MILPITAS: Telangana America Telugu Association (TATA) presented an excellent Meet and Greet program with Deshapathi Srinivas, Officer on Special Duty to the Chief Minister of Telangana. The event was organized by TATA of Bay Area on Saturday November 14 at 556 S Milpitas Blvd, Milpitas, and was well attended by over 400-450 enthusiastic audience of Telugu community.
The event took place with blessings of TATA Malla Reddy Garu, Jhansi Reddy Garu, Mahender Musuku, Srinivas Anugu, Bharat Madadi and Anil Arrabelli and was supported by MicroInfo and AHR Foundation.
It started with a minute silence in respect of Telangana Amara Veerulu followed by Sri Srinivas Manapragada (National Cultural Chairman) of TATA singing Telangana Patriotic song “Jaya hey Jaya hey Telangana”.
He explained the ideals of TATA and the ambitious plans of service including supporting “Mission Kakatiya”.
TATA Board of Director Vijay Chava introduced TATA members and talked about TATA Membership drive. Appi Reddy (Regional Vice President) spoke about youth involvement in TATA activities and future programs.
The evening entertainment was presented by Nishanth, Shashank Goud and Srinivas Manapragada. There were folk songs and dance performances by Tirumalesh.
Produtoor Yella Reddy, Professor and noted poet talked on history of Telangana and contribution of poets in the Telangana struggle.
Sri Raja Reddy Garu a leading industrialist of Bay Area and TIE President elect, spoke on the involvement of Telangana IT professionals and their participation in the community.
As an NRI from Nizamabad, he mentioned how technology can be used in villages and rural sector and encouraged youth involvement in IT activities.
He also mentioned about recent involvement with T Hub initiated by the Telangana Govt.
Deshapathi Srinivas Garu, celebrity of the event explained the rich culture and heritage of Telangana and importance of it in the history of forming the state. As the state is doing its best to preserve and promote the heritage, he stressed upon the need for NRIs to step forward to do their part.
He explained the evolution of Telangana struggle and the great contributions of late Jaya Shanker Garu – how he relentlessly made an effort to motivate people to come to his meetings which started from mere 50 people to 50 lakhs people at his last speech at Warangal. He explained with examples how Telangana Telugu is rich in its form, expression and how it influenced other dialects.
He explained how Telangana Government is working towards self-sustained rural economy and briefed about the re-design of water and power projects by it.
Deshapati Srinivas Garu being a poet and very knowledgeable about state history, most of his narration was filled with poetic recitals to reference the life and history of the people, which made the evening live and energized. The packed audience thoroughly enjoyed the evening.
The event organizers, TATA felicitated Deshapathi Garu and Produtoor Yella Reddy Garu with shawls, flower bouquets. Local Telangana cultural associations (TCA), Silicon Andhra Association heads and members showed their support to TATA and its activities.
TATA event organizers Ramesh Thangellapalli, Abhilash Rangineni, Uday Jonnala, Bhasker Maddi, extended their thanks to everyone who attended and the sponsors who supported the event.
They thanked Venkatesh Bukka for his effort in covering complete event for media coverage. They extended special thanks to media partners HMTV, NTV, Aina TV, V6 News, TV9, TV5, Telugucoummunitynews.com, Mission Telangana.com, Telugutimes, NamstheAndhra, TelanagaTimes, Eenadu, NamastheTelangana, Greattelangana.com, San Jose Mercury News, Ragalahari, GreatAndhra.com, Deccan Chronicle, Andhra Jyothy, Indian Express, Sakshi, India West, India Post, Deccan Abroad, TNIlive, Andhra Patrika, Vaartha, Siasat, Munsifdaily and rahnumadeccan.
Event MC was Nishanth Reddy, and his team of TATA Yuva dance performers were Shashank Goud, Lalith Kumar, Satish Banavath, Amith Reddy, Nishanth, Srujan Reddy, Sushruth Reddy, Ravi Varma, Bal Reddy, Sadvik Reddy, Sreeja Anam and Abhi Rao Katari,
Special thank you note and gesture were rendered by TATA Minority Chairman G. Mohd. Iqbal, Abdul Kudus, Mateem, Akhil & Sohil.
India Post News Service
