SILC: Weekly Digest (1/29/12)

Dear SILC Students, Parents, Teachers and Volunteers:

[1] Thank you for those who have responded to SILC Mela survey. If you have not done the survey yet, please take a minute to respond  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/B7J7QZJ  (copy and paste the link if hyperlink doesn't work).  Your inputs are valuable to plan better in future.

[2] Please see the second batch of pictures from our SILC photographer Ajay Patil (Thanks Ajay! These are fantastic pictures)

http://silcpix.blogspot.com/2012/01/silc-mela-2012.html

[3] As you are aware, SILC has gone to TPT studios today to record for "Geetmala" event. Please see Raj Menon's summary of this program below (thanks Raj for the summary). We will let you the time of telecast of this program (and also share any downloadable links TV folks provide us).

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From: raj menon <rklr_menon@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:24 PM

It was super! All the performances were highly appreciated.

 

Everyone arrived ahead of time and had lots of fun getting ready and sharing the food provided so thoughtfully by the Geetmala organizers. A special comment from Mukhtar, the founder of Geetmala, after seeing the "Chunari Chunari / Marjani" dance in Bhangra and Giddha format said, "This is one of the best choreographed dances I have seen here" - Go Neelam !

 

Here is the list of performances and participants:

 

#	PERFORMANCE	PARTICIPANTS
1	Vande Mataram	Abhi Nayar, Anushka Mankunath, Devi Patnaik, Erin Oberdorfer, Jayshree Seth, Lata Menon, Mahima Gupta, Shalini Thadani, Sunita Mannamkunath, Suparna Malia, - 10 performers
2	Bhangra & Giddha medley dances set to Chunari Chunari & Marjani by SILC Teens	Aditi Jariwala, Anushka Mankunath, Divya Vundamati, Kavya Devgun Mahima Gupta, Meera Viruru, Puja Patel, Suparna Malia, 8 performers
3	Story telling with Bharatanatyam	Neelam Malhotra - 1 performer
4	Assamese Bihu dance sent to Chad Gayo Paapi Bichooa by SILC Kids (8-10)	Aayushi Sarkar, Aradhana Menon,  Devapriya Baiju, Manashree Padiyath, Morganna Oberdorfer  - 5 performers
5	Kai Kotti Kali from Kereal set to the song Sarasadala Nayanam by SILC Adults	Erin Oberdorfer, Jayshree Seth, Jeyanthi Govindan, Lata Menon, Merlyn Patil, Neelam Malhotra, Renu Krishnan, Shalini Thadani - 8 performers
6	Rajasthani dance set to the song Aaja Nachle	Divya Vundamati, Kavya Devgun, Meera Viruru, Mahima Gupta and Suparna Malia - 6 performers
7	Jana Gana Mana	Abhi Nayar, Anushka Mankunath, Devi Patnaik, Erin Oberdorfer, Jayshree Seth, Lata Menon, Mahima Gupta, Shalini Thadani, Sunita Mannamkunath, Suparna Malia, - 10 performers
8	MC for the program	Manu Achar

 

 

A special and huge thanks to Neelam to pulling all this together to quickly and doing such a great job with it!

 

Regards

Raj

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Answers to last week's Quiz:

[Q] 2012 is declared as "national year of mathematics" by Indian Prime Minister in Dec 2011. Why?

[A] Indian Prime Minister declared 2012 as "National Mathematical Year" as a tribute to maths wizard Srinivas Ramanujan. He also declared December 22, the birthday of Ramanujan, as 'National Mathematics Day". For more details on "Srinivasa Ramanujan", please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

This week's Quiz:
[Q] National motto of United States is : In God We Trust (Official) and E pluribus unum (Latin, Out of many, one).
What is national motto of India?

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Regards
Siva Jasthi
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