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HAPPY DEEPAWALI
& NEW YEAR !!
Interestingly- Celebrated on A New Moon- it also heralds in
Ramadan or ramazan and Halloween
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 ESSAY & ART
CONTEST- (CLICK)
Organized by Sam Rao ~ Indian-American.Org
Entries being Accepted. ALL AGES
300 wors Essay and/or Art Work
THEME My pride in our
Heritage & Culture of India Or
THEME What Gandhi means to
me?
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Hijab wearing Afghani Woman shot Dead in
Fremont SF Bay Area
A Hijab (head covering) wearing Afghani woman was shot dead in Fremont
in broad daylight at abot 3PM.
Th motive is not clear but chillls has gone down the immigrant
community and community at large.
First a killing in broad daylight is bad esp in a "safe city"
like Fremont Second, if a Hate Crime- ALL Asian and
Miidle Easterna and NOT JUST Muslim Women are targets.
As Indian Muslim women as wel as many other wear Hijabs. plus Amny
Hindus, Sikhs wear Salwar Punjabi dress- with head covered.
It should be apparent to most people that the hate Crime
perpertrators are really not the most knowlegeable- so they would
easily "mistake" their targets.
This was clear at the Memorial service and also as many calls
and community action to counter this has started taking pace
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Alia Ansari Memorial, Fremont, CA
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Sunnyvale Diwali draws 10,000
Sunnyvale Diwali on Friday Oct 21 to Sunday Oct 23- drew about 10,000 .
Though the daytime activities were sparsely attended, attendance
picked up each evening for the Bollywood music show.
Singer Debojit on Friday went well with audience tho' star Abhijeet was
his arrogant self on Saturday and sang ONLY his won songs but redeemed
himself with the audience by accepting requests etc and singing Old
Kishore Kumar, Rafi favorites asw ell.
Unfortuneately, seem most of the NRI's with kids and ffamily continue
to view the Bollywood dose including the Childrens programs- which has
an overdose of Bollywood songs and dances- as the ONLY CULTURAL &
HERITAGE FIX of INDIA.
Most almost 75% of the audience did not even bother to go to the
Temple portion and were content to stay in the Mela and concert portion
of the premises.
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"Gandhi
Giri" Alive & Well In SF Bay Area
Nearly 300 Adults & children celebrate Gandhi day in Fremont
Main Library
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Community Reaction " WHAT GANDHI MEANS TO ME" Interview-
MP3 ( Click)
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:
SANIA
MIRZA India's #1 Womens Tennis
Player
MP3
(Click Here)
Islamic
Masjid Hold Open House in Fremont and Santa Clara In
a
community
Building Exercies, the Sunni mosques in SF Bay area opened their
premises to the community
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"Gandhi Giri" in Fremont, CA
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OCT 27: Ex Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh
Heckled
Ex Foreign Minser
Jaswant Singh, presumeably on his book promotion tour, was hecked and
protested by a group of Sikh and other activists at UC Berkeley's
International House.
While the Sikh group protested BJP's " allege interfenence in Sikh
matters and repreented the Mann faction in Punjab India- others wanted
to protest Gnocide in Gujarat- re: the communnal riots of 2002..READ
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OCT 27: Spoony Singh- Hollywood Pioneer dies
Spoony Singh (83)
died few days before his 84th birthday. Singh was the proud owner for
over 40 years of the Hollywood Wax museum on Hollywood Blvd.The museum was open
Feb 10, 1965 and remained an very popular tourist destination
Although peoples fascination with wax figures is sort of wierd but is
accepted as normal because of museusms like Spoonys andd Madam Taussad's
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OCT 24: India's Finance
Misiter Chidambaram visits Silicon Valley followed by Ex
Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh Silicon Valley will
see couple of powerful Indian
politicians and lawmakers visit this weekend.
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LA
Yoga Guru Bikram Choudhury fined $8000 by Los Angeles City Bikram Choudhury- the
LA Yoga Guru who
specializes in teaching "HOT YOGA" was fined $8000 by Los Angeles City
officials
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OCT
18th-Mumbai Cricketer Officially Wears West Indies Uniform in ICC Champions Trophy Cricket match !!
In
India, Cricket history
was made when an severely under manned West
Indies team used a LOCAL
CRICKETER as a fielder for the
West Indies Team!
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MORE SLIDE SHOWS
& PHOTO ESSAYS
- Fremont
City 50th Anniversary
- VIBHA Walk 2006-
Mt. View
- Hindu Sangam 2006-
Cupertino Draws 10,000
- 4th JULY
PARADe- Fremont
- Ganesh Utsav-
SF Bay area
- Asian INDIAN-American Day- Milpitas
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Oct 25-28: |
9th Annual UN
Film Festival- Stanford
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Halloween
Costume Party-NonStop Bhangra
Collective
Avalon-Sunnyvale
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Asha's
Images of India- UC Berkeley
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Coping
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ANIKET- Bengali
play- ENAD
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Dhamaal gets
Spooky- SFO
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Oct 29: |
Childrens Art
Day- Palo Alto
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Ek Shaam Pratham
Ke Naam- San Jose |
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BATA Deepawali-
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"Hands across the Lake"
Fremont 50th Anniversary
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The City of Fremont Celebrated its 50th
anniversary in 2006.
The city whch came about after 5 townships agreed to join and become
one city in 1956 from Mission San Jose; Irvington; Warm springs;
Centerville and Niles Townships.
City Councilmember Anu Natarajan- the only Indian-American
serving in a City council in SF Bay area, was the Chair of the mega
event on Sept. 9th and 10th. at Lake Elizabeth Pake .
The city of Fremont has about 210,000 population and has
slowly become nearly 50^ minoroties, non caucasian wit Asians (
Chinese, Indians, afghanis etc) almost 40&.
With Indian-Americans making about 12% of the population
and Afghanis another 10% with a smattering of Pakistanis, the city of
Fremont has a good stamp from south Asians.
ANd there is a definite coorelation between the above AND the
Fact that Fremont is one of the LOWEST CRIME rate in the country nad
voted one of most liveable places in USa AND boasta one of the Best
school system in the State!!
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