IACFNJ will celebrate Navratri 2014 in South Brunswick

Six days of Garba celebration will be held in South Brunswick by active cultural organization - Indo-American Cultural Foundation of Central Jersey –IACFNJ. More than 2,000 people will attend the Garba on September 26, 27, October 3, 4, 10 and 11, 2014:

Indo-American Cultural Foundation of Central Jersey - IACFNJ announced the Grand Navratri Garba celebration in South Brunswick on September 26, 27, October 3, 4, and 10, 11, 2014, from 8 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. The first four days of Garba will be at South Brunswick Highs School, 750 Ridge Road in Monmouth Junction and the last days will be at Cross Roads South Middle School, 195 Major Road in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. The Navratri celebration marks the festival of nine nights during which Hindus worship Goddess of Shakti Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati. Hindus believe Goddess Durga destroys all the evil propensities lurking the minds of her devotees, Goddess Lakshmi implants divine qualities in the devotee’s minds and Goddess Saraswati bestows true knowledge to her devotees. The tenth day also known as Vijay Dashami, commemorates the victory of good over evil.

IACFNJ will hold this year’s Garba in a state of the art gymnasium at South Brunswick High School and Cross Roads South Middle School in South Brunswick in a highly secured environment and culturally diverse neighborhood where South Asians are highly populated in surrounding towns

of North Brunswick, Franklin Park, Princeton, Princeton Junction, Monroe, East Brunswick, Robbinsville and East and West Windsor. More than 2000 people are expected to attend each day to celebrate Hindu’s religious and cultural festival. For last four years, IACFNJ Garba has been the biggest and well organized indoor Navratri event in New Jersey. Once again, famous group of Mahesh Mehta and his talented singers from Bollywood and local singers and artists of Entertainment Unlimited will rock the stage with famous old and new live singing of garbas, dandiya tunes, famous sanedo and bhangaras for non-stop live entertainment for more than six hours on all six days. The very young, middle age and older generation crowd will shake the floor with so much energy and variety of dance styles and costumes on all six days. The South Brunswick’s cultural diversity will be witnessed on the dance floor where the attendees will not be only Gujaratis but from all over India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Shri Lanka and other neighboring countries and high school kids of various ethnic and cultural back grounds which is rarely seen at any other Garba celebration in the country. The Goddess Amba Maa’s divine and traditional Aarti will be performed on all six days and the Prasad will be distributed to all attendees. The center stage will be decorated with Goddess Amba Maa’s statue in a temple setting where the atmosphere will feel like divine and traditional Navratri celebration back home in Gujarat. The cafeteria will have food stalls of various mouth-watering and traditional Indian delicacies and other variety of food at reasonable prices which will additional convenience to the attendees.

The local business entrepreneurs, community leaders, local and state public officials and large number of Asian Indians will attend the celebration to support IACFNJ community efforts to keep Indian culture and heritage alive in this country. The generous media sponsors for the event are Akilanews.com, TV Asia, Radio Dil, masalajunction.com, NRI Tribune, EBC Radio, Gujarat Darpan, Tiranga, India West, Asian Media USA, Gujarat Samachar, Radio Dil, Divya Bhaskar, Parikh Media Worldwide, Radio Zindagi, Hi India, Sentinel, South Brunswick Patch and South Brunswick Post.

The IACFNJ dedicated and enthusiastic Executive committee, Trustees and other committee members and volunteers under the leadership of President Dr. Tushar Patel, Chairman Mahesh Patel, Vice-President Hitesh Patel, Secretary Deven Patel and Treasurer Mac Shah are working very hard to organize this event once again to have a grand success for this year’s event for the 10th consecutive year. For further information about the event or advertisement and sponsorship or stall booking, please contact Dr. Tushar Patel at 848-391-0499, Mac Shah at 848-667-0745 or Hitesh Patel at 732-718-5238 or visit organization website at www.IACFNJ.org or e-mail at iacfnj@yahoo.com.

Dr. Tushar Patel

President - IACFNJ