Why did I miss that?

I am not ever going to miss future ICS picnic. I heard about all the fun that I missed. All that great food the community prepared, B-B-Q that was arranged and served by Mr. & Mrs. Keshav Singh. How could I have missed that? I also heard that they played “Antakshari” where men teamed up against women. No one knows who won. I am sure it would have been a great pleasure to meet and chat with 125 or more people, playing volley ball and my favorite game “tag”. Guess what! I will be there next year.

Much more than “hole in one”

On September 7, 2003, on a beautiful Sunday morning, 31 golfers including two talented women golfers decided to put their skills to test. The event was sponsored by ICS and guess what!! Eight of them were successful in taking home the trophies that ICS had sponsored. Our President was riding the golf cart all over the golf course to see “a hole in one” but was so happy that our golfers had much more to offer than that - “they all were having great fun”. Some of golfers did say “Can we have this kind of golf outing every year?” The answer was “sure, that is what ICS wants to hear”.

The proud winners of the “ICS Golf Outing 2003” are:

1^st Flight Narendra Patel – 1^st place

Peter Wagner – 2^nd place

2^nd Flight Neil Patel – 1^st place

Ashok Kaul – 2^nd place

3^rd Flight Manfred Langer – 1^st place

Ramani Narayan – 2^nd place

Women Golfers Nisha Dedhia – 1^st place

Neelam Singh – 2^nd place

Tail gate for MSU vs. UofM

You’re welcome to join and tail gate, if you can scream “Go Green, Go White” or “Go Blue”. ICS will be coordinating a tailgate party at Engineering Building parking lot on game day on November 1st. If you decide to drive and park in the parking lot, it will cost you $10.00 for parking. The 4 rules (BYOS) are:

BYOS – Bring Your Own Snack

BYOS – Bring Your Own Seat

BYOS – Bring Your Own Soda

BYOS – Bring Your Own Spirit

If you need more information on this gathering, please contact one of the ICS board member.

Dances for a Cause

Sunday, September 28, 2003 at Hannah Community Center from 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Habitat for Humanity is organizing a professional multi cultural show where a group of Indian Community children led by Minal Amin will be performing. The tickets for this show are tax-deductible and payable to Habitat for Humanity. The net proceeds will be used to build a house for a Vietnamese family in Holt. ICS has been requested to recruit high school graduates as ushers for this program. Some related information is as follows. Please contact ICS board member if you are interested in ushering.

· Students must dress in their native costumes.

· Have to be high school students

· They will get a Certificate of Appreciation and will be credited community hours

For Tickets, contact Minal Amin (706-0677), Matangi Buch (347-8047) or Bidhan Redey (381-9391)

The ticket rates for Main Floor are: Adults - $9.00, Students - $7.00

National Gandhi Day of Service

Sun. October 5th at 1pm (meet in the Erikson Kiva)

Help the Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students celebrate, remember and honor one of the world's greatest leaders, by giving 4 hours of your time for the community. We will be working with an agency that gives a hand in organizing volunteer events in the Lansing area...it is a great way to give back to the community and to recognize the wonderful work that Gandhiji did. TO REGISTER LOG ONTO www.msu.edu/~cius

Also, CIUS will be showing movie “Gandhi” at MSU Erikson Kiva on October 2^nd at 7:00 PM

Mahatma Gandhi, His Life and Global Legacy

Dr. Stanley Wolpert a professor emeritus UCLA has written extensively about India and its leaders .His writing include books on Gandhi, Nehru ,Jinnah, History of India and much more. He is coming as an invited speaker by Asia Study center of MSU on Oct 18th 2003 during morning hours. Title of his talk is "Mahatma Gandhi, His Life and Global Legacy.

If you are interested, please contact Mrs. Saroj Kapur at kapurs@msu.edu for details

Innovative Teaching

Classes for children (and adults): an innovative teaching method that fuses theatre, dance, music, and language (Hindi) for fun and learning about India, its art forms, and modes of expression in these mediums.

Irfana Majumdar - trained in classical vocal music in Varanasi and theatre from the University of Chicago, she has worked on numerous productions of various kinds, including the South Asian Student Association festivals. She has taught theatre to children of all ages, and her focus is on performance that is created by the students, based on the training and work they do together as an ensemble.

Nandini Majumdar - trained in Kathak and Hindustani vocal from Varanasi, Nandini has taught children of all ages, and is experienced with people from different backgrounds and abilities. She will train students individually as well as collaborate with Irfana to choreograph productions that draw on all the students' talents.

All ages are welcome. Classes will be once a week. Ten weeks, culminating in a performance. The cost per student is $150. All proceeds will go to Nirman, a not-for-profit NGO that works for children and education in India. www.nirmanweb.com

A special note from the Board

ICS Board would like to thank the committee for Golf Outing. The committee members were Kamal Mohan, Ashok Gupta, Ram Surapaneni and Ramesh Dedhia.

Also, the Board would like to thank Pratin Trivedi for auditing ICS financial statements for the year 2002-03 and forwarding the audit report in a timely manner.

The Board is requesting community members to send in their membership at the earliest to increase community participation. (Membership form is enclosed on the last page)

Exhibits of India

There are currently two wonderful exhibits related to India at the MSU-Museum. The hands-on children's activity room has been very popular over the past five months. It is set up for them to learn about the Indian culture while having some fun. Our children might like to bring some of their friends to this exhibit and share their stories with them.

There is also a special exhibition in collaboration with the Smithsonian entitled 'Birds of South Asia'. The territories of India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan have as many as 1,450 species of birds.This is a wonderful opportunity for the whole family to spend a fall afternoon at the museum. The MSU-Museum is free, fun and educational for the entire family. The museum is open year-around, except for a few holidays. It is open on weekdays from 9-5, Saturday 10-5 and on Sundays from 1-5.

Ics is proud of & wants to congratulate Professor Ayoob for his outstanding achievement

Professor Mohammed Ayoob, an University Distinguished Professor of International Relations at MSU, was honored on independence day, Aug 15, by the Consulate General of India, Chicago, with an "Outstanding and Inspiring Leadership Award". According to the citation of the award, he is being honored "for providing outstanding and inspiring leadership, maintaining the highest academic standards, offering in-depth, incisive, fearless and scholarly opinion and promoting greater international understanding through university education." The Plaque of the award was handed over at a special commemorative ceremony at a dinner that was hosted by the Consul General of India in Chicago on Aug 15.