TELANGANA NIGHT IN TORONTO, CANADA

Telangana Night was organized along with the Sankranthi festival on January 13^th 2007 at the Huron Park Community centre, Toronto Canada. The Celebrations were organized by the Telangana Development Forum (TDF), Canada chapter. Sri Madhu K Reddy, TDF President, USA was the Chief Guest for the event. It was an amazing gathering where everyone was pleased to meet and greet more than 120 people. The event had lot of games, activities and competitions for children as well as adults.

The event was started at 4 PM and went up till mid night. By 5 PM good number of people gathered and everyone was overwhelmed to see all the excitement in the faces of ladies and kids coming in Indian traditional dresses. The event started with welcome song by children. Chandra Swargam welcoming all the guests mentioned that we celebrate Sankrantri for the first harvest of the year where we use new harvested rice for the sweet (Pulgam). He also gave brief history about Telangana movements.

Surender Peddi anchored the event and he urged all the participants to introduce themselves. The introductions were interspersed with witty remarks leading to bursts of laughter. In cultural Programmes, dance by Depa Mounika (Varsham song) and Eka Patraabinayam (Duryodhana) by Prabhakar Mettu have attracted all the audience. Anjani Mettu and Sunitha Nerevetla conducted the games and activities for the Children.

Madhu K Reddy, TDF President, who came all the way came from New York, USA, said that he is excited to see all the enthusiastic Canadian NRI Telanagites participating in the Telangana night. While mentioning about the role TDF in the development activities, he asked all the NRI Telanganites to take pro-active role in the developmental activities in their back home villages and towns. He also mentioned that we should use the modern technologies in the rural development.

Next, dinner was served which was pot-luck and it was a great feast with an assortment of traditional and mouth watering dishes including Pulagam, Pulihora and Daddojanam, it was difficult to choose. Everyone literally feasted. Kudos to all the Ladies and the gentlemen who helped them for providing a sumptuous dinner.

Vishweshwar Kalavala, who is the founder of district groups like www.Karimnagar.org, expressed that everyone should involve in the development of their respective districts. He explained how the district groups are being involved in conducting eye camps, health camps, seminars on higher and international education etc. and expressed that every NRI should do something to their birth place.

Mohammed Shabir who came from Hamilton, wished all the participants a Happy Sankranthi and said that the event reminds him back home how people celebrating festivals together. Mahesh Madadi has co-coordinated all the event activities. Shirisha Swargam while addressing the audience expressed that it is the collective efforts of all family members to make this organization grow in bigger way. Vivek Reddy, Omkaram, Prabhaker were among the guest speakers. All the families participated in the event with great enthusiasm and gaiety. They thanked the organizers for arranging such a beautiful event and wished to see few more events during the year.

Surender Peddi in his vote of thanks congratulated all the participants for making the event a great success and iterated that Telangana Development Forum Canada will organize many more events and solicited every ones’ active involvement. He thanked Madhu Reddy and Vishweshwar Kalavala for being able to come all the way from USA. He invited all Telanganites living in Canada to join tdfcanada@yahoogroups.com for information on future events.

The event was organized by Chandra Swargam, Surender Peddi and Mahesh Madadi who have taken time out of their busy schedules to make it Grand Success. They would like to extend thanks to Srikanth, Sunitha, Anjani, Prabhakar, Shirisha, Ranjith and others who have worked hard to organize and make the event a great success. The event concluded by Slogans of “Jai Telangana” and singing Indian National Anthem