Sunday, December 21, 2014

TELUGU GIRL PRANATHY GANGARAJU CROWNED MISS INDIA USA 2014
In a glittering function organized on December 14 at the Royal Albert’s Palace, Fords, New Jersey, Pranathy Gangaraju of Georgia was crowned Miss India USA 2014. Miss India USA is the oldest running Indian pageant outside of India. Pranathy is the first 19 year old to win the title and she is the first Telugu girl in the last 20 years to do so. The thirty third annual pageant was organized by the New York-based IFC, headed by Dharmatma Saran, Founder and the Chief Organizer of the Pageant.
Pranathy’s parents Maitreyi Gangaraju hails from Hanmakonda, Telangana and Ram Gangaraju hails from Vijayawada, AP. Pranathy was born in Hanmakonda, then raised in Vijayawada before she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, USA, while she was 2 years old. Pranathy has been coached in Kathank for 6 years and Hindustani classical for five years.PRANATHY GANGARAJUS is THE NEW MISS INDIA USA 2014 1 PRANATHY GANGARAJUS is THE NEW MISS INDIA USA 2014PRANATHY GANGARAJUS is THE NEW MISS INDIA USA 2014 2 PRANATHY GANGARAJUS is THE NEW MISS INDIA USA 2014PRANATHY GANGARAJUS is THE NEW MISS INDIA USA 2014 3 PRANATHY GANGARAJUS is THE NEW MISS INDIA USA 2014PRANATHY GANGARAJUS is THE NEW MISS INDIA USA 2014 4 PRANATHY GANGARAJUS is THE NEW MISS INDIA USA 2014PRANATHY GANGARAJUS is THE NEW MISS INDIA USA 2014 PRANATHY GANGARAJUS is THE NEW MISS INDIA USA 2014
Pranathy, 19, is also a student majoring in Film Acting and Production in Less Strsberg School of Acting and theater, which produced stalwarts like Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, Marlin Manroe, Scarlett Johannson, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino etc.. Her hobbies include dancing, singing, writing and swimming. She was crowned by outgoing queen Monica Gill. Pranathy will represent USA in the Twenty Fourth Annual Miss India Worldwide Pageant, also organized by IFC, to be held in Goa, India in June of 2016.
The pageant started with a stunning performance by all the contestants led by the outgoing queen Monica Gill choreographed by Shilpa Jhurani. All contestants presented their best in the Indian and the Evening Gown segment after which the top ten were selected. The top ten contestants from Miss section then amazed the audience with their talent which included Bollywood dances, Indian
classical dances, singing and karate.
Pranathy Gangaraju also won Miss Beautiful Smile title.
http://www.worldwidepageants.com/miss-india-usa/past-winners-usa/
Pranathy has been active participant in TAMA since her childhood (From 2000), she has served TAMA extensively at various events and is a well known figure in the local community.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

U.S. Postal Service to issue Akkineni Nageswara Rao stamp

 
Veteran actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao. File photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam
The Hindu
Veteran actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao. File photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam
Legendary actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao will be the first Indian actor to be honoured with a postage stamp by the U.S. Post Service (USPS).
The Akkineni Foundation of America (AFA) has said that the stamp will be issued on the birth anniversary of Nageshwara Rao, who died of cancer early this year. A special release ceremony is being planned by AFA on September 20 in Dallas, Texas.
The AFA is also planning to release the stamp in India on December 17 at the first International Akkineni Awards Ceremony being planned at ANR College, Gudivada in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh.
ANR, who died on January 22 this year, has acted in over 255 films in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi. A majority of his films were both commercial and critical successes. Apart from being a movie star, ANR was a prolific writer.
His final movie project was ‘Manam’, which saw three generations of the Akkineni family including himself, his son Nagarjuna and grandsons Naga Chaitanya, Akhil in it. The movie is the biggest success of year 2014.
The actor was honoured with a number of awards including 3 Filmfares, Padma Vibhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Nandi Award, Kalaimamani

Thursday, September 25, 2014

New Telugu Movie Ram Charan "Gonvindhudu Andarivadele" Releasing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 1st October 2014 @ Sentul Cinema, KL, Malaysia.

Starring: Mega Power Star "RamCharan", Srikanth, Prakash Raj, Kajal, Kamilini Mukharjee, Jayasudha

Directed by: Krishna Vamshi
Music by: Yuvan Shankar Raja 
Produced by: Bandla Ganesh

Show Timings:
1st Oct (Wednesday): 8:45PM (Premier Show)
2nd Oct (Thursday) : 8:45PM
3rd Oct (Friday) : 9:00PM
4th Oct (Saturday) : 3:00PM, 6:00PM, 9:00PM
5th Oct (Sunday) : 3:00PM, 6:00PM

Please call/message to book your tickets now
016-2857621, 012-3777053, 018-2378136, 016-6016504

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Sunday, September 7, 2014


  • Though Andhra Association of Malaya which is now known as TAM was established in 1955 but Youth and Mahila sections were only formed about 10 years ago. And this happened when the Goodself Sri B Murthy then the President and I was then, the Secretary General of TAM.
    And it was the very first time that Sri B. Murthy also appointed both the youth and mahila leaders as Vice Presidents of TAM as provided in the Rule 16 of our TAM Constitution. "Syabas" An old saying "Today's youth is tomorrow's Leader but "today's youths are already current leaders"
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  • Enkatesulu Juval Amp Though Andhra Association of Malaya which is now known as TAM was established in 1955 but Youth and Mahila sections were only formed about 10 years ago. And this happened when the Goodself Sri B Murthy then the President and I was then, the Secretary General of TAM.
    And it was the very first time that Sri B. Murthy also appointed both the youth and mahila leaders as Vice Presidents of TAM as provided in the Rule 16 of our TAM Constitution. "Syabas" An old saying "Today's youth is tomorrow's Leader but "today's youths are already current leaders"
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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Dancing their way into record book

5 SEPTEMBER 2014 @ 8:07 AM
KUALA LUMPUR: THE Telugu Association of Malaysia Youth Wing (TAM Youth) recently held a 12-hour non-stop Dhaatubhajana, creating a new record in Malaysia Book of Records as the longest non-stop performance.
Dhaatubhajana is a devotional song dance performance with dancers moving in a circular motion around a large brass lamp, with smaller lamps attached to its stem that take the form of a tree.
A total of 236 performers successfully completed the 12-hour performance held at the Temple of Fine Arts in Brickfields here.
The performers came from all over the country, representing more than 25 branches of the association.
Starting at 9am and ending a little after 9pm, the event made it into the record book with 12 hours and nine minutes of performance.
The performance kicked off after the opening ceremony by the TAM president Datuk Dr Achaiah Kumar Rao.
He later thanked TAM Youth for their commitment to make the event successful.
“This is another feather in the hat for the association.
“It is even more special because the feat was achieved by the youth. Under the leadership of Govinda Rao, more than 200 youth took part to create this record.
“A lot of training, preparation and dedication went into this achievement,” said Achaiah.
Officiating at the closing ceremony was City Hall’s Transport Department director Dr Leong Siew Mun who represented Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Utama Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.
Malaysia Book of Records representative Leona Paul handed over the certificate of achievement and official inclusion of the new record to Govinda, witnessed by Leong and Datuk Dr Achaiah

Friday, September 5, 2014


History literally comes back to life

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Friday, August 29, 2014

Young Tiger 'NTR's Super Hit Family entertainer "RABHASA" Screening in KL on 29th, 30th & 31st Aug 14.

Staring :- Young Tiger 'NTR', Samantha, Pranitha, Brahmanandam, Jayasudha, Nassar, Ali, Sayaji Shinde, Bramhaji

Produced by :- Bellamkonda Suresh.

Directed by :- Santhosh Srinivas (Kandireega fame)

Music by :- S.S. Thaman 

Show Timings :- 
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29th August (Friday) :- 9:00pm,

30th August (Saturday) :- 3:00pm, 6:00pm

31st August ( Sunday ) :- 3:00pm

1st September ( Monday ) :- 3:00pm

Movie Screening @ Sentul Cinema, Jln Ipoh

Call for "Rabhasa" movie tickets booking:
016-9174924 / 010-2791954 / 016-3528295

Tuesday, July 29, 2014


For a language that is spoken by 10 crore people, content is sparse

Sujatha, a Chennai-based homemaker, has set for herself the task of updating the Telugu Wikipedia with details of all the districts in Andhra Pradesh.
“I asked others but no one joined me in adding ‘edits’. They said they were too busy,” she says.
For a language that is spoken by 10 crore people, including a tech-savvy population, content in the 11-year-old Telugu Wikipedia is sparse and growing slowly with 20,000 articles added in the last one decade.
T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, Access to Knowledge Programme of Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), said Telugu Wikipedia was lagging behind its other Indian-language counterparts despite there being no other content repository in Telugu.
The reason is not lack of writers in the language. There are 1,000 to 2,000 active Telugu bloggers writing on topics ranging from poetry to politics. In fact, the Telugu Wikipedia was started by such bloggers.
But they are reluctant to contribute to the Telugu Wikipedia and prefer blogging because they can see their names after adding the content. Rahimanuddin Shaik, Programme Officer and system operator for Telugu Wikipedia at CIS, said, “You could call it the ‘identity crisis’ of Telugu Wikipedia writers.”
In 2006-07, an attempt was made to induce content in the Telugu Wikipedia by injecting 30,000 ‘articles’ by a bot, a Python-based script. They were one-liners about villages in Andhra Pradesh, introduced with the expectation that people would add more content. That effort did trigger 5,000 articles.
Later, in 2013, the Telugu Wikipedia became more collaborative and Hyderabad University associated itself with it by hosting Telugu Wikipedia events on its Golden Threshold campus.
One thought is that school students can help the Telugu Wikipedia grow. Mr. Vishnu Vardhan said that even if students simply added their school lessons, content could expand on the Wikipedia.
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