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munity evolved over the period of 35
years and said he was happy to see
the community at a comfort zone
at present. Kothari then introduced
members of Edison Council and
nearby towns.
Edison Town Council Vice Pres-
ident Joyce Ship-Freeman compli-
mented the Indian Consulate, GO-
PIO-Edison and the library for this
new initiative. Retired as a literary
coach, Councilwoman Ship-Freeman
has said that library is her second
home and that books are still an im-
portant medium of knowledge.
Edison Councilman Ajay Patil
said that he had been wanting this for
the last 4 years and thanked everyone
involved in getting this initiative to its
fruition. Piscataway Councilman Ka-
pil Shah said that he had been doing
community work for 31 years and
said that he was first to take grant
from NJ state for video and books for that there was nothing more pious vote of thanks and thanked Council Sahitya Sabha and Zakir Husain
the local library couple of years back. than knowledge. He lauded the General, councilman and all digni- Circle donated 110 books. It was a
He said that books were still the au- community on the initiative to do- taries who attended. He thanked full house of about 120 people at-
thentic source for knowledge. nate a huge collection of books and the Edison library staff for helping tending the event. The registrations
Dr. Sudhir Parikh, a recipient of make them available to the Public in support this great initiative. He also were closed a day earlier due to lim-
Govt. of India’s Padma Shri award, Edison and East Coast. thanked the media and sponsors for itation of space.
recognized the legends of the com- The ceremony was followed by the event. The program was con- GOPIO is collecting old Indi-
munity. He said that education is a Holi celebration with a musical cluded by Library’s Assistant Direc- an classic books and contemporary
the best charitable activity that one program by singer Pallavi Belwariar tor Debra Sarr and invited everyone books in all Indian languages from
can give to anyone. He also said that and Yogesh who entertained the for a networking dinner. the community to donate to other
he ensured that his newspaper is dis- audience with Holi themed Hindi The Consulate provided 140 libraries.
tributed across all libraries in NJ. songs. books while the community organi- Those who want to donate may
Federation of Indian Associ- GOPIO-Edison team member zations including GOPIO, Gujarati contact GOPIO at 203-329-8010 or
ation President Kenny Desai said Chitranjan Sahai Belwariar gave Literary Academy, TV Asia, Assam send an e-mail to [email protected]

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