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Ramayana contest attracts Indo-American kids
US, June 13: Do not be surprised if one of these days, you search for Ramayana on the popular internet portal "youtube" and end up finding videos of three year old kids born and brought up in the USA reciting shlokas from the great epic!
In
February,
2007,
Samskrita-Bharati
USA,
conducted
'Shloka
recitation
competition'
in
six
US
cities.
The
competitions
were
held
in
the
months
of
April
and
May.
While
San
Francisco-Bay
area
saw
the
event
happen
for
the
fourth
time,
Boston
for
the
third
time
and
Seattle
for
the
second,
Pittsburg,
Dallas
and
Buffalo
were
the
new
additions
this
year.
The participants were divided into four groups based on age. Shlokas were chosen from the BaalaRaamayana - number of verses varying from 5 for the "atishishugana" (3-5 yrs) to 20 for the "kishoragana" (12-15 yrs) 365 children registered online from across the six cities and of them 250 finally participated. Experts on Ramayana and Samskritam were chosen as judges and trophies were presented to the winners.
In addition to a family camp to be conducted in Edison NJ during the Labor Day weekend, where over a 100 participants are expected, Samskrita-Bharati is conducting a residential spoken Samskritam camp exclusively for teenagers, from June 23 to 27 at Pennsylvania. This camp named "shraddhaa" has participants coming from the West coast, Midwest and East coast.
Ever since its inception in India in 1981, the organization has stressed the means to keep the language alive. In its twelve years of activity in USA the second generation Indian Americans are also taking a keen interest in helping it realize its goals.
For
further
information
on
the
competitions,
statistics
and
high
resolution
pictures,
contact
Dr.
Rajinder
Kaul,
206-310-8936,
rk.kaul@verizon.
For
more
information
on
Samskrita-Bharati,
www.samskrita-
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