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In this issue: The Pope and Climate Change Egyptians are in Love with Bollywood

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June 2015 Issue # 206 Editor Samir Shukla (saatheemag@hotmail.com)

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The Pope and Climate Change

The upcoming American Egyptians are encounter in love with Dance Festival with Pluto Preview Bollywood

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Forget Hollywood, Egyptians are in love with the colorful stories and films of Bollywood. Flip to pg. 14.

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The 82nd annual American Dance Festival, the oldest and largest festival dedicated to modern dance in the country, begins in June. Story on pg. 30.

Catch up on what the city and regional community organizations are up to in our Community Organizations section pg. 94.

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manifestations of unsustainability. The continued extraction of coal, oil and gas following the “business-as-usual mode” will soon create grave existential risks for the poorest three billion, and generations yet unborn. Climate change resulting largely from unsustainable consumption by about 15 percent of the world’s population has become a dominant moral and ethical issue for society.”

With the fossil fuel industries facing a financial challenge to change “business- as-usual,” critics of climate science at the conference gave their own preview of response to the pope’s long-anticipated ecology letter.

“This is nothing short of an ‘Unholy Alliance’ between the Vatican and man-made climate fear promoters,” said Marc Morano, publisher of ClimateDepot, quoted in a libertarian online outlet The New American.

Nevertheless, an international consensus is emerging as an unwanted future bears down.

“Climate change is a hot topic in Asia because of seasonal weather changes that affected farmers everywhere, and because of the pervasive presence of smog in and around major cities, which affects global warming,” Jesuit Father Michael Kelly, executive director of Asian Catholic news service UCAN, told GroundTruth from Bangkok.

“Secretary Moon is from Korea and spoke for many in Asia when he welcomed the forthcoming encyclical as a significant contribution to global understanding of something that impacts us all,” Fr. Kelly said.

Congresses, parliaments and policy experts across the globe

By Jason Berry, GlobalPost.com The Vatican has embarked on a campaign to position Pope Francis as an unifying voice on climate change ahead of several major appearances in the coming months.

A sign of the strategy bearing fruit came at May’s conference in Rome at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on climate change — which the pope did not attend — when UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said of Francis, “I count on his moral voice, his moral leadership.”

The pope’s long-anticipated encyclical on climate change is being translated into several languages for release in June, according to press reports.

An encyclical is a papal letter to the world’s bishops, a teaching document meant to filter down to dioceses and pews, fortifying Catholic thought on moral issues in lives of the faithful.

The forthcoming letter will be long, deeply detailed and comprehensive in its focus on the land, air, earth and water, according to a well-placed source familiar with the document but unable to speak publicly.

Another preview of Francis’s language lies in the summary report, “Climate Change and The Common Good,” posted Wednesday by the Pontifical Academy officials, drafted with the assistance of scientific consultants and using bold language: “Widening inequalities of wealth and income, the worldwide disruption of the physical climate system and the loss of millions of species that sustain life are the grossest Saathee.com

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are bracing for the impact of the encyclical. Meanwhile the pope —more popular than any other political leader in the world — is becoming a catalytic figure on the issue, using his popularity as a form of political capital.

A March speech at St. Patrick’s College in Maynooth, Ireland by Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson cited a schedule of key events for the church on the issue in the coming months.

Turkson helped draft parts of the papal encyclical as president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace.

In the speech, Turkson said, “So when Pope Francis says that destroying the environment is a grave sin; when he says that it is not large families that cause poverty but an economic culture that puts money and profit ahead of people; when he says that we cannot save the environment without also addressing the profound injustices in the distribution of the good of the earth... he is not making some political comment about the relative merits of capitalism and communism. He is rather restating ancient Biblical teaching.”

Turkson cast the encyclical on “integral ecology” as a touchstone of sorts for the church’s role at upcoming events: • The Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Tanzania (July) • The launch of a UN General Assembly agenda for agreement on new sustainable environmental goals (September) • The UN Climate Change Conference in Paris on government plans to reduce global warming (late November and early December) Pope Francis will also address both houses of the US Congress and the UN General Assembly on his mid-September trip to America.

“The pope has significant impact as a moral authority because he gets the debate onto the framing it needs, a moral issue that gets us away from arguing over the science,” Joseph Romm, an authority on climate science and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, told GroundTruth.

“This is a very big deal,” he said. “The Vatican has put a lot of effort into understanding climate science. It has a group of scientists advising it. How ironic that we live in a time where the Catholic Church as an institution is more knowledgeable and willing to accept evidence than these groups who simply deny climate science.”

Just how much the Vatican or Francis can push the envelope in Washington is an open question. Catholics account for more than 30 percent of the US House of Representatives, the largest single faith group. Republicans hold the majority in both houses and are staunch foes of the Obama administration, particularly on environmental policies.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, a Catholic from the suburbs of New Orleans, uses an industry-friendly script. He said in 2011, “There is dispute over this claim that man is the cause of global warming.”

Will the pope’s heightened role have any effect on Catholics in Congress?

“On their votes in the short term, no,” said John Barry, author of “Rising Tide,” an acclaimed history of the 1927 Mississippi flood, and an architect of litigation against Louisiana oil companies to repair sinking wetlands.

“But it could move the needle on medium-term thinking,” Barry told GroundTruth. “I doubt that we’ll see much change in legislation. They’re pretty locked into their positions. Scalise is as wedded to the oil industry as anyone in Louisiana. Plenty Saathee.com

of Catholics rationalize positions on birth control and abortion” that run counter to church teaching.

But Lonnie Ellis, associate director of Catholic Climate Covenant, a Washington, DC group of 14 organizations that promote church teaching on climate change, sees a noticeable shift.

“I’m not going to name any names, but strategists for both parties have contacted us saying, we want to know what’s coming our way. This is starting a new conversation with Republicans more interested than we’ve seen before, realizing that this is a place where we can engage about moral values and our families.”

Ellis sees the pope’s stature “not as a scientist or politician, giving moral guidance on how we should relate to our sisters and brothers, whether in California’s drought, sea level rise in Bangladesh and southern Florida, or in Norfolk, Virginia, where sea rise has the Navy concerned about their installations... We’re getting so many more requests to talk to parishes and dioceses than we can keep up with. It picked it up around first of the year, with more media attention to the pope.”

The Greek Orthodox church leader Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople, “was first to proclaim ecological degradation a sin, and now we have Pope Francis saying the same thing,” Marquette University theology professor Jame Schaefer told GroundTruth.

Schaefer pointed to Francis’s early outreach to Bartholomew as an ecumenical act with a shared spiritual reference point on “an imperiled earth.”

The pope’s rhetoric on the ecological threat, she said, “has an international sweep with roots in the Book of Genesis.”

In a research essay just posted for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, Schaefer writes, “When en route to the Philippines after visiting Sri Lanka, a reporter asked for his views on global climate change. He responded that ‘we have exploited nature too much’ and attributed changes in the global climate ‘to a large extent’ to ‘man that slaps nature’s face continually.’”

Francis continued, “We have taken somewhat possession of nature, of sister earth, of Mother Earth. I remember ... what an old peasant once said to me: “God forgives always, we ... forgive sometimes, nature never forgives.” If you slap her on the face, she does so in turn.”

Schaefer views the pope as “acting at many levels, organizing the world’s religions to move to their own constituencies, especially in preparation for the climate summit in France.”

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“If I’m walking in the streets of say, the Khan el-Khalili [Cairo’s main bazaar] people will shout out to me ‘Amitabh Bachchan’ or ‘Sharukh Khan’ [two of Bollywood’s most prominent stars],” says Rakesh Kawra, cultural attaché at the Indian Embassy. “I’m very surprised people here know a lot about Bollywood films, especially with the language barrier.”

Ismail Abd el Mageed, 45, works in a shoe shop in Shubra.

“We’ve followed Indian films for ages … I feel like their lives are close to the lives of Egyptians.

Hollywood films have too much action in them. I like films about family relationships … I’d love to go to India,” he says.

Mohamed Ali, a carpenter, says he doesn’t need to go to India to enjoy their films. “What Mohamed Ali, 55, is a carpenter and would I do there? It’s a poor has been watching Bollywood films his country, there’s no work,” he whole life. Laura Dean / GlobalPost says, “But I love Indian movies.

There are great stories with a lot of drama about families that split up and come back together.”

He and his friends agree that Bollywood trumps Hollywood.

“American films are all shooting without any insults,” says Wael Salaam, 36, Ali’s friend, who works for a publishing house.

Yet despite the widespread popularity of Indian cinema, there is a latent racism toward south Asians in the Middle East.

“There’s an inherent racism in this region towards anyone who is darker skinned. Indians and Pakistanis are looked at as cheap migrant labor,” says Dalia.

“Do you think I‘m an Indian?” is a widely used expression in Arabic, used to mean, do you think I’m naïve or gullible?

This usage purportedly dates back to World War II when Indian conscripts of the British Empire were stationed in Egypt and were repeatedly cheated because they weren’t familiar with the

By Laura Dean, GlobalPost.com

CAIRO, Egypt — Most children watch cartoons. As a little girl growing up in Cairo, Dalia Ezzat watched Bollywood films.

Her obsession with the genre began when she was four years old. Her aunt, who lived near a Cairo movie theater that showed a lot of Bollywood movies, brought home a VHS tape of a film called “Mard,” starring the titan of Indian cinema, Amitabh Bachchan.

“It was a traditional Bollywood formula movie,” she explains, “where there’s the villain and there’s a hero who saves the day and has Robin Hood-esque features, a heroine in distress, five songs and a bit of history.”

“I was instantly hooked,” she says.

From then on every week her parents would drive to the video store to rent a new Bollywood film. Each time her mother would record it at home so little Dalia — and the rest of the family with her — could watch it over and over.

Though Egypt has long been the cinema giant of the Arab world, Bollywood films have been beloved here for decades. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, many movie houses would show the latest Bollywood hits. This came to an end when the Ministry of Culture, in an attempt to boost the local film industry, enacted restrictions that made it unprofitable for distributors to show Indian films.

But while they were no longer on the big screen, they continued to beam into Egyptian homes through their television sets.

A few years later after her first encounter with Bachchan on screen, when she was 10, the man himself came to Cairo and Dalia, in a new outfit with a new haircut and a bouquet of flowers was there to welcome him. When it came time to shake his hand, she fainted.

By this time there were a number of satellite channels that ran Bollywood films, but many did not have subtitles. Dalia, undeterred, would mimic the words she heard the actors saying.

Eventually, Dalia’s mother enrolled her in Hindi classes at the Indian cultural center to learn the basics. Now, at 32, she is fluent.

Dalia is not alone in her passion. On the streets of Cairo, almost everyone knows the name Amitabh Bachchan. Today,

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“In a 17th-century work [Hazz al-Quhuf by Yusuf alShirbini] the speech of peasants is compared to “the jabbering of Indians” and peasant children are said to resemble “the children of Indians or of apes,” says Humphrey Davies, a translator of Arabic fiction and classical texts.

Calling something an “Indian film” is a way to describe dramatic behavior, likely stemming from the genre’s exaggerated fight scenes. Nevertheless, they remain more popular than ever and now the internet has made access even easier.

Um Yousef, 53, sells bras at a stall on Shubra street, “we used to have to wait until Eid [a Muslim holiday] to watch the Indian films on television. Now we can search for them on the computer and get any film we want,” she says, “I feel like the music and the dancing are similar to ours, and there are many very special things in these films, everything is beautiful, particularly the women and their lovely hair.”

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Bollywood has long been a force that bridges political and societal differences, as evidenced by its popularity in Pakistan, India’s longtime rival. A mainstream genre, it also at times reflects prejudices in the society and there are some Bollywood films that reflect discriminatory attitudes in the society such as unflattering portrayals of the country’s minority Muslim population. Undeniably, though, here is universality to Bollywood’s appeal. Many of the films are about everyday Indians who face similar challenges and problems to Egyptians.

And as they do in India, Bollywood films provide viewers with escapism and a world in which good triumphs over evil.

“It seems like their lives are simpler,” says Um Yousef.

Traditionally, Bollywood films have happy endings.

“The hero dies six or seven times, and then at the end, he’s still alive,” says Karim Youssef, a young man from the Nile Delta region who grew up watching Bollywood films.

After Dalia visited India the first time she said, “a lot of people come back from India and say ‘it’s amazing but it’s overwhelming to the senses and there’s so much poverty’ but I thought all those things, the poverty the garbage … it’s all very much like Egypt.”

“I felt like I was home this is where I belong,” she adds.

Now when Dalia’s mother misses her daughter, she watches Bollywood films in television.

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TEATIME IN THE CITY Notes from the Editor’s Desk country first, then any changes or policies the government implements are amplified.

I will go on a limb here and say that Modi is a visionary leader. He genuinely wants to do something for the country, in a big way. He is either loved or loathed, but there’s no question that Modi has stirred the pot called India for the past year in a manner not seen before and one that is entirely necessary.

This is a globalized, fast-paced world that needs active leaders. When the status quo is undone or unsettled, the participants of that status quo will not like it and will resist. But countries, people, ideas, religions, need to evolve with the times. Respect the traditions, yes, but evolve. Undo traditions that perpetuate human indignity.

Modi also travels, a lot. He has visited 18 countries in the past year, cutting deals, making connections, so it seems. This is needed. A country cannot remain in a cocoon and thrive.

One thing is certain about Modi. He is a tireless promoter of India and even though the label “Hindu nationalist” is tagged every time someone writes about him, it’s apparent he understands India can only lift itself if all citizens’ lives improve. He maybe a nationalist, but he is no fool.

Modi’s predecessor, Manmohan Singh, was instrumental in opening India’s economy as Finance Minister in the early 90’s. He set the stage for Modi to stir the pot further and continue unshackling India’s bureaucratic chains. It is best to move the country away from the quasi-socialism that may have served it well in the past but is clearly ill-fitting for the fast moving 21st Century.

Modi needs to be and should be judged, his failures noted, his successes lauded, but, it needs to be done after he completes a full term. India’s noisy parliamentary system and robust media will check his moves and temper any overreaching. A foundation for resurgence and reformation is being built in a more globally-connected manner. Countries are not speed boats, they are giant ships that take time to guide and navigate around similarly giant ships.

Time reveals the real story.

By Samir Shukla leaders and expectations - Modi’s first year The world is always in need of effective, forward thinking leaders. Not the so-called great leaders, mind you. As I have written in the past, there are no great leaders. There are only effective leaders. Crowning someone as “great” serves no purpose and makes no sense. Great marks finality.

Effectiveness in the throes of conflict, crisis, unforeseen emergencies, and long-term economic vision marks the true value of a leader. The world seeks leaders, chosen by the people, able to deal with what they have inherited and effectively resolve problems, either already existing or emerging.

Leadership is about forming a compelling narrative for the future, inspiring synergy in the masses, managing existing political apparatus and working with the inevitable opponents, and then taking necessary decisions.

It’s been a year since Narendra Modi was elected Prime Minister of India in May 2014. The assessments of his efficacy at this juncture are flying about left and right. He won a large mandate and came into the office with a lot of political capital. So the analyses and critiques are inevitable as Modi wraps his first full year in office. Has he been an effective leader so far? Has he done what he promised?

Elected officials land into office tethered to preconceptions and expectations. Their promised words during elections are solidified and come under scrutiny after taking office. This is especially true for high-profile leaders like the United States President, the Prime Minister of India and the leaders of other major democracies.

China, of course, is a different beast altogether.

The President of China is an internally groomed, propped-up puppet, not beholden to the masses. China’s rise has to be analyzed with whole bunch of different parameters.

But the discussion at hand is leadership in democracies, however chaotic they maybe, and the leaders of such countries are held to special scrutiny. Voters will expect action and results, while critics will constantly point blinding lights in search of mistakes and missteps. When the elected leader is an erudite and charismatic speaker, the critics scream even louder if the leader doesn’t deliver results. Words are easy, action is difficult.

India is a diverse, ancient behemoth. Change comes slow.

Time will tell on the long-term results of Narendra Modi’s actions during his first year. Certainly he has worked to untangle Indian status quos, realigned political strangleholds, and even challenged entrenched ways of thinking. Rethinking preset perceptions and unraveling corruption while unfolding lethargic ways of doing things are badly needed actions in India.

There are times the status quo needs a swift kick in the ass.

An effective leader can deliver that. The promise of India is in its people, especially the youth. If the people are inspired to help alleviate corruption and put their cities, states and the Saathee.com

seeking writers I’m seeking fresh voices to add to Saathee’s regular stable of columnists and contributors. Academicians, college students, travelers, professionals, homemakers, all are welcome. You must have a passion for writing and knowledge or expertise in specific areas. Send a short bio along with a brief pitch about what you want to write, a writing sample (300-400 words), and contact number for consideration. If interested, I will contact you and chat about writing a one-off piece, occasional contributions, or a column. Send the materials to saatheemag@hotmail.com and put “Write” in the subject line.

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Attending UNC exposed me to conceptions of success far beyond the narrow-minded paradigm I held my first year.

Meeting people who wanted to challenge institutional norms, advance art and culture, start the next great company, have supportive families, and ultimately find fulfillment through building a legacy inspired me to rethink what career choices I was making. Many of these individuals were aspiring premedical students themselves and had an incredibly strong conviction about the path they were taking.

What became more important than the path itself was the reason why I was pursuing it. Being able to define and choose what impact I wanted to have on this planet and how I wanted to do it was one of the most liberating moments of my collegiate career.

I switched to studying economics that year and began my own journey of directed self-examination, entering into entrepreneurship competitions and working on launching my own startup company. As I explored my interests, my conviction became to create businesses that change corporate culture to embrace both financial success and social advancement, to improve the lives of our customers as well as those of our employees, and to lead an industry as well as our community.

As I graduated from UNC last month, I thought back to the time when college was a precursor to many years of medical education and could not have been happier with the path I had chosen for myself. I sat next to future doctors who have the strongest conviction of anyone I know and rejoiced that after four years of college, we found the direction with which we would begin the next journey of our lives.

This is probably what my family actually hoped for when leaving India, that their children and grandchildren would have the greatest success of all – the inner strength to pursue their dreams.

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By Sagar Shukla I’ve experienced this feeling numerous times: my grandmother’s expectation, my mother’s excitement, and the subtle smile that arises in an aunt, uncle, or family friend. These moments all occurred when I told these individuals that “what I wanted to do” was to go to medical school and become a doctor. In my experience, the Indian community’s obsession with their children becoming doctors is deeply pervasive.

I have always been fascinated, albeit a bit annoyed, by this phenomenon and I hope to explain my hypothesis for why this may be the case. As members of the diaspora, my parents and grandparents grew up in a pre-1991 India with a scarcity of job security and a surplus of status-seekers; having prestige, wealth, and long-term security was coveted, which often came in the form of being doctor, engineer, or holding a government job.

The departure from India, motivated by a desire for more opportunity, led my family to pack this mentality into checkin bags and tote it to America with a steadfast hope for the future. My grandfather left his wife and four young children at home as he ventured to New York City in the mid-1970s to find opportunity as a nuclear engineer. Soon after, my grandmother, father, and his younger siblings made the journey to carve out a new life in a world where being of brown skin put you in the ultra-minority. A world where saying you were Indian on the first day of school begged the question which tribe you were from.

It is because of these and many other sacrifices, I believe, that the “doctor complex” had become manifest in my educational trajectory. I felt that I owed it to my family to go to medical school and become a doctor because of the opportunity and allure of prosperity it maintained.

As I continued to think about this potentially contrived pressure to become a doctor, I began to truly understand my family’s underlying interest.

The ability to sustain my family, to build a name for myself, and to be happy were the driving forces of my family’s desire, and becoming a doctor provided a tried and tested path of achieving this dream. I realized that a deviation from medical school did not necessarily mean a rebellion against my family; rather, a deviation represented a greater empathy for my family and what they had hoped to achieve in coming to the U.S. The first step of continuing the legacy my grandfather started was not asking what my family wanted of me, but what I wanted of myself.

During my first year, I was talking to an incredibly intelligent and confident friend of mine who was debating whether or not medical school was for her. She told me that even having second thoughts about this path made her feel like she was betraying herself and her family’s expectations.

However, as difficult as it may be for those who are goaloriented high achievers, going through a period of uncertainty and a process of directed self-examination can be extremely healthy.

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Marking the 60th anniversary of the release of Satyajit Ray’s iconic classic Pather Panchali, the fully 4k restored films of The Apu Trilogy (with English subtitles) are in theaters for a limited time. The restoration was long thought to be impossible, after a fire severely damaged the original negatives in 1993.

Whatever was left of them was salvaged by the Academy Film Archive, and it wasn’t until the technology improved that this restoration was possible. Close to a thousand hours of meticulous hand labor were spent to rehydrate the brittle film, rebuild sprocket perforations on the sides of the film and remove melted tape, glue and wax, and suitable replacements were found for the non-usable or missing sections of the original negatives. These masterworks - Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road), Aparajito (The Unvanquished), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) - based on two books by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee, were shot over the course of five years. For more details visit www.janusfilms.com/aputrilogy/

Hamari Adhuri Kahani Vidya Balan, Emraan Hashmi and Rajkumar Rao come together for the epic love story Hamari Adhuri Kahani, an emotional drama featuring a love triangle that opens in theaters across North America on June 12. The film is directed

by Mohit Suri, who helmed last year’s hit film Ek Villain. Balan gives a somber performance in this film that focuses on the travails of a harrowed wife.

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Theatrical-On-Demand crowd sourced distribution empowers audiences to pull films to their local theaters by aggregating their interest and pre-ordering tickets in advance. The arranged marriage feature documentary, What’s Love Got to do with it?, is currently playing in theaters on-demand. The film is an unscripted micro-budget documentary that uses humor to expose subtle insidious conflicts at play in Indian society. What makes well-travelled urban Indians, who have freedom and privilege, choose arranged marriages over love? The film is an amusing portrayal of young urban upper class Indians coming to terms

Twenty-two years after the events that transpired in the film Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by billionaire John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining, in order to fulfill a corporate mandate, a new attraction is created to re-spark visitor interest, which, of course, backfires. The adventure flick is directed by Colin Trevorrow and stars Chris Pratt, Judy Greer, Ty Simpkins, and Bryce Dallas Howard. It opens in theaters on June 12.

Waheeda Rehman Returns to Bengali cinema Over 50 years ago veteran actress Rehman starred in a Bengali film directed by the legendary Satyajit Ray. She will be now feature in the upcoming Bengali film Arshinagar, directed by Aparna Sen. She recalls the experience of the Ray film in an interview in Bollywood Hungama, “When I was offered Abhijaan I didn’t know any Bengali at all. But Satyajit Ray insisted, saying my character spoke a mixture of Bhojpuri, Hindi, Urdu and Bengali. I agreed only because he had faith in me. I’ve shot many films in Hindi and some in Bangla in Kolkata. It’s always a pleasure to be part of the city. I really enjoyed my short stint with Aparna in Kolkata.” She also thinks the time is right for Aparna Sen to do another Hindi film. “There are so many fabulous heroine-oriented projects happening in Mumbai, whether it’s Kahaani, Bobby Jasoos, Queen or Mardaani. Women never had it so good in Hindi cinema.

Reputed producers like Aditya Chopra, Karan Johar and Sanjay Leela Bhansali are backing reasonably budgeted sensible films. Bhansali produced Mary Kom recently. I think the time is right for Aparna to do another Hindi film.”

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Saathee: It’s always exciting to see well-known groups like Shen Wei Dance Arts, Pilobolus, and Paul Taylor Dance Company.

For the past few years since you have become the ADF Director, you have also tried to showcase more new artists. Could you please share a few snippets of some less established but strong artists that are part of ADF this summer?

Jodee: ADF is very interested in promoting emerging choreographers. Two programs that will highlight that this

By Dilip Barman season are Awkward Magic, a work created by 3 choreographers who are all making their ADF debuts; and The 82nd annual American Dance Festival (ADF), the oldest Footprints, featuring ADF commissioned works by and largest festival dedicated to modern dance in the country, choreographers who are in residence for the full season, runs June 11-July 25, 2015, in Durham, NC. There will be over creating dances on ADF students.

60 performances by 31 companies and choreographers from around the world. This is even more than in the last few years Saathee: Can you tell us about some of the works that you have with 50 performances by 24 companies in 2014, 47 commissioned this season? performances by 25 companies in 2013, and 46 performances by 18 companies in 2012.

In mid-May, I had an opportunity to talk with Jodee Nimerichter. Jodee was Co-Director of ADF from 2007 until 2012, and has been its Director since then.

Saathee: Jodee, thank you for taking time to share with our readers about another exciting season of American Dance Festival with our readers.

Jodee: I am delighted to have an opportunity to talk about our 82nd season with you!

Saathee: Please describe ADF in general terms. What kind of dance does it showcase and what draws people to your shows?

Jodee: Audiences will have the chance to see eleven new works this season, all commissioned by ADF. Ten of them will have their premieres at ADF - this means that I will be seeing the works for the first time along with the audiences. One that I am particularly excited to share with audiences is a new work

by Doug Varone, ReComposed. It is being co-commissioned by ADF and the Nasher Museum of Art, and is dance inspired by American abstract artist Joan Mitchell’s pastel drawings.

Saathee: An important part of ADF is the educational aspect.

Can you tell us more about this year’s ADF School? How many students do you expect, what ages are they, and where are they coming from?

Jodee: ADF is dedicated to promoting, presenting, and preserving modern dance, an indigenous American art form that is based on individual creativity. The breath and range of modern dance is so vast that it is difficult to provide an all-inclusive description. I do think this is one of the exciting features of the art form and what is appealing to so many that come to enjoy it. Throughout our six and a half week season, audiences have the chance to see work by more than 30 companies and choreographers. One night you might see a beautiful lyrical work, the next night a highly physical and athletic work, and so on. You can also laugh one minute, be brought to tears the next, or get goose bumps because of the power of what you are seeing expressed through movement and ideas.

Jodee: We look forward to welcoming over three hundred dancers from around the world. We don't have a final count yet, but in most years participants come from over forty states and twenty countries. So far this year, we have students coming from India, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Israel, Spain, Guatemala, Uruguay, and Canada. The students are primarily between the ages of 18 and 22, but we do have 12-16 year olds coming for our three-week program, and we also have dancers in their 60s coming for classes. It’s very inspiring to see them in the classroom all season long! We offer tours of the school - it is a great opportunity to see art in the making and I would encourage the community to take a tour. I’m glad that you asked as the school is a whole other side of the Festival that most people don't know much about.

Saathee: How do you define “dance”?

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Jodee: Dance to me is movement.

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DANCES OF INDIA second generation Indians face in this country. They wonder how these students are able to beautifully express the stories told through dancing. This language barrier is not unique to the second generation. As India has so many spoken languages, it is almost impossible to learn them all. As teachers/gurus we explain the stories to the students to bring out the inner emotions of storytelling using dance as a medium. These classical dances have written instructions on the ways you can use your body to tell a story, or express an emotion.

Many teachers, who now call USA their home, have a great opportunity to take these traditions out of India and spread the seeds of culture. Many of the Indian dance teachers in the USA teach these dances to support themselves financially. Some teachers like me may want more out of it, such as reintroducing our culture to our own Indian community, introducing the culture to the non-Indian community and building recognition, appreciation, interest and respect for our culture. As we are learning Western culture, we should also teach Indian culture in exchange. We all have to learn to grow.

Traditional dances have already gained popularity in the USA, thanks to many great musicians and performers who continue to contribute to this popularity. Each person’s contribution to these arts becomes an integral part of the overall vision to share these beautiful dance forms with the world.

In my opinion, with the widely growing interest and popularity of Indian classical dances, the need and search for authentic exposition is pressing and dance shows of this dimension and character is indeed the need of the hour. Indian art is a science, a discipline, an art and an exposition at the same time. With the co-operation, philanthropy and good will of the art lovers of the USA, I am confident of promoting and fostering an appreciable understanding of the ancient cultural heritage of India among the aesthetic public. Arts are not to be restrained from sharing with others. They are suitable for all cultures.

Dances of India production gives me this opportunity to share with pride my Indian heritage.

A Reflection on Dances of India Performance

By Dr. Maha Gingrich The 13th anniversary performance of Dances of India was once again a sellout, as it has been every year since it began. This community outreach initiative of Central Piedmont Community College receives great support from the local and international community of the Carolinas.

Audience members have travelled from as far away as Raleigh-Durham, South Carolina, Ohio, New York, Michigan and many other states to see this show. This year we had 64 participants and showcased temple dances and storytelling through folk traditions. I want to thank everyone who contributed to the continued success of this show.

People often ask me why I stick with only traditional dance styles and don’t incorporate Bollywood in my show. In my opinion, everything has its own place. It all depends on individual teacher’s own vision and passion. My passion is the traditional dance styles that include classical dances and traditional folk dances.

I love to research and learn about the influences of Indian dances on world cultures. I want to visually show people our similarities and differences. Our signature dance “Unity in Diversity” has been acclaimed by many for its uniqueness and the beauty of inclusion. I believe when you know where you are coming from, it is easier to understand where you are going.

Since the age of 5, I had a strong desire to dance. My father nourished my wishes. I discovered that dancing was not predicated upon the movements of legs and arms, but that it grew from an inner urge for prayer in motion. I see many of my students in the same light. Either the parents are fulfilling their own unmet dreams through their children or the students want to experience the energy of dancing, my students’ enthusiasm, motivation, energy and happiness while dancing is totally contagious. Their hard work and my creativity is a fine blend of success.

Irrespective of the general opinion, there is a huge demand for classical dances. These dances not only teach discipline, but also stories from the Hindu religion. They require long-term commitment to an art form that is very difficult to learn and are a perfect balance of right and left brains. The stories told through dances are not known even to some of the new generation of Indians coming to the USA. Many of my students have been admitted into prestigious colleges due to their long-term commitment to these classical dance forms and training. When these students commit to the traditional dance forms for 7 to 10 years, their commitment to achieve their other goals is apparent.

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Usaki nazar, palakon ki chilaman se mujhe dekhati, usaki nazar Usaki hayā, apani hi chāhat kā rāz kholati, usaki hayā Chhupke kare jo vafā, aisā merā yār hai, pahalā pahalā pyār hai ...

Vo hai nishā, vo hi meri zindagi kā bhor hai, vo hai nishā Use hai patā, usaki hāthon men meri dora hai, use hai patā Sāre jahān se judā, aisā merā pyār hai, pahalā pahalā pyār hai ...

Meaning (Summary): This is my very first love, for the very first time, even knowingly (how I feel), how ignorant my beloved is! Her glance from behind the fringe of her eyelashes, beholds me. Her bashfulness reveals the secret of her own desire. Silently she signals her fidelity; that is what my beloved is like. This is my very first love. She is the night; ("Nishā," meaning "night," is also the heroine's name), she is the daybreak of my life; she is that sort of night. She knows that the thread of my life is in her very hands. she knows my love is unique in all the world and that is what my love is like. This is my very first love...

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S. P. Bālasubrahmanyam Sripathi Panditaradhyulā Bālasubrahmanyam, born into a Telugu Brahmin family on June 4, 1946 is a film producer, singer, actor and music director. He pursued his love of singing rom childhood and won many prizes in singing during his formative years. He had a natural gift for music and learned to play the harmonium and flute on his own, inspired by listening to his father play S. P. Sambamurthy play. Bālasubrahmanyam began on a course to become and engineer, but abandoned the path due to his illness. He married and sired a daughter and a son. He began his career as a film singer in 1966 and has since sung in over 170 films and over 40,000 songs in many Indian languages including Tamil, Kannada, Oriya, Telugu, Punjabi, Assamese, Sanskrit, Hindi, and Malayalam. He is renowned as a TV host for a Carnatic music show in South India. Bālasubrahmanyam has a deep, rich voice with an incredible range and control. In his prime he was known to record as many as 15 – 20 songs in single day, camping out in studios hours at a time. He has sung for many lyrics in Hindi: music directors ranging from the classic O.P. Nayyar to the contemporary A.R. Rahman and gave his voice to myriad film actors including Rajinikanth, Kamal Hassan, Salman Khan, and Akshay Kumar. His has a methodical approach to singing; he prefers to understand the full meaning of the songs that he sings and the settings in which these songs are to be filmed to most effectively match their requirements. He has also composed music for over 40 films and acted in more than 50 South Indian films. He also records many devotional, classical and folk songs. Words cannot describe his achievements and contribution to the music world.

Awards as a Best Singer: 1978 to Present - Many awards from National film, Film fare, Nandi etc. for singing in several languages.

2001 - Padmashri, Govt. of India 2011 - Padma Bhushan, Govt. of India The lyrics to one of his famous Hindi songs, “Pahalā pahalā pyār hai...” is given in the column on this page.

Evergreen and Classic lyrics Pahalā pahalā pyār hai…

Note: The contents of this article are compiled from the news, books, internet and my knowledge and love for Indian music.)

Song: Pahalā pahalā pyār hai…

Film: Hum āpke hai kaun Year: 1994 Music: Rām Laxman Singer: S. P. Bālasubrahmanyam Lyric: Dev Kohli Tāl/Rhythm: Kaharavā Starring: Mādhuri Dixit, Salman Khan. Anupam Kher Saathee.com

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MerleFest organizers strive to give back to the community. In that spirit, an outreach program took place on Thursday, with MerleFest artists giving performances for nearly 7,000 children at local schools. On Friday morning more than 3,000 school children from Wilkes and surrounding counties attended the festival. MerleFest is the primary fundraiser for the WCC Endowment Corporation, funding scholarships, capital projects and other educational needs.

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By Samir Shukla ustad Dildar Hussain khan Sur Sangeet (Kanaga System Krush Records) The inimitable Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan opened the doors wide for Qawwali music around the world. Tabla master Dildar Hussain Khan toured extensively with the late vocalist for nearly three decades and now keeps the flames of Qawwali burning with his own combo.

Qawwali is a centuries old blend of Persian and Hindustani music imbued with Punjabi folk rhythms. It is deeply spiritual and joyful. The vocalist is the key while the accompaniments – background vocalists, harmonium, tabla, claps – expand the song keep the flow. Dildar Hussain Khan’s new recording, Sur Sangeet, is a soaring collection of Qawwali songs coaxed gently into contemporary ethos while keeping the traditions of this fabled Sufi musical art form alive.

The singing and the music are trance-inducing. Khan’s tabla keeps the backbeat while his band, son Abrar Hussain on lead vocals and two of his other sons on vocals and percussion, round out the main combo.

“Music should lift the heart and the spirit,” Khan explains.

‘That’s the essence of Qawwali. It’s glorification. But to do that it has to communicate, it has to reach out.”

The strongest song on the album is the hypnotic “Ya Farid,” featuring the poetry of Iqbal Ranja for which Dildar Khan composed music while lending his emotive vocals in the lead.

Dildar Khan also shows off his tabla chops with extended solos in the compositions “Dhamaal” and “Kaharva.”

Khan uses tablas that are different from the ones more commonly heard in Indian classical music. It’s where the treble drum is a shade crisper while the bass has a deeper sound.

While most Qawwali recordings focus on the passionate voice and words, on Sur Sangeet the tablas are higher in the mix, joining in the trance and vocal modulations that are as vital as Abrar Hussain’s vocals.

Tabla master Israr Hussain has inherited his father’s style.

Abrar Hussain is evolving into his own mastery of the voice.

“These are my children,” says Dildar. “This is their music, too, and I want them to have the freedom to express it as they wish.”

MerleFest 2015 The four-day roots music gathering MerleFest took place from April 23 - 26 on the campus of Wilkes Community College, Wilkesboro, NC with over 78,000 folks attending. MerleFest has been showcasing “traditional plus” music, including bluegrass and old-time folk music of the Appalachian region along with country, gospel, Americana, blues and rock since 1988. The festival hosts an eclectic mix of artists performing on its 13 stages during the course of the event.

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YOUTH CORNER The Brahmins ridiculed him, “After reaching so far, are we going to waste our knowledge? You say so, because you are jealous of our scholarship!”

The fourth Brahmin knew there was no point in arguing with them. He pleaded, “Please give me a moment. I wish to climb a tree before you make use of your scholarship.”

He started climbing up a big tree, and could see from above the third Brahmin use his scholarship, to put life into the lion.

As soon as the lion became alive, he noticed the three Brahmins, who were celebrating their successful implementation of their scholarship.

The lion immediately pounced on them and killed them.

The fourth Brahmin could do nothing but wait till the lion had gone. Then, he climbed down the tree and returned home alone.

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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) 9+ words = Excellent; 5 to 8 words = Good; 4 or less = keep looking. Words we found are in solutions below.

The wise indeed say: Common sense is preferable to knowledge.

Brain Train The lion that sprang to life (A Panchatantra Tale)

Hi Kids, Here are some activities which require thinking that can keep your brain busy and productive. This is the time well spent.

Activity #1: Make some meaningful words from each letter of the word selected by you. You may start with the small words to begin with and then try longer words. No money is required.

For example:

There lived four friends in a small town at the edge of a forest. Although, all four of them were young Brahmins, one of them was a complete ignorant in matters of learning but had good common-sense. The other three were very learned in matters of the Holy Scriptures, but lacked common-sense.

One day, as the four friends were assembled together, they decided, “The scholarship that we have over the Holy Scriptures is no good, if we cannot use it to impress the king, or otherwise to earn money!”

They decided to travel, in order to earn money using their learnings. But the fourth friend was not learned, so they thought of leaving him behind. They agreed, “What good is common-sense? His talents would not help in earning money, let only three of us travel.”

After much pleading by the fourth Brahmin, they decide, “It will not be correct to behave like this to a friend. Let us take him along with us! We should also share a part of our earnings with him.”

As decided, the four of them started the journey. As they were travelling through a jungle, they noticed the bones of a dead lion, lying on their way.

One of them said, “Let us start using our scholarship! We have a dead lion in front of us. Let us test our scholarship, and try to bring life into it!”

While the three Brahmins agreed, the fourth Brahmin did not like the idea. But his preference was ignored by the other three Brahmins, and they started holy rituals.

One of the Brahmins collected the bones of the lion and using his scholarship, created a skeleton of the lion.

Another Brahmin used his scholarship to cover the skeleton with flesh and skin.

As the lifeless lion stood in front of them, the third Brahmin initiated the rituals to put life into the lion.

The fourth Brahmin was alarmed, “Friends, if the lion comes to life, he will kill all of us! Please stop what you are doing!”

“GOD”: G = Generator O = Operator D = Destroyer Riddles Riddles Riddles What vegetables do librarians like?

Quiet peas.

What subject in school is easy for a witch?

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What did the computer do at lunchtime?

It had a byte.

Why does it take pirates so long to learn the alphabet?

Because they spend years at C.

Word World (solution):AMEN, AMINE, ANIME, GAIN, GAME, GAMIN, IMAGE, IMAGINE, MAGE, MAGI, MAIN, MANE, MANGE, MEAN, MEGA, NAME.

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15. That spa has mineral springs that are supposed to be very healing. ___ a. Water flowing up from the ground. b. To start to leak fluid suddenly c. Metal coils

June will have arrived when you read this, but it’s midSpring as I’m writing and I’m thinking of words associated with the season including season, spring, stem and plant. Just as with words like “head” and “hand” for parts of our bodies, that we’ve written about in previous columns, these words have multiple meanings both literal and figurative. Some are both nouns and verbs.

We can start with “season” which is correctly pronounced “SEEzn” with the stress on the first syllable, the middle “s” pronounced as /z/ and the second syllable unstressed with no real vowel. Remember, the sound carries the meaning. If you say “sea-sun” your listener won’t understand you.

Match these sentences with season, spring, stem and plant with the correct meaning (a, b, c) within each group of three sentences: 1

16. Watch out! The roses have thorns in their stems. ___ 17. Her success stems from hard work. ___ 18. The antique watch was wound with a stem. ___ a. Comes from, has its origins in b. The stalk of a flower c. Projecting shaft with a small crown or wheel.

19. When the auto plant shut down, the city went into an economic decline. ___ 20. Plain clothes detectives are planted in department stores to catch people shoplifting. ___ 21. Who planted that idea in your head? ____ a. Group of buildings used in manufacturing. b. Influenced your thinking. c. Placed secretly in a crowded place to monitor people’s behavior.

1. I’m looking forward to the 2015/16 Metropolitan Opera live in HD season. _____ 2.The growing season begins early in North Carolina compared to New England. ___ 3. She seasons her food with interesting herbs and spices. ___ a. The natural and suitable time. b. The schedule of performances for the Fall of 2015 and the Winter and Spring of 2016. c. Adds flavor.

suggested strategies to increase your mastery of meaning this month: See how many uses of season, spring, stem and plant you can find in your local newspaper and in articles in your favorite magazines (including Saathee).

References: 1, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/season, spring, stem, plant

4. He is a seasoned actor and I always enjoy attending his performances. ___ 5. Make sure your builder uses seasoned lumber when he rebuilds your deck. ___ 6. His classes are interesting because he seasons his lecture with jokes. ___ a. Adds interest and zest. b. Cured or treated so that it will not warp when exposed to the weather. c. Very experienced, having gone through both successes and failures.

Answers: 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-c 5-b, 6-a 7-b 8-c, 9-a, 10-a, 11-c 12-b, 13-b 14-c, 15-a 16-b, 17-a 18-c, 19-a 20-c, 21-b

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MARKETING TURNAROUND Where do social media come in? Social media offers a conversational, low-pressure way to remain in the forefront of a prospect’s awareness with “touches” on a subject where there’s interest but no trigger for an immediate purchase. It can also keep your company in touch with current customers so that when add-ons or upgrades become necessary, you’re first in line for the business.

The key here is not to view social media as a way to provide a barrage of “buy now” messages. Instead, think of how you can engage the prospect in a conversation about whatever product or service you sell, with the immediate focus on offering helpful information related to the Problem/Pain/Fear.

Some great examples of this are tips, how-to videos, short audios, links to interesting resources like articles, white papers, blog posts or longer videos, interviews and Question/Answer sessions. Social media sites like Facebook make it easy for you to share multi-media content and have a two-way conversation about the topic in a format that reveals your company’s personality and lets you share your Real Story in a no-pressure environment. Twitter is a great way to provide tips, ask questions, share links to related resources, comment on headlines related to your product or service and even do surveys.

While you usually can’t close a sale before the customer has experienced a trigger point, once you’ve established a relationship, you have the chance to educate the prospect about that trigger point. Perhaps the best time to buy a new piece of equipment isn’t when the old equipment falls apart. Perhaps there are trade-in advantages or depreciation advantages to buying on a shorter purchase cycle. Maybe you can point out benefits that deal so much better with the Problem/Pain/Fear than the old product that the prospect decides to buy sooner rather than later. You’ve altered the trigger point through education, and because your company provided the information in an ongoing relationship, you’re likely to be first in line to get the sale.

When someone subscribes to your blog, Facebook page update, Twitter feed, they’re agreeing to get updates (information) from you on a regular basis. If you share information that speaks to his or her needs, every update does double duty; it reminds the prospect about you (a touch) while it provides useful information (deepening your relationship).

Social media makes it easier and less expensive (and less intrusive) than ever before to stay in contact as touches prepare for a trigger.

Using a “touch” strategy keeps you visible by providing useful information your targeted audience wants and needs without sales pressure. What content can you offer to provide 30 valuable touches?

By Gail Z. Martin Touches to Transactions Modern marketing wisdom holds that in today’s advertising-saturated world, it takes at least seven to 30 “touches” or reminders before a consumer takes action.

Although that may seem like a lot when you first hear it, if you think about how you act when you’re the consumer, it begins to make sense.

Your social media sites can account for several of those 30 touches. But to be effective, you need to think about how touches become transactions.

Touches and trigger points We manage to ignore tens of thousands of advertising messages every day, mostly because they promote products we aren’t currently interested in buying. The key phrase there is “currently.” When you realize you need a product or service, all of a sudden, you tune into the messages related to the product/service that you had been screening out.

The situation that changes everything is a trigger point. It’s an event that moves you from someone who hasn’t thought about making a purchase or who has been casually window shopping to someone who needs to buy right now. The seller usually can’t change the trigger point (although they try to influence it with sales and specials), but you can make sure you’re making enough touches so that when a triggering event moves a prospect from looker to buyer, he or she thinks about your company.

Let’s use a car purchase as an example. If your car is reasonably new and in good working order, you may not be thinking at all about buying a new car. You probably tune out car ads, emails from dealerships, or radio commercials about great specials. Or maybe you’ve been thinking about buying a new car—sometime. You might be casually reading car ads, going out to dealer web sites, paying some attention to commercials, even slowing down when you pass the dealer’s lot for a good look. But for now, it’s all still window shopping.

Then a triggering event occurs. Your existing car is in an accident or needs a major repair, and it will cost more to fix it than it’s worth. All of a sudden, you’re in the market for a new car, and you need it right now.

Until that triggering event happened, there wasn’t much the car dealers could do to hurry up your purchase. You bought the car based on your schedule of when you needed one, not on the dealer’s schedule of when he wanted to sell one.

Business owners often forget that it’s the customers’ need that drives the purchase cycle more than it is driven by sales and specials. But there’s a very important thing to remember: When a customer moves from shopper to buyer, the company that has made the most marketing touches is first in line to get his business.

Go back to the car example. When that prospect was window shopping, the dealership with the best website or the showroom that was polite about a test drive without a commitment is likely to be the first place that prospect goes when he or she moves from shopper to buyer. Those “touches” pay off in top of mind awareness.

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perfect, and that our nervous systems compute with unerring accuracy without any biases and predispositions. On top of that, as we discussed, we add lots of our own creative fabrications that have no counterparts in the real world.

Imagine if you consider the result of this to the “truth” and act as if it were so! And yet that is exactly what many of us do quite often. It’s a bit like looking in a warped mirror and using that as your guide to throw a dart at a dartboard that is reflected rather poorly and incorrectly by the mirror.

The notion we have just discussed may appear to lie in the realm of theoretical philosophy, but it has some real practical applications. For example, when my SAT/ACT students understand that there is a definite difference between what they know, and what they think they know, they become open to alternative explanations and positions, one of which may point them to the right answer in their tests. It’s a way of thinking about their thinking that I work toward instilling in my students, with the intent to help them not only in their test, but also well beyond that into their career and life, fostering in them this key aspect of critical thinking.

Acting based on what one thinks one knows is a trap. But there is an even bigger force to reckon with: unconscious thought.

A Mind with a Mind of its own

The universe exists only inside our nervous systems.

It could, of course, exist beyond that, but we have no way of knowing for sure. There have been many versions of the “brain in a vat” thought experiment, which explore this line of thinking. Thoughts can essentially be seen simply as a state of neurons in our nervous system. These neurons fire when our senses capture things from the real world and send them in the form of electrical signals to the nervous system. However, electrical signals can be directly input to our neurons, producing the same state change as would have been caused by real world things. So a brain that gets its input from a computer that is connected to it could get into the same state as one that gets signals indirectly through sense-based interaction with real world things. So, is there a real world out there, or are our brains in vats receiving signals from computers. How do we know the difference? This thought experiment is designed to consider that possibility that we don’t.

In any case, the point is that we hold our personal universes inside our heads. If there is, in fact, an external world out there, our internal worlds are only indirectly tied to it through the translation performed by our senses. Of course, there is much unseen Thought: The 800-pound Gorilla that can be lost in translation.

We may see ourselves consciously applying patterns of logic to some current situation, relying on positions that we have The Expanding universe in the Mind derived from past experiences. It’s a pleasing story, but it is unlikely to be true if we believe some of the people who spend “Some individuals have become so skilled at interpreting musical their time researching and understanding neuroscience. notation that they no longer need to listen to the actual notes to The latest research based on brain scans suggests that we enjoy a piece of music, and prefer reading the score of a symphony to make our decisions several seconds before we become hearing it.” consciously aware of it. When we do become aware of the fact ― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in “Flow” (Published 1990 that we are making a decision, we get the illusion that that is Harper and Row) the point where the decision is being made. This notion is contradicted by neuroscientists. They claim they can figure out And who says that we have to be limited by what might exist in a real world that we are only loosely coupled with your choice even before you know that you have made it, through our senses? We don’t, and we aren’t. Our creative because the brain scan reveals your unconscious intent to them! minds are never still. We use the thoughts that float around in Unconscious, unseen thought is the 800-pound gorilla.

This indicates that not only are our thoughts merely dim our minds to create more thoughts that float around in our minds – thoughts that have no parallels in what we think of as and corrupt counterparts of real world things, but our thoughts the real world of people, things and time. This both vexes us about our thinking are also off base. We don’t even know how and excites us. We sometimes alarm ourselves with the things we arrive at answers. we fabricate, shrinking in horror as our imagination spawns A Mind That Dances With Itself monstrosities. And sometimes, we derive great pleasure from It’s a delicate and intricate dance that the human mind does. moving our neurons to a state that produces sensations that It dances with the real world, stretching and pirouetting with cannot be experienced through sensory perceptions and grace, trying not to fall, trying not to get overwhelmed by the interactions with the world – things such as feelings of love. speed and intensity of it all. And then it turns around, and And when we combine the products of our senses with the dances with parts of itself, observing its own moves, attempting fabrications of our minds, we have the potential to keep to follow the dancing mind as it dances with a mind of its own. generating new things and continuously expanding our private Do you think you know what you think, and do you think universes. you know when you think? What do you think?

Why does it matter that our universe is rather large, and that it extends beyond what we normally think of as the boundaries Balaji Prasad of the mind? is an IIT/IIM graduate, a published author, Don’t Get Carried Away By What you know What we grasp about the real world is somewhat deficient to start with, unless we assume that our sensory systems are Saathee.com

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Academy of Sciences ranked the exploration of the Kuiper Belt – and particularly Pluto and its largest moon, Charon – as its top priority planetary mission for the coming decade.

New Horizons – a compact, lightweight, powerfully equipped probe packing the most advanced suite of cameras and spectrometers ever sent on a first reconnaissance mission – is NASA’s answer to that call.

“This is pure exploration; we’re going to turn points of light into a planet and a system of moons before your eyes!” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado.

“New Horizons is flying to Pluto – the biggest, brightest and most complex of the dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt. This 21st century encounter is going to be an exploration bonanza unparalleled in anticipation since the storied missions of Voyager in the 1980s.”

Pluto, the largest known body in the Kuiper Belt, offers a nitrogen atmosphere, complex seasons, distinct surface markings, an ice-rock interior that may harbor an ocean, and at least five moons. Among these moons, the largest – Charon may itself sport an atmosphere or an interior ocean, and possibly even evidence of recent surface activity.

Pluto’s smaller moons also are likely to present scientific opportunities. When New Horizons was started in 2001, it was a mission to just Pluto and Charon, before the four smaller moons were discovered.

Currently, even with New Horizons closer to Pluto than the Earth is to the Sun, the Pluto system resembles little more than bright dots in the distance. But teams operating the spacecraft are using these views to refine their knowledge of Pluto’s location, and skillfully navigate New Horizons toward a precise target point 7,750 miles (12,500 kilometers) from Pluto’s surface. That targeting is critical, since the computer commands that will orient the spacecraft and point its science instruments are based on knowing the exact time and location that New Horizons passes Pluto.

The spacecraft’s work doesn’t end with the July flyby.

Because it gets one shot at its target, New Horizons is designed to gather as much data as it can, as quickly as it can, taking about 100 times as much data on close approach as it can send home before flying away. And although the spacecraft will send select, high-priority datasets home in the days just before and after close approach, the mission will continue returning the data stored in onboard memory for a full 16 months.

For more information on New Horizons, visit: www.nasa.gov

The Center for Inquiry will host the annual Reason for Change conference from June 11 – 15 in Buffalo, NY. Science, reason, and secularism can be positive forces for change, especially when guided by the values of skepticism and humanism and driven by the passion and creativity of a vibrant freethought community.

“Reason for Change” is an international conference where humanists, skeptics, and all those who value science and reason will meet to inform and inspire one another to be a positive force for change. Critical thinking is not an end in itself. It is a means to effect positive change, to transform the world for the better. The conference is designed to bring the skeptic and humanist communities together to affect changes in the world. This year’s featured speakers include Richard Dawkins, Rebecca Goldstein, and Susan Jacoby, among many others. For more details visit www.reasonforchange.centerforinquiry.net/

NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Nears Historic July Encounter with Pluto NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is just a couple of months from returning to humanity the first-ever close up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto and its system of large and small moons.

“Scientific literature is filled with papers on the characteristics of Pluto and its moons from ground-based and Earth orbiting space observations, but we’ve never studied Pluto up close and personal,” said John Grunsfeld, astronaut, and associate administrator of the NASA Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington. “In an unprecedented flyby this July, our knowledge of what the Pluto system is really like will expand exponentially and I have no doubt there will be exciting discoveries.”

The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons has traveled a longer time and farther away – more than nine years and three billion miles – than any space mission in history to reach its primary target. Its flyby of Pluto and its system of at least five moons on July 14 will complete the initial reconnaissance of the classical solar system. This mission also opens the door to an entirely new “third” zone of mysterious small planets and planetary building blocks in the Kuiper Belt, a large area with numerous objects beyond Neptune’s orbit.

The flyby caps a five-decade-long era of reconnaissance that began with Venus and Mars in the early 1960s, and continued through first looks at Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn in the 1970s and Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s.

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By GlobalPost.com MEXICO CITY — Government spying scandals have become rampant since 9/11. But a lawsuit filed this past week against the United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA, alleges that widespread phone surveillance went back almost a decade before the 2001 attacks on the twin towers. continued on page 74 70

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Since 1992, the DEA has amassed the phone records of tens of millions of Americans, looking for calls made to drug traffickers in countries like Mexico, according to the suit filed

by Human Rights Watch.

Your own phone calls to foreign countries may have been swept up in that dragnet.

“This type of mass surveillance of innocent people does not fit in with rights under our constitutional democracy,” HRW General Counsel Dinah PoKempner tells GlobalPost.

The program also influenced the later anti-terror spying by the National Security Agency (NSA), says the Washingtonbased watchdog NGO. The suit, filed in a California court last month, follows an investigation by USA Today into the DEA’s surveillance. It reported the program was suspended in 2013 but may have been restarted in some form since.

So what does this all mean? Here’s a breakdown of the case and where it could lead.

What does the us government say?

The Justice Department, which oversees the DEA, has withheld comment on the case since the suit. “We decline to comment as the case is pending litigation,” a Justice Department spokesperson told GlobalPost in an email.

A DEA agent first acknowledged the program in a January court case related to electrical equipment contraband.

The former DEA administrator, Thomas Constantine, then told USA Today that the information gave “a treasure trove of very important information on trafficking.”

But another former senior DEA agent told GlobalPost that the program was not a major part of investigations. In most cases, agents acquired phone numbers of suspects through confidential informants or undercover agents rather than supercomputers.

What does HRW want to achieve with the lawsuit?

The lawsuit aims to force the Justice Department to state categorically that the program has been terminated and will not be restarted in any form. It also wants the department to delete all the numbers it stored.

The California court could approve the motion, throw it out Why does the DEA monitor international phone records? or send it to trial.

Traffickers moving cocaine, crystal meth, heroin or “We need to set a clear precedent here about what our rights marijuana into the United States need to discuss logistics with are and what the limits on government agencies are,” their cohorts abroad. They often call to coordinate basics, like PoKempner says. when a package will come or how it will be disguised.

Jamaican kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke was convicted by a New York court in 2012, thanks in part to phone calls he Commission Opens WWI Memorial Design Competition made from Jamaica to his US affiliates.

By Jim Garamone (DoD News) A 2009 sweep of Mexico’s La Familia cartel, which the US attorney general described as the largest-ever US operation The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission is opening a against Mexican traffickers, also used phone records. design competition for the national memorial that will be built here.

Traffickers in cities including Dallas and Chicago discussed The memorial will be built in Pershing Park — right on meth deals over the phone, leading to dozens of convictions.

Pennsylvania Avenue between 14th and 15th street Northwest.

According to the USA Today report, the DEA expanded its Pershing Park honors General of the Armies John J. phone surveillance with help from the Pentagon, which had Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Force experience monitoring Soviet communication. during World War I. The DEA got phone companies to hand over all their The congressionally approved memorial will commemorate records of calls to foreign countries where drug traffickers American sacrifices during what came to be called simply “the operate and processed these in supercomputers, the report says. Great War.” America entered the war April 7, 1917, and fought Countries where drug traffickers operate? That covers a lot through to the armistice Nov. 11, 1918. The U.S. military of ground. More than 100 nations could have been targeted. The suffered 116,516 deaths during the war and 204,000 troops were main ones include Mexico, Colombia, Afghanistan, Italy, wounded.

Pakistan and Canada.

Honoring service Members Was the DEA actually listening to your overseas calls?

The commission wants any memorial to highlight the If you’re not involved in the international illicit drug trade, contributions of the average service member who fought in that probably not. The lawsuit concerns the monitoring of phone war, Commission Vice Chair Edwin L. Fountain said last year. records, not phone taps.

The design competition formally begins May 21. The The DEA program looked at what numbers were called, at competition rules will be posted at the World War I what time, how long the call lasted, and how they were paid Commission’s website. for. Phone taps were then garnered through the usual court Officials have set up a two-stage competition and it is open proceedings. to all. “In the first stage, participants will submit narrative and But HRW says that information is potentially dangerous for graphic descriptions of a design concept responding to the its sources. For example, if a source in Mexico were calling competition’s design goals,” said Chris Isleib, the commission’s HRW to discuss the Mexican army killing people, then the DEA spokesman. would have the source’s number.

Judges will select three to five submissions, and those “The US government has contact with other governments entries will be further refined and developed in the second and we don’t know where this information will go,” stage.

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Educating People About the War Fountain sees the memorial as an opportunity to educate Americans about the war.

“What the American people don’t understand about World War I was what a bloody, horrific and savage war that it was,” Fountain said. “They need to understand that American servicemen demonstrated the same valor and courage and heroism and feats of arms in World War I as they did in every other war this country fought in.”

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“Workers will have to take a bus from the labor camp to performances this summer. There are shows at six different venues - offering many different kinds of experiences and at town just to get their money,” said one taxi driver.

Government officials say “they are doing their best,” said different price levels. We also have three Children’s Matinee Performances. I think there is something for everyone to enjoy Luciano Zaccara, an assistant professor at Qatar University.

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Meet Mata Amritanandamayi in Atlanta Meet Mata Amritanandamayi, also known as Amma, one of the world’s most accessible humanitarian and spiritual leaders. Free programs are held daily and include inspirational music, meditation, spiritual discourse and personal blessings. She is known as India’s Hugging Saint and is revered throughout the world for transforming the lives of millions of people one embrace at a time. The event is on June 28 and 29 and programs start at 9am and evening programs start at 7pm. All are welcome at Georgia International Convention Center, 2000 Convention Center Concourse, College Park, GA. Details at www.amma.org/meeting-amma/north-america/atlanta or write to ammagatour@gmail.com.

International yoga Day 2015 June 21 was declared as the International Day of Yoga by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 2014. The declaration came after the call for the adoption of 21 June as International Day of Yoga by Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi during his address to UN General Assembly on September 27, 2014 wherein he stated: “Yoga is an invaluable gift of India’s ancient tradition. It embodies unity of mind and body; thought and action; restraint and fulfilment; harmony between man and nature; a holistic approach to health and well-being. It is not about exercise but to discover the sense of oneness with yourself, the world and the nature. By changing our lifestyle and creating consciousness, it can help us deal with climate change. Let us work towards adopting an International Yoga Day.” In the Carolinas the day will be celebrated on Sun, June 21 (8am – 1pm) at HSNC Auditorium, 309 Aviation Parkway, Morrisville, NC. Admission is free. Join with family and meet experts, learn simple techniques and health benefits of Yoga. The event is organized by HSNC, Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, Art of Living, Gayatri Pariwar, Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of NC, Gurukulam of SV Temple, JK Yog and other organizations from Triangle area. For more details write to yogaday.rtp@gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/yogaday.rtp.

om squad summer Camps 2015 Om Squad, the youth group of HSNC, presents the annual summer camps. Breakfast, lunch, and snack will be served.

There will be performance for parents on the last day of camp.

Some activities include yoga, music, arts & crafts, dance, shlokas, Indian mythology, and more. Session Dates: June 15– June 19; July 6– July 10; July 27– July 31 August 17– August 21.

General information contact: summer.camp@hsnconline.org.

Online Registration: http://www.hsnconline.org/hsnc-summer-camp. Camps are at Hindu Society of North Carolina, 309 Aviation Parkway, Morrisville, NC.

Rang De Rangoli In celebration of Mother’s Day, there will be a rangoli competition on Sat, June 6 at Sri Shirdi Saibaba Mandir, 1150 SW Maynard Rd., Cary, NC. Registration starts at 1pm and the competition runs from 2 – 4pm. Tickets are $12 for adults and $9 for children. The themes for adults are freestyle, education, and festivals. The themes for children are freestyle, superheroes, mother’s day. For more details call 919-609-9656 or 252-227-8006.

k. sridhar sarod Concert Internationally acclaimed sarod maestro K. Sridhar returns to the Triangle to continue a twenty-year legacy of using his musical genius at the altar of fundraising with an afternoon recital of Indian Classical Music. Krishna Ramdas will accompany on tabla for the performance on Sunday, June 14 at 4pm. Tickets are $20 (cash only) at the door for first-come, first-served seating at the Barn at Valhalla (www.vallhallabarn.com) in Chapel Hill, NC. There will be chai and samosas sold to raise funds for a charity. K. Sridhar has been performing for many years at the venue and has helped raise funds for numerous charitable organizations. For more details call or write: 919-260-3496 or naadayoga@gmail.com.

Charlotte squaks The hilarious Charlotte Squawks returns with The 11th Glower, playing at Booth Playhouse at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center for 17 performances June 5-28, 2015. This musical parody pokes fun at Charlotte and the nation with uproarious performances featuring original lyrics set to well-known songs.

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sri Aurobindo Integral yoga Retreat The Sri Aurobindo integral yoga retreat for 2015 will take place on June 24-28 on the campus of Furman University in Greenville, SC. For more details, timings and activities, visit www.integralyogaretreat.com.

Mukherjee Honored With Board of Governors’ Highest Faculty Accolade Distinguished cancer researcher Pinku Mukherjee was honored with the O. Max Gardner Award – the highest faculty accolade given by the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina. She was presented the honor formally Friday, April 10.

The award, established by a provision in the will of Gov. O. Max Gardner, recognizes UNC system faculty members who have “made the greatest contribution to the welfare of the human race.” It is the only award for which all faculty members on the 17 UNC campuses are eligible. The honor, given annually since 1949, carries a $20,000 cash prize. As the Irwin Belk Endowed Professor of Cancer Research at UNC Charlotte, Mukherjee is transforming the ways in which cancer is diagnosed and treated. She has designed innovative approaches to more accurately detect breast cancer early and is developing targeted therapy and imaging for pancreatic, ovarian and colon cancers. Her appointment is in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. To date, Mukherjee has published 65-plus peerreviewed journal articles that have been cited or referenced more than 11,000 times. Her groundbreaking cancer research has produced one U.S. patent and has resulted in grants from the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Susan G. Komen Foundation totaling more than $3.5 million as principal investigator and more than $500,000 as co-investigator. Prior to joining UNC Charlotte in 2008, Mukherjee was with the Mayo Clinic. She received her bachelor’s degree in microbiology from Bombay University, India, and her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of London. Behnam Pourdeyhimi, the Klopman Distinguished Professor of Textile Materials at North Carolina State University, also was named an O. Max Gardner Award recipient for 2015. Traditionally only one winner of the award is named per year, but committee members were equally impressed with the work of Mukherjee and Pourdeyhimi, said Gardner Award Committee Chair Ann Maxwell. In addition to being world-class scientists and leaders in their fields, she said, the two are “outstanding teachers, unique mentors and tireless ambassadors for our state and our universities.”

A new Dawn kathak Recital The Ashwini Kathak Dance Academy presents a dance recital and fundraiser featuring the school’s students on Saturday, June 13 (4pm) at Pease Auditorium, CPCC main campus in Charlotte.

Tickets are $10 and $25 for VIP. Proceeds will be donated to Ekal Vidyalaya. For more details call 859-806-4173.

TAGCA summer picnic The Telugu Association of Greater Charlotte Area will hold its annual summer picnic on Sunday, June 21 at Frank Liske Park, 4001 Stough Road, Concord, NC from 11 am – 4 pm. Join for a full day of family fun, games, music, and food. For more details visit www.tagca.org.

India Fest 2015 The India Association of the Triad presents India Fest on Saturday, June 6 ( 11am – 5pm) at Gujarati Samaj Hall, 127 Landmark Dr., Greensboro, NC. Food, performances, arts and crafts will be offered along with a singing competition. For more details visit www.iatnc.org or www.facebook.com/iatnc.greensboro. shri Ram kathamrit HSNC and JKYog will present yoga, meditation, and enlightening talks in English on Shri Ram Kathamrit by Swami Mukundananda from Sat, June 20 – Fri, June 26. The venue is HSNC Main Hall, 309 Aviation Parkway, Morrisville, NC. Registration is required for admission. Bring your own Yoga Mat. Dinner will be served every day after the program and complimentary kids care available for 5-12 yrs old. H.H. Swami Mukundananda is a world-renowned teacher of Spirituality, Yoga, and Meditation. He is the founder of the unique yogic system, JKYog, also known as Yoga for Body, Mind and Soul. He received his degrees in Engineering and Management from two world famous Institutes in India, IIT and IIM. Swamiji is the senior disciple of Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj. Swamiji’s enlightening discourses clarify the deepest concepts of the Vedic scriptures, with wit, humor, and logic. For the youth, Swamiji has conducted programs at prestigious universities such as Princeton, Stanford, Kellogg, MIT, and Duke University. For full details on the program as well as registration information, contact Jayesh Patel (919-6591063) or Neela Moorjani (919-650-3394).

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By Yash Garg The Heritage India Association of North Carolina (HIANC) celebrated the annual Heritage India Festival on April 19, 2015 at the HSNC Cultural Hall, Morrisville. Sangeeta Nayak, Susmita Patnaik and Arpita Das were the Emcees.

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introduced, who later presented Heritage Awards to three Honorees – Padma Rao for “Excellence in Classical Dance,” Prateek Chandak for Entrepreneur of the Year, and Ravi Ravishankar for Community ambassadorship. They were each honored with a shawl, a plaque and a flower bouquet. Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht and Morrisville Mayor Mark Stohlman proclaimed April 19 as Heritage India Festival Day

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and read the Proclamations brought with them. This annual celebration offers an opportunity for the participant artists to showcase a variety of dances from folk to Bollywood and from modern to classical dances presented by teams of vibrant and highly skilled youngsters, teens and adults, as well as musical performances by children. Group dances develop creativity, build team spirit, boost confidence, enhance social skills, and introduce universal language of love, peace and harmony.

Indian fashions show by children and adults enthralled the audience. An Eye Camp by physicians of Duke Eye Center, coordinated by Dr. Pratap Challa, provided free eye check-ups to a large number of visitors. Bollywood Dance competition was conducted in four categories. Winning teams received Heritage Award Trophies: these are 5-8 Age group dance

On Sunday, April 19 2015, the organization Kiran held its first ever Awareness Walk at Bond Park in Cary NC. Kiran came into existence in 2000. It was created to provide crisis counseling, promote self-reliance and empowerment of South Asian women and men who are victims of domestic violence and abuse. Kiran serves victims from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Kiran’s services are free of cost and confidential. The services provided include a 24hour crisis hotline, client services, resource referrals, language assistance and emergency shelter options. The Walk on April 19th was well attended. There was an outpouring of support and participation by the community in spite of heavy rains that preceded the event. The Walk was officially kicked off by Gale Adcock, a well-respected leader in the community.

I am Asian Essay Contest The Charlotte Asian Heritage Association (CAHA) is a Carolinas Asian-American Chamber of Commerce (CAACC) initiative with the mission to promote Asian heritage in Carolinas by planning, organizing and sponsoring traditional cultural events to enhance the visibility of Asian ethnic groups as an active and integral part of culturally vibrant community.

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS carolinakhadayatasamaj@yahoo.com Jaswant Mehta 704-839-1965 Rita Shah 704-321-0740

Charlotte Agaram Tamil Palli Agaram Tamil Palli serves the Tamil speaking community in Greater Charlotte area by conducting Tamil language classes at CPCC, central campus.

For Further Details: Megalai Ezhilarasan agaramtp.coord@gmail.com 704-456-9881 http://agaramtamilpalli.wordpress.com

Carolinas Christian Assembly - Charlotte Everyone is invited to join for Sunday worship, Bible class, Sunday school: Sundays from 9 am - 12 pm. English and various Indian languages are used in the Sunday services.

For Further Details: Rev. Dr. K.C. Paul (704.771.1414) Rajan Mathew (704.756.4969) Jose Varughese (704.453.6177)

Art of living (Healing with the Breath) Art of Living is dedicated to serving society by strengthening the individual. This is done through self-development programs that recharge the body, mind and spirit and allow people to function at their optimum potential. People from all backgrounds, religions and cultural traditions come together in service and celebration.

For Further Details: 980-216-8732 charlotte@us.artofliving.org www.artofliving.org/charlotte

Charlotte Gita study Group Beginners and advanced students of the Gita are welcome. The group meets the second and fourth Sunday of each month from 3 - 5 pm. This course is based on the Home Study Course of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Saylorsburg, PA. Each session starts with meditation followed by a recorded lecture in English and discussion among the group.

For Further Details: Rishi and Shikha Bhatnagar, rishi@solveron.com, 513.518.5300 Shridhar and Kruti Dave, skdave@hotmail.com, 704.844.9567 www.freewebs.com/gitastudy

Association for India’s Development - Charlotte A volunteer movement committed to promoting sustainable, equitable and just-development. AID Charlotte supports grassroots organizations in India and initiates efforts in various interconnected spheres such as education, livelihoods, natural resources, health, women’s empowerment and social justice.

For Further Details: Kiran Uppalapati 704.307.6450 Venkata Ramana Duddu 662.231.2350.

Charlotte Hindu Center Table Tennis The group meets every Wednesday from 6.30 - 10 pm. There are all levels and types of play. The venue is the Vihar Hall, Hindu Center, 7400 City View Dr., Charlotte, NC. For Further Details: 704.607.8412.

Charlotte kriya yoga Group The group promotes Kriya Yoga Meditation as taught by the lineage of realized masters such as Mahaavatar Baba Ji, Lahri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteshwar Giri, Paramahamsa Yogananda, Hariharananda, and Prajanananada. A sincere seeker who follows the path of Kriya Yoga with love and devotion and a desire for spiritual growth can attain Self-realization. The center hosts two annual initiation programs and a weekly Sunday meditation for initiates.

For Further Details: agupta1@carolina.rr.com www.kriya.org

BAPs shri swaminarayan Mandir A spiritual, volunteer-driven organization dedicated to improving society through individual growth by fostering the Hindu ideals of faith, unity, and selfless service. Activities include: Daily Arti 6:30 am & 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, Teenagers - 4:30pm, and Children - 5pm. The Temple is located at 4100 Margaret Wallace Rd, Charlotte, NC, 28105.

For Further Details: 704.573.0805 / www.baps.org

Charlotte Malayalee Association The association promotes and facilitates the cultural, educational, social and economic welfare of the Charlotte Malayalee community.

For Further Details: cltma@cltma.org 704-517-5850 www.cltma.org.

Bethel Christian Fellowship Bethel Christian Fellowship offers services in various Indian languages (i.e. Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, etc.) Sunday School (11:15 - 11:45 am); Sunday Worship Service (11:45 - 1:15 pm). Sunday Service Location: Fort Mill Church of God, 216 Academy St., Room 102. Fort Mill, SC 29715. Saturday Service Location: Life Builders Church - 730 Oak Dale Rd, Charlotte NC 28216.

For Further Details: 803.792.7223 pastorofbcf@gmail.com (Pastor: Rajan Samuel).

Charlotte Marathi Mandal CSMM promotes Maharashtrian culture and language.

Maharashtra mandal is committed to serve Carolina Marathi community with various cultural, social and traditional Marathi programs and events.

For Further Details: csmmonline@gmail.com www.charlottemarathimandal.com

Carolina khadayata samaj All Khadayata families of NC and SC are welcome to be part of the Carolina Khadayata Samaj.

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS Hindu Center of Charlotte The temple holds many regular events and religious ceremonies.

The temple library is stocked with books, CDs, DVDs and other materials on varied genre such as religion, culture, history, philosophy, yoga and health. The temple is located at 7400 City View Dr., Charlotte, NC 28212.

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Charlotte Telangana Association The association was formed to promote Telangana cultural activities within greater Charlotte area and also bring together all the Telangana people living in the area to discuss, plan, and take action around the development of Telangana focusing both on rural and urban areas.

For Further Details: www.charlottetelangana.com Charlotte vipassana Meditation Group Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India’s most ancient techniques of meditation. It was taught in India more than 2500 years ago as a universal remedy for universal ills. The Charlotte Vipassana Meditation Group holds weekly group sits and monthly all day sits for established students (those who have taken at least one ten day course from S. N. Goenka or one of his assistant teachers). Ten-day courses are also available for all students. There is never a charge for a course.

For Further Details: 704.277.5013, rbddesai@gmail.com 704.563.5440, dspranger@gmail.com www.dhamma.org

IAMC (Indian American Muslim Council) - Charlotte Chapter IAMC is committed to promoting peace, pluralism and social justice for all through advocacy. The organization is also committed to promote and protect human rights and human dignity in India as they are the foundation of freedom and justice.

IAMC-Charlotte seeks to reach out to Indian Muslims living in and around Charlotte to strive for Inter-Faith, Inter-Community understanding with particular focus on Indian Diaspora.

For Further Details: Ashfaq Mehdi 704.904.5778 Afzal Syed 704.770.1103 iamc-charlotte@yahoogroups.com

Classical Music Association of Charlotte (CMAC) CMAC sponsors many classical concerts during the year in Charlotte. Membership forms are available at shows.

For Further Details: 704.442.1186 (Jayashree Panduranga) cmacmusic@yahoo.com www.onlinecmac.org

India Association of Charlotte The organization works to foster fostering better understanding of the rich diversity of Indian culture by the larger community in and around Charlotte. A key activity is the annual Festival of India, which will be held every September in uptown Charlotte.

For Further Details: Toni Sawhney 704-604-2133 Lal Vishin 704-545-3727 www.indiafestival.net

Dada Bhagwan Group What is Gnan Vidhi? It is the scientific process of attaining Self Realization in the presence of Atmagnani. It is the gracing of real knowledge that separates the real Self from the non-self. The benefits of Gnan Vidhi are many - attaining awareness of the soul, getting solution through right understanding, removing wrong beliefs and destroying past sins.

For Further Details: 877-505-3232 / www.dadabhagwan.org

Indian Performing Arts Association of Charlotte (IPAAC) IPAAC promotes classical Hindustani music by inviting wellknown artists from India and offers music classes at various locations in Charlotte.

For Further Details: contact@ipaac.org www.ipaac.org

Ekal vidyalaya Foundation Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of India (EVFI) was established to help in the overall development of the remote tribal and rural villages in India. Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA along with EVFI is committed to the cause of eradicating illiteracy from tribal areas.

The Carolinas Region of the EVFUSA conducts fund raising and awareness programs in North and South Carolina.

For Further Details: Ekal Charlotte: Kameswar Tulasi / himadeeps@yahoo.com Ekal Columbia: Janak Dalal / jaydalalcolumbia@gmail.com

Jain Center of Greater Charlotte (JCGC) The JCGC serves the spiritual, cultural, social, and community needs of Jain families in and around Charlotte area. JCGC is dedicated to the practice, understanding, promotion, and preservation of the Jain faith. Activities include celebrating major religious festivals such as Mahavir Jayanti, Paryushan, and Diwali, and routine programs like Swadhyay, Poojas and children’s Pathshaala. The Center is located at 7631 Mallard Creek Rd., Charlotte, NC 28262.

Weekdays: 9:30am - Mon-Friday - Prakshal and Pooja, 7:30pm Aarti and Mangal Divo Weekends: 10:30am - Prakshal and Pooja, 7:30pm - Aarti and Mangal Divo For Further Details: JCGC President – Vibhakar Modi: 704-258-4507 info@jaincenter.us www.jaincenter.us

Gurdwara sahib The Gurdwara works to enrich the lives of the Sikh & Punjabi communities of Charlotte and surrounding areas. It is located at 1760 Stoney Creek Lane, Charlotte, NC 28262. Regular Program: Every Sunday: 10 - 11am, Asa Di War by Bhai Satnam Singh Jee, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Keertan by Children, 12:00 pm — 1:15 pm, Keertan by Bhai Satnam Singh Jee, 1:15 pm - 1:30 pm, Ardaas, followed by Guru Ka Langar.”

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS sangamithra Foundation Sangamithra Foundation is a Charlotte based charity organization formed by a group of people who strive to make a difference in society. The team has taken the path of identifying the needs of underprivileged communities in India and provides support to meet those needs. Sangamithra is reaching out on a global scale and working collectively towards realizing its vision. For Further Details: www.sangamithra.org www.facebook.com/SangamithraFoundation info@sangamithra.org

life Bliss Charlotte Meditation Center The Center 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. Life Bliss Foundation is part of a worldwide movement for meditation and healing. Paramahamsa Nithyananda is a global leader in the science of enlightenment and the author of more than 300 books published in 27 languages.

For Further Details: LifeBlissClt@gmail.com 704-766-1420 or 704-992-6114 www.innerawakening.org

shantiniketan senior Center of Carolinas The Shantiniketan Senior Center of Carolinas (SSCC) is located at Melange Health Solutions, 145 Scaleybark Rd., Charlotte, NC. The Center is open from 10am - 3pm and presents members with activities, outings, access to physical care and mental wellbeing and care.

For More Details: Nimish Bhatt 704-560-4910 / 704-491-1186 nimishbhatt@bellsouth.net

net IP Charlotte NetIP Charlotte is the only official Carolinas chapter of North America’s Largest Network of Indian Professionals. NetIP Charlotte provides a forum for on-going Career Developmental and Professional Networking activities. It arranges various events and maintains deeper ties with Businesses & the community. It provides various effective ways for Carolinas’ Indian Professionals to connect with other successful professionals.

For Further Details: www.netIPnc.org

shree swaminarayan satsang Mandal vadtal On the 1st Saturday of every month, Shree Swaminarayan Satsang Mandal Vadtal has kirtans and bhajans at the Hindu Center of Charlotte at 5 pm. After the bhajans, there is Aarti and Mahaprasad. In addition, on the 3rd Sunday of every month, an additional Satsang Sabha is held at sponsor’s house at 3 - 5 pm.

For Further Details: 704.392.4488 - Ramesh Dhanani admin@issvcharlotte.org

Pratham - Charlotte Pratham organizes grassroots programs in the area of primary education. Pratham has made an impact on the learning levels of several million children through its Read India campaign.

Pratham has developed an accelerated learning technique which helps children to read and write in two months. With nearly half the children in India who attend schools are not learning to read and write at the required level, Pratham is trying to fill an important gap in the area of primary education.

For Further Details: Anju Desai (ajdesai66@gmail.com or 980-622-0125) Shubhra Chakraborty (shubhra.chakraborty1@gmail.com or 704942-4798) www.prathamusa.org.

shri Rang Avadhut Parivar (Parspar Devo Bhav) The group meets Thursdays from 6 - 8 pm in Charlotte. The group recites Datta-Bavani, singing devotional Dattatraya Bhajans and reading Guru-Lilamrut. Detailed information about Charlotte meetings, literature, Videos, Nareshwar Ashram and Shri Avadhut’s life is available.

For Further Details: Bharat Shah - 704.724.6247 Nagesh Patel - 704.399.7805

Probasi of Charlotte Probasi’s goal is to organize cultural and educational program related to Bengal in the Charlotte area, to increase Bengali cultural awareness, and to provide community service in the area.

For Further Details: www.probasi.org

sindhi Association of the Carolinas The Sindhi Association of the Carolinas (SAC) organizes religious, cultural, community, and social events in Charlotte. SAC also sends donations for the needy to the schools in India for Scholarship and also sends donations to refugees in camps.

For Further Details: soniahassani1@gmail.com 704.779.2396.

sahaj Marg Meditation Sahaj Marg which means Simple or Natural path, is a Raj Yoga system of spiritual training based on the heart centered meditation. The features of this meditation include transmission of divine energy into the heart of the practitioner and cleaning of deep impressions, thereby regulating the mind. Regular practice of this system of meditation integrates the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of human being, while still encouraging people to maintain a normal family and working life. A group meditation is held at the Unity of Charlotte on Sundays and Wednesdays.

For Further Details: Srikanth Katakam 704.496.4411 naturalpath.nc@gmail.com www.srcm.org

southPark Cricket Club South Park Cricket Club is based in Charlotte and has been an active member of the Mid Atlantic Cricket Conference since 2002.

The club’s home ground is located at the Reedy Creek Park, 2900 Rocky River Road, Charlotte, NC. For Further Details: anishtr@hotmail.com www.southparkcc.org srishti of Charlotte Srishti works to fulfill the NC community’s need for togetherness

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS Dairy Road, High Point, NC. Activities include Sunday Sabhas: Shishu (Toddlers) sabha: 4 - 5 pm; Bal/Balika sabha: 4:15 - 5:30 pm; Kishore sabha: 2 - 3:30 pm; Main sabha: 4 - 6 pm; Gujarati classes: 2:30 - 3:45 pm and Arti at 6 pm followed by Mahaprasad. Fresh Shayona snacks available on Sundays.

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and the desire to showcase Bengali culture, heritage, literature, theatre, music and popular arts. Literally, the word Srishti means an act of creation. Though established and coordinated by a group of Bengali families, Srishti welcomes and brings together people of varied cultures, ethnicity, languages, background and nationalities who are interested in East Indian traditions.

For Further Details: Santanu Sarkar: 704-541-3451 www.srishticharlotte.org

Greensboro Cricket Club (GCC) There are several teams that play cricket in the Greensboro area.

The goals of GCC are fun, fitness, and friendship.

For Further Details: 336.501.3566 (9:00 am - 9:00 pm, S&S) Dev, Greensboro Warriors, happy4mehta@yahoo.com; Venky, Triad Tigers, venkyhot@hotmail.com.

Telugu Association of Greater Charlotte Area (TAGCA) The organization’s mission is to bring together Telugu speaking people and to promote Telugu Culture. TAGCA organizes regular events and programs.

For Further Details: www.tagca.org

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.

GCAP, 127 Landmark Drive, Greensboro, NC 27410 For Further Details: Jack Dhekar: 336.254.1727 Manubhai Patel: 336.253.7182 www.gcap.us

Trimurti Temple Charlotte, nC Trimurti Temple is open daily, morning puja (10am) and evening puja (7pm). Sunday abhisekhams (11am) and other special pujas.

Temple is located at 6519 Beatties Ford Road, Charlotte, NC. All Sundays at 11 am Venkateswara Abishekam.

For Further Details: 980-219-7556 contact@trimurtitemple.org www.trimurtitemple.org

India Association of the Triad (IATnC) Greensboro The objective of the Association is to promote social, cultural and educational interests of its members, develop understanding between members of the Indian community and other residents of the Triad, and make the latter aware of issues of concern to the Indian community.

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

vallabh Pushti samaj of Carolinas (vPsC) VPSC is starting construction of “Shrinath Dham Haveli” for benefit of entire Vaishnav Samaj and Pushtimargiya devotional activities. VPSC is moving forward with objective to fill devotional need for hundreds of Vaishnavs in Carolinas to worship and pray together, perform “seva and rituals” and to observe and celebrate festivals and to perform and engage in humanitarian and educational activities. Regular “Paath and Bhajan” recitations are held on 2nd Sunday of each month from 4-6 pm at Shrinath Dham Haveli Address - 1006 Vickie Lane, Stallings, NC 28104.

For Further Details: vsccarolinas@gmail.com Prathmesh Shah: 704.763.3059

Greensboro Art of living (Greensboro) The Art of Living Foundation offers programs to uncover the strength, peace, and joy that lie at the core of every human being.

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Indo-American society of nC (IAsnC) The objectives of IASNC are to support the Indian, South Asian and American community residing in Greensboro, NC and vicinity and other individuals interested in learning the culture, traditions, and arts of India. Specifically, IASNC promotes IndoAmerican cultural, arts and sports events and also school based volunteering activities.

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For Further Details: 336.421.0690 848.459.7401 (Dr. Manoj) lifemissionusa@gmail.com www.lifemissionusa.com Quan Am Buddhist Temple All interested in Buddhism are welcome. The temple is located at 1410 Glendale Dr. Greensboro, NC 27407.

For Further Details: www.ChuaQuanAm.com sri sathya sai Baba Center of Greensboro, nC The Center regularly conducting Sai Bhajans, Study Circle, various service activities and SSE class (for students) in Greensboro, NC all Sundays — 9:45 am to 12:15 pm For Further Details: Swami Rajendran 908-875-6964 Dr. Varatharajah 336-851-9150 Temple of the Holy name Prabhupada Village is a rural Hare Krishna community situated in the beautiful foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Puja/Worship of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai/Sri Pancha Tattva starts at 5:00 am every day. Every Sunday at 3 pm there is chanting, dancing, feasting and philosophy. The temple is located at 1283 Prabhupada Rd, Sandy Ridge, NC 27046.

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Atlantic Coast sikh Association This is one of the oldest Sikh associations in the Southeastern USA. It meets every Sunday from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at its gurdwara, located at 3108 Sparger Road, Durham, NC 27705. Kirtan is done

by Bhai Dyal Singh Jatha. Classes for Punjabi and religious studies are held for children at the same time.

For Further Details: 919.309.1045 - Bhai Dyal Singh www.acsagurdwara.org Balagokulam Gokulam is where Lord Krishna’s magical childhood days were spent. It was here that his divine powers came to light. Every child has that spark of divinity within. Balagokulam is a forum for children (4-15 years age) to discover and manifest that divinity. It will enable Hindu children in the US to appreciate their cultural roots and learn values. This is done through games, yoga, stories, songs, shlokas, arts/crafts, and Seva (selfless service) in the community. Sessions are free for all and are held on Saturdays.

For Further Details: balagokulam.rtp@gmail.com (Raleigh) hss.charlotte@hssus.org (Charlotte) www.balagokulam.org BAPs shri swaminarayan Mandir BAPS Shree Swaminarayan Hindu Mandir invites everyone to the regularly scheduled events: Ravi sabha - every Sunday at 4 - 6 pm followed by Aarti and Maha Prasad. Mahapuja conducted every Purnima at 7 pm. Many classes are conducted. Fresh Indian snacks and sweets available at Shayona. 1020 Aviation Parkway, Morrisville, NC 27560.

For Further Details: 919.469.6605 www.swaminarayan.org 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 INDO-American community within North Carolina and adjacent states. The association is organized exclusively for charitable, cultural, social and educational purposes.

For Further Details: 919.461.2386 (Ratan Ray), ratanray@hotmail.com 919.510.7943 (Swaty Sen), swaty_sen@yahoo.com banc_members@googlegroups.com www.banc-online.org Carolina Rajasthani Association The group organizes several events throughout the year and works to promote Rajasthani culture to the greater community.

For Further Details: carolinarajasthanis@gmail.com www.carolinarajasthanis.org Chinmaya Mission Chinmaya Mission is a worldwide organization promoting spiritual growth as started by Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda. The Chinmaya Mission Raleigh Durham (CMRDU) chapter conducts Balavihar classes from kids on Sun from 10 am to 11:30 am at Reedy Creek Middle School, Cary. The classes are tailored to each age group by special curriculum created by experienced Swamijis and Acharyas exclusively for CM 102

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS Balavihar. Curriculum includes learning to chant the BhagavadGita verses, singing devotional bhajans, stories from scriptures, family pujas, meditation, and fun activities like picnics and competitions. Introduction to Hindi and Sanskrit is also included.

Parents can enroll their children in Balavihar through the website.

A regular adult study group is conducted for adults on Sunday mornings.

For Further Details: www.chinmaya-RDU.org Dada Bhagwan Foundation The Foundation was formed with the goal of spreading peace and harmony to the world through the science of Akram Vignan - the science of Self Realization as expounded by the Shree A.M. Patel, known as Dadashri or Dada Bhagwan. DBF organizes Spiritual Satsangs /Gnanvidhi (2 hour scientific process of self-realization) of Pujya Deepakbhai around the world. There are no formal lectures here, but it’s in the format of questions and answers on various topics. This is a practical spiritual science. Every 1st, 3rd and 5th Saturday of each month from 5 to 7 pm followed by Prasad at the HSNC Hall, 309 Aviation Pkwy, Morrisville, NC. For Further Details: 877.505.3232 ext 1003 rabhatt@yahoo.com www.dadabhagwan.org Datta yoga Center - Raleigh Mission: Spread the teachings of Sadguru Sri Sri Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Swamiji of Mysore. Activities: Namasankeertana - Bhajans written, composed and sung by Pujya Sri Swamiji. Kriya yoga classes conducted by Pujya Sri Swamiji-trained teachers from India. The group meets on the first Sat of every month and every major festival day for Satsang and Namasankeertana (divine singing). Everyone is invited to attend.

For Further Details: 919.484.1993 (Srinivas Chittineni) 919.461.0843 (Suresh Kota) Duke Diya Duke Diya is a Duke University student organization that is committed to providing a forum for interaction through political, cultural, community service, and social events relating to South Asian Americans.

For Further Details: 732.865.3173 www.dukediya.com Ekal vidyalaya Foundation RTP Chapter Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of India (EVFI) was established to help in the overall development of the remote tribal and rural villages in India. Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA along with EVFI is committed to the cause of eradicating illiteracy from tribal areas.

Education is the key to self-esteem, self-sustenance, economic well being and happiness. The Raleigh Chapter EVFUSA conducts fund raising and awareness programs in the Triangle area.

For further details: Ekal/RTP: raginiusa@yahoo.com EkTAA student organization EKTAA (meaning unity) is the South Asian Student Organization at North Carolina State University (NCSU). The organization was founded in 1970. The motto is “unity within diversity.” EKTAA Saathee.com

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For Further Details: www.ektaa.org Geet Bazaar Radio Program Every Sunday morning from 10 am - 12 noon on WKNC 88.1 FM, join hosts Afroz Taj and John Caldwell, for a wide variety of music from India, Pakistan, and other countries and languages of South Asia. Geet Bazaar will also publicize community events free of charge.

For Further Details: 919.851.1119 (Dr. Afroz Taj) taj@unc.edu GEM - Raleigh Church of God Attend worship services, prayer meetings or weekly Sunday school.

For Further Details: 919.395.6208 (Pastor Thankachan M.) globalem@gmail.com Gokul Bhajan and vedic studies Weekly satsang of parents and children singing bhajans and glorifying past times of Lord Krishna. There are multimedia assisted programs every Friday 7 to 9 pm at HSNC, Morrisville, NC. Children learn slokas, learn presentation skills, manage and lead various projects such as book distribution, charity for cow protection, food for poor, and prison seva.

For Further Details: bkdasa@gmail.com / 919-491-9536 www.gokulbhajan.com Grihastha Family Institute Grihastha Family Institute offers parenting workshops for the parents of 6 to 16 old in Cary, NC. These workshops are free and conducted in collaboration with AID-INDIA, a non-profit organization. There are three workshops: 1. Essentials of Parenting; 2. Rate your Parenting; 3. Know your Child.

For Further Details: www.grihastha.org Heritage India Association of nC (HIAnC) Heritage India Association of NC aims at providing Indian cultural experience through performing arts, cultural arts, fine arts & crafts of India. Its mission is “to preserve and promote Indian heritage and culture.” During the year, the association presents several events and also coordinates Indian dances for the main stage performances for the Raleigh International Festival.

For Further Details: yashcgarg@gmail.com Hindi vikas Mandal of nC Hindi Vikas Mandal (HVM), based in the RTP area, promotes study and appreciation of Hindi language and strives to foster Indian culture and traditions through Hindi. HVM has a special focus on the youths for the preservation of Indian heritage.

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS Hindu society of north Carolina The Hindu Society of NC is located at 309 Aviation Parkway, Morrisville, NC and serves the greater Triangle area. The temple is open day from 7 am - 9 pm. Morning Aarti: Mon-Friday10.30am, Sat-Sun 10am. Evening Aarti: Mon-Friday- 8pm, Saturday-Sunday 6pm. There are many other regular events taking place at the temple. 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, craft and arts. Priest services are available at your home and/or at the Temple at a nominal charge.

For Further Details: Saroj Sharma 919-654-5224 Trilok Pillai (manager) 919-599-6597 hsnc@hsnconline.org www.hsnconline.org Hindu swayamsevak sangh (Hss) The HSS conducts activities to develop character and leadership skills in participants, emphasizing values such as self-discipline, self-confidence and a spirit of selfless service (seva) for humanity while maintaining Hindu cultural identity in harmony with the larger society. HSS is inspired by the idea that the whole world is one family. HSS has over 100 chapters (shakhas) across the country. Activities are tailored to include yoga, games, songs, lectures and discussions on Hindu dharma and culture.

For Further Details: www.hssus.org (click on chapter locations for NC locations) Hum sub Hum Sub is dedicated to sharing the social and cultural traditions of India with the residents of the Research Triangle Park and North Carolina.

Upcoming Events: Cary Diwali 2015 will take place on Sat, Oct 10. Auditions will take place on Sat, Aug 29.

For Further Details: www.humsub.net Immanuel Assembly of God A full Gospel Christian church serving the Indian / South Asian community in Raleigh and RTP area of North Carolina. The church is located in Morrisville.

For Further Details: 919.442.8537 thechurch@immanuelassembly.org www.immanuelassembly.org India Development & Relief Fund (IDRF) The Triangle chapter of IDRF supports volunteer-based, honest and highly experienced non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in India in serving their populations’ critical needs around education, childcare, healthcare, women empowerment and tribal welfare, as well as relief and rehabilitation in times of natural disasters.

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Indian American Forum for Political Education (IAFPE) IAFPE is the oldest and largest Indian American organization for political education with numerous chapters throughout the United States. The North Carolina Chapter is in Raleigh and is motivated to educate the community on political issues and help the community with various services. Support is needed from the community and members to help the chapter grow and provide relevant services and informative events.

For Further Details: www.forum-nc.org Indian Classical Music & Dance society (ICMDs) ICMDS is dedicated to the task of promoting Indian classical music and dance in the Triangle area. ICMDS invites top artists from all over the world to perform in the Triangle area.

For Further Details: www.icmds.org Indian Talent Discovery Foundation ITDF was established to promote any form of art that has originated in India. The primary objective of the foundation is to encourage local talent to excel in the chosen art to become professionals. The art can be in any form such as Indian Classical and Bollywood dance, Indian music, Astrology, Numerology, Palmistry, traditional medicine, Vaasthu Shasra, and so on.

For Further Details: contactus@itdfoundation.org www.itdfoundation.org Indo-American Friendship Foundation The foundation works to improve Friendship between the People of India and USA through Cultural and Technological Exchanges.

For Further Details: iaff10@yahoo.com www.iaff1.org Instepp InStepp is located in Durham and its mission is to create a vibrant community by empowering women who’ve come up against some challenges in their lives to rise above those challenges and succeed personally and professionally through innovative, gender-responsive training, educational and prevention services.

Services include employment & career counseling, resume development, skills training, federal and state benefits application, financial and tuition assistance, community and college referrals, computer skills training and more. InStepp welcomes all women from South Asia and understands the differences in customs and religions across South Asia and can provide services in many South Asian Languages.

For Further Details: 919.680.8000 pmanhas@instepp.org www.instepp.org International Buddhist Progress society - nC Temple All are invited to the temple, which is open 10am to 5pm Tuesday through Sunday, with Sunday services at 10am followed by free vegetarian lunch.

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For Further Details: 919.233.2900 www.internationalcommunitychurch.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: 919.656.5224 (Saroj Sharma) 919.678.9056 (Sudha Om Dhingra) www.hindi.org International swaminarayan satsang organization (Isso) ISSO is a socio-religious organization and its primary objective is to advance the Sanatan Dharma in accordance with the principles and teachings of Shree Swaminarayan Sampradaya, founded and ordained by Bhagwan Shree Swaminarayan Himself. ISSO Raleigh-Durham chapter organizes a regularly scheduled biweekly “Satsang Sabha,” every other Saturday, at HSNC Cultural Hall (309 Aviation Pkwy., Morrisville, NC-27560), which includes Kirtan bhakti, Katha, Aarti and Mahaprasad. Pujya Santo visit often to impart the knowledge of Swaminarayan Bhagwan.

For Further Details: 919.964.1008 isso.nc@gmail.com http://issonc.org IskCon new Goloka Temple of nC New Goloka temple is a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. The Radha-Krishna temple is in a rural setting at 1032 Dimmocks Mill Rd. Hillsborough, NC. Visitors are welcome any day of the week to come have darshan of Sri Sri Radha Golokananda. Every Sunday at 4pm, there is a special program consisting of arati, kirtan, Bhagavad-gita discourse, and a prasadam feast. From 4:30-5:30pm, there is a Sunday School program for children ages 3-7 and 8-12. Children take part in learning Bhagavad-gita slokas and bhajans, understanding the basic philosophy, reciting and hearing stories from the Vedas.

New Goloka also provides educational classes and programs for adults. New Goloka Daily Darshan Times 4:30 - 5 am, 7:15 am 1:00 pm, 4:15 - 5:45 pm, 7 - 8 pm. Saturday and Sunday Darshan open from 7:15 am to 8 pm.

For Further Details: 919.593.6827, golokanandapriya@hotmail.com www.newgoloka.com kiran Kiran is a community based South Asian organization promoting self-reliance and empowerment of South Asian women and men who are in domestic violence through crisis counseling and intervention, language assistance and translation and resource referrals in a confidential manner. Services offered at Kiran are confidential and free of charge. The organization spreads awareness about causes and effects of domestic violence in the community and cooperates with organizations in the USA and elsewhere with similar objectives. Kiran assists and provides Saathee.com

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For Further Details: 24 Hour Crisis Hotline: 1-877-625-4726 919-839-6203 kiran@kiraninc.org www.kiraninc.org lakulish yoga and Health Retreat Lakulish Yoga and Health Retreat is a secluded resort in Caswell County, located at 8136 N.C. Highway 119 South, Mebane, NC. It is a place of natural beauty that stimulates a spirit of detachment and inspires and uplifts visitors. This resort is hallowed by a Yogi, a Sannyasi who ensures that the true practice of Dharma and Yoga flourishes here, offering the NC community and visitors an ongoing program of free Yoga Classes. The classes are offered each Wed, from 6 - 8 pm, and each Sat, from 11 am - 1 pm.

For Further Details: 336.421.0690 lifemisionusa@gmail.com www.lifemissionusa.org Maitri A student organization at NC State that aims at unifying various cultures at university. The organization works 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.

For Further Details: www.maitrincsu.org nuv yug Nuv Yug is a cultural organization with a mission to promote awareness of Indian cultural arts and heritage. Striving to create synergy among various cultural groups from the South Asian region.

For Further Details: www.nuvyug.net Pakistani American Association The Pakistani-American Association (NCPAA) promotes Pakistani culture to all the communities in the Triangle Area of NC. Several events are presented during the year including a family dinner on the second Friday of every month.

For Further Details: payamber@ncpaa.org www.ncpaa.org Pratham - Triangle Area Pratham is a grass-roots organization that works towards universalizing primary education in India. It is one of the largest NGOs in field of literacy movement in India. Pratham 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.”

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS Professional Indians’ Association PIA is a meetup that serves young South Asian professionals in the Triangle Community. The group is made of Indian professionals and grad students interested in cultural events, socializing and meeting/making friends with like-minded people around the Triangle. Monthly events include meeting at bars/restaurants, Bollywood movie nights, potlucks, Indian concerts/performances, outdoor activities, community service and volunteering. It is an opportunity for professionals to share their thoughts on respective industries, social causes, the economy and politics.

For Further Details: http://www.meetup.com/PIATriangle/ Raleigh sai Center Parthi Sai devotees of Triangle area meet every Sunday from 4 - 6 pm in the Mini-Hall of Hindu Bhavan in Morrisville. There will be Study circle, Bhajan Practice, Veda Chanting etc. during the 45 pm slot depending on the week, followed by bhajans from 5 - 6 pm. The center carries out several service activities as well, including Human Values Education (SSE) classes for the children of different age groups.

For Further Details: Rakesh Huria, President, Raleigh Sai Center at 919-244-1263 rsc.president@yahoo.com.

Ramakrishna vedanta society of nC The Society draws inspiration from the timeless, 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. Regardless of background and/or knowledge the organization welcomes participants.

For Further Details: www.vedantanc.org RTP Maharashtra Mandal The Mandal is a home away from home for Marathi-speaking people. 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 entertaining programs, and events.

For Further Details: Mohana Dighe: 919.378.1947 Sameer Mohile: 919.851.8799 www.rtpmm.org s. v. Temple of north Carolina The temple is built on over nine acres of centrally connected triangle area. This grand tribute to Lord Venkateswara and his consorts is designed to exacting standards of shilpa shasthra and features the only shrine in North America to incorporate abodes to Lord Viswaksena and Lord Sudarshana/Lord Narasimha as part of Srinivasa Parivaram. The temple rituals are performed in accordance with Pancharathra Agama Shastra.

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sahaj Marg Meditation - Triangle Area Sahaj Marg translates to “The Natural Path.” It is a simple system of Raja Yoga meditation and spiritual practice that helps one realize the ultimate potential within oneself. Regular spiritual practice under capable guidance enables aspirants to progressively experience the sublime presence of the divine in their daily lives. Sahaj Marg system of meditation is freely offered to seekers worldwide through Shri Ram Chandra Mission. In Triangle area, group meditations are held on Sunday and Wednesday.

For Further Details: (919) 303-7447 (Raj Solanki) raleigh.center@gmail.com www.srcm.org, www.sahajmarg.org sahaja Meditation Ongoing meetings, seminars and workshops are available in Raleigh. There is never any charge for Sahaja Meditation instruction. RSVP in meetup: Sahaja-Meditation-Triangle-Group Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. at 9308 Fairbanks Drive Raleigh, NC. For Further Details: balaram.krishna@gmail.com 919.757.3135 www.sahajamediation.com sky Meditation and kaya kalpa yoga Benefits include longevity, wellness and stress management.

Triangle Sky Meditation group holds weekly group meditation and simplified physical exercises every Friday in Cary for those who have attended Shri Vethathiri Maharishi’s Kaya Kalpa Yoga course. Kaya Kalpa Yoga Courses are held several times a year for anyone 14 years and above.

For Further Details: 919-830-9764 vikram.renganathan@gmail.com www.vethathiri.edu.in south Indian Fine Arts Academy (sIFAA) SIFAA is a non-profit organization that works to arrange and promote concerts and performances in the Triangle and Triad areas, concentrating on Carnatic music.

For Further Details: 919.773.1580 www.sifaa.org 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.

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS 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: nctga00@gmail.com www.nctga.org Triangle Rang Mandal Devotees of Pujya Sri Rang Avdhoot Maharaj meet every Saturday in Cary or Raleigh from 8:30 - 10:30 pm to sing devotional Dattatreya Bhajans and Datta-Bavani in a spiritual atmosphere.

Special programs are organized on Guru Purnima and Rang Jayanti and on the occasion of Pujya Sri Prem Avdhoot Bapji’s annual visit to the US. For Further Details: rangmandal@gmail.com Triangle vegetarian society (Tvs) The mission of TVS is to build a sense of community between current vegetarians and people who are interested in vegetarianism and have a forum for a discussion of issues.

For Further Details: barman@cs.unc.edu www.trianglevegsociety.org Triangle vipassana Vipassana, which means to see things as they are, is one of India’s most ancient techniques and was taught 2500 years ago as a universal remedy for universal ills. The Triangle Vipassana meditation group holds weekly group sittings in Cary and Raleigh on Thursday, Saturday, and Monday and 3-hour sitting on 3rd Sunday each month, and one day sitting once every few months for established students (those who have taken at least one ten day course). There is no charge for the course.

For Further Details: 732-213-9660 carync.sittings@gmail.com www.dhamma.org urdu Majlis Urdu Majlis, the Triangle’s Urdu Literary Society, meets monthly in the FedEx Global Education Center on the campus of UNC Chapel Hill. Meetings include discussions of the life and works of major South Asian poets as well as opportunities to share original poetry and other writing. Urdu Majlis is co-sponsored by the Carolina Asia Center and the South Asia Section of the UNC Dept. of Asian Studies. It is an intellectual endeavor with no political or religious affiliations.

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vaishnav samaj of Triangle Area A group of like-minded devotees who meet for religious worship and understand Pushti Marg Principles at large. Regular Bhajan recitations are held 2nd Sunday of the month from 4-6 pm and Seniors are requested to encourage youngsters to participate in the activities.

For Further Details: Arvindbhai Shah 919.233.7677 Vithalbhai Shah 919.467.4254 vibha Vibha is dedicated to creating a brighter future for underprivileged children. The Raleigh Action Center has a group of energetic and enthusiastic volunteers from varied backgrounds, including working professionals and students. This group came together through a strong belief in Vibha’s mission and resolved to create a positive societal impact in India. The group works to organize social events that spread awareness and raise funds to further the organization’s mission.

For Further Details: raleigh@vibha.org http://raleigh.vibha.org.

Regional Clean Water saves lives Clean Water Saves Lives is organized by a group of determined people who want to make a difference in India by providing sustainable water projects to rural villages that suffer from access to clean water and proper sanitation. A project has been funded in Jharkhand. The organization is currently working with partner at Wells for Life on another project to set up a micro finance network in November 2015 In UP, which will also incorporate dialogue with women who are facing severe hardships and abuse.

The goal is to empower women to discuss and take action on key factors that affect their safety and health.

For Further Details: www.cleanwatersaveslives.org facebook.com/sumeraine 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 sri Mata shakthipeetham of nC The mission of this organization is to establish Sri Mata Shakthipeetham for the Hindu community of North Carolina, offer worship, and conduct pujas. Lewisville, NC. For Further Details: www.aumsrimata.org sri somesvara Temple Sri Somesvara Temple is located near Asheville at 95 Mount Soma Blvd., Clyde, NC 28721. There are regular pujas, aarti, and special events. Major festivals are celebrated.

For Further Details: 828.476.4073 / www.srisomesvara.org.

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS south Carolina American south Asian Cultural Assoc. of Columbia, sC The Association’s fundamental goal is to increase cultural awareness and develop cultural understanding among American South Asian Community in Columbia area. A monthly Lunch meeting is held on the Second Sunday of every month between 1 to 3 pm ($9 per person charge).

For Further Details: Contact in the evenings: (803) 233-7042 (512) 547-7077.

Carolina Buddhist vihara (Greenville, sC) Regular beginner meditation program conducted by a Buddhist Monk. Activities are held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings: 6:30 pm (puja), 7 pm (meditation), and 8 pm (“Dhamma” talk or discussion). A “youth program” is also held once a month.

For Further Details: dhammasc@hotmail.com

Telugu Association of Greater Greenville The Telugu Association of Greater Greenville, SC, serves the Telugu community of the Greenville/Spartanburg area of South Carolina. The group sponsors several events throughout the year.

For Further Details: www.taggsc.org vedic Center of Greenville The Center is located at 499 Bethel Road in Mauldin, S.C. 29662.

Daily Aarti is conducted Monday to Friday at 8 pm. Bal Vihar classes are conducted Sundays from 11:15 am - 12:30 pm. Sri Venkateshwara Suprabhatam is held on 2nd Sat of month at 9 am.

For Further Details: 864.967.2852 send your organization’s events and happenings to saathee by the 15th of the month and we will publish them here in the Community organizations section in the following month’s issue as well as online. send to: saatheemag@hotmail.com

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Hanahan TableTennis Training Center There are no membership fees of any kind to play at HTTTC. Free open play and training, USATT league. Informal free coaching as time permits. Open to all levels of players from recreational to competitive. The center is located at City of Hanahan Gym, 1255 Yeamans Hall Rd., Hanahan, SC (Adjacent to Police Station).

For Further Details: www.ttHanahan.com Hindu society of Greater spartanburg The daily Aarti is at 7:00 p.m., Balvihar classes are conducted from 10 - 11:45 am on scheduled Sundays, and Satsang is on second Sunday every month from 5 - 7 pm. Temple is located on 1130 Fairview Church Road in Boiling Springs, SC 29303.

For Further Details: 864.599.7048 Hindu Temple and Center (Columbia, sC) The temple is located at 5704 Kiawah Road, Columbia, South Carolina 29212. It is open on weekdays between 8:30 am to 12 noon and between 5 pm and 8:30 pm. On weekends, the temple is open between 8:30 am to 1:00 pm and 5 pm to 8:30 pm. Bal Gokulam (Sunday School) classes are held every Sunday from 10:30 am to 12:00 noon. Classes are designed to help children build physical, mental, cultural, social & spiritual lives.

Contact: 803.772.6940 www.hindutemplesc.org India Assoc. of Greater Charleston (IAGC) The IAGC was founded in Charleston to bring together people who were interested in India and to provide a forum to increase the understanding of the heritage of India in US. For Further Details: http://www.indiaassociationofgreatercharleston.com

Masjid noor-ul-Huda The Mosque is located at 517 Winmet Dr., Columbia, S.C. On the first and third Saturday of every month from 6 - 8 pm, Islamic session is held by Hafiz Mohammed Basheer. Quranic Reading classes are conducted daily, and everyone is encouraged to send their children to these sessions.

For Further Details: 803.749.0827 (Dr. Shami) 803.740.5127 (Qari Abdul Khader Multani) 803.754.2632 (Mosque main number)

International Fellowship Church of Greenville, sC The church offers Sunday worship services and other weekly and occasional activities for people of Indian origin.

For Further Details: 864.234.1256 (Pastor Suhas Raiborde) www.internationalfellowshipchurch.org kannada Association of Greater Greenville (kAGG) An organization devoted to the awareness and promotion of Kannada culture in the Greater Greenville area of SC. KAGG is a primarily run by volunteers and invites Kannadigas living in and around Greenville area to participate in the organization. Kannada classes for children are also conducted.

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POP’S PUZZLES & JOKES

By Kirit Shukla

Note: * denotes abbreviation of the word or phrase Clues Across: 1. The state flower of Missouri.

8. Hawaii. (*) 10. An S constellation between Scorpius and Pavo.

11. Indiana. (*) 12. A gardening tool with a rotary blade for cutting a border.

14. A garland of flowers worn about the neck in Hawaii.

15. A second request to supply goods from the same dealer.

17. The third Sunday in June set aside to honor dads.

20. Sound logical thoughts; causes or motives.

21. Ocean.

23. To cause injury, damage or pain.

24. United Airline. (*) 25. Any plant used as a medicine, seasoning or flavoring.

26. Silver. (*) (A symbol of a Chemical Element) 27. “Bill __”, An American TV comedian on CBS. 30. Reynolds American Inc. (*) 31. What or which person or persons.

32. United Automobile Workers (of America). (*)34. Senior. (*) 35. The eternal male Supreme Being; The Almighty.

37. A platform open to the sky used for leisure activities.

40. Intravenous. (*) 41. A person who travels to a shrine or holy place.

43. (Nickname) Silver State in West U.S. Cap. Carson City.

45. A female reproductive gland producing eggs.

47. A darkish color that is a blend of black and white.

48. National Association of Writers in Education. (*) 49. Delaware. (*) Saathee.com

Clues Down: 1. To extent approximately or exactly 50 % of the whole.

2. A carpet intended to cover only a part of a floor.

3. A man whose serves on table as in a restaurant.

4. Employs.

5. Burdensome; laborious.

6. Persons regarded as socially dull, awkward etc.

7. A collection of Old Norse poems made in 12th century.

8. Objective form of ‘She’.

9. Iridium. (*) (A symbol of a Chemical Element) 13. A spring that ejects steam and hot water into the air.

16. A coarse, heavy cloth of linen used in making sacks.

18. Floodgate; to bring forth a young from an egg.

19. A mystic poet of “Bhakti” and “Sufi” poems and an Indian saint. He wrote “Doha” and “Banis.”

22. To rub or wipe out; obliterate 23. Suspended; leaning over.

28. A haploid cell that quickly matures after fertilization.

29. A flowering plant, Achilles aka sanguinary, milfoil etc.

31. Well Done. (*) (Internet slang) 33. To give or forego voluntarily; postpone.

36. Upon; higher than.

38. Spirited self-assurance; enthusiasm.

39. Certified Medical Assistant. (*) 41. To give due compensation.

42. Something incidental or of secondary importance.

44. Virginia. (*) 46. Road. (*) (Puzzle solutions are on page 118. NO peeking!)

Hee Hee A wife and husband were having a quarrel as usual.

Husband: “Let’s not fight, my dear, let’s discuss it sensibly.”

Angry wife: “No, every time I discuss sensibly, I lose.”

•••••••••••••• Booddhoo: “If you sell your watches below your cost price, how can you a make profit?”

Mafatlal: “I make my profit repairing them.”

•••••••••••••• Mafatlal: “Can you spare a dollar for a cup of coffee?”

Booddhoo: “Why don’t you do something useful for a living?

You need a brain more than money.”

Mafatlal: ”I asked for what I thought you had the most of.”

•••••••••••••• A 76-year-old man applied for a job as a factory night guard.

“I don’t know if we could use you,” said the boss. “What we need is a tough character. One who is always suspicious, snooping, looking, ready to battle, bad-tempered, large and aggressive and really fiendish if excited.”

Man: “The job is not for me. But I‘ll send my wife around.”

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Word Find (Created By Kirit Shukla) (Find & circle the words in the puzzle).

(Subject: “Some Words that Start with the Letter S”)

SAATHEE SACRED SACRIFICE SAGE SAGGY SAHARA SAIL SANE SANGEET SCRABBLE SEA SEASON SECOND SET SHIVA SHORT SHUKLA SIGN SILL SILVER

SING SIT SITAR SIXTY SLITHER SLY SMELL SOMNATH SOUTH SPAN SPELL SPICE SPORT SQUARE STEEL STRANGE SUEZ SUMMER SYSTEM

The unused 3 letters spell ”The open space around Earth.”

Math Magic Use these numbers only once: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 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 next page)

EZ-BZ TEST YOUR IQ (The common letters are “IF” - Fill in the blanks)

1. One half of one hundred. _ IF _ _ 2. Explicit; precise. _ _ _ _ IF _ _ 3. A sharp edged cutting instrument with a handle. _ _ IF _ 4. Integrated File System. (*) IF _ 5. To exalt and honor (God), as in worship. _ _ _ _ IF _ 6. A homeless child; a stray animal. _ _ IF 7. A person who brings a suit in a court. _ _ _ _ _ _ IF _ 8. Something of little value or importance. _ _ IF _ _ 9. To transport by an aircraft. _ _ _ _ IF _ 10. A metal lunch box. (British term for lunch). _ IF _ _ _ 11. A class of corn bearing, evergreen tree. (Pine!) _ _ _ IF _ _ 12. The title of the religious head of Islam. _ _ _ IF 13. Not definite; containing doubtful elements.

IF_ _ 14. The initial vertical takeoff of a rocket. _ IF _ _ _ _ 15. The chief law-enforcement officer of a county. _ _ _ _ IF _ 16. A married woman in her relation to her husband. _ IF _ 17. The attester of the truth of (something). (law) _ _ _IF _ _ _ 18. Instrument Flight Rule. (*) IF _ 19. Contemptuous; disdainful. _ _ IF _ _ 20. To enclose a present in a decorative paper. _ IF _ _ _ _ _ 21. Reduction In Force. (*) (Of Government employees). _ IF 22. To make void; annul. _ _ _ _ IF _ 23. A mythical monster with the body and hind legs of a lion and the head, wings and claws of an eagle . _ _ IF _ _ _ 24. A region of SW Morocco: (Spanish province).

IF _ _ 25. The act of raising to a higher level. _ _ _ IF _ (Puzzle solutions are on next page. NO peeking!)

Kirit Shukla Contact him at kiritsshukla@hotmail.com

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Festivals & Holidays

FESTIVALS & HOLIDAYS

June 2015 Jun. 2 - Vat Sāvitri Vrata ends Jun. 2 - Kabir Jayanti Jun. 2 - Vrata Purnima (Full Moon) Jun. 3 - Shabb-e-Barāt Jun. 3 - Guru Govindsingh Jayanti Jun. 11 - Yogini Ekādasi Jun. 14 - Flag Day Jun. 16 - Darsha Amās (No Moon) Jun. 17 - Adhik Purushottam Mās (month) starts Jun. 18 - Ramadan starts Jun. 21 - Fathers Day Jun. 28 - Kamalā Ekādasi

Puzzle Solutions

July 2015 Jul. 2 - Adhik Mās (Month) Vrata Purnima (Full Moon) Jul. 4 - Independence Day (USA) Jul. 9 - Shahādate Hazrat Ali Jul. 12 - Kamalā Ekādasi Jul. 13 - Lailat-al-Qadar Jul. 16 - Adhik Purushottam Mās ends/Amās (No Moon) Jul. 18 - Eid-al-fitar/Ramzān Eid/Ramadan ends Jul. 18 - Ratha Yātrā Jul. 27 - Devapodhi Ekādasi (Chaturmās starts) Jul. 29 - Jayā Pārvati Vrata starts Jul. 31 - Guru Purnima (Full Moon)

Math Magic

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ASTROSCOPE

General Predictions for June 2015

ARIEs (Mar 20- Apr 20) - This month’s focus: take care of your health. You may see minor ups and downs this month due to unexpected changes in the circumstances.

Dispute with your partner is also possible. June should start with success, but obstacles in the middle of the month may disturb your project. If you make intelligent decisions, the month should end with great achievements. You will regain your confidence and your sixth sense will start working again during last week of the month.

Try to control your sentiments and anger to avoid social problems.

lIBRA (sep 23 - oct 23) - Life should fly this month. It is very important that you keep pace with it and make quick decisions. Your creativity may be at par this. You may enjoy a very happy marriage life. Traveling should be very enjoyable. Sixth sense should guide your money-making activities. You may see a minor setback during last days of the month. Avoid involvement of your family in your venture. Rise in status or change in career is clearly indicated. It is strongly recommended to look for changes and accept them.

TAuRus (Apr 20 - May 21) - If you can compromise with your dreams and focus on your education, you may enjoy both achievement and success this month. You may need to move aggressively. Ignore other minor issues and focus on your long-term goal. Try to take maximum benefit of favors from the stars. Do not wait till last week of the month, as the time is taking turn during last days of the month. Be prepared for businessrelated travel. Gambling and risk taking in business may bring unbelievable good results for you, but they may damage your relations with loved ones.

sCoRPIo (oct 23 - nov 22) - You must avoid making any major move this month. Act very cautiously as any mistake may end up in big disaster. You may survive through, but life may turn tough on you. Your workload may go up during second half of the month. Keep working smartly and sincerely. You may enjoy good health and comfortable family life.

Time is good for working on selling investment properties. You may get involved in religious activities. Your faith may bring good luck for you. Don’t rush for result.

GEMInI (May 21 - Jun 21) - You may need to control yourself this month. Responsibilities and entertainment both should make you very busy this, although you should finish your work assignment during first half of the month, so that second half is open for fun and celebration. If health is not the issue, the stars are very positive for success and celebration.

Major changes in your religious belief is on the way, get ready for it. Rise in income and good cooperation from family members may make you comfortable and happy.

CAnCER (Jun 21 - Jul 22) - Life may start moving forward with new approach. You should get a lifetime opportunity this month and you must grab it. Unexpected financial gain or new opportunity may come your way. Keep moving with morals and self-confidence. Don’t wait or look for any support or help. Beware of same age group people, for no reason they may lead you in wrong direction. Try to curb your expenses and focus on earning extra revenue. Avoid making any investment in the stock market. Don’t forget to take care of your health. Egoistical comment may put you in hot water. lEo (Jul 22 - Aug 23) - Unexpected heavy work load during first half of the month may cause disappointment.

Try to work slow and ask for help immediately. Try to avoid taking on the work load as much as you can. Though filter intelligently, you may lose a very important opportunity during last week of the month. You may damage your eye sight by putting too many hours in front of the computer. Your sincerity may receive good appreciation during middle of the month.

Dispute with family member may build unnecessary stress. Avoid spending money on real estate this month. vIRGo (Aug 23 - sep 23) - You may witness a mixed life style this month. Time should move at average slow speed.

Uncertainty at workplace may affect your confidence. Your associates may not cooperate with you. Keep working hard to achieve desired results. Don’t rush for success. Unexpected major financial returns are possible during last week of the month.

Significant improvement in health may make your feel better this month. You may need some moral support in the beginning of the month. Avoid cheating.

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sAGITTARIus (nov 22 - Dec 21) - Now is the time to relax and enjoy family life. Your spouse may achieve good success this month. You should be able to control the situation with confidence. Your partner may also perform very well. Money may flow your way from multiple directions, though you may compromise with your morals for easy money. Period is perfect for a dream vacation. It is advisable to check your diet. You may gain some weight this month. Keep away from water areas.

Get ready to spend money and enjoy life this month.

CAPRICoRn (Dec 21 - Jan 20) - Life may start moving forward with a new approach. Unexpected financial gain or new opportunity may come your way. Keep moving with self-confidence. Don’t wait or look for any support or help, but you must work hard this month. Try to curb your expenses and focus on earning extra revenue. Avoid making any investment in real estate. Don’t forget to take care of your health. Your stubborn attitude may put you in hot water, learn to compromise for now.

AQuARIus (Jan 20 - Feb 19) - You need to clear misunderstandings at place of work to protect your career. Long distance journey with family may bring results for you. Watch your health for stomach virus. Income may keep rising slowly throughout this month. Your stars should protect you through your errors. Don’t forget to keep working hard. Don’t expect any major reward this month. Time is not good for love and romance. Avoid making any major decisions.

PIsCEs (Feb 19 - Mar 20) - Love is in the air. This month is full of joy and success. Plan enough outings and parties this month. Rise in saving is clearly indicated.

You should enjoy very comfortable family life. Students may get desired results this month. Change in your status at workplace is also possible. Your spouse may create minor problems by making rough comments. Good state of health is clearly indicated. Your child may bring good news for you. Be prepared for surprising news.

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6514 N. Tryon St. Charlotte, NC 28213 purvi prathmesh Shah

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CLASSIFIEDS C-stores: York, SC $149K + Inv, GR $1.3M; Catawba, NC $149K + Inv, Closed; Indian Restaurant for sale in nC. Well Chester, SC $30K + Inv, GR $500K+; Truck furnished, good location & good Stop / Travel Ctr: Blacksburg, SC $225K + customer base. Selling price is $175,000. Inv, GR $4.4M. 704-821-8888 or www.Countysouth.biz.

Call for details. 910-308-6665.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES:

Convenience store / Gas station for sale in Marion, NC. Great opportunity.

Lottery comm. 12-15k per month. Inside sales 35k to 45k Gas 35k to 40k Rent 800; 65k / plus inventory. Call 828-559-2059.

Convenience store for sale near Burlington NC. Ideal for couple. Nonfranchise, low rent, ATM and pizza on site.

Space for deli. Gross 25K/mo, Net 5K/mo.

Asking 55K + inv (25K). 919-358-3018. subway for sale (gross sale approximately 500,000) & other national food franchise stores for sale: Very profitable.

Busy locations in Greensboro, NC. Call 336-577-5762.

Convenience store for sale in Greensboro, NC. Good location. Asking price $55000 with inventory. Please call: 919-879-9842.

Motel operator needed: investment company looking for an experienced motel operator. required fluent English, knowledge of accounting, MS Office & hotel management software. Relocation required. Competitive salary and benefits. Invest in the property and be a partner. send resume: Email: 3945.dnm@gmail.com 16 room independent motel for sale in McCormick, SC near Augusta, GA, Price $290k. Call Sam 706-401-0974.

Convenience store / Gas station with property for sale or lease in Columbia, SC. Good business. Call 803-397-3104.

Convenience store with Deli / Gas Station for Lease or Sale in Hiddenite, NC. Call or text for info: 917-892-3929.

Businesses for sale in Ohio area. Call Atul Shah for details: 614-216-9094.

Convenience stores/Gas stations for lease or sale in NC. Great opportunities with upside potential.

Only serious inquiries; must have capital for goodwill / inventory. Please call 803-789-3133.

C-store & Gas station for sale: very busy through way in Matthews NC. High margin & very profitable, good terms call 704-604-4506.

Independent motel for sale or lease in Albany, GA. Owner retiring. Call 803230-4900.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES: Housekeeping couple needed for Motel in Rocky Mount, NC. Accommodation provided. Call 321794-0950.

Motel Help Wanted: Couple needed for housekeeping for independent motel in Greenville, South Carolina. Contact 864517-9587.

Help wanted: Gas Station in Thomasville, NC (High Point / Greensboro area). Full or part-time.

Contact Manoj 704-222-8998.

Tandoor / Appetizer cook needed in Fayetteville, NC. Start immediately, accommodations provided. Salary based on evaluation of skill level. For job description call 910-308-6665.

Hotel help in Greensboro nC. Single or couple for front desk or front desk/laundry. Fluent English and legal status required. Call JR 336-558-8195.

Household help needed: Looking for couple in Greensboro area to help clean and cook.

Great salary plus accommodation. Call 336-392-4771 or Email khan1889@yahoo.com. nanny needed in Charlotte (Southpark) for 3 & 5 year olds. 1pm-8pm, Mon -Fri. Must drive, cook, & do light housekeeping. Competitive pay. 408833-8820.

Motel Job needed for front desk & management for experienced mature couple in NC with accommodation.

Fluent in English. Computer literacy.

Contact Subash 908-456-1059. nanny Required full-time (Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM) to take care of our 3 month old at our house near Arboretum. Please call to discuss further details 919-412-9954.

Pharmacist needed for an Independent Pharmacy in SC, must be licensed in SC, H1B transfer eligible, Salary + profit sharing incentive, email resume: rxcareer3@gmail.com.

Housekeeping couple needed for independent motel, Gastonia, NC. Accommodations provided. Call 626274-7828.

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Help wanted for Subway in Easley, SC. Must speak English & have legal status.

Single or couple. Call 864-908-8479.

Convenience store Help Wanted: North Charlotte / University area. Retail Experience Preferred. Speak English & have legal status. Part time or full time.

Please Call 856-266-5059.

Part-time/Full-time single or Couple: Needed ASAP for a convenience store / gas station in Gaffney, SC. Must speak English & have legal status & previous experience preferred. Call 704-726-7544 or 864-487-4939.

Experienced nanny needed full time or live-in, Cary, NC for 2 small children.

Excellent pay & accommodation. Need immediately, driving required. 919-371-2649.

Cashier Wanted: Part time or full time for C-store/gas station in Rockhill, SC. Call Hasmukh Patel 704-907-5884.

Hotel Help Wanted: Charlotte.

Competitive salary and accommodations provided. General / property manager (experience required), night auditor (experience preferred but will train). Must be fluent in English.

Email 123nash@gmail.com Gas station Help Wanted: Couple, fulltime in McCormick, SC (near Greenwood & Augusta) & Lincolnton, GA. Must speak fluent English & have legal status. Good pay. Please call 704299-8535. subway & store help wanted in Greensboro NC. Single or couple full / part time. Must speak fluent English, have computer knowledge & legal status. Please call Bailey 704-737-1555.

Hotel Management Firm now Hiring: House keepers, 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).

Eyebrow threader needed for Brow Studio 7 at Concord Mills Mall (Charlotte area). Please Call: 630-935-9335.

Baby-sitter needed full-time Mon-Fri in South Charlotte at our home or yours for 7 month old. Call 704-458-4607.

Dance Instructors wanted for Indian dance from Classical to energetic Bollywood (BollyFit). Red Bow is a boutique studio in Charlotte (University area). Contact: info@RedBowFitness.com or 704-246-5434.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES CONT: Domestic help needed for Gujarati family in Rock Hill SC. Excellent cooking & cleaning skills required. Benefits include competitive salary & allowance for rent.

Must be legal US resident & able to drive.

Call 803-448-4820.

Experienced live-in or full time nanny wanted in Cary, NC for 2 small children.

Excellent pay & accommodation. Need immediately, driving required. 919-371-2649.

Housekeeping couple needed for independent motel in Troy, NC. At least one should speak little English. Call 336-267-9826. nanny needed near Fort Mill, SC (29707). Please call between 9AM & 6PM. 704-550-1845.

Gas station help wanted: Full time in Kannapolis NC. Ten minutes north to Charlotte. Must speak English. Call Sam 704-467-6891.

Experienced Threading Practitioners or licensed Esthetician in Charlotte & Raleigh. New locations now open. Full or part-time. Great pay and flexibility.

Experience required. Good English skills.

Please call 980-322-1110 (M-F 9-5). night Audit / Front desk help wanted for Franchise motel, Charlotte. Full-time / Part-time. Must have experience, be honest, reliable & fluent in English. Call Nina 704-299-3364.

Housekeeping couple needed for franchise motel in Richburg, SC call 803-230-3000.

Energetic Couple needed: For multiple hotel properties, need couple with ability to do light maintenance and room inspection/laundry, fluent in English, some computer skills required.

Accommodations provided. E-mail: hotel.raleigh@gmail.com.

Help needed for cooking and household chores 2-3 hrs. a day, 5 times a week in Huntersville area (Eastfield rd.). Contact 704-968-5571.

PROPERTY FOR SALE For sale or lease. Medical Building in Gastonia 10000 sq ft. Great investment opportunity close to Gaston Memorial Hospital. Call 704-467-3632.

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SERVICES Beauty Parlor in Columbia and Charlotte area: Waxing, Threading, Bridal Henna, Facial. Call for appointment: 704-526-8707.

Beauty parlor services near Ballantyne, Mckee, Weddington 485 Exit 57 Providence Rd area. Call for appointment: 510-936-3334.

Homemade Gujarati style vegetarian food available in the Charlotte university area. Everyday meals for tiffin like roti. Pani Puri order accepted.

Call 980-875-7289.

Gujarati speaking couple available to work as motel house keeper around Charlotte area. Permanent resident.

Please call 704-755-5860.

To all Guajarati families: I am student interested learning everything Gujarati (culture, food, language, etc). If willing to add an additional house member Call Nik 803-579-1405.

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: 336-486-7925 E-Mail: kishor7@juno.com Mehandi (Henna): Award-winning artist in the Chapel Hill / Durham, NC area specializes in Mehandi parties.

Perfect for weddings, birthdays & gettogethers. Creative & beautiful art!

Contact: Krishna Priya Dasi: 919-8247734; krsnapriyad96@gmail.com; www.lotuslyrics.com/henna.html; Facebook: Krishna Priya Dasi Dholi For Hire: Plays the Dhol (drum) for any occasion! Classes Available!

Barat, Doli, Graduation, Birthdays, Baby Showers & any other festivity.

Affordable rates! Call Arpan Bhandari 704-843-7202 or email: arpandholi@yahoo.com vaibhavi’s Beauty Parlor: Charlotte Ballantyne area in Stone Creek Ranch.

Offering Waxing, Facials, and Threading. Please call or text for appointment 843-465-6048.

Astrologer With Gold Medals - Jayanti Lad- Contact for Health, Wealth, Relationship, Child, Enemies, Court Cases, Marriage, Job, Business, Vastu Problems, Preparing & Matching Horoscope. Call 919-463-5180 or Jayantinlad@yahoo.com 123

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. Makeup Artist in Cary, NC. Specializing in Bridal / Wedding / Proms / Photo Shoot / Arabian / Indian & Pakistani. Call: 563-495-3789 or email: egbineleso@gmail.com Priest Available for the following 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 704438-6334.

Hindu Priest: All kinds of puja.

Including: havan, katha, weddings, graha pravesh, funeral services & Shraadh. In Hindi, English & Tamil.

Call Balaji 704-877-6320 or 704-545-7220 or e-mail: priestbalaji@gmail.com Pretty Face - Indian beauty parlour.

Threading, facials, waxing etc conveniently located at Ballantyne /South Charlotte area. Please call for appointment 704-726-8928. live band for Garba / Raas, Wedding songs, bhajans... Call 704-568-8206. neeta’s Beauty Parlor: Charlotte area open 7 days a week. Full service. Call for appointment. 704-968-0270.

Pari Beauty In Matthews: Threading, Waxing, Facials, massage for new born and mom & other services. 25 years of experience. Special Deals & Great Service. Call: 704-846-7912.

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Advertisers Index 2015 MetLife South Asian Spelling Bee..................3

Desai, Rajarshi (CPA, PLLC) .................................85

Passage To India - Fine Indian Cuisine..................79

Aayan Creations ..................................................53

Devam Jewelers ...............................................6&7

Patel Brothers (Charlotte)...................................115

Access Realty & Funding (Chandravadan Shah)....53

Digital Room Photography ...................................99

Patel, Champa (Real Estate).................................84

Accounting Solutions (Muhammad Kamran Awan) .87

DJ Desi (Amit Vasi) ..............................................63

Patel, Mrugesh (Law Offices)................................41

All Car Care.........................................................72

DJ Lalit .............................................................119

Patel, Tony (Real Estate).....................................113

Anand, Versha (Real Estate) .................................41

Eshaan Jewelers .................................................27

Pathak, Atul (Real Estate) .....................................23

Anil Bedi & Associates PC (CPA & Consultants) ....37

Fairview Home Mortgage...................................125

Payal Groceries .................................................105

Apna Travels (Morrisville)......................................61

Friends Travel ......................................................93

Peacock Indian Cuisine (Charlotte) .....................101

Aroma Indian Cuisine (Charlotte area) ..................95

Gandhi International Market.................................91

Persis Indian Grill...............................................103

Around The World Market Charlotte......................75

Geological Resources, Inc..................................113

Puja Boutique (Charlotte) ...................................121

Art Of Living Retreat.............................................57

Global Mall / Legacy Jewels ..............................127

Rajbhog Foods ..................................................119

Ashwini Kathak Dance Academy..........................17

H2 Laser & Skin ..................................................19

Rajdeep Video & Photography (Ramesh Panjabi)...51

Asian Divas ( Makeup Artist/ Beauty Salon)...........69

Halal Yafa Market & Café .....................................19

Ritu Selects - India Inspired Couture.....................23

Asiana Fusion.Sushi ............................................77

Highborn LED Lights & Signs ...............................45

Robert Brown LLC (Oza, Rishi: Immigration Law) ..118

Aspect Commerical Realty (Prashant Parmar).......69

Hindu Center Charlotte (Events) ......................64-67

Roop Beauty (Pooja Patel)..................................111

Austin Village Eye Care (Dr. Keshav Bhat)..............97

Idolize Brows & Beauty ......................................51

S S Event Services (Event planning, Photo, Video).85

AY Datamatics (Hadoop Training).........................63

India Grocers (Charlotte) ......................................22

Saffron Restaurant and Catering ........................105

Ayesh Mian (Wedding Planning and Décor) ........109

International Community Church .........................56

Shah, Anish (Real Estate)...............................48-49

BallantyneTech Academy .....................................21

Jaipur Indian Restaurant (Charlotte)......................43

Shah, Kirti (CPA - Sepa Consulting) ....................32

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Charlotte)........55

K & M Accountant................................................85

Shah, Suvas (Home Loans - Angel Oak) ...............61

Barot, Tushar (Statefarm) ...................................125

Kapur, Meetika (Real Estate - Allen Tate)...............43

Shining Star Academy..........................................42

Bashyam & Spiro LLP (Immigration Law)..............81

KD Financial & KMD Realty ..................................89

Shukla, Kirit (Music Lession & Band) ....................99

Bhindi Jewellers ................................................2

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

Shyama Beauty Parlour .....................................105

Bipin & Smita Parekh (Real Estate).......................87

Kirti Shah CPA .....................................................10

Simple Pinless.....................................................25

Blakeney Dental ...............................................111

Krut Systems (LED, Signs, Solar) ..........................31

Singh Tutoring .....................................................16

Blooming Buds..................................................125

Kumon Charlotte (University City) .......................121

SJ Iyer Reatly ...................................................111

Bombay Grille (Charlotte) .....................................38

LED Lights (Smart Energy Solutions-Hari Bol Inc)126

Sleep Inn (Charlotte) ...........................................56

British International School of Charlotte ................21

Lonestar Video Production & Photography............61

S. Charlotte Endocrinology (K. Narasimhan, MD)...82

Carolina Law Group (Monty Desai) .......................47

Maadhurya Photography......................................71

Sri Aurobindo Center SE (Integral Yoga Retreat) ....15

Carolina Wedding Belle (Event Design & Décor)..114

Maharani Restaurant .........................................109

Sukhadia's Indian Cuisine....................................82

CaroMont Medical Group (Dr. Manu Patel)..........109

Malani Jewelers ................................................128

Thakkar, Beena (Realty)..................................28-29

Challa Law Offices, PLC (Immigration)..................63

Malaya Kitchen (Charlotte) ...................................16

The Blue Taj.........................................................35

Charlotte Chess Club .........................................77

Mathur, Gitanjali (Allen Tate Realtors)....................33

Travel Universe ....................................................39

Charlotte Eye Ear Nose & Throat .........................80

Matthews Family Dentistry ..................................78

Travelinks ............................................................69

Charlotte Music School........................................83

Meena Jewelers Jewelers (Zaveri Bazaar) .............9

Trimurti Temple Devasthanam (Charlotte).......12&13

Chaupatti (Casual Indina Kitchen - Charlotte)........83

Merrill Lynch (Monica Vadhear) ..........................99

Ttravel Guru ........................................................76

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MyTripFare (Travel agent).....................................51

Tyagi, Rita (Real Estate)........................................15

Concha, David (Immigration Attorney)...................97

Nagpal, Sunil (MetLife).........................................54

Uni World Travel...................................................41

Concord Children's Clinic ................................101

Nationwide Ins. (Maqsood Khan) ..........................71

Vallabh Pushti Samaj of Carolinas (VPSC).............59

Copper................................................................35

Neeta's Beauty Parlor ........................................109

Vemuri, Krishna (Realor).......................................61

County South Realty & Business Brokers..............93

North American Bancard ......................................5

Vyas Travels.........................................................46

Crown Cab Charlotte...............................19,97,101

OM Tech Training ................................................92

White Horse Weddings ......................................119

Curry and Cakes (Charlotte) .................................73

OnCall Mobile Medical and Wellness .................33

Woodlands .......................................................107

Dentist (Dr. Prashant Rao - Cedar Walk Dentistry).99

Pac N Fly (Travel Agency) .....................................37

Worldwide travels ...............................................53

Dentist (Pineville Dentistry - Lina V. Mistry, DDS) ...73

Pardasani, Kamlesh (Real Estate) .........................34

Zafran Kabab Palace (Charlotte / Pineville) ...........33

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