Day: 10 October 2012

Chicago IL: Metropolitan Asian Family Services, a pioneer in the field of Senior Care in Chicago Metropolitan area celebrated its 20th anniversary on Sept 22nd, at the Meadows Club in Rolling Meadows IL. The evening was graced by elected officials, dignitaries visiting from India, Indian community leaders, seniors and their families. Metropolitan Asian Family Services, a not-for-profit agency provides comprehensive and integrated social services to the immigrant population of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Middle East and European Countries. Our services include adult day care services, home care services, hot meal program, health education and screening, citizenship and immigration assistance, public benefits assistance, job training, computer training and ESL class, interpretation and translation services, support services for caregivers, medical clinic and health promotion programs. They currently have 7 offices serving 11 counties in the Greater Chicago area. The festivities started with lamp lighting and invocation prayer. The MC of this event was MASALA -T, who is the costar of the worldwide talk show HOTCHAAT. Currently, he is acting in two hollywood movies and working towards being the biggest Bollywood hollywood dual star ever. He had an amazing stage presence and handled the announcements with ease. He invited all the guests of honor […]

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Chicago IL: October 2nd, 2012, Des Plaines – Chicago. It was yet another evening of excitement, as the cast and crew walked the Red Carpet in the Des Plaines theater in Chicago. Pyar Mein Kyun had its 2nd premiere on Sunday September 30th in Chicago, after its much talked about Gala Red Carpet Premiere held in New York city at the beginning of the week. Pyar Mein Kyun is a full-length Bollywood feature film made entirely in the United States, shot primarily in New York and New Jersey. Presented by RKNet Studios and Aary Films and starring Namaste America host Obaid Kadwani and newcomer Khatera Hakimi, Pyar Mein Kyun is a romantic thriller about love between a teenage girl and a 35-year fashion photographer. But all is not so simple in love as the two discover the truth about one another as the story line unravels. The crowd at the premiere got restless in anticipation of meeting the leading actors. As soon as they saw the beautiful Khatera, they screamed in pleasure and rushed to meet her and talk to her. Khatera obliged by shaking hands with them and posing for pictures with them on the Red Carpet. Khatera looked […]

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Chicago IL: Sounding more like a Raja-risi (saint-politician) rather than politician per se, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chauhan impressed the audience at an reception organized in his honor by Friends of India Society International (FISI) and Overseas Friends of BJP at the India Palace Restaurant auditorium in Schaumburg, a suburb of Chicago with his talks on his governance of Madhya Pradesh interspersed with quotes from scriptures and works from intellectual giants like Shri Sankaracharya and Swami Vivekananda. Despite a short notice, over 350 attended crowded the banquet hall. The Chief Minister was on an eight-day tour of the U.S., especially to meet with the World Bank officials and other organizations. . The function commenced by honoring the Chief Minister and his wife, Mrs. Sadhana Chauhan with presentation of floral bouquets by Usha Kumaria and Asha Chandak respectively. The attendees were welcome by Shrinarayan Chandak. He recognized Amar Upadhya, of BJP chapter President and Shridhar Damle, FISI chapter President. He then turned the program over to Vandana Jhingan as the Master of Ceremony. She recognized the sponsors of the event: Amrit Mittal, Naren Patel, Harendra Mangrola, Asha and Anil Oraskar, Chhotulal Patel and Dr. Bharat Barai. Amrit Mittal introduced the […]

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Chicago, IL: Hindi Lovers Club proudly celebrated ‘Hindi Divas’ on Sunday, October 7, 2012 at the Indo American Center, 6328, W. Devon Ave., Chicago, IL. The program included Musical Welcome by VNS Arts Group. Attendees were served snacks and dinner during the event. Prominent Community members who attended this event were Naren Patel, CEO, Medstar Lab, Santosh Kumar, Executive Director Metropolitan Asian Family Services, Dr. Subhash Pandey from UIC, Vandana Jhingan-TV Asia, Iftekhar Shareef, Chairman FIA, V. K. Kohli Managing Director VNS Arts Group, Sher Mohammad Rajput, Founding Trustee of Indo-American Center, Bina Patel, Dr. Munish Raizada, Jodhsingh Rawat, Ranjana Bhargav, Apna Ghar, Prafull Rami and others. Vinita Gulabani, served as Master of ceremony for the evening and welcomed everyone with her delightful Hindi speech and couplets. Invited guests and advisory board members were called upon for the lamp lighting ceremony, when Mantra was recited by a young kid Lakshya, while Rohit Joshi, chief priest of Northeastern Illinois University chanted holy mantras which was followed by the rendition of National Anthem of both the countries by Shanu Sinha and Kids of Balodyan and the audience present. Vinita Gulabani, gave an introduction of all the dignitaries, starting with Naren Patel, who […]

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