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Friday May 26, 2006

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Our annual Spring Festival event on Saturday May 6, 2006 at the Merrimack High School, in Merrimack was a grand success with over 350 people attending. Please read event details and view the picture galleries.

We request members to send pictures of the events to eventpictures@ianh.org. Please make sure that the file attachments of an individual email does not exceed 10 MB. We will upload them to the spring festival picture gallery.

Sponsor Dinner Service

We invite sponsors to underwrite the cost of materials. The estimated cost for sponsoring dinner service is two hundred dollars for this event. We welcome joint sponsorships to this good cause. The sponsors will pick the menu. For example, four families can jointly sponsor this event by contributing fifty dollars each. Your contribution is tax deductible. We plan to host dinner service in January, June, and October. The October service will be performed to honor Mahatma Gandhiji.

Request for volunteers for the Nashua Soup Kitchen cooking on Sunday June 11, 2006.

We require about four volunteers for this event. They will be divided into two batches, cooking team and service team. Volunteers of the food preparation team will be assigned duties between 8.30 and 11.30 a.m. The service team will start preparing the table at 11:30 a.m. and continue till 2:00 p.m. Please contact publicservice@ianh.org if you would like to volunteer or sponsor.

Support IANH Public service activities :

IANH is a charitable 501(c)(3) organization under the IRS code, it is possible for you to direct your United Way contribution to IANH. Our members serve the community voluntarily. The contributions are used only to buy food, groceries and the needed items. Thus, there is ZERO administrative cost associated with IANH contributions. Every dollar contributed to IANH goes towards serving the community.

Youth Group Meeting

IANH plans to host a kickoff meeting to form a ‘Youth Group’ with teenagers to get together and explore relevant issues affecting their daily lives. If interested, please contact Barinder Ahluwalia.

Date & Location: June 2006 in the Nashua area.

Community News and Announcements

2006 NH Geography Bee winner Neeraj Sirdeshmukh won the Second Place at the National Geographic Bee

WASHINGTON (May 24, 2006)--Twelve-year-old eighth-grader Bonny Jain, from Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Moline, Ill., took top honors at the 2006 National Geographic Bee, held in Washington, D.C., today. He won a $25,000 college scholarship and lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society.

Second-place winner was Neeraj Sirdeshmukh, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Nashua, N.H., who received a $15,000 college scholarship. Third place and a $10,000 college scholarship went to Yeshwanth Kandimalla, a 13-year-old eight-grader from Marietta, Ga. The 2006 National Geographic Bee was sponsored by JPMorgan Chase. Read more details.

The Indiana University India Studies Program announces: The 2006 Kishor M. Kulkarni Arts and Humanities Prize on Modern India

The Kishor M. Kulkarni Arts and Humanities Prize on Modern India competition is open to permanent residents and citizens of the United States who are high school juniors or seniors, undergraduate or graduate students at a U.S. college or university, or between the ages of 16 and 25, with ancestry in what is now the Republic of India, whose principal residence is in the United States.