the ordained and laity and teaches practical spirituality of mind and body. Join on Saturdays and Sundays from 10-11:30am for meditation, chanting, Qi-gong exercise and practical dharma talks. The primary teacher is Rev. Wow-Gong.

For More Details: 919.933.6946 ncwonbuddhism@gmail.com 8021 Old NC 86, Chapel Hill, NC www.WonBuddhismNC.org

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tribal and rural villages in India. Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA is committed to the cause of eradicating illiteracy from tribal areas. Education is the key to self-esteem, self-sustenance, and economic freedom. The Carolinas Region of the EVFI USA conducts fundraising and awareness programs in Raleigh & Columbia.

For Further Details: Southeast Regional President: Chander M. Aggarwal cmaggarwal44@gmail.com - 407.454.3739 Carolinas Regional President: Janak Dalal jaydalalcolumbia@gmail.com - 803.665.4050

Hindu Society of Eastern NC (Greenville, NC) The temple celebrates major festivals and holds regular bhajan seesions and Geeta study.

For Further Details: Temple - 252.752.2670 B.S. Srivatsa - 508.654.0360 Hindutemplenc@gmail.com

ISKCON Temple of the Holy Name in Prabhupada Village The Temple, situated in a peaceful, rural area, is a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

Come and take darshan of Sri Sri Parama Karuna Nitai Gaurasundara from 5am-7:30pm, 7 days a week and special program held every Sunday at 3pm with arati and kirtan, bhajans, discourse on the Bhagavad-gita, As It Is, and a pure vegetarian feast - all free. Festivals are celebrated year round.

For Further Details: 336.593.2322 tothn@iskconpv.org 1283 Prabhupada Rd. Sandy Ridge, NC www.iskconpv.org

Nithyananda Sangha NC (Inner Awakening) Inner Awakening works to spread the knowledge of Yoga and meditation by letting people experience the teachings of Vedic Science in its purest form delivered by the enlightened master Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda. This chapter is part of a worldwide movement for meditation and healing.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda is a leader in the science of enlightenment and the author of more than 300 books published in 27 languages.

For Further Details: 704.766.1420 / 704.992.6114 innerawakening.org nithyananda.org

Nuv Yug Nuv Yug is a cultural organization with a mission to promote awareness of Indian cultural arts and heritage while striving to create synergy among various cultural groups from the South Asian region.

For Further Details: www.saathee.com/nuv-yug Prabhupada Village A rural, devotional community nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge. Inspiration and guidance is derived from the books, letters, and lectures of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of October 2019

ISKCON. Following Srila Prabhupada’s personal example, spiritual values in order to achieve true happiness, prosperity and spiritual fulfillment are taught. Serving Hindu communities, visiting homes for fellowship, worship, scriptural study, and kirtan. Also facilitate spiritual festivals, Bhagavad-gita discussions, puja, and vegetarian cooking.

For Further Details: 336.593.8108 or 336.593.3031 sarvadrik@gmail.com www.prabhupadavillage.com

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Sacred River Cow Sanctuary The sanctuary is a goshala in the foothills near Iskcon’s Temple of the Holy Name. Connect with nature, discover the joy of cow seva, and introduce your children to the importance of cows in Vedic culture. To arrange a visit or Pooja, call 336-3393070.

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Sri Somesvara Temple (Asheville) The temple is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western NC. It is a Vedic Shiva temple at the center of Mount Soma, a community commonly referred to as “Mount Kailash of the West.” People travel great distances to experience Sri Somesvara’s powerful Linga, profound silence, and timeless vibrations. The temple is open every day from 9:30am to 6:30pm. Aarti is at 6pm.

For Further Details:828.476.4073 / www.srisomesvara.org

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small American city my family called home in the ‘80s and early ‘90s. If Diwali happened to fall on a weekday, the likelihood of hosting or attending a party would be zero, as a school/work day along with a potentially lengthy travel time to a distant venue meant celebrating with family at home. The celebrations would be special, but simple. In Colorado fun fireworks, like rockets and firecrackers were banned, so the images from Hindi cinema my siblings and I associated with Diwali in India wasn’t possible to create in real life. No fancy diya were sold in the lone Indian grocery store in the Denver-area so we purchased extra luminaries from the Boy Scouts to use for both Christmas and Diwali. After the family Lakshmi puja, we would sit down for dinner which included multiple homemade dishes my mother spent hours in the kitchen cooking.

Since my family’s move to North Carolina we’ve celebrated Diwali the way a state with a more relaxed attitude towards fireworks and plentiful Indian grocery stores affords: beautiful diya, modest yet fun rockets, rangoli kits, and ready-to-gift boxes of sweets. Programs and mela are organized for Diwali provide a venue to celebrate with the community and educate the larger population about the festival of lights and its significance.

There’s something to be said about the fun in celebrating any holiday with a large number of participants. Not only because of the scale of festivities, but the sense of community the sharing of joy brings.

Last year for Diwali my friends and I, dressed in Indian finery, celebrated with a party that included a delicious spread of catered food, a professional DJ playing amazing music and gift hampers filled with goodies. The party was a smashing success, but the candles my family lit on quiet, snowy Diwali nights once upon a time still shine brightly in my mind.

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So I recommended that the school set up mentoring programs, beginning with its alumni, who would be more understanding of their students’ backgrounds, and expanding to local employers. Research has shown that at little as 15 minutes per week, engaging with students and answering their questions as they arise, even over e-mail, can be enough to awaken them to career possibilities outside what they see on television (doctor, lawyer, police detective, and pop star). So many kids have never met an engineer and have no idea what they do. Mentoring is something any reader of Saathee could do, and it does make a difference.

I was there in November, during the dry season, so there was dust, and plastic trash that the monsoon hadn’t yet flushed into the oceans, and once an exploding electrical transformer that could have started a brush fire (but didn’t).

In my six weeks there I saw three police cruisers and perhaps one ambulance. I saw a factory worker whose hand was caught in a machine; someone called the owner to get permission to take him to the hospital. These things were so strange to me, a PhD in 2019, but they would not have seemed strange to my dad, living in rural Kentucky during the 1950s. He helped build Interstate 75 with a shovel, much as I saw Indians building roads by hand last fall, though as far as I know he never brought his wife and child to work with him as they do.

In his book Factfulness: Ten Reasons Why We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, statistician Hans Rosling likewise compared modern-day Egypt to Sweden in the 1950s, when he was a child. These thoughts helped me to dial down my American tendencies towards judgement when I saw things that disturbed me, like the unfamiliar tradition of Charan Sparsh (touching the feet of elders to show respect).

I also watched giant fruit bats feasting in the trees of downtown Telegaon, unmolested, and learned from a cab driver on the Bombay-Pune highway that Ganesh was not born with an elephant’s head. I met village children who neither knew nor cared about Star Wars and Harry Potter, and I listened to a podcast of twenty-somethings in Mumbai playing Dungeons & Dragons. And yet I never once left the state of Maharashtra! That’s like saying you know the US from spending six weeks in California. So much more to experience, so much more to learn …

A year later, as a Fulbright alumnus, I now have access to a network of over 1 lakh (100,000) fellow travelers. They organize meetings and grant funds for development projects here in the US. I speak about the program to my students at the NC Governor’s School, and to anyone else who will listen. It is an incredible opportunity, and it is open to us all.

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S: While Martial Arts and/or Yoga may not be for everyone, what do you think are a few good ways to stay motivated and continue your practice as a student?

GL: There is meditation, sports, music and plenty of other activities that people can choose from.

S: There is quite a mixture of Asian and non-Asian students & instructors at the school. Do you think this amount of diversity is surprising or no?

GL: Welcome to America! Anyone who is willing to learn and qualified to teach is always welcome.

S: Finally, is there anything else you would like to mention about practicing Yoga and/or Chinese Martial Arts in the long term?

GL: After 20 years of training, I’m in better shape now than when I was 20 years old!

I’ll add that I’m also in some of the best shape I’ve been in since my 20’s thanks not only to the classes offered at the school but also having the perseverance to want to continue learning as many aspects as I can.

The Peaceful Dragon has quite a few South Asian students of all ages not only learning Yoga, but also Tai Chi & Kung Fu, so don’t feel intimidated about wanting to try something different with whichever Martial Arts School is near you that you’ve been wanting to try.

Perhaps you’ll even find a deeper understanding of how all of our cultures are really not all that different, and also have a chance to find that perfect balance of mind, body, and spirit you may not have realized was missing before.

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and seek the help of a monkey. The monkey weighs the bread on a scale, starts nibbling on each half and eventually eats all of it. The thought of paying some high powered attorney has always terrified me. Essentially, it is frugality and fear that keeps our marriage going strong, like the Energizer bunny.

If we were to analyze the mechanics of arranged marriages, they follow a pattern and fit in five different stages. In stage 1, during the first year of marriage, you are like “strangers with benefits.” In stage 2, from the second to the fifth year of marriage, you are like “friends with benefits.” In stage 3, you and your spouse get busy with work so from the fifth to the 10th year of marriage, you go back to being “strangers with benefits.” In stage 4, typically after the 10th year, work takes over personal life so you transition to being “strangers with no benefits.” Finally, from the 15th year onwards, you become too opinionated and groggy so you graduate to being “adversaries Randall Hayes, PhD, is a neuroscientist by training and an educator with no benefits.” by family tradition. He writes about science and entrepreneurship on A couple of years back, we went on a family vacation to Las LinkedIn, and consults with schools and businesses through his Vegas. My son Neil asked, “Dad, how come you are not company, Agnosia Media (www.agnosiamedia.com). gambling?” I said, “Son, I already had the biggest gamble of all.

I had an arranged marriage.”

Further Reading After living in this country for so many years, we want the best for our children. Whether through arranged marriage or www.usief.org.in/Fellowships.aspx love marriage, we want them to be happy. When my oldest son fulbrightspecialist.worldlearning.org was 15, I wanted him to marry a girl — educated and Indian. emergingecology.org/globalclassroom/ When he was 20, I wanted him to marry a girl — educated. www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/ Now he is over 25 and I want him to marry a girl — breathing.

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Kismuth

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rather it is a force “more positive than electricity and more powerful than even ether.” In its most practical terms, it is love that is “self-acting,” but even more – and when embodied by a single individual, it bears a force more powerful than hate and violence and can transform the world.

Towards the end of the meeting, Gandhi proclaimed, “It may be through the Negroes that the unadulterated message of nonviolence will be delivered to the world.”

Search for an American Gandhi Indeed, Gandhi’s views would leave a deep impression on Thurman’s own interpretation of nonviolence. They would later be influential in developing Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolent resistance. It would go on to shape the thinking of a generation of civil rights activists.

In his book, “Jesus and the Disinherited,” Thurman addresses the negative forces of fear, deception and hatred as forms of violence that ensnare and entrap the oppressed. But he also counsels that through love and the willingness to nonviolently engage the adversary, the committed individual creates the possibility of community.

As he explains, the act of love as redemptive suffering is not contingent on the other’s response. Love, rather, is unsolicited and self-giving. It transcends merit and demerit. It simply loves.

A growing number of African-American leaders closely followed Gandhi’s campaigns of “satyagraha,” or what he termed as nonresistance to evil against British colonialism.

Black newspapers and magazines announced the need for an “American Gandhi.”

Upon his return, some African-American leaders thought that Howard Thurman would fulfill that role. In 1942, for example, Peter Dana of the Pittsburgh Courier, wrote that Thurman “was one of the few black men in the country around whom a great, conscious movement of Negroes could be built, not unlike the great Indian independence movement.”

King, love and nonviolence Thurman, however, chose a less direct path as an interpreter of nonviolence and a resource for activists who were on the front lines of the struggle. As he wrote, “It was my conviction and determination that the church would be a resource for activists – a mission fundamentally perceived. To me it was important that the individual who was in the thick of the struggle for social change would be able to find renewal and fresh courage in the spiritual resources of the church. There must be provided a place, a moment, when a person could declare, I choose.”

Indeed, leaders like Martin Luther King did choose to live out the gospel of peace, justice and love that Thurman so eloquently proclaimed in writing and the spoken word, even though it came with an exacting price.

In his last letter to Martin Luther King, dated May 13, 1966, Thurman expressed his regret for the time that had elapsed since he and King last spoke. He ended the short note with a rather foreboding quote from the American naturalist and essayist Loren Eiseley, “Those as hunts treasure must go alone, at night, and when they find it they have to leave a little of their blood behind them.”

King, like Gandhi 70 years ago, fell to an assassin’s bullet on April 4, 1968.

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they’re out, just a few usually. Not too many people at the edges, these days. (Scant, this sort of simplicity in a busy metropolis, but when you discover it, it’s good.)

Yesterday I walked over as the sun was setting, and stayed long enough to catch the moon’s ascent. So pretty, with its reflection in slivers on the water. An easy breeze. A wild, welcome feeling of something clearing, maybe. I have time.

A longer visa. A bit of space. After this, who knows where next will be. That’s part of it. I don’t know. But feeling my steps helps. So do the odd spontaneous chance encounters.

They were researching stuff.

Lately I lucked into not one, or two, but three conversations with people who, like me, live in this mode: away and apart.

They were researching stuff, or teaching and writing. A young woman who does all three said: “Oh, tell me more about what you do.”

“Writing, mostly. Creative nonfiction, these days.”

“Cool. Like about what?”

“Oh, just. Whatever intrigues, in the moment, but I like to immerse, you know? I don’t wanna just fly through and say something flippant, without really noticing something, first, for myself. That takes... listening, looking, and of course, waiting.

I have to grow... a new sort of patience.”

“How is it going for you?”

“Well. Surprisingly well. Maybe because I am in familiar territory again, I’m in a kind of groove.” Realizing it’s true, I lighten. “As they used to say in Ireland, yeah, no I was just there for three years... Celtic Tiger, yeah, they’d say... Not bad. Like, for everything really good it was just, you’d go, Not bad. But yeah. I found a great viewpoint today. The feeling was one of welcome. I have been looking, for so long, and for so far, for exactly that...”

Could she relate?

She could.

The sheer fact of visas make it like that.

For both of us and many others, this kind of life is iffy.

Because, as always, and soon, we will have to move on, to find our own ways. Yes, it’s that, isn’t it?

The sheer fact of visas make it like that, you have a time limit in each country. You go where the going takes you: that’s just the way it is. Perhaps a seed you planted somewhere in the near past has finally broken ground; your journey’s next leg depends on what might happen to pop up, in this way, in some other place.

Things emerge. On their own. Can’t quite believe it’s been seven years since I left North Carolina for “the road:” my first stop was... here. Right here, in this city. It’s incredible to think about, but probably explains why I keep returning to this port, to reflect.

Nothing is defined; the ground beneath you shifts, there are no certainties, and you just have to keep going, if you choose this way. Best if you can trust the process. As you step, step, step... closer to a water’s edge, like at Hồ Tây, for me, or to where new people invite you to go next. Occasional conversations can develop into new worlds. Uplifting ones, too.

We need that, we nomadic types. Out of darkness, a tangible and welcoming warmth. This kind of thing keeps us moving, Walter E. Fluker is the Professor of Ethical Leadership, Boston keeps us light-filled, and looking for the next ports, wherever University Find more articles on www.theconversation.com. they go, ‘cause of Kismuth, along The Way. Saathee.com

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Who wants to be a Scholar?!

Answer the ones you know and research to answer the rest.

There is only one correct answer.

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1. Arrange cost per one gallon for these house commodities from lowest to highest. (a) Milk (b) Ice Cream (c) Detergent (d) Water

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2. The 64th Filmfare award for best film was won by (a) Raazi (b) Badhaai Ho (c) Sanju (d) Padmaavat

Make words using 4 or more letters. The central letter must be used in each word. Letters cannot be used more than once per word.

Use all letters for the subject word (underlined in solutions below) 12 + = Excellent; 8 to 11 words = Good; 7 or less = keep looking.

Words we found are in solutions below.

Dadaji’s Short Story

3. The national tree of India is (a) Neem (b) Oak (c) Banyan (d) Pipal

4. The first barometer was discovered by (a) Davy (b) Lucien Vidie (c) Crookes (d) Evangelista Torricelli

5. On Oct. 28, 2019, ‘Vikram Samvat’ ___ begins. (a) 2075 (b) 2076 (c) 2077 (d) 2078

6. October 2, 2019 is ______ Day. (a) All of these (b) Name your car (c) Walk to school (d) Int’l non violence

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7. In 1919, the Governor of North Carolina was (a) Locke Craig (b) Thomas Bickett (c) Angus Mclean (d) Cameron Morrison

8. The hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is 13”, one side is 12”, the third side is ___ Long. (a) 3” (b) 4” (c) 6” (d) 5”

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Scholar: All correct; 1st Class: 9 Correct; 2nd Class: 8 Correct; 3rd Class: 7 Correct; Need to improve: 6 or less

Word World (Solution): ALPS, ESPIAL, ISLE, LAPS, LASE, LIPASE, LIPS, LISP, SAIL SALE, SALP, SEAL, SIAL, SLAP, SLIP, SPECIAL, SPLICE

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10. October in the Northern Hemisphere is similar to ___ in the Southern Hemisphere. (a) February (b) March (c) April (d) May

Scholar Answers: 1.d, a, c, b 2.a 3.c 4.d 5.b 6.a 7.b 8.d 9.a 10.c

On a cool October morning in a farm outside a small town, a horse was grazing in a pasture. He was so engaged in his morning meal that he did not notice a wolf who had crept up behind him from the nearby forest.

The wolf was looking to make a meal out of the horse and when the horse raised his head he realized it maybe too late for him to run away. The clever horse immediately decided to play a trick and started limping across the field.

The wolf became greedy and thought, “This is my chance to grab him.” The wolf jumped in front of the horse but instead of attacking him, he became curious and asked, ”Why are you limping?" The horse pretended to be in pain and said, “A thorn has become stuck into my hoof. I can’t seem to shake it off.”

“Well, I know how to pull the thorn out. Can I help you?” the wolf said and began to take hold of the horse’s leg. Before the wolf could catch the leg, the horse gave a mighty kick.

The wolf went flying through the air from the powerful kick and landed painfully several feet away. The horse saw his chance and ran away before the wolf could gather his wits and chase him.

The moral of the story: Always look around and be alert, but creative thinking could help you.

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1. The Western state of India; Cap. Gandhinagar.

8. An uncastrated male swine.

12. Having a noticeable and pleasant smell.

14. Non-Discloser Agreement. (*) 15. Bare; stripped.

16. Marsh ___ .

18. One that takes active part.

19. A city and a port in northeastern Sicily.

20. An underground structure for housing a guided missile.

22. Relating to a hot and spicy style of Chinese cooking .

23. Idaho. (*) 25. A thick rope of wire or nonmetallic fiber.

27. A long and distinct period of history.

28 A western state in US. Cap. Salt Lake City.30. A popular Indian 1951 RK film (A vagabond).

32. Equality before the law.

34. Bachelor of Science. (*) 36. To put a question about.

37. Assemblies of persons acting in violent manners.

39. To move on a course.

40. The plural of Moose. (Chiefly humorous.)

42. The chordophone musical instrument of India, believed to be played by Goddess Sarasvati.

44. Angiotensin Receptor Neprilysin Inhibitor. (*) 45. Benzedrine tablets.

47. More savory than.

48. A crew; a group on one side (as in football).

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2. A type of mineral, a sodium compound, AKA ‘trona’.

3. Pop’s Puzzles and _____”, Saathee feature;: (Hee Hee!).

4. A citizen of United States of America.

5. A unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation equal to an energy of 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.

6. A monetary subunit of the kip; 1/100 Kip. (Laos) 7. What a clock reads. (Physics).

9. The internet users.

10. An island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia.

11. The king of Lanka, described in the epic of Ramayana.

13. A tropical fruit-nut of the plant, Specie: A. Occidentate.

17. Louisiana State University. (*) 19. A large crowd of people causing trouble or violence.

21. A capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab.

24. Indian festival at the end of Navaratri of ‘Rawan Dahan’. (Oct. 8, 2018) 26. A stopover at an intermediate point in one's journey.

29. Coins of virtual currency.

31. Not present at a usual or expected place.

32. International Association for Medical Assistance to Travelers. (*) 33. Michigan. (*) (US Postal abbreviation).

35. Missouri. (*) (US Postal abbreviation).

38. Nine plus one.

39. Global Awareness of Environment Activity (*) 41. To occupy a place as a member of an official body.

43. National Intelligence Estimate. (*) (US Government) 45. Bachelor of Engineering. (*) 46. Station Master. (*) (Puzzle solutions are on page 128. NO peeking!)

Hee Hee

Jokes From Around The World

A detective was asking for information with patrons at a bar.

He asked a drunk, “Do you know a man with one eye named Chakram?”

Drunk: “No, what’s the name of his other eye?”

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Why did the student eat his homework?

Because the teacher told him it was a piece of cake!

•••••••••••••• Why was the math book sad?

Because it had so many problems.

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Word Find (Created By Kirit Shukla)

Find & circle the words in the puzzle.

(Subject: “Owls”)

BARN BARRED BOREAL BURROWING FLEDGLINGS GREATHORNED GREY HEADTURN NEST NIGHT NOCTURNAL OWLET

OWLS PERCH PYGMY SAWWHET SCREECH SHORTEARED SNOWY SPOTTED STILL TALONS VOLEHUNT YELLOWEYE

The remaining unused 15 letters spell “Sound localization: the mechanism of the owl’s listening ability to identify the location of a detected sound in direction and distance.”

Math Magic Use these numbers only once: (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) in empty squares, to get = the final given answers.

Note: Follow the order of operation per basic math rule: ×,÷, +, The multiplication or division is done before addition and subtraction. (solution on page 128)

EZ-BZ

TEST YOUR IQ The common letters are “ZZ” - Fill in the blanks) 1. African-American genre of New Orleans music. _ _ ZZ 2. Studied nonchalance: Graceful conduct or performance without apparent effort. (Italian noun) _ _ _ _ ZZ _ _ _ _ _ 3. Filled with talk or excitement. _ _ _ ZZ 4. Beeper, an audio signaling device. _ _ ZZ _ _ 5. Light rain falling in very fine drops. _ _ _ ZZ _ _ 6. A fluffy mass of hair or fiber. _ _ ZZ 7. Misappropriated. (money). _ _ _ _ ZZ _ _ _ 8. Very curly and not smooth or shiny (of hair). _ _ _ ZZ _ 9. Mildly teasing or mocking . _ _ _ ZZ _ _ _ _ 10. Sleeping.

ZZ _ 11. A state of confusion or hilarity. _ _ ZZ _ _ _ _ ZZ _ _ 12. A recreational bathing tub or pool. _ _ _ _ ZZ _ 13. “Pops __ & Jokes,” Saathee features. _ _ ZZ _ _ _ 14. Having gray hair (Like bear). _ _ _ ZZ _ _ 15. A person from Australia. (Slang) _ ZZ _ _ 16. A constriction used to speed up a liquid flow. _ _ ZZ _ _ 17. A large imposing building in Italy. _ _ _ _ ZZ _ 18. A settlement in San Bernardino Cnty, CA. ZZ _ _ _ 19. To move quickly. _ _ ZZ 20. A severe snowstorm with high winds. _ _ _ ZZ _ _ _ 21. Domino’s __; ____ Hut. _ _ ZZ _ 22. Technologically innovative or advanced. _ _ _ ZZ _ 23. A type of fitness training combining aerobic exercise and dancing to jazz music. _ _ ZZ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24. A mosaic flooring consisting of small pieces of marble or granite set in mortar and given a high polish . _ _ _ _ _ ZZ _ 25. Something hot, as a very hot day. _ _ ZZ _ _ _

(Puzzle solutions are on page 128. NO peeking!)

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Festivals & Holidays

Spot the Differences Solutions from page 50

October 2019

Oct. 2 - Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti Oct. 7 - Navaratri ends Oct. 8 - Yom Kippur Oct. 8 - Dussehra Oct. 9 - Valmiki Jayanti Oct. 13 - Sharad Purnima (Full Moon) Oct. 14 - Columbus Day Oct. 14 - Thanksgiving Day (Canada) Oct. 24 - United Nations Day Oct. 24 - Ramā Ekadashi Oct. 25 - Vāgh Baras Oct. 26 –Dhana Teras Oct. 27 - Kali Chaudas Oct. 27 - Diwali (No Moon) Oct. 28 - New Year Day (Vikram Samvat 2076 Begins) Oct. 30 - Bhai Beej Oct. 31 - Halloween

6. Bags added

1. Shirt Color changed

7. Rock Removed

2. Person removed

8. Man added

3. Chimney removed

9. Barrel Color changed

4. Bag removed

10. Clouds added

5. Name removed

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November 2019

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Nov. 1 - All Saints Day Nov. 1 - Lābha Panchami Nov. 2 - Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) Nov. 3 - Daylight Saving Time ends Nov. 3 - Jalaram Jayanti Nov. 3 - Darsha Amās (No Moon) Nov. 4 - Gopāstami Nov. 5 - Election Day Nov. 8 - Dev-oothi Ekadashi / Tulsi Vivah Nov. 10 - Vaikuntha Chaturdashi Nov. 10 - Eid-e-Milad Nov. 11 - Veterans Day Nov. 12 - Guru Nanak Dev Sahib Gayanti Nov. 12 - Kartik Purnima / Dev Diwali (Full Moon) Nov. 19 - World Toilet Day Nov. 23 - Utpatti Ekadashi Nov. 26 - Darsh Amas (no moon) Nov. 28 - Thanksgiving Day Nov. 29 - Black Friday

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Math Magic from page 127

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ARIES (March 21 – April 19) This will be a month of struggle. Your own people may try to cheat you and you’ll have to fight against loved ones, but a calculated move should protect you. You may have better control over this situation by the end of the month. Drive carefully and avoid adventurous activities. Your friends may come forward to support you. You could also benefit through your partner this month. Your investment may bring good returns for you.

TAURUS (April 20 – May 20) Get ready for major changes in your life. You may start feeling happy and confident due to upcoming success.

Avoid involving your partner in any new venture for now.

Good news from a far off place may delight you during the last week of the month. The time is also good for investing in real estate. A minor dispute with your child may disturb you temporarily, and potentially affect your reputation. Ignore it and take it easy.

GEMINI (May 21 – June 20) Destiny may not let you to slow down this month. If you keep moving fast and work hard, you will be greatly rewarded in the near future. Don’t compromise against your ideologies under any circumstances. Make quick decisions and smart moves. You may get involved with a religious group or celebrate a social event with family and friends. Business-related travel may bring good results during first half of the month.

CANCER (June 21 – July 22) If you can check yourself and focus energy in the right direction, you will have an opportunity to change your destiny. Avoid any wrongdoing during this month. Family happiness could make you feel comfortable. An improvement in your health should help you feel strong. You may follow your mother’s ideologies this month, but do so wisely. It is time to plan for a long distance trip within the near future.

LEO (July 23 – August 22) After a very happy start, things may turn negative after the middle of the month. You may lose self-confidence and make mistakes. Work related problems are also possible.

Try to be compromising and flexible. It is very important that your associates perceive you as very upbeat. You may also do well with your hobby activities. You will also maintain a steady flow of income.

VIRGO (August 23 – September 22) Financial gain due to a change in strategy may delight you this month. Business-related travel may bring good luck for you. Avoid family disputes during second half of the month. Don’t count on your friends. Family traditions and religious beliefs may make you strong and confident. You may suffer from a neck or tooth problem this month. You could spend a large amount of money on luxury items during second half of the month.

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LIBRA (September 23 – October 22) You may have to wait until the last week of the month to see real success. Family and financial problems could bother you. Any risk taking tendencies must be curbed. Also avoid making bitter comments. A long distance journey may bring some relief for you. Try to spend time in routine social activities. Someone may hurt your ego horribly during second half of the month. Take it seriously.

SCORPIO (October 23 – November 21) You have entered into a very crucial phase for the year.

You may lose your temper and make huge mistakes.

Try to slow down and control your behavior. Listen to your partner in order to stay happy. Also watch your health seriously. Stress may disturb your peace of mind. Your situation may improve by the end of the month. A sibling may try to harm your reputation. Take it easy, but don’t surrender.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 – December 21) Unexpected expenses and financial loss may disturb your health this month. Avoid borrowing money or involvement in legal disputes. If you don’t muddy the water, then no one will harm you. You should be able to maintain a regular flow of income. Check your diet and avoid any involvement in new ventures. Disturbances in political situations may adversely affect you this month.

CAPRICORN (December 22 – January 19) After a very good start, you could face workplace problems due to status issues. Keep working earnestly without compromising your style. Your enemies may be helpful to you this month, so watch them to take advantage.

Your goal should be to work in order to earn money, so ignore other social and political issues. You may enjoy very good health this month.

AQUARIUS (January 20 – February 18) If you can compromise with your dreams and focus on education, you could enjoy both achievement and success this month. You may need to move aggressively.

Ignore any minor issues and focus on your long term goals. Try to grasp the maximum benefit of favors from the stars. Do not wait ‘til last week of the month, as things will take a turn during the few last days.

PISCES (February 19 – March 20) Life should fly by this month. It’s very important that you keep up the pace and make quick decisions. Your creativity should be on par, as well. You may enjoy a very happy married life. Travel should also be very enjoyable. Your sixth sense will guide you towards money making activities.

You may see a minor setback during the few last days of the month as your family may create a disturbance towards your success.

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Cash Available for businesses: Bad Credit financing for merchant cash advance, Equipment Leasing, Factoring, etc. Call 336447-1957 or visit sjmleasing.com.

Motel for Sale near the foothills of Stone Mountain (off of 1-77). Well maintained property. Very good location. Solid long term investment. Serious buyers only. Call 336-244-4199.

Two Store package for Sale in SC for a combined $250k. Estill, SC store $85k inside-lottery $2k- side income $500.

Bamberg, SC store $62k inside-lottery $4k- side income $250. Good hours (Closed on Sunday). Combined rent of $5k. ROI 12 Months. Call 404-513-3215.

Retail / Convenience Stores: C-Store: Kernersville, NC $759,000 + Inv, Annual Sales $900,000, Inside Sales $555,784; CStore: Marion, NC $59,000 + Inv, Inside Sales $480,000 Fuel Gallons 312,000; CStore: Burlington, NC $685,000, Property Included, Owner Financing Available; Call County South at 704-440-4433 or visit www.Countysouth.biz High Volume Gas Station/C-Store for Sale or Lease in the heart of Gaffney, SC. Neighborhood store on busy street with brand new pumps! Call 704-726-7544.

Gas Station/C-Store with Property for Sale in Danville, VA. Inside $45k, outside $30k gallons, Deli $10+k (no fryers). Current owner 12+ years. Asking $399k. Call 434489-5300.

For Sale or Lease: Gas Station w/ C-Store & Restaurant in Pollocksville, NC. Corner location with no competition & new intersection coming soon. ATM and jukebox included (extra income). Three bedroom mobile-home accommodations. Call Milan Patel 252-521-5656.

Established Dry Cleaning Business for Sale in Raleigh, NC Asking Price $240,000.

Excellent location in high income area.

Selling due to health reasons. Contact 919210-9919 or pg1patel@yahoo.com Convenience Store Properties for Sale in Gaffney, SC. Call 980-250-4995.

C-store with Property for Sale or Lease 45 miles from Columbia, SC along with displays for fresh produce & frozen items.

Gross income $55K / Lotto $25K per month.

Call 904-307-4770.

Motel For Sale: Red Carpet Inn in Kinston, NC. 99-Rooms. Fully renovated with new Roof. Includes Owner/Manager's Apartment and 9500 SF Banquet/Meeting Space with Bar, Restaurant, & Commercial Kitchen.

Asking $2.4 million. Call 919-455-5949.

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For Sale or Lease: Well established Indian grocery store & Indian restaurant with property in Columbia, SC. Call 980-5989796 for details.

Businesses for sale: Candy Store (Uptown Charlotte); Dry Cleaner Plant,â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Dry Clean Pick Up Store; Beauty Supply Business; Restaurant; Gas station with property. Call Rose Mun 704-649-0021.

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Indian Restaurant Help wanted. Full staff needed for new location in Durham and our two other NC locations. Call for details 910409-4123.

Nanny Needed for infant in Harrisburg area (North Charlotte). Also need help with cooking and some basic household chores.

Contact 980-263-9621.

Eyebrow Threaders wanted for salon in Athens, GA area. Experience required.

Excellent Pay + Tips! Send brief contact info to commerce153@yahoo.com.

Housekeeping Help needed for property in prime location near West Columbia, SC. Contact 732-823-7485 or Binoy@kicayce.com.

Looking for C-Store Cashier (Couple or Single) in Rock Hill, SC (20 minutes from Charlotte). Great pay & friendly atmosphere. Contact 704-907-0524 or harshamin946@gmail.com.

Front Desk and Night Auditor GSR needed for Red Roof Inn at Columbia, SC Airport.

Experience a must. Call 803-743-3999.

Household Help needed in Fort Mill, SC. Part-time 2-3 hours a day, 3-4 days a week.

Light cleaning, wash/fold clothes, and other miscellaneous duties. Must have own transportation. Contact 812-453-5375.

Now Hiring. Looking for full-time single or couple for C-store & Liquor store in Bamberg, SC & Estill, SC. Good Pay & Sundays OFF. Call 404-513-3215.

Help Wanted: Franchise Motel in Fayetteville, NC for Front Desk and Housekeeping. Management opportunities also available. Accommodations possible.

Good salary. Fluent English a must. Contact Dev 630-253-8860 or devsuper8@gmail.com.

C-store / Gas Station Help Wanted in Gaffney, SC. Part-time or Full-time. Single, Couple or Family. Legal status required.

Fluent English & previous experience preferred. Call 704-726-7544 Caretaker urgently needed for Elderly Parents in Brier Creek near RDU airport.

Duties include helping with meals and companionship. Contact 919-423-8833.

Gas Station Help Wanted 25 miles north of Charlotte. Couple preferred to run open to close (7am to 10pm). Also looking for web store help. Call/text 704-906-7679 or 404694-0640.

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Housekeeping Couple needed for Econo Lodge Motel in Spartanburg, SC. Accommodations provided. Contact 864237-0561 or 864-585-5890.

Nanny/Helper required for 8 month-old baby girl (full time/ part time) in South Charlotte near Providence and Rea (Arboretum area). Contact Meha Shah 704352-0438.

Hotel Help Wanted: Front Desk/Manager, Night Auditor and Housekeeper (Single/Couple) for franchise hotels in Charlotte, Gastonia, High Point.

Accommodations provided. Call 704-4600379 between 6- 9pm.

C-Store/Gas Station help needed at three different stores within 30 mins of Greensboro, NC. Experience required and must speak fluent English. Call or text 336509-4054.

Hotel Housekeeping Needed for Hotel in Cleveland / Akron, OH. $4 per room.

Accommodations provided. Contact Ram 919-673-7623 or email Ram@omdevelopmentcorp.com

Motel Help needed: Night Auditor (PartTime/Full-Time) and Housekeeping Couple for franchise Motel in Charlotte.

Accommodation Provided. Great Pay! Contact 980-229-8216 or pratiknaik@live.com.

Full-time Nanny needed (Live-In/Live-out) in Concord (North Charlotte) area during daytime/evenings for two month-old. Must be able to drive. Flexible hours. Call or text 704-763-5140 / 704-340-6032 or e-mail gnsha07@yahoo.com.

Front Desk and Housekeeping needed (couple or single) for 50-unit franchise property in Rockingham, NC. Fluent English and computer skills required.

Accommodations provided.

Contact Jbpatel82@hotmail.com or 910-995-5134.

Cashier and Manager needed for Gas Station near Mobile, AL. Good pay! Contact 973-489-6634.

Front Desk Help (single or couple) wanted for Franchise Hotel in Fort Mill, SC. Fluent English, legal status, and computer skills a must. Accommodations provided. Email resume to bwhospitality78@gmail.com.

Nanny/Caretaker needed to look after a 4 month-old during weekdays in Concord, NC. Please call 704-929-7910 or 336-471-7197.

Manager wanted for 22-room Hotel in Dallas, NC. Accommodations provided.

Call 704-674-8395 & 704-674-8390.

Hotel Help Wanted: Front Desk / Manager, Night Auditor & Housekeeper (Single / Couple) for franchise hotels in Wilmington, NC. Accommodations provided. Call 910-2628357 or email ilmhotelemployer@gmail.com October 2019

Cooking Help Needed: If you can cook Gujarati meals and prepare tiffins to be picked up in South Charlotte/Ballantyne area, please call Nirmala Patel 704-542-8466 Housekeeping Help Needed (single or couple) for Franchise Hotel in Raleigh, NC. Legal status required. Accommodations can be provided if needed. Call 919-720-0991.

Now Hiring Housekeeping Couple for 75room Motel in Greenville, SC Accommodation provided. Call 864-567-1896.

Looking for Nanny who can come home to take care of 6 month-old in Concord, NC. Please call 704-724-1421.

Household Help needed in Cary. Parttime 3-4 hours a day, 4-5 days a week.

Light cleaning, Indian cooking, and other miscellaneous duties. Must have own transportation.

Contact ved@ccmincusa.com or 919-368-1677.

Hotel Help Wanted: Front Desk/Night Auditor, Housekeeping and Laundry Person needed for a franchise Hotel in Rock Hill, SC. Contact Hojorockhillsc@gmail.com or 850-218-8579.

Weekend household help needed in Ballantyne (South Charlotte) area. 3-4 hours a day for light cooking and housework. Contact or text 704-577-6873.

Help Wanted: Housekeeping (couple or single) needed for franchise hotel in NC. Manager (couple or single) needed for independent motel in NC. Accommodations provided for both positions. Contact 704-465-8129 or lehran19@yahoo.com.

Eyebrow Threaders wanted for salon in Hickory, NC area. Experience required.

Excellent Pay + Tips! Send brief contact info to commerce153@yahoo.com.

Need a Part-time Nanny to take care of Infant in Charlotte and help with household work starting in October. Call 925-348-5623.

Front Desk Clerk needed for Hotel in Raleigh, NC Legal status required. Fluent English and basic computer skills preferred. Accommodations provided. Call 301-526-6532.

Gas Station Cashier (full-time) needed with some experience in Burlington, NC. Some English is preferable. Good pay and flexible hours. Please call 434-466-4884.

Front Desk Clerk/Housekeeping needed for Motel in Durham, NC. Must have front desk experience, computer literate, fluent English, and legal status. Call 919-452-3131 or email kenco00@gmail.com.

Housekeeping Couple Needed for Franchise Hotel near Max Meadows, VA. Accommodations provided. Great Pay! Call Namisha 704-941-9574.

Gas Station Help Wanted in Camden, SC. Full-time, single or couple. Text or call 803622-7983 or 803-622-7984.

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Eyebrow Threading Position available in Winston-Salem, NC. Excellent Pay + Tips & Benefits! Some Experience & fluent English required. Call 336-422-7582.

Hotel Help Wanted: Front Desk, Housekeeping, and Laundry (single or couple) for Franchise Hotel in Concord, NC. Legal status required.

Accommodations provided. Call Rusab at 704-772-5554.

Elegant Brows looking for eye brow threaders in Charlotte area. Excellent pay plus tips! Some experience & fluent English required. Call 586-536-5360.

Hotel Management Firm Hiring: Housekeepers, front desk (must speak fluent English), and General Manager of franchise hotels. Experience required. Email resumes to abcone@abcinns.com or call 704-649-6833 (M-F, 9am-5pm).

Gujarati speaking Nanny needed (live-in or live-out) in West Cary, NC. Gujarati vegetarian cooking & housekeeping required. Call 919-444-1597.

Motel Manager & Housekeeper Couple Needed for independent motel in Greenville, SC. Legal status & fluent English required. Contact 864-517-9587 or 864-376-7543.

Threading Specialists wanted in Charlotte. New locations opening soon.

Full & part-time, Great pay & flexibility.

Sign up for Training. Must have good English speaking skills. Call 704-312-1870 (M-F, 9am-5pm).

Hotel Help Wanted: Front Desk, Laundry & Maintenance for franchise motels in Mooresville, NC. Fluent English required.

Experience preferred. Couples welcome.

Call 980-458-4929 & leave message.

Manager Couple wanted for Hotel on Sugar Creek Road in Charlotte (University City area). Fluent English, legal status, and computer skills required. Accommodations provided.

Email resume to bwhospitality78@gmail.com.

Help Wanted at Gas Station located in Kannapolis/Concord, NC. Good Pay! Experience and legal status required. Call Rob at 704-261-5187.

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Caretaker Needed for Elderly Mother in Cary. Duties include bathing, helping with meals, and companionship during the day.

Contact 919-380-7633 or raveena.rihal@gmail.com.

Housekeeping Couple needed for Franchise Hotel in near Hickory, NC. Accommodations provided. Legal status required. Great Pay! Call Rick 919-724-6772.

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C-Store & Hotel Help needed: Cashier for Convenience Store near Charlotte. Couple for franchised hotel 1.5 hours from Charlotte.

Accommodations provided. Must speak English. Text or Call 704-701-9975.

PROPERTY & EQUIPMENT FOR SALE

Furnished Room available for rent with 1 full bath and big hall in Concord NC 600$/room. Includes Utilities. Contact Rahul 425-753-6878 Home for Sale: Pristine, custom Vastu home in Mount Soma community.

2BD/2BA, fabulous kitchen with custom cabinets, honed granite & walk-in pantry.

Large windows throughout provide for natural light. Master suite features stone walk-in shower, huge walk-in custom closet and oversized garden tub.

Immaculate landscaping, covered decks.

Paved, year-round access in gated community. Asking $374,000. Listing Agent: Noland-Proben Team 828-7345201or 828-734-9157.

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Party Supplies for Indian Parties: All kinds of Plastic, Biodegradable and Silver Disposable Plates, Cups, party supplies and much more! Call 304-887-8494.

Travel, Hajj & Umrah Consultant.

Compare our international fares with the internet. Passport and Visa Services.

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Call/Text Malik 718-318-0500 or Email mmalik06@gmail.com Pari Beauty In Matthews: Threading, Waxing, Facials, Massage for newborn and mom & other services. 29 years of experience. Special Deals & Great Service.

Call: 704-846-7912.

Learn Carnatic music vocal and Veena instrument with performer and teacher Nalini Ravikumar of Sri Gaanamdrutham School Of Music. For details Call: 507-3983843 or email: nalini.ravikumar@gmail.com Gujarati Priest: Devendra Dave Independent priest. Ganesh, Randal, Navratri, Diwali’s Laxmi & Sharda Pujas, Satyanarayan Katha, Weddings, Vastu, Baby Shower, Funeral Seva. Call Daveji 704-780-3563. God Blessings to All. Neeta’s Beauty Parlor: Charlotte area open 7 days a week. Full service. Call for appointment. 704-968-0270.

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Saree Draping: specializing in draping sarees, dupattas and jewelry for any event.

Weddings, Engagements, Baby showers, Birthdays, etc. Contact Rital Patel at info@bridaldraping.com or www.bridaldraping.com Indian Home 2 Kids Care near UNC Charlotte. Experienced babysitter taking care of 2 kids at home. CPR & First Aid certified. Also teaching Indian classical music. Call 828-582-8880 or email IndianHome.2KidsCare@gmail.com Fast growing STEM Education Franchise.

EngineeringforKids STEM-Robotic-Coding Franchise for after school and summer camps in Charlotte, NC. Operation can run from home. Running business. Well positioned for expansion! Contact 919-818-8304.

Need an affordable DJ for Graduation, Birthdays, Baby Showers & any other festivity? Look no further! Contact DJ Rahul at 980-319-7389 or TheRealDJRahul@gmail.com Gujarati Priest in NC & SC for Ganesh, Randal, Laxmi, Sharda Pujan, Satyanarayan Katha, Wedding, Vastu, Baby Shower, Hawan, Grah Shanti. Kishor Trivedi Home: 336-774-0597 Cell: 336-4867925 E-Mail: kishor7@juno.com

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Priest specializing in all kinds of Hindu Ceremonies.

Poojas, Vrathas & Homams/Havan, Satyanarayan Pooja, Rudraabhishegam, Gruhapravesam & Japam, Baby Showers and Weddings. SelfTransportation to Pooja site anywhere.

Call Pralad Joshi: 704-500-2210 (home), 704-450-6447 (cell)

Computer Programming Courses from beginner to advanced serving the Charlotte area and online. Contact Chandra Prakash (B. Tech. Computer Science, IIT Delhi) at 612-568-2426, cprakash@acm.org or visit www.cupriver.com Travel Passion: Call for International & Domestic Air tickets. We process India Visa, OCI, Indian Ppt Renewal, Hotel bookings & Tour packages. 509.550.9076 or 509.550.9034 Email: travelpassion24@gmail.com Priest Available for these services: Shree Satya narayan katha, Shanti hawan, Vastu shanty, Weddings, Baby shower, Bhumi pujan, Mata ki chowki pujan, Funeral, all types of karmakand. Please call Viral Bhatt 704-438-6334.

Astrologer, Psychic and Palm Reader Pandith Joshi at your service. All Religions welcome. Expert in Horoscope, Palm & Face Reading. Call 704-949-5244.

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Dholi For Hire: Plays the Dhol (drum) for any occasion! Barat, Doli, Graduation, Birthdays, Baby Showers & any other festivity. Affordable rates! Call Arpan Bhandari 704-641-4761 or email: arpandholi@yahoo.com Looking for a life partner? Saathee can help you reach hundreds of potential matches. Cost is only $15 per month.

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Advertisers Index A Premier Driving School .........................................55

Hindu Center Charlotte...................................102-103

Real Triangle Properties (Joe Mathews) ....................48

Accounting Solutions (Muhammad Kamran Awan)...75

Home Decorators Of America (Atlanta) .....................56

Rose Mun Realty (Businesses For Sale)..................105

Achal Mehta (Navratri Garba - Oct 19 - Raleigh).........3

HSNC (Bollywood Dandiya Night)..............................10

Rug and Home.........................................................29

Allstate (Krish Parlikad) .............................................45

Inchin's Bamboo Garden..........................................47

Rukshmani's Tijori ....................................................30

Anil & Anjali Bedi LLC (CPA & Consultants).............135

International Community Church ...........................121

Saathee.com..........................................................119

Anjappar Restaurant.................................................89

ISSO Diwali & Annakut Celebration...........................23

S S Event Services (Event planning, Photo, Video).....33

Apna Bazaar (Morrisville) ..........................................65

Jaipur Indian Cuisine ................................................83

S&S Accounting & Tax Services, Inc. ........................67

Area 51 Fireworks..................................................101

Jigna Shah CPA .......................................................55

Saffron Indian Cuisine (Morrisville) ............................87

Around the World Market (Raleigh/Durham) .............95

K Scott Weddings (Wedding & Event Designer).........90

Salt & Pepper (Indian Cuisine - High Point, NC).........17

Aspect Commerical Realty (Prashant Parmar) ..........41

Kalashri Fashions .....................................................49

Sangam Travel..........................................................41

Astrologer (Pandith Joshi)........................................41

KB Zaveree.................................................................4

Sara Elegance By Rashmi Sawant (Cary, NC) ...........57

BAPS Raleigh (Health Fair)........................................25

Khanna & Sons Jewelers .........................................11

Sarika CPA PLLC......................................................79

Barot, Tushar (Insurance)..........................................75

KidzCare Pediatrics...................................................42

Shah & Trivedi CPA, PLLC ......................................131

Bashyam Shah LLP - Immigration Law Group........138

Leela School of Dance..............................................47

Shah, Kirti (CPA - Sepa Consulting) .........................37

Bhindi Jewelers ......................................................2

Liberty Real Estate (Sunny Sebastian).......................77

Singh, Manjeet (Real Estate).....................................69

Bipin Parekh Realty, LLC.........................................129

Lotus Salon & Spa....................................................57

Sitar Indian Cuisine (Durham) ...................................43

Blooming Buds.........................................................59

Maadhurya Photography........................................107

Smokin' Aces (The Premium Smoke Shop)..............97

Blue Federal Credit Union.........................................81

Malak Jewelers........................................................27

Sona Realty (Venkat Suryadevara)..........................137

Body Lyft System .....................................................35

Malani Jewelers.....................................................140

Spectrum Family Medicine (Sujatha Sajeevan, MD)..89

Brown Immigration Law (Rishi Oza, Partner).............52

Marriott Raleigh Crabtree Valley................................82

Spice Bazaar (Durham, NC)......................................38

C4D Mortgage (Jubi Chackunkal, P.E.) ...................131

Miss India.................................................................13

Spices Hut / Bawarchi Restaurant ............................61

Carolina Elite Events...............................................131

Monroe Oil Company................................................60

Sri Gaanamdrutham School Of Music (Nalini Ravikumar) 55

Carolina Wedding Belle (Event Design & Décor)........85

Motel For Sale (Red Carpet Inn, Kinston, NC)............35

Super Desi Bazaar (Apna Sabji Mandi Greensboro) ..73

Cary Diwali (Hum Sub)................................................5

Murlidhar Party Supply...........................................100

Swagat Restaurant (Morrisville, NC) .......................123

Cary Internal Medicine & Diabetes Center, PA...........69

Nagpal, Sunil (MassMutual Carolinas).......................33

Taaza Fresh Indian Bistro..........................................72

Cary Medical Clinic...................................................77

Nationwide Ins. (Maqsood Khan) ............................105

Taj Express Bollywood Musical (BPAC - Charlotte)..115

Chandni's Beauty Salon ..........................................49

NC Dermatology Associates .....................................70

Tandoori Bites (3 NC locations) .................................21

Cilantro Indian Café Cary..........................................67

New Goloka Temple ISKCON (Diwali)........................39

Travel Passion ..........................................................37

Classifieds..............................................................132

North American Bancard ........................................15

Travelinks...............................................................135

Corner Stone Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine.......123

Nunna Realty (Shiva Nunna) .....................................89

Triangle Telangana Assoc. (Bathukamma & Dasara) ...9

County South Realty & Business Brokers ...............121

One2 Entertainment .................................................91

Ttravel Guru ...........................................................105

Crescent Dental (Dr. Kavita Ghai) ..............................79

Patel Brothers (Cary)...........................................98-99

Tutoring (Nirmala Koripella - A+ Tutoring) .................78

Darji, Iyer, Joshi & Patel (Accounting & Tax Services).21

Patel, Mrugesh (Law Offices)....................................91

Uni World Travel........................................................59

Desai & Desai LLP (CPA & Financial Services)..........91

Pathak, Atul (Real Estate)..........................................85

Uthsaav (Wedding Planners).....................................17

DJ Desi (Amit Vasi) ...................................................37

Ponce D. Moody Funding .........................................13

Vaishno Bhog (Cary)...............................................113

DJ Lalit (Lalit Hemnani).............................................63

Pramukh Mandapam ...............................................63

Veeru Ganne (Real Estate - Eastside Realty) .............51

Eye Level (locations) .................................................53

Preston Corners Pediatric Dentistry (Cary) ...............77

Vema Mortgage LLC (Sebastian George)..................34

Fairview Home Mortgage .........................................37

Proficient Accounting & Tax Services, Inc. ...............43

Vyas Travels..............................................................91

Festival Of India Charlotte.........................................16

Raghu Mothukuri Allstate Agent................................59

West Cary Medicine (Dr. Kareem M.D.) ..................109

Geological Resources, Inc.......................................134

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Concert (Atlanta) .....................19

Wildlife Sojourns.......................................................31

Global Mall / Legacy Jewels ..................................139

Raj D Batra Photography ..........................................75

Worldwide Travels ....................................................63

Grand India Mart (Groceries).....................................93

Raj Jewels (Morrisville, NC) .....................................6-7

Y2 Academy (SAT Prep) ......................................125

Greater Triangle Realty (Thomas John) .....................83

Rajdeep Video & Photography (Ramesh Panjabi)....105

Zafran Kabab Palace (Harrisburg).............................31

Heritage India Association Of NC (Children's Day).....71

RB Realty Group (Ravi Bheemarao)...........................87

Zen Triangle Dentistry (Juliya R. Vaghani, DDS).........55

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