Ashirwad Celebrates to Appreciate Happy Day 6
HOUSTON: Ashirwad A Blessing Temple celebrated Happy Day 6 on Saturday, April 19, in Cinco Ranch High School, Katy. Happy Day is Ashirwad’s end of the year graduation and appreciation dinner. Highlights of the evening were Chief Teacher’s Commitment Award, Sloka-Thon, Sloka-Bet, Vedic Fair 3 Appreciation, “Karma”, Play by Ashirwad Students, Annual Sloka Recital and Graduation Ceremony.
Happy Day 6 was invoked in traditional way by lighting of diyas by Ashirwad’s Chief Teacher and team. Geetha Ravula, every year recognizes one Ashirwad Family by awarding them Chief Teacher’s commitment award for their consistent commitment to heritage. For 2014 it was awarded to Saanika Halpeti, Manisha Halapeti, Mahesh Halapeti, Siya Halapeti.
Sloka-Thon 2014 was the signature event of the evening. The top 3 finalists competed live on stage by reciting in 3 minutes precisely as many Vishnu Saharanamam slokas as they can. Saanika Halapeti was the winner by reciting 48 slokas. 1st runner up was Rhea Bhat who was the winner in 2013 and 2nd runner up was Srinidhi Srikalyani. These year Ashirwad introduced Sloka-Bet on Bhagwad Githa for their senior students. Divena Donthi and Rithika Ravishankar the joint winners recited flawlessly the slokas and explained the meaning of the slokas randomly drawn by the judges.
Ashirwad recognized Vedic Fair 3 supporters Radha Sharma, Sachin Sharma, Sukhi Kohli of IACHF, How 2 Workshop experts Sangita Bhutada, Ravi Sethuraman, Praveena Kadakia, India Exhibit Presentation Competition below 10 winner Ruthvik Jonna, runner up Vishnu Nataraja, above 10 winner Divena Donthi, runner up Anika Ravishankar and cooking competition winner Manjari Guturu and runner up Renu Ahuja.
Ashirwad students under the guidance of Geetha Ravula and Ashirwad team put together the highlight of the evening “Karma” a play in english depicting what is Karma. Students not only acted, but they were very enthusiastic to be involved in the play script, props, back stage logistics and DJ. Audience gave Karma, two thumbs up.
Happy Day concluded on a happy note, for every kid present received their graduation trophy which they will cherish for a long time to come.
Geetha and Sri Ravula of Ashirwad A Blessing Temple want to thank Ashirwad Team comprising of Ravi Sethuraman, Sivapriya Ravishankar, Priya Muralidharan, Deepika Maharaj, Srimathi Kumar, Laxmi Hegde, Shagun Ahuja, Mahima Bhat, Manisha Halapeti, Mahesh Halapeti, Vivek Bhonsley, Bindu Rao, Sailesh Kaparaju, Suresh Arumilli, Vinod Conikee, Ashutosh Sapru, Sonali Sapru, Hari Nemmara.