UIANE would like to thank all those who attended our Spirit of India summer fest on Sunday 8/13/23 from 4-8pm at Columbus Park in Medford. Thanks to all the management of Shivalaya Temple of Greater Boston who helped facilitate use of the park, choreographers Ekta Jain, Ghaint bhangra by Bhavroop Kaurand Nikita Punjabi, participants and their parents who spent so much time in preparing the performances, our DJ Arun and Preeti who kept the audience entertained and coordinated the performances throughout the event, our emcees Dr. Seema Arora and Dolly Raja, our food vendors Peppinos Dosa and Mumbai express Chandra Bhatt, Colleens ice-cream and Zacks ice-cream truck, thanks to Leader Bank for your support and Apna Bazar, and our local vendors Techcraft Sheetal Varshney, Infinite Silk Akansha Gupta, She Sha Foram Shah, Rajashree MD Collections, Malhari Collections, Jahanvis Closet, Indian Karigari,GR8 Real Estate, Devender Guhania, In style jeweler Amna Imran, SKVL Organic World Parag More, Stellar Prep by Neil Arora, Shivalaya Temple of Greater Boston, Tufts University job fair, Tufts Smile Squad and dental kits donated by MDS, free blood pressure and sugar testing kits donated by Gope Gidwani from Aplus Medical Supply and ran by Sonal Bali, raffle prizes donated by Wegmans. A big thanks to our special guests Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn of Medford and Councillor Rick Carviello for taking out time from their busy schedule to support our event. Thanks for the support from UIA board Aanch Jain, Parvin Khetarpal, Jaya Goyal, Anil Sood, Shobha Khetarpal, Amit Dutt, Dolly Raja, Neeta Datta, Dolly Sood, Veena Kapoor Aruna Varshney, Ruby Selhi, Manny Lovely Singh, Sangeeta Ghai Jaggi Varma, Jatinder Sharma, Vikas Divya Selhi. Thanks to our youth volunteers who have created a positive impact on the community Ishana Bali, Manreet Kaur, Jasleen Kaur, Pranit Gandhi, Gouri Chaturvedi, Prabhsimar Pabla, Raghav Verma, Madhav Verma, Jhoom Jain, Josh Jain, Tavishi Saxena, Amisha Arora. Special thanks to our professional photographer Rasik Mehta and here is the link to the photos. https://rasikmehta.smugmug.com/United-India-Pictures-various-year/UIA-Spirit-of-India-2023/n-jHK4wJ Thanks to our media sponsors Anil Saigal from Lokvani, and Bipin Parekh from Gunjan radio for helping promote the event.

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