On behalf of UIANE, I would like to thank everyone who attended our annual Spirit of India event on Sunday 8/11/24 from 4-8pm at the Columbus Park in Medford. It was an honor to have Mayor of Medford Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn as our special guest. Thanks to Mr. Vijay Selhi and all the team of Shivalaya temple for helping us build a relationship that has helped us able to use the Durga hall of the temple for events and use of facilities for this event.

Thanks to our food caterers Grand India from New Hampshire and recently opened on Brookline, Nidhi Gani, and Poonam Baheti for Rajasthan golgappa and desserts.

Thanks to our music organizer Manisha Chowdhary for arranging all live singers, tabla player, Aarav Menon playing the anthem on the keyboard performances organized by Manisha ,Ekta Jain from EDA and Sonal Bali and our own Madhu Mathur for singing American and Indian anthem.

Thanks to our main sponsors Leader bank, TD bank, Code wiz and our vendors sunrise adult care, Shehla Gul from NYL, Arts Collaborative Medford, Devender Guhania, medical blood sugar test and blood pressure by Sonal Bali and Ayurvedic Dr. Shiji Valsan, Smile Squad from TUSDM, pottery by Teresa Salvato, artwork by students of Sunanda, Ear-piercing by nurse Cassandra rose, Manisha Gaurav Dutt, Jyoti Ramdev, Chikkus Collection, Sharvani, Mayin Arts, Priya Payal, Juju Jujal, jewelry by Harbinder Chani, Sreelekha.

Face painting by Waheeda and henna tattoos by children volunteers
Thanks to our donors for raffle prizes Trader Joe's, Shalini Malik salon and Dominos Pizza.

Thanks to Rasik Mehta our professional photographer who always does an amazing job and professional photos to follow.

Thanks to our UIA board my VP Aanch Jain Secretary and web programmer Parvin Khetarpal who has made flyer and has really helped market the event our treasurer Jaya Goyal who plays multiple roles helping the secretary and keeping account of our events ,board of advisors Jatinder Sharma, Shobha Khetarpal Dolly Raja, Ruby Selhi, Aruna Varshney, Seema Arora, Monnie Malhotra and our board of directors especially Anil Sood, Lovely Singh ,Neeta Datta, Amit Dutt, Vikas Selhi, Sudershan Sharma, Dolly Sood ,Veena Kapoor, Sangeeta Jaggi Varma, Sonal Bali, Hemant Sharma, Monu Verma Devender Guhania.

I want to thank our youth volunteers Pratik Gupta, Ishana Bali, Arshiya Sharma and Eliana Hunter, Raghav Verma, Madhav Verma, Amrit Sandhu, Jasleen Kaur, Simrat Gill, Prabhsimar Singh, Darshleen Kaur.

Thanks to our media support from Anil Saigal from Lokvani and social media.

Photo Link:

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