Indo American News • Friday, February 04, 2011
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Friday, February 04 2011 | Vol. 30, No. 5
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Pretty girl Minissha Lamba is the newest addition to the cast of Joker. With her inclusion, the principal star cast of this Shirish Kunder directed film is complete.
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Parade, stage show, Booths Unite Icc’s republic day
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STAFFORD: The India Culture Center of Houston commemorated the 62nd Republic Day of India on Saturday, January 29 at the New Stafford Center with celebrated one of its signature events, India Fair 2011, this year themed on India- Peace, Progress, Prosperity. Celebrations began with a parade from all the regions of India with over 225 participants in regional costumes and led by the Indian Senior Citizen’s Association. The Masala Radio Hummer followed along with kids sitting on top. The parade ended at the flag posts where the Harris County Guard of Honor saluted the Indian and American flags after their National Anthems were sung. Inside, the hall there was a stage with seating area to one side and 55 business and organization booths on the other and also in the main lobby. The Chief Guest for the event was Indian Consul General Sanjiv Arora who acknowledged the association with ICC and appreciated the theme chosen for the event and also delivered excerpts from the President of India’s address to the nation. The Event Chair and ICC Treasurer Hemant Patel welcomed the audience and spoke about the spirit of Republic Day. Outgoing President Swapan Dhairyawan in his message thanked all the organizations with whom ICC has collaborated in 2010. Per the ICC tradition of honoring and recognizing Indo Americans; this year awards were earmarked to Medical Professionals in Community Service and awarded to Dr Jay Chavda, Dr K T Shah, Dr Rakesh Mangal and Dr Sudha Rajan and were handed out by Arora. The incoming ICC President Col Raj
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Bhalla connected with the gathering instantly with his and humor. He spoke about the membership cards to ICC members, Memorandum of Understanding with India House and continuing the trend of improving and bettering Signature events of 2011. The formal program was emceed by Charlie Patel and Nisha Mirani (chair for the event and VP of Gujarati Samaj).
The cultural program was coordinated by ICC Vice President Surender Talwar and ICC Secretary Jasmeeta Singh who choreographed the ICC Idol and ICC Boogie Boogie Show. The cultural program had fillers from local dance schools, music schools and one of the highlights was playing an episode from Nal Damyanti, the play produced by JVB Preksha Center last year. The ICC Idol was broken into Solo Dancing, Solo Singing and Instrumental categories. The ICC Boogie Boogie was categorized by Group Singing and Group Dancing. There were 142 participants in dancing and 34 participants in singing. The talent displayed from ages 6 to 20 in various categories was tremendous. The ICC Idol solo singing winners were Hardik Jani (First), Raghavendra Prabhakar (Second) & Saloni Salvi (Third). The ICC solo dance winners were Hasina Sadiwala (First), Geetika Sinha (Second) and
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Amita Batra (Third). The ICC Boogie Boogie Group competition winners were Desi Madrasi (First), Desi Kalakar (Second) and Chamakte Sitare (Third). By ICC estimates, over 2400 people attended the event. The sponsors for the event were Texas Jasmine, New York Life, Hindus of Greater Houston, MD & Associates LLP, United Central Bank, Medinet, Air n U Cool and various ICC Directors.
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For more details visit www. icchouston.org more photos in collage on pages 12 & 13
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Suresh Shah pushes his way to the finish line of the Houston Marathon on Sunday, Jan. 30, in a time of 3:30:21 better than many younger than him. Approximately 22,000 runners participated this year. Photo: Houston Chronicle, James Nielsen
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