Lot of things about this video I liked. The locale camera work the authenticity sheer purity of the folks. No set up, so natural, hard to believe. I just wish this treasure should live long. This is something that gave Rajasthan its unique identity.
It is just 100% pure and so entertaining, it takes me back right in the middle of where there is pure nature and joy live.
Enjoy
Raj Nathawat
In a break from tradition, RANA is organizing an open Holi celebration at the Baylands Park. Baylands Park offers plenty of open space and a perfect place for hundreds of people to play Holi.
By popular demand, RANA will serve Rajasthani food free to all attendees. RANA Holi will be a true family event with plenty of interesting activities for everyone attending. RANA expects more than 600 attendees for this event and promises to make this a memorable event for Rajasthanis and all Holi-lovers.
Venue: Baylands Park, Sunnyvale
em-link[2:Register online] for this event today!
Well you must be thinking what prompted RANA to organize entrepreneurship events? I guess it might help to let you in on our thinking. After all, this is Bay area. Everyone has thought of starting or at least worked at a start up, right? Well, may be not. May be the RANA Enterpreneur Forum will encourage you to think.
We at RANA think that there is a strong cultural connection between Rajasthan and entrepreneurship. There are a number of Rajasthanis in the Bay area that have been successful in the venture world and have promoted countless others. At RANA, we want to highlight the belief systems — religious mores, cultural values, moral and ethical principles — that underlie the Rajasthani psyche and enable them to succeed in the venture world. Aspiring and already successful entrepreneurs would be served well to refresh their thinking about business and ethics in todays tumultuous times.
RANA is inviting aspiring entrepreneurs from the entire spectrum of society, Indian-Americans or otherwise, to its new monthly Entrepreneur Forum. RANA’s Entrepreneur Forum features successful RANA members who connect their roots to the success in their entrepreneurial ventures. Speakers engage in a two-way conversation with the audience in an informal setting. The forum meets every 4th Thursday of the month starting in February.
Seating to this event will be limited, so be sure to RSVP to us in advance. Email us at events at rana.org or call us at 408-446-2113.
Come join us in rediscovering our culture from the eyes of successful entrepreneurs.
Thursday February 22, 2007 at 7:00 pm
1313 N. Milpitas Blvd
Milpitas, CA 95035
Dinesh Shrimali is owner of Shri Builders, a real estate development & construction company. Shri Builders has been a dream in the making for 30 years. Dinesh’s journey into the world of building began with his first job as a Construction Engineer at L&T in Bombay. Soon thereafter, he came to the United States and completed his Masters in Mechanical and Structural Engineering from IIT Chicago. This was followed by the launch of his US career in power plant construction.
After completing his MBA, Dinesh took a detour toward Silicon Valley and worked for Hewlett Packard. At HP, he was able to give his mind free reign to innovate. This and his attention to detail resulted in the creation of fiber optic lab facilities where he was awarded several patents. These patents in laser and LED packaging are widely used in the industry today and have increased the lifespan of lasers and LEDs from hundreds of hours to thousands of hours.
Dinesh’s true passion has always been building. He returned to this passion when he designed and built his own home fifteen years ago. Dinesh found this home-building experience so fulfilling and satisfying that he decided to turn this passion into a business - and so Shri Builders was born. While Shri Builders specializes in building high-end homes, Dinesh’s primary interest has always been the intersection of design and lifestyle.
RANA brings to you a strong event calendar for the winter months of 2007. Please take a few minutes to read about the upcoming RANA events and mark your calendars with these dates.
The Mewar Exhibition Preview
Sunday, 28 Jan 2007 at 4:00 PM
1281 Via Di Salerno
Pleasanton CA 94566
First up is an exclusive preview of a major fine art exhibition being organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The Mewar exhibition preview is this weekend, so let us know (by email) immediately if you are interested in attending it. Seating is limited and we only have a few more spaces remaining.
The preview will describe the theme of this exhibition, highlight the most important pieces on display in this exhibition, explain the behind-the-scenes activities over the last seven years to bring together this exhibition, and detail the various upcoming events organized around the main exhibition such as performances from visiting Rajasthani folk artists and demonstrations as well as lectures on Mewar art traditions.
Entrepreneur Forum
Thursday, 22 Feb 2007 at 7:00 PM
Secondly, in keeping with the culture of the Bay Area, RANA has initiated an entrepreneur forum featuring successful RANA members. These busy members will take time out from their business and family duties to share the secret of success in their entrepreneurial ventures and engage in a two-way conversation with the audience in an intimate setting. Seating to this event will also be limited, so be sure to RSVP to us in advance. The details of this program including location and speakers will be announced shortly.
Tentative Day Trip to Bear Valley Resort
Saturday, 24 Feb 2007
Bear Valley Resort
Thirdly, we are hoping to organize a trip to Bear Valley this year. It will only be a day trip to keep down the costs of participation in this event. Since we are still unsure about the level of interest in the community, we would like to hear your feedback on whether we should organize this event. You can post your comments directly on the RANA blog using your log on. If you have not received a log on already, please register online with RANA or contact us for help.
Holi Celebration
Saturday, 24 March 2007
Baylands Park, Sunnyvale
Finally, Holi is just around the corner and marks the beginning of Spring. Although Holi festival is going to be celebrated in India on March 3rd, we have organized the Holi celebration keeping in mind the local climate conditions and to prevent scheduling conflicts with other Bay Area organizations. As usual, we will have a blast with colors, water, and lots of great foods and dizzying drinks.
If you have not already renewed your annual membership for 2007, this would be a great time to do so as it will provide valuable discounts to all the RANA events. We would also like to invite volunteers to help out with the organization and publicity of these events to the broader RANA community which includes even those who are not paying RANA patrons. Please feel free to share the RANA web site with those friends who are interested in Rajasthani culture and also suggest registering with www.rana.org to them.
Meeting attended by
Vinod Jain
Nikunj Mehta
Rajeev Jain
Sanjay Bhandari
Neelu Bhandari
Pinky Jain
Ruchira Pungalia
Raj Nathawat
Dinesh Drimali
Neeraj Punglia
Jaya Pungalia
Ashok Bhatnagar
Juhi Bhatnagar
Vikash Rungta
Saturday, January 13, 2007
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RANA is delighted to inform you about the upcoming exhibition: Princes, Palaces, and Passion: The Art of India’s Mewar Kingdom at Asian Art Museum, San Francisco starting February 2, 2007. In this regard RANA invites you for an exclusive preview by Kalpana Desai, Asian art Museum at:
On Sunday 28 Jan 2007 at 4:00 PM
1281 Via Di Salerno
Pleasanton CA 94566
http://www.asianart.org/mewar.htm
Also attending will be Doria Leong, Director of Development, Asian Art Museum, and Martha Shaughnessy of Atomic PR. Dr. Forrest MacGill, the chief curator of this exhibition will be unable to attend the event due to last minute schedule conflicts. The Asian Art Museum has leaned on us to help bring a large number of patrons to the museum for this exhibition. It is really important for us to show the robust interest in Indian cultural and art heritage in the Bay Area. We would like to especially invite to this special preview those community members who can contribute ‘Tan-Man-Dhan’ for this exhibition. Please contact us to tell us how you would like to help RANA and Asian Art Museum in this regard.
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum has organized an exhibition of artworks from Mewar starting on February 2nd until April 29th. The first of its kind outside India, the exhibition has borrowed works about Mewar from all over the world. The exhibits range from the early sixteenth century to the early twentieth century. A panoply of events have been organized in conjunction with this exhibition to educate the museum patrons about Mewar art and culture including Bhopa, Pabuji Ki Paad, Holi, Kathak, lectures, and live demonstrations.
Read more about the events and the exhibition from Asian Art Museum’s Web site - http://www.asianart.org/mewar.htm. Stay tuned for more information about RANA’s events around this exhibition.
Educational events at the Asian Art Museum:
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RANA is extremely pleased to announce the launch of its remodeled Web site http://www.rana.org. RANA has maintained a Web presence for well over a decade now. The newly remodeled Web site is aimed at better serving the dynamic and highly connected Rajasthani community in the Bay Area and elsewhere.
http://www.rana.org provides organizational information, event announcements, as well as community discussions. Its democratic nature supports the community’s need to self-publish information of interest to any and every interested community member. RANA is the first Indian community in the Bay Area to provide such a dynamic online forum to its members.
RANA’s events are announced via invitations posted on this Web site as well as emailed to all its registered users. Anyone can register as a user with RANA’s Web site for free. Note: Subscribing to the Web site does not provide any membership status in RANA. Posted articles and comments are also available as RSS feeds so that you can find updates directly in your news reader or email client, without navigating to the RANA Web site.
Users are encouraged to contribute by posting comments and articles including news, announcements, recipes, reviews, and more. All articles are monitored by site editors, who are themselves appointed by the community. If the community approves you as an author, you can even post articles without requiring moderation.
The RANA Web site is constantly evolving through a process of needs analysis and feedback. We are working very hard to ensure that the information you find here is pertinent and of high quality. In case you experience any difficulties or see errors, please do not hesitate to write to us. Please help us make this forum a voice of the entire RANA community. We look forward to receiving you on the new RANA Web site.
Wish You A Very Happy New Year!