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Deepika to be Grand Marshal at parade
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Beautiful Deepika Padukone, who stormed Bollywood with her debut film Om Shanti Om , is to lead the 28th India Day Parade in New York as Grand Marshal August 17 to celebrate India’s 61st Independence Day.
Organised by the Federation of Indian Associations (FIA), the parade moves down Madison Avenue in Manhattan, culminating at a venue where cultural and entertainment programmes are held.
The parade attracts around 50,000 people that makes it the biggest such event outside India.
FIA President Yash Paul Soi said at a kick-off meeting at the Indian consulate in New York that former president A P J Abdul Kalam has also been invited.
Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra was the Grand Marshal last year and Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams the Guest of Honour.
FIA has requested to have Mahatma Gandhi’s statues erected at the United Nations in Manhattan and Liberty State Park in New Jersey. It has written to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon seeking permissions.
FIA is a large influential umbrella organisation of the Indian American community in the Tri-State area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut which is set up in 1981. The objective of its annual India Day Parade is to project Indian Americans’ progress and unity with other communities.
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Tags: Deepika Padukone, Federation of Indian Associations, FIA
