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Divya and Dev learn Indian classical music at India International School, Fairfax, VA under the tutelage of Humayan Khan. Mrunali Das learns Sitar from Guru Nabaghana Shyam Singh. The second item was violin playing by Amartya Banerjee. Amartya goes to Suzuki school of violin and he played twinkle variations. The third item was also another violin playing by Sarthak Sahoo. He played from his own composition. The fourth item was Piano playing by Alok Mohanty. Odissi and Movie Dances The MC for this section of the program was Susmita Behera. In this section we had 5 items. The first item was is the Odissi performance by Shibani Kanungo. Shibani performed “Kirwani Pallabi”. This was taught to her by her Guru Jayantee Paine Ganguly. The 2 nd item was also an Odissi dance that will be performed by Anjana Mohanty. This dance was taught to her by her Guru Chitra Krishnamurty. The 3rd item was a movie song dance “Bhumro Bhumro” by Adi Nayak and Aparna Ray. The song was from the movie “Mission Kashmir”. The 4 th item was a Movie Song Dance that was performed by Supriya Patnaik. The dance was “Dus bahane karke legaye dil” from the movie “Dus”. The 5 th item was another movie dance “tal se tal mila” from the movie “Tal”. This was performed by Swagata Mohanty. Gitinatya Sri Ganesha The drama was the story of Lord Sri Ganesha’s birth. Lord Siva was describing Parbati how he was saved from committing a big sin. During the conversation misunderstanding started and Siva ordered Parbati to leave the place immediately and go somewhere else. Parbati left Kailash and went to Kiskindhya Mountain. Narada Muni came and suggested Parbati to do meditation to get back Siva. While Parbati was taking bathe, she created Ganesha from her mind using the dirt from her body. Lord Bisnu gave life to Ganesha and Ganesha was in charge of watching the cave door while Parbati meditated. Siva came looking for Parbati. Ganesh did not allow him go inside. Fighting started and Siva was defeated. Siva sent his followers who were also defeated. Then Siva took help of Bisnu. In
the final battle, Ganesha was defeated and killed. When Siva learned that Ganesha was Parbati’s son, he wanted to give back Ganesh’s life. However, Ganesha’s head was completely destroyed. Siva sent Nandi and Bhrungi to get a baby’s head who would be sleeping putting his head to north. Nanid and Bhrungi got an elephant’s head. Siva gave back life to Ganesha and blessed him to be the Lord who will get first puja. The participants were: Jogasutra and <strong>JOGA</strong> Retreat Announcements: Participants: Pratap Dash (Shiba), Bijoylaxmi Dash (Parbati), Shashwati Das (Narada), Mrunali Das (Bisnu), Rajashree Mishra (Dharani), Sidhharth Mohapatra (Nandi), Suman Ojha (Bhrungi), Debanjan Chowdhury (Ganesha) Announcements in video format were made for <strong>JOGA</strong> retreat and Jogasutra, part II. As <strong>JOGA</strong> will complete 10 years of <strong>Holi</strong> celebration next year in 2008, we plan to bring the next volume of Jogasutra. A <strong>JOGA</strong> retreat is planned to engage small children during summer 2007. The small video clips were made possible by Shashadhar Mohapatra, Debanjan Chowdhury, Rajashree Mishra, Mrunali Das and Shashwati Das. The editing was done by Anshuman Das. Certificates and Recognition: Certificates were presented to all the children participants. Essay Competition Results: For the first time <strong>JOGA</strong> conducted an essay contest among HIGH school students. The objective was two fold: (1) To recognize the young high school writers who will be ready for college this year or soon. (2) To encourage the students to research on the topics relevant to Indian culture, event, monument or personality. There were 9 participants this year from different part of USA (NJ, VA, MD) competed for two prizes: first prize was of $50/- and second prize was of $25. We had a panel of judges from diverse field and well established in education and research line to evaluate the essays and declare the winners. The results were declared today. The winning essay was from Miss Prerana Pradhan, a 12th grader from NJ and the runners up essay was from Mrunali Das, a 9th grader from MD. Both winners choose
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