{"id":634222,"date":"2022-12-02T22:50:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T02:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/?p=634222"},"modified":"2022-12-02T22:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T02:50:18","slug":"edison-public-library-and-gopio-edison-organize-a-successful-diwali-and-thanksgiving-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/634222\/","title":{"rendered":"Edison Public Library and GOPIO-Edison organize a successful Diwali and Thanksgiving Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-634225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GOPIO-Edison-Diwali-Photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"624\" \/>Global Organization of People of Indian\u00a0Origin Edison NJ Chapter (GOPIO-Edison, NJ) hosted the\u00a0<b>\u201c<\/b><b>Diwali &amp; Thanksgiving<\/b>\u201d celebration at North Branch of Library in Edison, NJ. The event was fully subscribed, and the audience came with family and\u00a0children\u00a0to participate. This was the third successful event organized by GOPIO-Edison since it was\u00a0relaunched\u00a0in March 2022.<u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>The program started with lightening of lamps by dignitaries including Edison Councilman Ajay Patil, GOPIO Edison Chapter\u00a0President\u00a0Pallavi Verma Belwariar and GOPIO\u00a0Life member Dr.\u00a0Ramesh Pandey. GOPIO-Edison Team members also joined to light the lamp. The Library Hall was beautifully decorated with garlands, photobooth and welcome desk.<u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>The Diwali Event Started with registration\u00a0networking with tea\u00a0that had generated lots of interest and people started coming from the Tristate area. Many came with their families to join the celebration and cultural event at\u00a0the\u00a0Edison Public Library. Before the start of the event, audiences enjoyed the tea and snacks and the opportunity for attendees to interact freely.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>GOPIO\u2013Edison Chapter President Pallavi Verma\u00a0welcomed everyone. She appreciated the community coming together\u00a0for the two major\u00a0celebrations.\u00a0She gave a brief about GOPIO-Edison\u00a0which was relaunched in\u00a0March 2022 and successfully conducted a \u201cIndia Book Launch\u201d event on April 10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in the same library in partnership with Indian Consulate, NY and another event on\u00a0November\u00a06<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0for \u201cInvestment and retirement planning\u201d with experts. The community had very enthusiastically participated in both the events and was fully subscribed. Emcees\u00a0for the Diwali event were Srishti Agrawal and Anumegha Saxena and both conducted the program very well, engaging the audiences with games and bringing each participant to stage.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the chapter, Pallavi Verma and GOPIO Edison team were very encouraged to see audience turnout of the event and they have lined up some more events in Edison Public Library which they explained in details\u00a0and\u00a0can be found on GOPIO-Edison Facebook page\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GOPIO-Edison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.Facebook.com\/GOPIO-Edison&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1670099590590000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0TES9wapl577Ah2dA5uPfI\">www.Facebook.com\/GOPIO-Edison<\/a>\u00a0Those who want to donate may contact GOPIO-Edison\u00a0at 848-459-5918 or send an e-mail\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:gopio.edison.nj@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gopio.edison.nj@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0or send donation using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paypal.me\/GOPIOEdison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.paypal.me\/GOPIOEdison&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1670099590590000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3cjnbqaRKiwumY_u-M0dDL\">www.paypal.me\/GOPIOEdison<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Dignitaries, GOPIO-Edison officials, artists and audience at the Diwali Event at North Branch, Edison Public Library, Edison, NJ<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>The cultural celebration event participants were Mohita, Arhan, Dyksha, Verchas, Verad, Kaivalya\u00a0and\u00a0Hanshit. The event also saw singing by Pratibha, Yogesh, along with Pallavi singing some popular bollywood numbers for entertainment.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li>At the end,\u00a0all participants were given appreciation certificates for their participation.\u00a0The program ended with\u00a0GOPIO-Edison Board member Chitranjan Sahay Belwariar\u00a0giving\u00a0vote of thanks to all the participants, Library staff, media partners, and audiences. He also thanked Dr Thomas Abraham, Chairman GOPIO International for his guidance for the GOPIO-Edison. Ritesh agrawal managed the registration desk and guided the audience for the event and\u00a0provided the\u00a0benefits\u00a0of becoming a member of GOPIO-Edison Chapter. The link for membership\u00a0is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/GOPIO-EDISON-MEMBERSHIP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/GOPIO-EDISON-MEMBERSHIP&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1670099590590000&amp;usg=AOvVaw27zarUVV_YLfJ1t_MYGQL3\">tinyurl.com\/GOPIO-EDISON-<wbr \/>MEMBERSHIP<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Organization of People of Indian\u00a0Origin Edison NJ Chapter (GOPIO-Edison, NJ) hosted the\u00a0\u201cDiwali &amp; Thanksgiving\u201d celebration at North Branch of Library in Edison, NJ. The event was fully subscribed, and the audience came with family and\u00a0children\u00a0to participate. This was the third successful event organized by GOPIO-Edison since it was\u00a0relaunched\u00a0in March 2022.\u00a0 The program started with lightening of lamps by dignitaries including Edison Councilman Ajay Patil, GOPIO Edison Chapter\u00a0President\u00a0Pallavi Verma Belwariar and GOPIO\u00a0Life member Dr.\u00a0Ramesh Pandey. GOPIO-Edison Team members also joined to light the lamp. The Library Hall was beautifully decorated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":634225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}