Ananda Mandir will celebrate Saraswati Puja on Monday February 11 and Saturday February 16, 2008.
The BOT cordially invites you to attend the PUJA ceremonies with your friends and relatives.

SCHEDULES:

Monday, February 11, 2008.

Puja Rituals …………..From 7:45 A.M.

Followed by ………..Pushpanjali and Prasad Distribution
AND

Saturday February 16, 2008.

Banibandhana and Utsav:

Saraswati Aradhana, Hate Khori and Pushpanjali: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Prasad and Lunch ……..12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

Cultural Event………1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Satyanarayan Puja ……5:30 p.m.

Please note, on Saturday, February 16 the temple will remain open until 7:30 p.m.

For additional information, contact Biswabhai @ 732-873-9821

FRIDAY JANUARY 18
8:00 PM
$10 cover to be paid at the door.

Violet Samudra is a world fusion group that combines elements of Indian, Middle-Eastern & American music. It draws its inspiration from Shakti, Simon Shaheen, L.Shankar, Middle Eastern music in general, life….
Steve Booke – Acoustic Guitar
Ray Ippolito – Percussion
Lisa Liu – Violin
Dibyarka Chatterjee – Tabla
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The Heights’ Collective blends old-world traditions into new sounds. By living or training in countries from around the world, they draw influences from India, Argentina, Greece, Ireland, France, and American Jazz to create unique, distinctive and constantly evolving melodies and rhythms.
Michael Bales – Violin
Roshni Basu – Vocals
Nicolas Minc – Charango, Guitar, Vocals
Neal Padte – Sax, Flute
Spiro Pantazatos – Tabla

Venue: The Actors Theatre Workshop
145 West 28th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues),
3rd Floor, New York, NY 10001
Contact: 973 460 5282 / dibyarka@tabla.org

Saturday, January 12, 2008, 3:00PM – 7:00PM

IN AID TO BUILD AN ASHRAM WITH A TEMPLE AND COMMUNITY CENTER

Bharat Sevashram Sangha, New Jersey Chapter Presents

An evening of cultural events

Performing artists: A.Vocal recital By: Gayatri Sharma

B.Bengali Drama – Hatta Malar O Pare, By: Dhakar Drama Group

Play write: Badal Sirkar, Directed by: Subhasish Das

C. A garland of creative & classical dance performance

By: Nritya Creations Academy of Dance, Directed by: Meena Basu Nag

D. Kathak and creative dance presentation, By: Artists of Kala Mandir

Directed by: Smt. Malabika Guha

Place: Green Brook Middle School

132 Jefferson Avenue, Green Brook, NJ 08812

Somerset County, Tel. #: 732-968-1051

Please bring your family and friends to support this fund-raising event.

All proceedings will be going to start the construction

of the Ashram, Temple & community center

For information please call the Ashram at: 732-422-8880

or email us at: bssnj@hotmail.com / website: www.bssnj.org

For direction from your home please visit: www.mapquest.com

January 11th, 8 pm. Anand Sandhya at Ananda Mandir

SMT ARPITA MAJUMDAR – vocal

With Sri MAHESH VAIDYA on Harmonium, And Sri SARANG DEB on Tabla

Cedar Grove Lane off Easton Avenue in Somerset, NJ.

For info, call Arun Bhowmik at 908-672-1452

After receiving great critical acclaim in Kolkata
Ethnomedia Center for Theater Arts (ECTA)
in co-operation with Raag-Rang Inc.
presents

SATYAMEVA

A play by Sudipta Bhawmik

Starring :
Sudipta Bhawmik and Pinaki Datta

Directed by Indranil Mukherjee

January 26 6.30pm and January 27 3.30pm
Edison Valley Playhouse
2196 Oak Tree Road, Edison, NJ

Tickets: $20.00
Contact: (732) 241 7060 bhawmik@gmail.com indymukh@gmail.com
Jan 26, Saturday Tickets – Click Here
Jan 27, Sunday Tickets – Click Here
Advance booking in encouraged due to limited seating.

Some review Comments:

The Bengali-American group Ethnomedia from New Jersey, which stunned Calcutta last year with Ron, returned for the world premiere of dramatist-director Sudipta Bhawmik’s Satyameva. A senior executive body-shopping software engineers fires his incompetent new recruit, who pleads that he should not be sent back to India. By a remarkable plot of twists and turns (perhaps too many of them) Bhawmik conveys older Bengalis’ nostalgia for their birthplace and younger Bengalis’ desire to emigrate to America. Sankar Ghoshal and Indranil Mukherjee respectively give realistic portrayals of these parts, but the playwright’s craftsmanship tends to get the better of heartfelt emotions, which we had found in Ron. – Ananda Lal, telegraph

DECEMBER, 14, 8 pm ANANDA SANDHYA at Ananda Mandir

SMT SUGATA CHATTERJEE (vocal)

With Sri MADHU VORA on Harmonium, And Sri SHYAM MOHAN on Tabla

As usual, the ANANDA SANDHYA concert is FREE, Children come free. However, your kind donation is always graciously accepted.

For info, call Arun Bhowmik at 908-672-1452.

UNITED STATES KOLKATA LITERARY EXCHANGE
at JANUARY 2008 KOLKATA BOOK FAIR
USKLE will be bringing a group of 12 to 18 distinguished
poets, writers, screenwriters, publishers, editors, translators
and playwrights to the 2008 Kolkata Book fair
please check USKLE.org

A Benefit dinner and
An evening of poetry reading by

Erica Jong
Yusef Komuniakaa

on Friday December 7th, 7 pm
at Nupur Lahiri’s house (BFA)
4343 Rt 27, Princeton NJ 08540

To sponsor travel expanse for the delegates to Kolkata
suggested donation $100.00 or more

Erica jong, author of eight novels including Fear of Fying, Fanny, Sappho’s Leap,
What do Women Want, A Midlife Memoir, Fear of Fifty and six volumes of poetry.

Yusef Komuniakaa won Pulitzer prize, William Falkner prize, Kingsley Tufts Poetry award
for his poetry and Bronze Star for for his service in Vietnam.
In 1999 he was elected a Chancellor of The Acadamy of American Poets

RSVP Nupur Lahiri 732-821-3949
Krishna Bhattacharya 732-536-6325
Goutam Datta 908-507-5998

Indian Institute of Performing Arts (IIPA) presents an evening of classical music and dance featuring

Brinda Guha (Kathak presentation)

Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik(vocal)

Mohan Deshpande(Vocal)

Accompanying musicians for the vocal recitals are Kedar Naphade on harmonium and Amod Dandawate on tabla.
8th December at 7 p.m.

Venue:
The Community Presbyterian Church of the Sand Hills
57 Sand Hills Road
Kendall Park, NJ 08824
Donation: $15.00 per person.
Contact information: (732)-821-8719.
email: suparnaguha@aol.com

ENAD, a theater group based in the Bay Area in California will be staging “Ron” on December 8, 2007 at Cubberley Theater in Palo Alto. “Ron”, a play written by Sudipta Bhawmik, has been staged earlier in the USA and Kolkata, India by Ethnomedia and has received excellent reviews from the critics and the audience. If you have friends living in the Bay Area, make sure that they don’t miss this play.

3.00pm and 6.30pm

Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at gate and $30 for VIP

Children under six are not allowed. Parental discretion advised due to adult content.

For tickets, call: Nisar Ahmed (510-708-0741)/Debankur Das (408-406-2184)/Rebanta Mitra (408-249-7633)

Ananda Mandir of New Jersey is celebrating Maha Kali Pujo on Friday, November 9, 2007, starting at 6:30 p.m.

If you are interested in sponsoring Kali Pujo, please send your check in the amount of $101 directly to Ananda Mandir at 269 Cedar Grove Lane, Somerset, NJ 08873 before Nov. 5th as Biswabhai will prepare separate “ARGHYAs” for individual families for “HOM” on the Pujo night .

Please remember it is not necesssary to bring fruits, flowers and other items for Kali Pujo, since the temple provides them to the sponsors.