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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 MORE
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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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 with a FLAT World- SIPA |
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ANIKET- Bengali play- ENAD
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Dhamaal gets Spooky- SFO
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Childrens Art Day- Palo Alto
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BATA Deepawali- Palo Alto |
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"Hands across the Lake" Fremont 50th Anniversary ©Sam Rao Photo
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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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