Oklahoma Telugu Sangam is celebrating 17th anniversary of Sankranthi Festival
Everyone is invied...
When: Jan. 14, 2012 - Saturday 4.00pm.
what: Muggula competition
Bhogi Pallu for kids under 8 years old
Bingo Games
Musical chairs
Delicious Indian Food
where: To be announced
RSVP YOUR ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION.
PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS.
FOR FOOD PREPARATION....PLEASE CONTACT..
..ASHA AT 918 671 4901,
RAJANA AT 918 798 7252
REKHA 918 459 7918
LALITHA 918 430 5736
SANKRANTHI PLANNING MEETING- ON JAN. 6, 2012 AT 8.30PM
AT 6525 SOUTH 112TH EAST AVENUE, TULSA, OK 74133. PLEASE RSVP - WE NEED VOLUNTEERS.
I am delighted to tell you about a historic initiative from the Smithsonian Institution on Indian immigrants and their descendants, entitled HomeSpun: The Indian American Heritage Project. My name is Pawan Dhingra. I am an associate professor of sociology and comparative American studies at Oberlin College and the curator of this project.
North South Foundation (NSF) is a volunteer driven non-profit organization established in 1989. There are lots of poor children in India who excel academically but need help to attend college. NSF is designed to encourage these poor children in India. This year we established a NSF chapter in Tulsa to aid in this endeavor.
On April 9th the NSF Tulsa Chapter held the regional the Math and Spelling bee contest for the first time in Tulsa. There were a total of 54 participants for this contest. Significant achievements on this contest with their ranks are as below.
Math Level-2 1st Sagar Basavaraju Math Level-2 2nd Naveen Venkat
Math Level-2 3rd Sanket Srivastava Math Level-3 1st Yash Kumar
Thanks to the NSF Volunteers who made this event a success.
NSF Volunteer team - Jasjit Parmar, Sangeetha Panicker, Anu Byragani, Sridhar Parameswaran, Vijaya Tyagi, Ajay Tyagi, Venkatesh Kadiri, Kumar Chandrasekar, Asha Nikam, Raji Narasimhan, Padma Kunderu, , Anand Uplaonkar, Priya Uplaonkar, Shama Verulkar, Ram Sreenivasan, Erik Ellis, John Marshall and Karna Sagar.
NSF Tulsa Sponsors – Sada Joshi, Dr. Manjula Krishnamurthy, Pradeep Reddy, and Dr. Sekhar Polepalli. Thanks to all of them for their significant donations to NSF.
The Institute of Interfaith Dialog (IID) and Raindrop Turkish House organized a lecture Program with Indian community titled “Exploring Faith and Culture: India and Hinduism”
The Institute of Interfaith Dialog and Raindrop Turkish House of Tulsa hosted Leaders of The Indian community with a dinner for a lecture program on February 17, 2011. Participants shared food from both cultures. There was delicious Indian food and Traditional Turkish Food. Before the dinner, The Institute of Interfaith Dialog Tulsa director Kamil Celik welcomed and gave a presentation about the mission and work of I.I.D. followed by a video presentation of Turkey. He mentioned Turkey's close ties with India dating back to early years of Modern Turkey. Dr. Navin Mathur, director of manufacturing at Advance Research Chemicals, Inc. spoke about India and Hinduism showing beautiful pictures and informational slides. Dr. Mathur talked about the rich history andgreat heritage of India and also mentioned the friendliness and hospitality of Indian culture.(February 17,2011,Tulsa,OK) The Program was followed with a lovely dinner. The members of both groups stayed longer to share their feelings and exchanged information to continue their friendship
