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| Our Voice And Yours |
Couples are spending a record amount to get married! What did your wedding cost?
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| NETS Pongal Vizhaa 2017 |  |
by Arjith Jegan & Sharath Jegan
Pongal Vizhaa, one of the richest events in NETS tradition, was celebrated with full enthusiasm, energy and passion towards preserving Tamil culture and harmony. Over 1000+ patrons attended this outstanding and unique event in the New England area.
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| Akshaya Patra Annual Boston Gala |
Chef Sanjeev Kapoor will be the event's keynote speaker. HGTV and Food Network interior designer Taniya Nayak will serve as the Master of Ceremonies. American Idol finalist Sonika Vaid will entertain at the Akshaya Patra Foundation's 2017 Boston Benefit Gala on Friday, April 28th at the Cambridge Marriott Boston.
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| The Significance Of Mahashivratri |  |
Mahashivratri is very significant for people who are on the spiritual path. It is also very significant for people who are in family situations, and also for the ambitious in the world. People who live in family situations observe Mahashivratri as Shiva's wedding anniversary. Those with worldly ambitions see that day as the day Shiva conquered all his enemies.
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| Swaranjali Performs At Amrit Sabha |
The Swaranjali group performed at Amrit Sabha Adult Daycare on January 21, 2017. The performance lasted for close to two hours and over 20 songs were completed as part of their rendition.
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| LearnQuest Announces Artist Line Up For The 12th Annual Music Conference |  |
by Anish Khanzode
The 12th annual LearnQuest music festival will be held on Friday-Sunday, April 14-16 at the Center of Fine Arts at Regis College, Weston, MA. As in the past, the festival will feature great maestros and rising stars of Hindustani and Carnatic classical music.
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| Chinmaya Mission Boston Presents TM Krishna |
Chinmaya Mission Boston presents Magsaysay Award Winner
Vidwan TM Krishna on April 2nd.
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| South Asian Showdown 2017 |  |
South Asian Showdown, SAS for short, was held on Feb 4 at the at the John Hancock Hall in Boston. In its eighth year, this fun and unique competition was a great hit. The show was sold out again for the eighth straight year. Congratulations to Boston Bollywood Xtreme, first team from Boston, who won the competition.
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| HPHC: Asian Indian Survey |
To help serve you better and develop programs to meet your needs, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is conducting a survey about its insurance program for visitors from India, Eastern Harmony and many of its other services. There is a prize drawing of 1 prize of $500, 2 prizes of $250, and 10 prizes of $50.
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| Harvard India Conference |  |
The 14th Annual India Conference 2017 at Harvard is scheduled to be held during Feb. 11-12, 2017 in Boston.
Get your heavily discounted early bird tickets now before they run out :)
We have created a special discount promo code for Lokvani readers. Please enter the code LOKVANI at checkout and get a further 10% off!!
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| SAPNE Announces Poetry Recitation “Voice Of The Mothers And The Youth” |
by Neena Wahi
The group South Asian Poets of New England (SAPNE) would like to invite all mothers and the youth to a recitation event entitled "Voice of the Mothers and the Youth". The SAPNE winter meeting is scheduled on Sunday, February 12, 2017, in Lexington Public Library. Please join.
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| Vasant Panchmi At Satsang Center |  |
Join in Shri Saraswati Pujan with lighting of 108 lamps in a grand 'Deep Yagya" as part of Vasant Panchami celebrations at the Satsang Center on February 12th.
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| IAB College Admissions, Immigration And Financial Workshops |
Indian American for Burlington is organizing a free College Admissions, Immigration, and Insurance and Retirement Planning Workshops on Sunday February 19, 2017 in Burlington, MA. The event is open to everyone!
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| Adiyogi - The First Yogi |  |
On Mahashivratri February 24th, Sadhguru will share his intimate experience of Adiyogi with the world. Come and bask in the grace of the ultimate.
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| Contribute Towards The Kitchen Construction For Groton Sai Temple (NESSP) |
New England Shirdi Sai Parivaar is excited and looking forward for the completion of temple construction. The temple is currently operating in a leased space located in Chelmsford, MA and will move to permanent temple located in Groton-MA. The temple construction is going in fast phase and currently looking for contributions from the community.
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| Vikram Pathalam & Varun Swamy Win MA State Science And Engineering Fair |  |
Vikram Pathalam and Varun Swamy, 12th grade students from the Shrewsbury High School, win 1st place in MA State Science And Engineering Fair. Their project was titled "Supervised Classification Algorithm for the Automated Diagnosis of Dementia".
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| Shreya Bhadriraju: A Presidential Scholar In The Arts |
Shreya Bhadriraju, of Elkins High School in Missouri City, Texas, is the only Indian-American among the Arts nominees announced by The National YoungArts Foundation on January 31 for the 2017 US Presidential Scholars.
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| Chaitanya Karamchedu Turns Seawater Potable |  |
Chaitanya Karamchedu from Portland, Oregon, has discovered a simple, cost effective and efficient technique that makes sea water potable.
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| Shovik Bandyopadhyay Named Churchill Scholar |
Shovik Bandyopadhyay, a student pursuing an M.Phil degree at Purdue University, was among the 15 students named as 2017-2018 Churchill Scholars by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States.
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| Suhag Shukla And Sarpreet Kaur Named “Faith Leaders To Watch In 2017” |  |
Suhag Shukla, Executive Director, Legal Counsel, and co-founder of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF), and Sapreet Kaur, Executive Director of Sikh Coalition have been named among twelve "faith leaders to watch in 2017" by the Center for American Progress.
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| Dr. Chitra Dinakar: A Thought Leader In The Field Of Food Allergy |
by Ajay Ghosh
"I have increasingly been seeing children with food allergies in my clinic and in my social circles, with many of them having severe, life-threatening allergies to multiple foods," says Dr. Chitra Dinakar. "A significant percentage of them were of Asian Indian origin, and whose parents and grandparents had no history or knowledge of food allergies."
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| Transnational Abandonment Of South Asian Women |  |
by Priyanka Bhattacharya
Transnational abandonment is emerging as the new face of violence and abuse against women. It might be in the form of abandonment by husbands who migrate after marriage, leaving their wives in their home country without any prospect of reunification, or abandonment of married women who live abroad before they are deceptively or forcibly taken back to their home country and deserted.
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| Eight Tactics For Safeguarding Your Kids In The Digital Age |
by Stephen Friree
Keep the dialogue open, establish some safety rules, be a role model are among the tactics for safeguarding your kids in the digital age.
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| AAC Expresses Support To Those Affected By Travel Ban Policy |  |
In the historical context of our own AAPI community members being targeted, limited, or restricted, based on our race, ethnicity, or country of origin, which prompts the Asian American Commission to express its support for those affected by current federal policy decisions concerning entry to the United States.
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| Weekend Entertainment |
Catch up, register and purchase tickets for the upcoming events and concerts including Gujrati Play: The Waiting Rooms, Rang Barse Holi Hai, Romu Majumdar, Chinmaya Mission-TM Krishna, Awaaz-e-Jazbaat Shankar Jaikishan ke Saath, Raaga-Rang 2017 and MITHAS Annual Membership.
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