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Asia Today, LLC, 1050 E Ray Road, Suite 5 #318, Chandler, AZ 85225 SIA • August 2013 ATODAY 1 Phoenix, AZ PERMIT NO.1714 Uniting all South Asians in the Valley Monthly Newspaper • Vol-VI • Issue-8 • Phone : 480-250-2519 • [email protected] • August 2013 U.S. Shahid The Passing of CONGRESS 5 Zarrinath Award PRAISES Kapoor plays of the Cultural INDIA PLAZA Salman Khan fan Cup Food Bank ON ITS 10TH in Phata Poster 12 ANNIVERSARY Nikla Hero 32 10thAnniversary of the INDO-AMERICAN CULTURAL & RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION CELEBRATES MURTI RathYatra Festival at the STAPHANA & PRAN PRATISHTHA OF PADMAVATI JI & SARASWATI JI Hindu Temple Of Arizona he Indo-American Cultural & TReligious Foundation of Arizona (IACRF) is extremely proud to mark another major milestone as a part ofour Silver Jubilee celebration. We are honored to announce the Murti Staphana and Pran Pratishtha of Padmavati ji / Mahalaxmi (Goddess of Wealth) and Mata Saraswati ji (Goddess of Wisdom) on July 26 -28, 2013 at Ekta Mandir. This remarkable event was n Sunday, July 14th, 2013, the Hin- made possible thanks to the Odu Temple of Arizona and it’s sister generosity of numerous sponsors organization, Oriya Association of Ari- zona, partnered together to celebrate andvolunteers. Over 1000 devotees the 10th • Continued on P6 a t t e n d e d • More images on P03 www.facebook.com/asiatodayaz www.asiatodayaz.com SIA ATODAY 2 • August 2013 www.asiatodayaz.com www.facebook.com/asiatodayaz Continued from page 1 SIA • August 2013 ATODAY 3 INDO-AMERICAN CULTURAL & RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION CELEBRATES MURTI STAPHANA & PRAN PRATISHTHA OF PADMAVATI JI & SARASWATI JI this 3-day celebrations! Vasudeva & Satyavathi Atluri and and Joshiji deserve special thanks and has made this memorable event Firstly, I would like to thank the Vijay & Mamta Vijayasarthi who for their excellent performance to very successful! Murti Staphana Committee, which were Pramukh Yajman (main help make this an outstanding event Thanks to my family and friends consisted of VasudevaAtluri, Uma sponsors) of our three day special in the history of IACRF. Thanks also for their continual support during Jagannath, Mamta Vijayasarathi, event. Also, I would like to thank the go to IACRF Manager, Ramalingamji my second term as President of Mahesh Shah, and myself. This Prasad committee, led by Mamta and our custodian Gabriel fortheir Indo-American Cultural & Religious team was instrumental in bringing Vijayasarathi, for serving Maha dedication and hard work! Foundation (IACRF).I look forward to this dream to realty. Special thanks to Prasad to the devotees. A final thanks to all the members serving theIndo-American community VasudevaAtluri, IACRF Trustee, who My special thanks to our Priests of Indo-American Cultural & Religious for many more years to comewith worked very hard on many aspects of Vardarajanji & Joshiji and their Foundation (IACRF) who attended great pride. May Padmavatiji and construction and coordination with all helping priests for planning and and supported the Murti Staphana Saraswati ji bless you all. committee members. performing several auspicious rituals and Pran Pratishtha event. Their (From the desk of IACRF IACRF would like to thank during the ceremony. Varadarajanji presence was highly appreciated President KulBhushan Chhibber) www.facebook.com/asiatodayaz www.asiatodayaz.com SIA From the Desk of Asia Today ATODAY 4 • August 2013 A Balanced Upbringing that in folklore, as in life, everyone but the Uniting all South Asians in the Valley As summer comes to an end, we are heroine is a capable being.” all focused on school starting again and As we strive to fight for gender Monthly Newspaper • Vol-VI • Issue-8 • August 2013 • [email protected] looking forward to our children getting a equality, we fail to see that we are not great education in the country of equal surrounding our children with equality in Asia Today Team opportunities. We take it for granted that in heroes and heroines to model their lives the US , the land of equal rights, our children after. We are still stuck on teaching boys to Marketing Director: Manju will get a balanced upbringing regardless of Editor’s be the Prince Charming that comes rescues (Manjeet K Walia) gender. We fail to realize that children are the damsel in distress and teaching girls to raised in homes and not countries and it is NOTE be the damsels in distress to wait patiently Editor: Deepa Walia (MS CIS) what we choose to surround them with that for their hero to arrive. If you have boys in (Sandeep Kaur) influences them the most. your life you love, whether they are sons, nephews, or The easiest of those things is the art of storytelling children of friends, teach them to respect and not rescue Publisher & Designer: and the stories you choose to tell them because they women, teach them to treat women like capable, equal Raja (BA) relate to these characters. In an eye opening foreword partners. And if you have beautiful, capable, little girls, (Gagandeep Singh Walia) for Kathleen Ragan’s book “Fearless Girls, Wise teach them to ride out on their own high horses and take Women, and Beloved Sisters” Jane Yolen highlights on the world instead of waiting for a Knight on a white Patron: Mini from California how inequality is still prevalent in the most influential horse. Children relate to the characters in the stories (Damanjot Kaur Walia) years of a child’s life. Quotes from her foreword “... we share with them so if you believe strongly in equality, they regularly subverted and subsumed the stories that make sure there is equality in your bookshelves at home Jyoti from New Jersey starred string and illustrious female heroes, promoting – an equal amount of stories and folk tales showcasing (Navjot Kaur Singh) instead those stories that shared women as weak or strong, capable heroines as there are stories of strong, witless or, at the very best, waiting prettily with infinite capable heroes. If you can accomplish that, you will be Surinder Singh Pall one step ahead of your local library. (Reporter from New Jersey) patience to be rescued. A hundred years later, the same thing happened. Walt Disney, with his groundbreaking One of my favorites which I recently discovered, fairy tale films, re-emphasized the helpless, hapless mentioned earlier in this article, is Kathleen Ragan’s Press Photographer heroine who he posited has to be rescued by mice, “Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters – Sameer Soorma birds, rabbits, deer, and other assorted cute fauna, or by Heroines in Folktales from Around the World.” Happy www.sameersoorma.com a bunch of half-men, or dwarfs. The young women are Reading! Amit Mitter like helpless ornaments in need of protection, and when - Deepa Kaur Walia (Reporter from Punjab, India) it comes to action of the film, they are omitted. We, the Editor, Asia Today reading and viewing public, then accepted whole cloth [email protected] Disclaimer s the summer winds down, I see this,” “why do I get angry,” endian events around Asia Today, LLC is not responsible Aa lot of my friends and family etc. Many people believe the corner. 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