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1 HINDU PATRIKA Published Monthly Vol 08/2009 RATTAN LAW FIRM, LLC Attorneys-at-Law General Business & Contract Law Buy-Sell Agreements & Negotiations Formation of Corporations, LLC s, Partnerships Business Dispute Litigation Residential & Commercial Real Estate Law Bankruptcy Wills & Trusts Powers of Attorney Probate & Estate Administration Hindu Temple & Cultural Center of Kansas City A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION 6330 Lackman Road Shawnee, KS Tax ID : Tel: (913) (Temple) Tel :(913) (Priest) 1 For more information contact Manu K. Rattan, Esq Silver Avenue Kansas City, KS (913)

2 Dear Devotees: Namasthe. We have successfully celebrated Gurupurnima and Vara Lakshmi Puja with the help one and all. We can t thank you enough for your continued support. Thanks a lot to all the volunteers. HTCC is organizing a picnic on Aug 1 st 2009 at Heritage park. We look forward to seeing you all there to have fun in this get-together. It s our way of saying thank you Kansas City for the support and dedication. We are having community days during August and September. We want to clean up the yards and temple premises to look beautiful and to have a healthy and Happy Living environment. Go green!!! We thank all the supporters like South Asian Times and other local organizations who are supporting us in reaching out to the devotees with our temple event updates. Special thanks to YGKC members and the young members of the community who are volunteering in setting up the library and cleaning up the lawn area. We thank Swami Narayan Temple committee for offering their premises for parking when there are big functions in the temple. We appreciate devotees checking the list of names that are displayed on the wall, website before we make the final plaque in the coming months. Devotees who are interested to donate more to come into different categories may please contact the fundraising committee. We are happy to see many volunteers signing up for Sunday lunch. Our request to the devotees is to let the Managers know at least 3 days in advance if you are unable to serve lunch on the day you have signed-up for. In the event of cancellation, temple can make alternate arrangements as we do not want to cancel the popular Sunday lunch anytime. We are seeing overwhelming response on the fundraising ticket sales. As there are early bird discounts, we encourage everyone to buy the tickets earlier and support the temple. Our committee members are working very hard to put more programs in the coming months such as Picnic, Dharma Camp, Topeka Day, Indepndence day celebrations, Gita path with the help of ISKON devotees, Ganesh Chaturdhi, Anand Mela, Diwali, Annakut, Maata ki Chowki, Fundraising dinner and many more. Please check the temple website or calendar for these events. I personally want to thank each and every committee member who is taking so many hours of personal time to conduct many such events in our temple. We are in need of lot of volunteers please contact us for helping in temples activities. BAL VIHAR YOGA PARIVAR HINDI CLASS HTCC LIBRARY COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Every Sunday 9.30am to 10.30am. Contact Ms. Anu Every Sunday 9.30am to 10.30am Contact Dr. Vijay Every Sunday 11.00am to 12.00noon Contact Swapnam Every Sunday 10.30am to 11.30am Contact at SUNDER KAND PATH 6.30pm to 7.30pm Every First Tuesday. All are welcome to join ek shaam Ram Ke naam. Contact Sanjay Every third Sunday, Sathyanarayan Puja will be held at 10:30 a.m ******* Due to the requests from the devotees; the third week Satyanarayana Puja will be done on every third sunday as before. Devotees are requested to contact the Managers for making the bookings. ******* AYYAPPA BHAJAN 6pm SOUP KITCHEN August 8th. Every Second Saturday 5pm to August 31st. Every Last Monday Contact Suma SUNDAY LUNCH Lunch will be available from am to 1.30 pm.please contact Manager for details. Thanks and regards Sai Chimalakonda President Executive Committee 3 4

3 TEMPLE HOURS Day of the Week Time Note Monday - Friday 10:00 AM -12:00 Noon Aarti at 11:00 AM Monday - Friday 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM Aarti at 8:00 PM Saturday 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM Aarti at 12:00 Noon & 8:00 PM Sunday 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM Aarti at 12:00 Noon & 8:00 PM HTCC Regular Puja Schedule Monday Auspicious days for Shivji Puja. performed an hour before Arti. Tuesday Auspicious day for Hanuman Puja Devotees may participate in Hanuman Chalisa chant before Aarti at 6.40 pm Thursday Auspicious days for Sai Baba Puja. Archana and Arti 20 minutes before regular Arti Friday Auspicious days for Maha Lakshmi Puja. Saturday Ayyappa Bhajan on every 2nd Saturday 5pm to 6pm 3rd Sunday Satyanarayana Puja and Melmaruvathur Adhiparasakthi Puja Pradosham puja Auspicious day to do Shiva Abhishekam. Please contact Manager during temple hours for scheduling any puja at Temple or at Home. You can even your information for scheduling puja.we request the devotees to cooperate with the managers who will make their best efforts in scheduling puja with the priest that you have requested. In certain cases this may not be possible and we appreciate your patience and cooperation in this matter. Note to Devotees During your visit to the temple, if you face any difficulties in scheduling the pujas, or with the facilities at the temple, or with the counduct of the pujas, please feel free to the President at saicvs@gmail.com and describe the nature of the issue/problem/comment/concern. Your Feedback is very important to us and please feel free to provide it. 5 Current Charges For Puja and Priest Services At temple At home Abhishekam $ 75 Abhishekam with kalasa puja $ 101 Aksharabhyasam (beginning of writing) $ 75 Anna Prasana (first feeding) $ 51 $ 101 Any other Puja (< 2 hours duration) $ 65 $ 151 Archna(fruits provided by Temple) $ 11 - Atma Shanti/Tarpanam $ 31 $ 101 Baby shower. $ 151 $ 201 Barsi/Annual Ceremony $251 $ 301 Cremation services Your Devotion Grihapravesham & Sri Sathyanarayana Puja/Katha $ 301 Grihapravesham(house warming) only $ 151 Havan $ 101 $ 151 Hiranyasradham $ 75 $ 101 Kalyanutsavam (Kanyadan) Individual $ 151 Mundan(Hair offering)* $ 75 $ 151 Namakaranam(naming of baby) $ 51 $ 101 Navagraha Archna- One Graha only $ 21 Navagraha puja. $ 101 $ 201 Sahasranama Archna $ 51 (1000 names of God) Sri Sathynarayana Puja/Katha $ 75 $ 151 Samohika Satyanaryana Puja/Katha $ 31 - Sashti poorthi shanti(60 th birthday) $ 201 $ 251 Satyanarayana Puja & Basement Rental $175 (4 hours) Sponsor Puja ** check with priest/manager. Upnayana Sanskara $ 251 $ 351 (Sacred thread ceremony) Vahan puja $ 31 - Vivah(Wedding)# $ 701 $ 501 * HTCC will not be responsible in arranging the haor stylist. # Basement Hall inclusive. Note. Minimum charges for any puja performed outside Hindu Temple. $ 101 Any Puja performed outside KC Metropolitan area $ 251 Above suggested charges do not include Dakshina(donation) to the priest and it should not be less than 25% of suggested service charges. All pujas booked in Advance should be paid in advance. One cancellation or postponement permitted. For more than one cancellation/postponement 50% of the service charge will be deducted before any refund is made. 6

4 Board of Trustees Ramesh Lokre Chairman Dwarka Gupta Vishal Adma Sanjeev Goyal Mahendra Sheth Ila Patel Laksmi Naidu Hasu Doshi Sanjay Kohli Abhay Bisarya Suma Hegde Raja Govindarajan Kirit Amin Executive Committee Members 2009 Position Name Phone President Sai Chimalakonda Vice President Sridhar Harohalli Secretary Puneet Gorawara Joint-Secretary Atul Agarwal Fundraising Chairman Keshava Kote Treasurers Kailash Krishnamurthy Sadhana Bisarya Members-at-large Anuradha Arnipalli Pratibha Trivedi Raj Srivastava (Lawerence) Shekar Challa (Topeka) S. V. Rangarajan Program Chair Usha Saha Vice-Chair Vijay Ainapurapu Religious Committee Sreedhar Babu Ravinuthala Ravi Ayyalasomayajula Program Committee Srini Bhagavan Shiram Yadav Madhukar Garlapati Madhuri Korimilli Anjan Madhwesh Appachu Kodira Madhuri Korimilli Webmasters Ravi Mehra Sanjeev Goyal Managers Rajinder Goyal Pankaj Desai Volunteer Committee Vishal Adma Sreenukumar Gadiraju Kiran Turaga Kiran Vaddiparthi Kusuma Bommakanti Sunil Prabhu Seema Lokre Vijaya Gandra Maintenance and Security Girish Kshirsagar Man Singh Koshal Health & Wellness Saran Bommakanti Mahendra Rupani Managers Rajinder Goyal Pankaj Desai Priests Srinivasacharyulu Mahendrada Kantilal Thaker 7 8

5 Priest Committee Rekha Seth Jayada Kallur Kasturi Patro Pratibha Trivedi Abhay Bisariya Pyare Mohan Program Chair President of EC Chairman of Board of Trustees Attention!!!! Attention!!!!!!! Attention!!!!!!!!!! Fund Raising Dinner on Saturday October 10 th, 2009 HTCC Annual Fund Raising Dinner will be on Saturday October 10 th,2009. Tickets are Available. Buy Early and Save!!!!!.Early Bird Specials are available. Please contact managers, members of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees for more details. Dear Devotees, We request all the devotees to make use of the new community hall for your functions. Since April 1,2009,we have reduced the rentals for the benefit of the devotees. For smaller parties and gatherings the new class rooms are also available for rent. Please contact the managers for further details. Organized by Hindu Temple & Cultural Center of Kansas City 6330 Lackman Road, Shawnee. KS Tel/Fax: (913) Tax ID: Donations are partially Tax-deductible Direction: Take 63 rd Street and Lackman Road from Shawnee Mission Pkwy For the First time ever HTCC jointly organizes Anand Mela With Health & Wellness Venue: HTCC New Community Hall Saturday Sept 12 th am to 4pm Admission: Free HTCC takes a great pride in organizing "Anand Mela" each year. At "Anand Mela" HTCC offers opportunity for the Indian community to sell homemade Indian food and Indian merchandise like saris and dhotis. For the first time ever, HTCC hosts a community health and wellness program which will help over 500 people. For More Information: Sridhar Harohalli (913) Usha Saha (913) Puneet Gorawara (913) Sai Chimalakonda (913) GSK Raju (913) Temple Managers: (913) Hurry up!!! Sponsorships available SURePrizes for new Members Anand Mela will be held on Saturday September,12 th 2009 Please see inside for the detailed flyer. 9 10

6 Want to Serve on the Board of Trustees of HTCC. Here is your Chance!!!!! Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of Kansas City is seeking nominations to fill the three vacant Fellow Trustee positions for a three year term starting on January 1 st, 2010 and two non fellow trustee positions from general membership for a one year term starting on January 1 st, Please contact the following members of the nominating committee for further details and qualifications. All nominations must be received by August 21, Ravi Kallur Chair (sutti84@yahoo.com) Sonia Garapaty Member (sgarapaty@fsc-inc.com) Abhay Bisarya Member (abhaybisarya@hotmail.com) Suma Hegde Member (sumahegde@gmail.com) Mohan Tahiliyani Member (tahilianim@bv.com) Sandeep Mehta Member (smitamehta1960@yhoo.com) Raj Srivastava Member (rsrivastava@ku.edu) Ravi Kallur Chair, Nominating Committee 2009 Attention all Regional and Non Profit Organizations The HTCC management has decided to set up a Community Information Board at the temple. The Non-Profit Organizations can put the flyers of the events that they conduct and organize. Depending on the availability of the space, some flyers can be removed at the discretion of the temple managers. The decision of the temple managers in final and binding. The organizations are requested to use this space to advertise their events. Please contact managers for more details. 11 Want to know more about Bal Vihar? Here is your opportunity What: Balvihar Orientation When: 9:30 10:30 AM, Sunday, August 30 th, 2009 Where: Hindu Temple Classroom Balvihar is value based moral education for children, with an emphasis on Indian Culture and Spirituality. Weekly lesson plans are based on the core human values of Satya/Truth, Dharma/Right Conduct, Shanti/Peace, Prema/ Love and Ahimsa/Non Violence. These human values are imparted by means of moral stories, role plays, group discussions, games, arts and crafts. Children are also taught how to sing bhajans, recite vedas, shlokas and stothras. An orientation will be held for interested families, on Sunday August 30 th, from 9:30-10:30 AM. Syllabus and curriculum for the upcoming year will be reviewed by the instructors during the orientation. Balvihar families, old and new are encouraged to attend this session and benefit from it. Registrations will be accepted immediately following the orientation and regular classes for the school year will begin on Sunday, September 13 th. Please note that children have to be at least 5 years of age to attend Balvihar. HTCC Represented at Interfaith National Convention Sri R.Krishna represents HTCC in the Interfaith community. During the July 4th weekend National Association of Intefaith Network had its National Convention here in Kansas City at the Unity Village in Lee s Summit and he participated in it. He had an exhibit table on Hinduism and his wife Dr. Padma Krishna performed a Hindu worship service on one of the three days for a half hour period. She did a Ganesh Puja and Lakshmi Puja and sang the Om Jaya Jagadish Hare at the time of the Arti. There were about sixty delegates from the USA and Canada and they all appreciated it since they came over after the Puja and accepted Prasads. 12

7 Hindi Class Now enrolling for the session Since last four years Hindi Class is being conducted every Sunday from 11:00 AM till noon in the temple. Hindi class has started with the intention of helping children of Indian community to preserve their Native language. Ignoring the importance of native language or neglecting their values is in a way to deprive your children of their cultural identity. In Hindi class we also try to keep them connected with our main festivals and other cultural issues. By bringing your child/children to the Hindi class you are planting cultural seed in your children. You might not realize the significance of it now, but it is benefiting your child in a long run. The enrollment for the Hindi Class (August 2009 to May 2010) is now open. We will keep the enrollment open till end of July. There is a $10.00 donation to the temple for each child each month. Contact person: Swapnam Kumar swapnamku@gmail.com For Online enrollment please visit DHARMA CAMP A free, fun-filled event for children 8 and above! Date: Wednesday, August 5 th, 2009 Time: 8:00 A.m. to 4:00 p.m. Venue: Hindu Temple and Cultural Center Learn about Hinduism through exciting activities such as: Arts and crafts Games Music and bhajans Pictures and geography Stories and myths Moral debates and many more! Free enrollment online at Deadline for enrollment: July 31 st Space is limited so register early! For more details please contact: Usha Saha Neelam Kumar Sanjeev Goyal Rajinder Goyal

8 Hindu Temple of Kansas City Organizes Topeka day An event organized by the friends and families from Topeka Date: Sunday, August 9th, 2009 Time: 11:00 A.m. to 2:00 p.m. Venue: Hindu Temple and cultural center Cultural Programs Delicious Lunch and many more Free Entry to all Sunday Lunch tickets can be bought at the front desk For more details please contact: Managers: (913) Shekar Challa: (785) or VEDANTA SOCIETY ARJUN KUMAR SHARMA MEMORIAL LECTURE Friday, September 11 at 7 p.m. Swami Sridharananda will speak on Spirituality: What it is, its practice, and its goal. Location: Regnier Hall KU Edwards Campus Quivera Overland Park, KS (half block west of 127th and Quivera) All are welcome Free will donation Swami Sridharananda is a senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India, and founder of the Vedanta Centre in Sydney, Australia info@vedantakc.org 8701 Ward Parkway Kansas City MO

9 Indian dentist in town Dr. Anuja Buch DDS First Ever Jagannath Rath Yatra Celebrated at HTCC. Family Dental Pros The Shops at Corporate Woods 9906 College Boulevard, Overland Park, KS Dental Graduate from University of California, San Francisco, with five years of clinical experience. Complete care for adults and children State of the art technology and laser dentistry Most major insurances accepted Fluent in Gujarati, Hindi, and Marathi FOR APPOINTMENTS CALL: KC Korma Sutra Sensuous Cuisine of India We have TWO Locations to serve you Korma Sutra I Thank You for your co-operation Editor, Hindu Patrika Korma Sutra II(Closed Monday) 7212 West 110th Street 4113 Pennsylvania Overland Park, KS (Westport) Kansas City, MO Northwest corner of College & Metcalf Ph: (816) Phone: KURRI ( ) Fax : (816) Cell: jorabar123@yahoo.com Fax: Attention Devotees and Members To ensure that HTCC s patrika gets to you in time, please make sure that all the information should be submitted to the Editor, Hindu Patrika by no later than 17th of each month. The information can be ed to htccofkc@gmail.com. 17 On Sunday June 28 th,2009 amidst chanting of Jai Jagannath and Puri Jagannathi ki Jai, hundreds of devotees braving blazing sun pulled the Jagannath Rath for the first time at the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of Kansas City. The magnificent and the beautiful Ratha was built by Santosh Pardy with the help of volunteers from Oriya community and from other communities. He along with Ramabholla Mohapatro volunteered to build the Rath so that the devotees could celebrate the Rath Yatra day. The Rath at HTCC depicts yellow colored Nandighosa, blue colored Taladwaja and Deviratha. As soon as the ritual of King of Puri swept the Rath with holy water and golden broom, the devotees lined up to pull the Rath to Gundicha Ghar. During the procession, the Rath was stopped at predefined spots and the devotees offered prayers and danced to beats of the dholak played by Sai Chimalakonda, President of the Hindu Temple and Hashmukh Patel, while the Priest offered aarthi WOW that was spectacular. When the rath stopped at the make shift Gundichara Mandir ( new hall of HTCC) the idols were taken in and aarthi was performed followed by sumptuous lunch prepared by more than 40 volunteers. There were more than 600 devotees and every one present enjoyed the occasion. Seeing the 18

10 response, Sri Sai Chimalakonda, President of HTCC said I am overwhelmed by the response today and the support the community has shown in conducting the First Ever Ratha Yatra in the history of HTCC. He also said this is another First in the temple s history following on the heels of the 5 day Temple Anniversary held in May. He thanked every devotee and volunteer for their support, commitment and dedication in performing God s work. All volunteers put in lot of hard work right from cordoning of the parking lot to making sure every one had food to eat.. They all gave up their time to help from literally dawn to dusk. Without them much of the event wouldn t even have been the grass and shade to relieve their bare feet from the hot ground. GuruPurnima Celebrated at HTCC Gurupurnima celebrations were held on Sunday July, 12 th,2009 at Hindu Temple and Cultural Center. The event started on Saturday July 11 th, night after Shej aarthi to Sai Baba. After the aarthi is complete, the Non- Stop Recital of Sai Sat Charitra was started by Ravi Mehra. The recital continued through the night non-stop with various devotees taking turns to read the book. After each hour it was turn of a different devotee. The book was read in different Languages like English, Telugu, Hindi. The reading of the book was completed by 7:00 AM which was followed by, Kakad Aarthi. At 9:00 am, Priest SinivasaCharyulu started the Sai Abhishekam followed by Sai Sat Vrat Katha. The sponsors of the Vrata Katha and Abhishekam joined in the puja. For the first time at HTCC, the palki yatra of Shirdi Sai Baba was taken out. In a well decorated Palki the picture of Shirdi Sai Baba was placed and it was carried by the devotees chanting Sai Nath Maharaj Ki Jai and Sachidanand Satguru Sainath Maharaj Ki Jai. Hundred of devotees followed the procession through the parking lot of the temple in to the new hall. The palki yatra is another first at HTCC to add to the list of first time events. The Madhyan aarthi was performed in the new hall and it was followed by delicious lunch prepared by volunteers in the temple s kitchen. While the devotees were having lunch, Mrs. Usha Saha, Program Chair, HTCC informed the devotees about the upcoming event conducted by HTCC. They are Varalaxmi Vratham on Friday July 31 st, Picnic on Sunday, August 2 nd,dharma Camp by the Youth Group on August 5 th, Janmashtami on August 14 th and Ganesh Chathurthi on August 23 rd. After that Sridhar Harohalli, Vice-President,HTCC informed the gathering that the Annual Anand Mela will be held on Saturday, September 12 th and the fund raising dinner on Saturday, October 10 th. He also informed the gathering that the tickets for fund raising are available at a discounted rates as early bird specials and can be had by contacting the managers or by visiting the web site 19 Ordinary Income/Expense For June 2009 Income ADVERTISEMENT $ CULTURAL CENTER $-4, DONATION $7, HALL RENT $1, MEMBERSHIP $ Other Income $ PUJA $4, SOUP KITCHEN $ Sunday Lunch $1, WEDDING $ Total Income $12, Expense Contract Labor $ CREDITCARD -TEMPLE $ DAKSHINA $ DEPOSIT CORRECTION $10.00 DISPOSAL $ ENTERPRISE LOAN PMT $2, FLOWERS $ FUNDRAISING-EXPENSE $ GIFT SHOP $ HINDICLASS $ Interest Expense $1, KANSAS GAS SERVICE $ KCPL $ LAWNCARE $ Maintenance $ Miscellaneous $32.89 NEW HALL $62.10 Payroll Expenses $5, Rent $ SILVER COINS $ STHAPANA $2, TAXES $1, Telephone $ Utilities $54.96 Total Expense $19, Net Ordinary Income $-7, Other Expenses $1, Total Other Expense $1, Net Other Income $-1, Net Income $

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12 TAGKC THARACAD RAMANARAYAN & ANANTHAL UPENDRA & SRIDEVI GUNDA VUPPALA VADIVALAGAN & KALAIYARASI VADIVELPILLAI VASANTHA GAJULA VEERABABRAHMAM & SRILATHA KONDAPARTHI VENKATESWARAN & RADHA RAMANATHAN 1, VIVEK H. & NEETA JAISWAL Total 17, Youth Group Team We would like to extend a warm welcome to the incoming Youth Group of Hindu Temple Executive Committee. The team was selected and positions assigned through a rigorous application and interview process. We have individuals with diverse skill set, talent and various levels of experience. It is our intent to have the senior and more experienced members of the team mentor and help develop the incoming and budding new members so as to position them for taking on leadership positions in future. The team already has several ideas on their planned activities for the year and will be announcing them shortly. We, the parent coordinators, are proud of this new team (see below for the team) and are confident that this team will help increase the brand equity of the organization and take it to the next level. Ami Sanjanwala, Hema Bisarya, Amit Desai Parent Coordinators President Co-chairs Sr. VP Operations VP Cultural & Sports Events VP Comm. & Marketing VP Fin. & Adm. Manager Comm.& Marketing Interns Cultural Events Finance & Administration Sports Events Website Editing Tanvi Kohli and Megha Garg Aniruddha Rao Tej Desai Slesha Patel Nimish Mittal Karan Kaul Bhavana Kodira and Deepa Kote Ashutosh Agarwal Rohit Kundurthi Nitish Chimalakonda and Karan Mehra Nritya School of Indian Dance and Music Established in 1988 OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS AT NEW DAY YOGA STUDIO CLASSES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS BOLLYWOOD, CONTEMPORARY, FREE STYLE INDIAN Ongoing classes on Sundays ANNUAL SUMMER MULTI-ARTS WORKSHOP (Dance, Music, Fine Arts, Crafts, Acting, Mime, Choreography) JULY WEEK 1 AUGUST 3 8 WEEK 2 FEES: $ PER WEEK (Minimum 3 hours per day) WORKSHOP WILL END WITH A PERFORMANCE GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO FIND OUT YOUR KID S INTERESTS BEFORE ENROLLING IN REGULAR CLASSES For more information: Contact Hema Sharma at: Hemavathisharma2001@yahoo.com - Branches: Des Moines, IA & Wichita, KS 23 24

13 PRANAYAM YOGA SESSIONS Swami Ramdevji Patanjali Yog peeth Haridwar Pranayam & Yoga with Breathing HTCC is happy to announce that new Yoga sessions have started on every Monday from April 6 th 2009 in new Community hall When: April 6 th onwards- 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Where: HTCC, New Hall 6330 Lackman, Shawnee Mission. KS. Additionally starting from July 11th, these classes are being held each Saturday at 8:00 AM at the temple premises for 6 weeks Instructions: Bring blanket or Yoga Mat and wear comfortable outfit. Entry is FREE Contact: Ajay & Sadhana Bisayra akbisarya@yahoo.com Sbisarya1@gmail.com 25 26

14 FEATURED ARTISTE FOR August 2009 Date: Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 Time: 7.00 PM Venue: HTCC Fundraising Dinner Live Music Jyoti Tata has received her formal classical training in Carnatic music at very 6330 Lackman Road, Shawnee, KS early age by Smt.Vimala Rao (Bangalore) and later continued from Smt. Laxmi in Rourkela, India. She Participated in many school, college and other competitions and won many prizes and earned very good appreciations. Jyoti is blessed with singing Semi-Classical and Light Music in different Indian Languages. Jyoti performed in Local T.V programmes, Orchestras and other cultural activities in India. Avail Limited time Discount* Powered by designthemes.com July 1-31, $75 each August 1-31, $85 each September 1-12, $95 each September 13, onwards $100 each Hindu Patrika Jyoti participates every year in Kansas City Annamacharya, Thyagaraja Festivals and Jyoti is an acknowledged Carnatic music teacher in Kansas City. *Fundraising ticket partially tax-deductible per IRS rules The discounts as applicable are available ONLY if the ACTUAL PURCHASE IS MADE before the dates mentioned for the discounts. Purchases can be made by cash/credit Card/Check or Google Check out. Shiva Narasimhamurthy will accompany Jyoti on the mrudangam by. Shiva started learning mridangam at the age of 7 from his uncle Vidwan Sri Soorly Ganesha Murthy an accomplished mrudangist in Doordarshan and All India Radio. Shiva has Attention all Fellow Members of HTCC cleared Karnataka Talavadya examination in distinction conducted by Secondary state education board. He has accompanied mridangam for several artists in India and US. Srinivas Talagadadeevi will accompany Jyoti on the Tabla. Srinivas Talagadadeevi is an amateur tabla player. He learned the basics at his young age from his uncle G.Ramakrishna, a master musician and a film artist. Srinivas has been playing tabla and a couple of other percussion instruments for the past 20 years. August Hindu Patrika August

15 Kansas City Please contact for sponsorships: $31/$51/$101 Managers and Priests : HINDU TEMPLE OF KANSAS CITY CELEBRATES Shri Ganesha Chaturthi Wednesday August 23rd to Sep 3rd, 2009 Aug 23 rd - Shri Ganesh Chaturthi 6.30am to 8.30am: Aatravshishya (21 people will be coming to join this) 9am to 10am: Bhajan for MMKC group 10am to 11am: Shri Ganesh Procession with Dhol and lajim 11am to Noon: Abhishek and Aarti Noon to 2pm: Maha Prasad Aug 29 th 7pm to 9.00 PM Bhajans by Chandana Karnnada Sangha Sep 3 rd Anantha Chatudhi -Ganeshji procession and immersion of idols Every evening we will have Shri Ganesh Aarti along with our regular Aarti until Thursday Detail of all eleven days programs on website Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of Kansas City 6310 Lackman Road Shawnee KS Visit Website: Phone & Fax: (913) /2009 President Note Page 3 Anand Mela Page 10 Calendar Nominations for Board of Trustees Page 11 BalVihar Orientation Page 12 Hindi Class Enrollment Page 13 Dharma Camp Page 14 Accounting Youth Group Team 23 Fund Raising Dinner Page 27 Upcoming Events July 31st - Varalaxmi Vratham August 1 st - Picnic August 13th - Sri Krishna Janmasthami August 23rd - Ganesh Chaturthi September 5th - Kar Seva, Clean HTCC September 12 - Anand Mela October 10 - Annual Fund Raising Dinner Non-Profit Org US POSTAGE PAID PERMIT No. 912 SHAWNEE MISSION KS 662 Hindu Temple & Cultural Center of Kansas City 6330 Lackman Road, Shawnee, KS