Itinerary

IHI is leaving for India in about 10 days...It's hard to believe! The team is making final preparations for this once-in-a-lifetime experience and we would like to share our itinerary with you

June 15	Arrive at Chennai
June 18 - 25	Families For Children
June 26 - July 1	Travel + R&R
July 2 - 15	Amer Seva Sangam
July 16 - 17	Travel
July 18 - 24	Life Line Express
July 25 onward	New Delhi

We are going to be spending a fair bit of time at each of the NGOs, as well as lots of traveling on the road (over 3,800km according to googlemap). Most of our travels will be by rail, which should allow us to plenty of opportunities to interact with the locals and see the beautiful countryside and towns. We expect lots of interesting stories to bring back with us :)


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Evening in India 2011 - Synopsis

Thanks to the generous support and enthusiastic participation from the community, IHI was able to raise over $8000 for the three NGOs in India. It was a great evening because of the combined efforts of so many people in the London and greater community. We had approximately 300 guests in the audience, and up to 100 performers! As a group we were able to showcase and learn about so many different regions of India, with their different colours, languages and vibrancy. Hopefully we were able to foster a bond between Canada and India - facilitating the exchange of ideas and building on common human values.

IHI would like to thank the following individuals for helping us preserve the memory of this evening:

• Dr. Sydney Siu, Lauren Sham (gallery), and Samuel Cheng (gallery) for photography.
• Dr. Praful Chandarana for video recording.
• Dr. Dev Sainani for creating a DVD using the footages.

Here are the highlights of the wonderful performances throughout the evening:

Ganesh Prarthana

Mani Bhashyam, Bhairavi Shankar, Nachiket Deshpande, Sanjay Deshpande, Vineet Vyas

Dancing Stars

Akash, Swati, Pooja, Sooraj, Presha, Dev, Ajaya, Karan, Rohan, Janani, Shefali, Dhruv, Krishna V, Shivani, Sujai, Justin, Simran, Krishna A, Srinidhi

Devi Bhajan

Charushree Prasad

Bilingual Duet – Barso Re

Mihika Jog, Shefali Panicker

Address from Office of Global Health, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

Dr. Neil Arya

Kathak Dance & Tabla

Bageshree Vaze, Vineet Vyas, Raya Bidaye

Holi Dance – A Festival of Colours (Bengal)

Madhavi Prasad, Srushti Gangdev, Karishma Taneja, Saumya Saxena, Swati Nikumb, Srinitya Ganna, Rachna Jog, Priyanka Patil

IHI 2010 Presentation

Pranavi Ravichandran, Jeremy Kroes, Kayla Bennett, Marissa Van Brunt

Kuchipudi Dance

Silpa Valluri, Natya Raji School of Dance

Nachda Gaunda Punjab (Punjab)

Abhilasha Duggal, Bo Venkatesan, Dheera Ghosh, Kamini Vasudeva, Sreelatha Varapravan, Radha Nair, Navneet Rai, Vandana Nagpal-Shah

Ganapati Raya (Maharashtra)

Shobha Nikumb, Seema Desai, Monica Jog, Vranda Kamat, Neela Chinchalkar, Jyotsna Ziradkar, Kishor Pande, Sachin Kale, Priyvat Deshpande, Sanjay Deshpande, Shailendra Ziradkar

Gujrati Folk Dance - Dhandia Raas (Gujarat)

Minakshi Doobay, Eisha Gupta, Ashna Gupta, Priyanka Singh, Shivani Sharma, Sabina Shah, Deena Shah, Priyanka Shah

Dhalkyo Dhalkyo (Bhutan)

Baktha Gurung, Dipesh Gurung, Migmar Tamang, Banita Tamang, Anita Gurung, Tikha Gurung, Ramita Tamang, Anita Tamang, Phul Maya Tamang, Sharmila Tiwari; Choreographed by: Jeet Gurung

Bhage re Mann

Ratna Varma

Bollywood in the Rain

Vivian Chau, Lauren Sham, Marilyn Phung, Audrey Tran, Januvi Jegatheswaran, Aarica Arora, Sarah Ward, Smriti Khosla, Rinu Pazhekattu, Caileigh Pilmer, Supriya Singh, Sneha Iyer, Ammara Ghumman, Nisha Ravichandran

Western Indo-Canadian Students Association (WISCA) Dance Team

Akshaan Kaul, Sahil Razdan, Nirish Puri, Esha Jain, Shilpa Goel, Ruchi Parikh

IHI 2011 Team Surprise

Charushree Prasad, Brittany Foster, Julia Hall, Seth Sobel, Horace Cheng

It is evident that all this would not be possible without the support of our friends and the community. We are grateful and humbled by your generosity.

Evening In India Update

A quick update for Evening In India: it's around the corner! Everything is falling in place and the dance/music practices have been great.

So in short, it'll be a spectacular night!

The money raised from this event will be going directly towards our three partner NGOs. Take a moment to read about the meaningful work they are doing in India. The 2010 team will also be sharing their contributions and experiences at Evening In India.

P.S. Just a reminder that there will be a silent auction with some beautiful items, don't forget to bring your wallet ;)

Evening in India 2012

To help meet our fundraising goals for the NGOs this year, IHI will continue the tradition of hosting “Evening in India – A South-Asian inspired cultural experience”. In the past this event has been a fantastic success featuring some of the top South-Asian musicians and dancers in South-Western Ontario.

South-Asian inspired music, dance, food, fun and even a silent auction. We promise that you'll love it! To reserve tickets email us at indiahealth[at]gmail[dot]com or contact us by phone at 226-234-4396 (David).

If you are interesting in performing or offering your support in any way, please don’t hesitate to email us.

We hope to see you there.
Michelle, Paige, Ashok, Aleshia, and David

An Evening in India 2011, it's coming!

A quick update about the behind-the-scene preparation for "An Evening in India", the annual cultural fund-raising event put together by the community and IHI team. We have secured the venue and Charu is working hard on putting together the program, and teaching us how to dance. Here is some information for the event:

When: March 25th (Friday) 7:00-9:30PM
Where: Clarke Road Secondary School, London

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We'll have a lot more details follow, stay tuned with this blog. In the mean time, here are some pictures from our recent visit. The auditorium is beautiful and very well equipped!

From 2011 Team Blog

From 2011 Team Blog

From 2011 Team Blog

We are very grateful to the great staff and teachers at Clarke Road Secondary School who helped us show us around and sort out the logistics.