TANA Patrika - October 2019

TELUGU ASSOCIATION OF
NORTH AMERICA

A 501(c)(3) Certified Nonprofit Organization - Tax ID - 36-3060732
26233 Taft RD, Novi, MI 48374

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Our Mission
Volume-27 Issue-2 "To identify and address social, cultural and educational

October 2019 needs of North American Telugu Community in
particular and Telugu people in general"

Editor President Immediate Past President
Sai Brahmanandam Gorti Jayasekhar Talluri Satish Vemana
(631) 523-1999; [email protected] (703) 731-8367
Email: [email protected]
Executive Vice President Regional Coordinators
Associate Editors Anjaiah Chowdary Lavu Suresh Kakarla
Naveen Vasireddy (India) (770)235-2709; [email protected] Appalachian - (919) 370-0136
Email: [email protected]
Secretary Anil. C. Uppalapati
Ravi Potluri (USA) Ravi Potluri Capital
(267) 252-2496; [email protected]
[email protected] Sambaiah Dodda
Treasurer
The opinions expressed in Sateesh Vemuri DFW
TANA Patrika belong to the (925) 989-4536; [email protected]
individual authors and do not Satish Chundru
necessarily reflect those of Joint Secretary
TANA or the Editorial Board. Ashok Babu Kolla Mid-Atlantic - (717) 418-8324
(270) 293-0003
Vijay Krishna Chilmakur
Joint Treasurer Midwest
Venkat Koganti
(848) 203-2118 Koteswara Rao Kandukuri
New England; (508) 287-5283
Community Services Coordinator
Sunil Pantra Raja Kasukurthi
(248) 469-2349 New Jersey; (201) 270-8648

Women Services Coordinator Sumanth Ramsetti
Sirisha Tunuguntla New York; (917) 399-0459
(904) 294-5655
Kiran Duggirala
International Coordinator North; (732) 781-8102
Lakshmi Devineni
(732) 822-2493 Saivinodh Thotakura
North Central; (502) 418-2979
Sports Coordinator
Lokesh Naidu Konidala Devendra R Lavu
North West; (503) 780-7318
(469) 585-9064
Rajanikanth Kakarla
Councilor-at-large Northern CA; (510) 509-8748
Vinay Kumar Maddineni
(917) 685-4383 Srinivasa R. Yalavarthi
Ohio Valley; (732) 983-7841
Chairman, Board of Directors
Harish Koya Naveen Kalagara
(203) 521-6945
Rocky Mountains; (480) 652-4455
Chairman, Foundation
Niranjan Srungavarapu Sridhar Talluri
(248) 342-6872
South Central

Kiran Gogineni
South East; (347) 307-4457

Murali Talluri
South West; (512) 917-8686

Suresh C. Kandepu
Southern CA; (714) 623-9852

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Highlights Programs

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TANA BOARD OF DIRECTORS - 2019-2021

Harish Koya Murali Vennam Jagadish Prabhala
Chairman Secretary Treasurer

Dr. Hanumaiah Bandla Srinivas Lavu Dr. Nagendra Srinivas Kodali Dr. Chowdary Jampala
Director Director
Director Director

Jayasekhar Talluri Satish Vemana Anjaiah Chowdary Lavu Ravi Potluri
Ex Officio Member Ex Officio Member Ex Officio Member Ex-Officio Member

President Past President Executive Vice President Secretary, EC

Sateesh Vemuri Niranjan Srungavarapu Ravi Mandalapu Sasikanth Vallepalli
Ex-Officio Member
Ex-Officio Member Ex-Officio Member Ex-Officio Member
Treasurer, EC
Chairman, TANA Foundation Secretary, TANA Foundation Treasurer, TANA Foundation
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TANA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - 2019-2021

Jayasekhar Talluri Anjaiah Chowdary Lavu Satish Vemana
President Executive Vice President Past President

Ravi Potluri Sateesh Vemuri Ashok Babu Kolla Venkat Koganti
Secretary Treasurer Joint Secretary Joint Treasurer

Malli Vennam Sunil Pantra Sirisha Tunuguntla Lakshmi Devineni
Cummunity Services
Cultural Services Coordinator Women Services Coordinator International Coordinator
Coordinator

Lokesh Naidu Konidala Vinay Kumar Maddineni Harish Koya Niranjan Srungavarapu
Chairman Chairman
Sports Coordinator Councilor-at-large
Board of Directors TANA Foundation

9 nø√ºãsY 2019 ‘êHê|üÁ‹ø£

REGIONAL
COORDINATORS

Suresh Kakarla Anil. C. Uppalapati
Appalachian Capital

Sambaiah Dodda Satish Chundru Vijay Krishna Chilmakur Koteswara Rao Kandukuri
DFW Mid-Atlantic
Midwest New England

Raja Kasukurthi Sumanth Ramsetti Kiran Duggirala Saivinodh Thotakura
New Jersey New York North North Central

Devendra R Lavu Rajanikanth Kakarla Srinivasa R. Yalavarthi Naveen Kalagara
North West Rocky Mountains
Northern CA Ohio Valley

Kiran Gogineni Sridhar Talluri Murali Talluri Suresh C. Kandepu
South East South Central South West
Southern CA
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TANA Niranjan Srungavarapu Ravi Mandalapu
Chairman Secretary
FOUNDATION
2019-2021

Sasikanth Vallepalli Hema C Kanuru Ramakanth Koya Ravi Samineni
Treasurer Joint Secretary Trustee Trustee

Bhakta Balla Srinivas Chand Gorrepati Sivaram Yarlagadda Viswanatha Nayunipati
Trustee Trustee
Trustee Trustee

Rao Yalamanchili Venkata R Yarlagadda Srikanth Polavarapu Jayasekhar Talluri
Trustee Trustee Trustee Ex-Officio, President

11 nø√ºãsY 2019 ‘êHê|üÁ‹ø£





22nd TANA Conference

Washington D.C.

The Telugu Association of
North America (TANA) celebrated
the 22nd TANA Conference held at

Walter E. Washing Convention
Center in Washington D.C. during

the Independence Day weekend
(July 4-6). More than 12,000

Telugus gathered in a festive mood
mingling with Telugu celebrities

and dignitaries, savouring authentic
Telugu food, enjoying shopping
and having a fun time with
families and friends.

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Meditation event with
Brahmarshi Pitamaha Patriji
in New Jersey

New Jersey Team TANA in association with Pyra- All of us enjoyed meditation and were

mid Spritual socities movement (PSSM) conducted elated after that. We promised Patriji,
Meditation and Wisdom session with Brahmarshi
Pitamaha Patriji. TANA will support and spread word

Brahmarshi Pitamaha Patriji spoke about im- about meditation. We are going to
portance of meditation and being a vegitarian. All
the people who attended enjoyed his speech and plan more events for meditation
were convinced to start doing meditation. Today
we all meditated with Brahmarshi Pitamaha Patriji through TANA around USA.
for about an hour and shared our experiences after.
TANA President Jay Talluri garu

and TANA international Womans Co-

ordinator Laxmi Devineni garu pro-

vided all the support to make the event

great success.

Thank you Ratna Mulpuri garu

for providing space for the event.

Thank You Srinivas Oruganti, Lalitha

Nekkanti, Sridhar Dhonepudi, Bhaga-

wan, Shivani Tana, Surya Chakka,

Devi Chakka, and Divya for bringing

Brahmarshi Pitamaha Patriji for this

event.

Thank you Vidya Garapati,

Sudheer Narepalepu, Sree Chowdary

Konanki and Subrahmanyam Osuru

for all the support and help. b

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TANA BACKPACK
PROGRAM

AT BEAVERTON,
OREGON

TANA starts it’s charity fresh from the
north western states. Devendra lavu, re-

gional coordinator from the North west,

along with his team of volunteers and lo-

cal members from the telugu community

distributed 75 school back packs for the

kids from low income families at Five

Oaks Middle School, Beaverton, Oregon.

Special thanks to our TANA adhoc

committee members, Padma bhogavalli,

Rajendra pendurthy and our very energetic

18 youth volunteers for their coordination

and participation. b

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New Jersey
TANA Team
Back to School
Extravaganza

The New Jersey TANA team

participated in the Trenton Public
Schools back to School Extrava-
ganza. This event was an
opportunity for TANA to partner
with Trenton Public Schools and
unite with local communities. The
goal of this event is to make sure
each family was able to walk away
with enough school supplies to help
students be prepared for the start of
the new school year.

This event would not have
been made successful without the

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hard work and support of cause.
these young TANA volun- I would also like to thank Vidya Garapati,
teers Vamsi Narepalepu,
Varsha Narepalepu, Vamsi Vasireddy, Sudheer Narepalepu, and Paresh
Anindya Kasukurthi, Trivedi for all the help. A special thanks to our
Keerthana Garapati and President Jay Talluri garu and all of our TANA
Haasith Garapati. These leadership for supporting this charitable cause. b
young TANA volunteers
interacted with local kids
and their parents to wish
them for a successful
school year ahead.

Thank you Laxmi
Devineni garu for
introducing TANA to this
wonderful opportunity to
serve the community, and
encouraging our kids to
participate in this Nobel

TANA Charlotte
Backpack Program

As part of TANA Backpack Gorripati - TANA Foundation Trustee, Ramana Anne

program, Appalachian TANA and CMC (Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools) Yolanda
team donated 200 backpacks
and school supplies for the un- P Holmes- Partnership Coordinator, Melanie Bell-
derprivileged kids at First Ward
Creative Arts Academy, Char- School Counselor. b
lotte, NC. We all witnessed
happy smiles on the faces of
Kids and they picked the
Backpack of their choice.

Thanks to Malli Vemana-
TANA Community Services
Coordinator, Naga Pachumarthi
- TANA Backpack Program Co-
Chair, Srinivas Chandu

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TANA Southeast
Backpack Program

TANA backpack program si held

on Aug 16th, 2019 at Goodloe el-
ementary school in Canton, MS.
Shashank yarlagadda is the donor
for this program. 100 school bags
are distributed with school supplies.

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Bay
Area
TANA
Events

TANA West team distributed 384 Milpitas, CA. Very good and useful information
provided by Jason. L. Pinter who has 20 years of
Backpacks today at H.A. Snow El- experience in living trusts and Estate planning.
ementary School Newark, CA. The Thank you all for attending this session.
school management and students are
very happy to receive them. Thank you Special Thanks to TANA President Jay
very much Jayaram Komati Garu, Talluri Garu who supporting me to do these
Venkat Koganti, Bhakta Balla, Gokul events.
Rachiraju, Lakshmipathi Gadiraju,
Venkat Adusumalli and Anil Polaki Thank you TANA West Team- Rajanikanth
Garu for attending this event. Kakarla, TANA Northern California Regional
Coordinator, Bhakta Balla, TANA Foundation
TANA West team conducted Trustee, Sateesh Vemuri, TANA Treasurer,
Will/Trust Estate planning session at Venkat Koganti, TANA Joint Treasurer. b

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TANA Atlanta
Meet and Greet

with

Jai Bharathi

Jai Bharathi garu riding the bike Atlanta team.

across USA 11,111 miles visiting She addressed around 500 kids and parents
all UNESCO historical sites and
she is working for Women Em- and her Motivation speech inspired everybody.
powerment in Telugu states for the
past few years http://www.movo.in Deepak who accompanied her who is first Asian
for more information.TANA is
supporting this initiative and Jai to Bike ride 7 continents and 1 of the 3 in the
Bharathi garu stopped in Atlanta
on the way where a Meet and world was also well received and applauded by
Greet was arranged by TANA
audience for his achievement.

This event was Anjaiah Chowdary Lavu,

Srinivas Lavu, Bharath Maddineni, Kiran

Gogineni,Venky Gadde,Vijay Ravella, Anil

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Jai Bharathi's MOWO Social Initiatives
in empowering women

September 27th evening New Jersey and women to be fearless, independent and be
self-reliant and confident. As part of this we
New York teams welcomed ‘Vishishta have also requested all the attendees to sup-
Mahila Puraskaram’ awardee Jai Bharathi port TANA Foundation Pochampalli weav-
garu to encourage her mission of creating a ers project.
generation of confident women who are
equipped with mobility as a skill for empow- TANA New Jersey and New York teams
erment and employment. presented $1000 check to Jai Bharathi garu
to encourage MOWO Social Initiatives.
TANA international coordinator Laxmi TANA International Coordinator Laxmi
Devineni garu gave us an opportunity to in- Devineni garu, TANA Women’s Services
troduce Jai Bharathi garu at Womaania event Coordinator Sirisha Tunuguntla, TANA NY
with hundreds of women and young girl’s Regional Coordinator Sumanth Ramsetti,
presence. Jai Bharathi garu praised TANA TANA NJ Regional Coordinator Raja
for unconditional support to her journey to Kasukurthi along with TANA team and other
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MOWO Social Initiatives in empowering

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Vadali Phani Narayana's

VEENA CONCERT

TANA Appalachian-Raleigh team parnte- Balamurali Krishna and SP Bala
Subramanyam. He provided Veena music
red with local Telugu associaiton - Trian- for well over 250 movies in South Indian
gle Area Telugu Association of NC hosted movie industry and working for great mu-
veena player Vadali Phani Narayana's Veena sic directors such as Ilayaraja, AR Rahman,
concert in Raleigh, NC. 150+ audience at- Keeravani and Mani Sharma.
tended the event and gave amazing feed-
back about this great artist. He is 7th gen- Many thanks to Appalachian Raliegh
eration Veena player in his family. Phani team- Rajesh Yarlagadda, Venkat Kurra,
Narayan shared dias with several legendary Praveen Tatineni, Hari Nadendla, Raj Kolli-
Maestros such as Dr. Mangalampally para, Balaji Gupta, Kedar Badisetti, Krishna

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Kumar Challagolla, Srini Martala, Rajesh
Yarlagadda (Singapore), Prathap Dadi,
Shiva Nunna and Malli Vemana, Srinivas
Chand Gorrepati from TANA leadership.
Also special thanks to Triangle Area Telugu
Association of NC presidnet Murthy
Akkina, vice president Naramada Veluru,
secretary Madhu Sunku and their team. b

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Appalachian - Raleigh Team Partcipation
Dragon Boat Race and TANA Booth

Appalachian - Raleigh team

had another great event on

September 28th. TANA is

the first Inidan

organaization and first

Indian team participated in

Dragon Boat Festival boat

race, also with TANA

booth. Around 7000 people

attended this event from

Chinese, American, Indian

and other asian communi-

ties. Our boat name is

TANA Team Square (21

persons including one

drummer), we gave the

opportunity to Team Square

volunteers who helped in

previous incidents from this

area. We had 3 rounds of

races with around 40

participants from 9.30 to 3

pm, also had practice during

the week. b

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VEERAMACHINENI

Health Awareness Program
in Austin

TANA Southwest region conducted Sri Veera-

machaneni Ramakrishnarao gari program on Saturday

July 27 th from 2 pm to 7 pm at Sri Shiridi Saibaba

Temple of Austin.

Sri Veeramachineni Ramakrishna gari program was

grand success. More than 250 people attended the event.

Big Thanks to each and every one who made it happen.

The Austin Telugu community appreciated. Lot of

his followers happy to see him meet him personally clari-

fied their doubts.

Thank you President Jay Talluri garu and Satish

Vemana garu for giving us opportunity.

This program was lead by TANA Southwest re-

gion Coordinator Murali Talluri and TANAAustin Team

Dileep Kumar Chandra, Sumanth Pusuluri, Sridhar

Polavarapu, Kalpana Nukavarapu, Chiru Muppaneni,

Hari Bachina, Shiva Talluri and Prasana Kumar, Austin

Hindu Temple President Krishna Kondapalli. b

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47 nø√ºãsY 2019 ‘êHê|üÁ‹ø£

TANA Ohio Valley
Sports Events

Columbus, Ohio was overwhelmed with 3-

day TANA sports events during July 26 thru
28.

Starting on Friday, 26th evening with
TANA women’s cricket ‘Curtain Raiser
Event’ at American Legion in Westerville,
Ohio which was graced by new TANA presi-
dent Jay Talluri as chief guest and the event
was huge success with packed auditorium
with 8 Women cricket teams showcasing
their unique skills on the stage and program
concluded by revealing the trophies followed
by TANA president Talluri's inspiring
speech. Delicious dinner was served in open
green grounds enjoying the cool summer
breeze. This event was well planned and or-
ganized by Ravi Samineni, Srini Yalavarthi,
Raja Bomana, Sush Upputuri and Siddarth

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Revur. Praveen Ankam, Shyam Gadde and professional way including timely food and
team did splendid job taking care of all lo- drinks to cope up with 90 degrees hot
gistics and food co-ordination. Thanks to weather. TANA president Jay Talluri at-
Nani vadlamudi and Sarat Kommineni from tended the closing ceremony and awarded
Cleveland for helping with the event. trophies to winning teams.

Day 2, Saturday started with TANA Day 3, Sunday started with delicious
Men’s cricket tournament at local Busch park south Indian breakfast prepared onsite at lo-
participating about 28 men’s teams and the cal Emeralds fields and the most awaited and
games started early morning at 8:00 am, popular tournament, and held only in
TANA President Mr. Jay Talluri inaugurated Columbus in United States, the TANAWom-
the games and continued until 9:00 pm with en’s cricket tournament co-sponsored by
huge crowd cheering the teams and TANA Sams QA started with huge crowd cheering
Ohio valley team (Ashok Kolla, Jagadish and encouraging the 8 participant teams and
Prabhala, Ravi Samineni, Srini Yalavarthi TANA president Mr. Talluri attended and
and Shiva Chava) organized the games in a kicked-off the games and the games contin-

49 nø√ºãsY 2019 ‘êHê|üÁ‹ø£

ued till 8:00 pm, Delaware county commis- ecution and the arrangements were made by
sioner Chris and FIA local chapter chairman
Mr. Neil Patel attend the event, Chris kicked TANA Ohio Valley team earned great ap-
off the final game between Buckeye’s and
Columbus Starts and attractive trophies plauds from all Columbus Telugu commu-
along with many other alluring prizes were
awarded to the winning teams. TANA Ohio nity.
Valley team raised close to $4000 for TANA
foundation activities by selling food (live Special thanks to TANA president Jay
dosa, mirchi bajji & refreshments stall etc...).
Talluri for coming all the way from New
Bingo stall was managed by Rishi
Samineni and raised $250 for foundation York and his presence made big difference
activities. Advita Yalavarthi raised $1600 for
foundation activities by selling refreshments. in youth participation in this year TANA

Praveen Ankam and team helped in games.
conducting first ever corn hole men’s, wom-
en’s and mixed doubles tournament. Mr. Jay TANA Ohio Valley would like to thank
Talluri kicked of corn hole tournament, to-
tal 32 teams participated, trophies and prize all the volunteers for supporting all 3 days.
money was awarded by Delaware county
commissioner Chris. Special thanks to Shiva Chava (his team),

Shiva Chava and team did splendid job Raja Bommana, Sush Upputuri, Bramara,
conducting both men’s and women’s cricket
on 7th and 8th July, 2019. Srilakshmi Yalavarhti, Siddarth Revur, Latha

All three days, excellent planning, ex- Revur, Ram Revur, Praveen Ankam (his

team), Deepak Bhargav, Manohar Naidu,

Rama Rao Chava, Ravi Rudra Raju, Venkat

Kollipara, Yasasri Kandru, Prasad Kandru,

Prasad Kola, Himavanth, Venu Chava, Hari

Undavalli, Viswa Thamatam and Shyam

Gadde for tireless efforts to make all events

successful.

Special thanks to Ashok Kolla helping

kids with fund raising at refreshments stall

and at Bingo game. b

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