Interviews with co-chairs
Interviews with host committee members
Spotlight on excellence awards
Preview of Lokvani 10 celebration

(This article is sponsored by Attorney Trupti Patel)

Founder of Hindi Manch, Preetesh Shrivastava has brought a new energy to the Boston Indian American cultural scene. An artist, who Lokvani will recognize at the the Lokvani@10 celebrations on Sep. 9, for receiving the Spotlight on Excellence Award in the Amazing Artist category, Srivastava talked to Lokvani about his interests. [more]

(This article is sponsored by Emerson Hospital)

Real estate is all about location, condition and price. Properties in desirable locations in good condition that are priced accordingly to market conditions in that particular location are still selling well and, in some cases, with multiple offers for the property" - says Sonit Seth, of RE/MAX Real Estate. [more]

(This article is sponsored by Monique Kornfeld, Esq.)

Indian Bollywood Icon, Shammi Kapoor passed at the age of 79 on August 14, 2011. He will be remembered for his flamboyant style and energetic dance moves that charmed movie-goers of all generations. [more]

(This article is sponsored by Russian School of Math)

IAGB launched its 50th Anniversary Celebration at the Annual Independence Day event held at the Hatch Memorial Shell on Aug. 14. The highlight of the event was a special thematic Unity in Diversity program created in honor of the 50th Anniversary that brought together groups representing all parts of India and paid tribute to the great leaders. [more]

(This article is sponsored by Mumbai Chopstix)

With an impressive resume of resoundingly successful musical events paying tribute to legendary artistes such as music composer O.P. Nayyar and Geeta Dutt, Siraj and his team pulled together yet another such event, this time with the famous Bollywood playback singer, Sharda, a living legend performing live on stage at Shaam-e-Sharda. The very same Sharda who became a household name overnight in 1966 and with the sensational hit number: Titli Udi, Ud jo chali ...from the film "Suraj". [more]

(This article is sponsored by Prashant H. Fadia Foundation)

The American India Foundation hosted its second annual "Reach for the Sky" event on August 6th at Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor to support AIF's signature Learning and Migration Program which provides educational services to children of migrant workers in India. [more]

It was an inspired performance by Sriram Gangadharan at Maruthi Temple, Andover, MA on the evening of July 31st, and Sriram treated the audience to a high quality electrifying music from start to finish. Sriram Gangadharan is an “A” grade artist in both vocal and instrumental (flute) categories with All India Radio and has won numerous awards, titles and accolades over the years for outstanding performances in December Music Festival in Chennai over the years. [more]

Monica enthralled the audience by her scintillating performance. Each of the items performed, clearly reflected the several years of hard work and training invested by this young dancer under the meticulous guidance of her guru Ranjani Saigal. [more]

TIE-SE held its August meeting at the MassChallenge incubator in Boston on August 8th. Eric Dawson, Founder and President, Peace First, Sharad Anil Parajuli, Founder and Director, Himalyan Health Care (HHC) and Peter Haas, Founder Fifty Frogs and AIDG shared their journeys and provided insights into scaling social enterprises. [more]

On July 25th, Representative Jay Kaufman spoke at the event “You Too Can be President”. This event was organized by Saatvik Ahluwalia, 21, Lexington High School graduate, and a rising senior in the undergraduate program at Boston University. [more]

ATASK is once again getting ready for their Annual Silk Road Gala on October 22 at Sheraton Boston. ATASK began with the vision of founder Reverend Tan 25 years ago. [more]

The Center for Indic Studies at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth saw the conclusion of a unique international symposium on Science, Vedanta and Foundations of Physics devoted to examining the foundations of physics, especially quantum mechanics from the perspective of Vedantic philosophy and metaphysics. [more]

When I heard my cue for my Pushpanjali, I pumped myself for my once in a lifetime experience, my Arangetram. Though I was hyperventilating and fidgeting, I allowed my legs to propel me on stage gracefully. At first it felt as though it was another dance practice with the musicians at my Guru,Smt. Jothi Raghavan’s house. [more]

Narahari Bharadwaj of Plano, TX, correctly spelled the word ‘schindylesis’ during the 2011 South Asian Spelling Bee Finals to clinch the title of National Champion. During the event on August 12, Narahari along with 19 other finalists competed for the title. Stuti Mishra from West Melbourne, FL was the first runner-up and Chetan Reddy from Plano, TX was the second runner-up. [more]

Human life is invariably tragic with divine discontent. We always look for something more and for that matter even the sky is not the limit. [more]

Naturalized citizens consider this country as their home, just like those born here and spend many years of their valuable lives, toiling hard to earn the privilage to be called "Americans". They pay taxes, buy homes, invest in the economy and their children attend schools here. They should therefore be offered the same opportunity to put their 'tears and sweat' to good use. [more]

The leading and able members of society must come forward and take charge to help resolve the problems world is facing today. It is actually they who have made this mess in the first place. [more]

PepsiCo India has partnered with Akshaya Patra, a non-governmental organization that is providing freshly prepared nutritious lunch to more than 1.2 million underprivileged school children every day during the school year, in 18 locations, across eight states in India. [more]

Tiger Trust India is partnering with Clemson University to organize a conference to bring awareness to the issue of dwindling of the Tiger populations in India. Students attending the conference will be eligible to apply for a wonderful nature camp in India that will expose them to techniques to help the tigers. [more]

Catch up, register and purchase tickets for the events and concerts during this upcoming fortnight including Lokvani@10, Malladi and Gundecha Brothers, Sir Syed Mushaira, Euphoria, Krishna Trishna, UstadeMaa Zila Khan, Pratham Boston Gala and Saheli Second Annual Gala. [more]

Congratulations to Kishore Balsara, who was the winner of the last set of puzzles. Here is one easy puzzle for students and one for adults. [more]

Market and Obama.. [more]

(This article is sponsored by Sounds Of India)

Over the years, almost all the well known and relatively unknown music directors composed music for Shammi’s films. Many of these films were musically acclaimed and gave us some gems that we treasure and that bring us gladness or sadness and a smile to our face or a lump in our throat, tug at our heartstrings or get our feet tapping! [more]

A guy says to his friend, "Guess how many coins I have in my pocket." The friends says, "If I guess right, will you give me one of them?" The first guys says, "If you guess right, I'll give you both of them!" [more]

Canned lotus stem is combined with presoaked chick peas and cranberries, while adding all the pickle ingredients like fenugreeek seeds, ginger, garlic, turmeric and red chilli powders, salt, lime juice and cracked black peppercorn and black mustard seeds along with nigella seeds. [more]

This city in India is famous for its rocks. Can you guess? [more]

The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints. ~Samuel Hendel. [more]