Sangama Invites You to the Nadahabba Celebrations Saturday
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President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Jyothi Mysore Shubha Bhaskar Hemanth Kumar Raghu Pandurangi Team Members *Jayanti Hariprasad *Shrikanth Gopalan *Amoolya Shetty *Rekha Megharaj *Sujatha Manjunath *Laxman Milli Sangama invites you to the Nadahabba Celebrations (Kannada Rajyotsava/Deepavali) Saturday, November 1st, 2014 Venue : Mahatma Gandhi Center, 717 Weidman Road, Ballwin, MO 63011 Time Event 3:00 – 4:00 PM Meet and greet, Coffee and Light snacks 4:00 – 6:45 PM Cultural programs by Sangama members 7:00 - 8:30 PM Dinner and clean-up Why is kannada rajyotsava celebrated? This year marks the 58th Kannada Rajyotsava. The criteria for formation of Indian States is language. India became a Republic in the year 1950 and in same year linguistic provinces were formed. The state of Mysore is one such state in South India. The state of Mysore was created taking into fold various parts of the region, which were ruled by kings. Several districts in, now called North Karnataka and Hyderabad Karnataka were dissolved in the new state. The new state was named after Mysore, which by itself was a princely state. People of North and Hyderabad area did not accept the name Mysore. After prolonged debate the name of the state was changed to Karnataka on November 1, 1956. Late Devaraj Urs, the then Chief Minister of state took this landmark decision. Officially the new state was born on Nov. 1 and on this day every year birthday of the state is celebrated. This is popularly called as Kannada Rajyotsava or Karnataka Rajyotsava which is a government holiday. Rajyotsava means "birth of a state". It is marked by the announcement and presentation of the honors list for Rajyotsava Awards by the Government of Karnataka, hoisting of the Karnataka flag with an address from the Chief Minister and Governor of the state along with community festivals, orchestra, Kannada book releases and concerts. Source: issaonline.edu Singificance of Deepavali/Diwali Celebrated as the festival of lights, in the month of Kartika, and is an autumn festival, which does not entail too many religious rituals as do some of the festivals. It is a festival celebrating good over evil. There are several stories that go along with the festival, such as Rama’s victory over Ravana and his triumphant return to Ayodhya, the victory of Goddess Chamundi over the demon, Mahishasura, and the popular story of King Bali’s defeat at the hand of Lord Vishnu (as Vamana). People enjoy Naraka Chaturdashi, Lakshmi pooje and Bali Padyami. Traditionally starting off with an oil bath (yenne neeru), followed by donning of new clothes and lighting fire crackers. Sweets are exchanged between one and all along with greetings and good wishes for a successful year ahead. Oil lamps lit on all three nights, transform the surroundings that look like a million stars have come down to earth! diwalicard.blogspot.com FUN page Join the dots to make your Deepavali rangoli (9 dots x 9 dots) Color the picture to make your Deepavali greeting card! FOOD ASSIGNMENTS Dhokla-1/2 tray each Pakora-1/2 tray each Anitha Nagendra Deepthi Bharadwaj Kumudha Prabhakar Mangala Shenoy Sheetal Ramgounda Rekha Sunil Smitha Anand Kavitha Cashikar Kathyayini Joshi Ramachandra & Suneeta Murthy Sandhya Kumar Anupama Hukkeri Chutney- 2 bottles each Pickles - 2 bottles Rama Raychoti - Mint & Coriander chutney 2 bottles Roopa Mariappa Prathima Murthy - Sweet chutney-2 bottles Bisibelebath-6qts each Mosaranna-6qts each Sumangala Rao Dakshayini Sripal Kavitha Upadhya Priya Iyer Jaya Shastry Meera Vasudevmurthy Chaya Gopalan Asha Prem Gayathri Venkatesh Jyothi Mayenkar Suguna Sateesh Vanitha Talakad Madhuri Gururaj Shailaja Atri Padmini Prabhu Raitha - 5qts each Menasina Saaru/Tilisaaru - 6qts each Ashwini Mahantesh Swarna Devanahalli Jyothi Swamy Vidya Subhash Tara Shadaksharappa Malathi Reddy Nandini Kishore Lavanya Mysore Vardini Shankaran Radha Srinivas Tara Konasale Fruit salad - 6qts Jamoon - 50 pieces Shobha Dixit Anitha Sharma Shobha Bhaskar Padmaja Gunapooti Srilatha Upadhya Roopa Prahalad Geeta Aatre Prathima Murali Veena Deevacha Hema Srikanta Sureka Niranjan Rajitha Vashista Pasta - 1/2tray each Potato Chips - 4 large bags Teju Nayak Vivek Kestur Anitha Prasad Biresh & Shruthi Sumaiya Tajeeb Soda bottles - 3 big bottles Sonia Kumar Sunayna Thejeswi MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL Note: - Sangama is mainly run by the contribution of Sangama Member’s annual membership fee. Renewing your membership is made easy with the following options: 1) Please mail your membership fee for this year (checks payable to “Sangama” ) to: Mr. Raghu Pandurangi, 573 Lexington Landing Pl, St Charles, MO 63303 2) Please renew with cash or check or credit or debit card at the Nadahabba celebrations on Nov 1st, 2014. 3) Paypal- On the Sangama website at www.sangamastl.com DHANYAVADAGALU Sangama Committee Check out the picture gallery at www.sangamastl.com for event pictures..