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York State Governor Kathleen ShopRite’s Ranjana
Courtney Hochul Choudhry VP Advertising and
U.S. Senator Charles Ellis Social Media ‘We are very
“Chuck” Schumer, U.S. Rep. proud and very honored to be
Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), NY the Title Sponsor of this event.
State Senator John Liu, Gajen- Let’s turn this festival of lights
dra Suri and Beena Kothari from into the festival of delights.
Samman for All, ShopRite’s Let’s eat and celebrate Diwali.’
Ranjana Choudhry, Thomas Thomas Rajan- VP, Global
Rajan from American Airlines, Talent American Airlines ‘In
Harry Singh Bolla of Bolla Oil the coming few days, we will
Corp, Padma Shri Mr. H R Shah be launching our non-stop ser-
- Chairman of TV Asia and vice from this great city of NY
other sponsors of the festival. to Delhi and onwards later this
Prime Minister of India, year Seattle to Bangalore.
Narendra Modi sent his Diwa- Harry Singh Bolla Chair-
li message ‘Heartiest greetings US Senator Charles Chuck Schumer and Harish Bhasin greet each other man of Bolla Corporation- ‘We
and best wishes for the cele- created history in 2013 by rep-
bration of Diwali, the Festival resenting the 2nd largest festi-
of Lights organized at Times val outside of India. It makes
Square in New York. The cel- me proud, today we are sitting
ebration will help spread our in Times Square celebrating
rich traditions and culture in our culture, our feelings and
different parts of the world. telling the world what we are
Carrying the eternal message all about’.
of victory of light over darkness Some of the front-line fight-
and truth over untruth may this ers in the covid battle like Of-
auspicious occasion further ficer Manish Sharma - Presi-
spread peace, happiness, and dent of Indian Police Society
prosperity in the lives of every (NYPD), Dr. Samin K. Sharma
member of the Indian diaspora of Mount Sinai Heart, Dr. Jag-
in the USA.’ mohan Kalra and Dr. Sunjit
Consul General of India, Jaspal from Northwell Health.
NY, Randhir Jaiswal addressed were honored on stage.
the attendees by saying that ‘It Congresswoman Rep. Caro- must welcome more Indians The festival did not end
is a time when we must respect lyn Maloney said: “I have been to come to America and New there. Yet another set of su-
the foundational values of our coming to this festival ever York. Because there are more perb performances by famous
society, kindness, compassion, since we got the Diwali stamp Indians in New York, the great- artists like Sparsh Shah, Sway
sharing and being together and approved which I worked on er NY will be’. Bhatia, Chosen Crew En-
may you bring all these values with many of you for many NY State Senator, John tertainment Group, Swarali
today and tomorrow and for- years to make it happen. The Liu was very excited to see the Dance, Jikaria Sisters (Omi,
ever. Let the light of Diwali Diwali stamp has been so suc- huge crowd at Times Square Rish, & Aash), DJ Ash and fi-
shine in your lives and all those cessful that I think we should ‘It is great to see everybody in nally ended with a blast with
around you.’ have a Diwali Holiday. So, I person. No better place to cel- an amazing performance by
New York State Governor am introducing a bill for that. ebrate Diwali than the cross- International Artist Jay Sean.
– Kathleen Hochul Congratu- Let me get back to work so I roads of the world right here in More than 250 mainstream
lated the founder of Diwali at can make all these wonderful Times Square, NY City. With media houses are already
Times Square, Neeta Bhasin, things happen’. Neeta’s advocacy and esteem talking about Diwali at Times
for having a vision to celebrate Senator Chuck Schumer journalism and many others, in Square and the entire event
the diversity and the wonderful said: “I believe in immigration NYC a long time ago we were reached out to millions of view-
tradition in Times Square and in general. My middle name able to make a parking holiday, ers across both digital and tradi-
said: ‘Diwali at Times is a fabu- is actually Ellis, it is Charles you do not change the car from tional channels in both writing
lous event to celebrate the New ‘Ellis’ Schumer from Ellis Is- one side of the street to another’. and video publishing formats.

Year and to celebrate the come- land. Immigrants have great Diwali at Times Square was Event Guru WorldWide, the
back of New York. This is Phe- American values while still re- celebrated in association with organizer of Diwali at Times
nomenally special; we are once membering the traditions and Samman for All, its mission is to Square, is a premier full-service
again gathered in person to bringing them to America from facilitate people from the low- event company specializing in
remind ourselves the real true their home countries. One of er-economic strata to achieve festivals, concerts, trade shows,
meaning behind Diwali. Think the best and the greatest immi- their dreams by providing them gala dinners and press confer-
about the fact that we can con- grant communities is our Indi- with tools for sustainable living ences. We conceptualize and
quer the darkness with light an American community, our and empowerment, said the Di- implement events of all sizes
and we did that with Pandemic. South Asian Community. We rector of the organization. and statues.

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