The Hindi phrase "Hum Sub" means "All of us." Hum Sub, Inc. was founded in 2001 by Indian Americans living in the Triangle area of NC, to address the growing need to share India ’s diverse and colorful cultural heritage with the local community at large..
Hum Sub strives to promote greater awareness of the Indian social and cultural traditions through annual celebrations of Diwali (festival of lights held in October each year), Basant Bahaar (festival of spring, held in February each year) and other cultural events. Since its inception, Hum Sub’s primary focus has been to promote, support and organize family oriented cultural activities to help build a stronger foundation for the youth in our community.
Hum Sub relies entirely on community support and local business sponsorships to make its programs and events possible. In its activities Hum Sub collaborates with local agencies and other cultural organizations. Hum Sub also works hand in hand with the town of Cary .
Hum Sub is an organization of volunteers. We rely entirely on community support to make our programs and events possible.A dedicated team of volunteers constitutes the Board of Directors (BOD) of Hum Sub. In addition to the board there are scores of volunteers who help out with one or more tasks of planning and execution of Hum Sub’s events and activities. Our success has been primarily due to the labors of love of volunteers form communities like yours. Become a volunteer and do lots of fun stuff!
In addition to enjoying exciting networking opportunities Hum Sub’s volunteers gain a great sense of accomplishment via community involvement. Hum sub’s volunteers help out in planning every aspect of organizing our events, including:
Brainstorming for ideas – deciding on the theme and look of our cultural events
Working with town of Cary and our highly motivated team members
Meeting with local sponsors and arranging for sponsorships
Encouraging local talent to participate in our activities
Planning and coordinating dances and performances
Participating in our performances!!
Designing and maintaining our website
Helping out on the day of the event.... every single contribution helps make our events successful.
Hum Sub is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) cultural nonprofit corporation registered in the State of North Carolina . All contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.
The Ali Akbar College of Music in San Francisco is pleased to announce the launch of a global campaign to save the life’s work of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan. The official logo of this campaign “the Maestro and Me” is included here and will link you directly to the campaign website.
You can Learn about the legacy you will be helping to preserve, watch videos prepared by other musicians who were touched by his life and music, and much more. For a donation of $5, people will receive a download of one of the Maestro’s greatest recordings, Raga Chandranandan.
Please forward this message onward, post it on Facebook, and/or put it on a website. We need your help to get the message out so the whole world will have the opportunity to be touched by this music.
Veteran Theatre and Film Actor Paresh Rawal is all set to tour the USA with his new Hindi play Krishnan v/s Kanhaiya. Paresh Rawal is ready to recreate the magic of “Shaadi @ Barwadi” he performed in the USA and is preparing to rock the North American audience with his new hilariously entertaining and sensationally shocking Indian/Hindi play, “Krishan Vs Kanhaiya” directed by Umesh Shukla.
The play, which is about an aethist's battle with the Almighty is an adaptation of the popular, contemporary Gujarati comedy KANJEE VIRRUDH KANJEE.
Paresh Rawal will be accompanied by other younger but accomplished Gujarati theatre actors such as Dharmendra Gohil and Chirag Vora. The play will be performed in New York before it travels to Georgia, California and Pennsylvania. The month long tour will start on 21st August 2010 at the Colden Auditorium, Queens College at Flushing in New York city. The play will be performed at various major US locations with Indian population. Click Read More event locations and details.
The New Zealand driver's licence system is a graduated system, which has been in place (with modifications, such as the L-plate requirement) since 1987. It consists of three phases for a car licence, each with varying levels of conditions. A New Zealand driver's licence allows the holder to drive a moped, tractor, or all-terrain vehicle as well as a car, however, motorbikes and heavy vehicles require separate licences.
Upon passing the respective test for each stage of the system, the successful applicant is given a plastic card which contains a unique identifying number, date of birth and photograph of the holder. Apart from passports and a special-purpose 18+ card, a driver's licence is the only legal form of ID for buying alcohol, tobacco and fireworks in New Zealand.
Visitors from India
Visitors to New Zealand who hold overseas drivers licences may be required to take a driving test before they qualify for a full New Zealand licence. However, those from countries with similar road rules are only required to take a theory test (similar to the learner licence test) within a year of arrival; until this time they may continue to drive on their foreign drivers licence provided it is either written in English, or they have an authorised English translation available.
Gerrard Street is a street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It consists of two separate parts, one running east from University Avenue for 6 km to Coxwell Avenue, and the other starting 300 m north along Coxwell and continuing east for another 4 km to Clonmore Avenue (between Victoria Park Avenue and Warden Avenue). In the vicinity of Coxwell Avenue the southern piece of Gerrard Street is frequently referred to as Lower Gerrard, and the northern piece is referred to as Upper Gerrard.
On Gerrard Street between Greenwood Avenue and Coxwell Avenue, there are many Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Afghanistani restaurants, cafés, videos/DVD stores, clothing shops, electronic goods & home decor stores catering to the South Asian-Canadian communities. Along with Jackson Heights in New York and Devon Avenue in Chicago, it forms one of the largest South Asian marketplaces in North America. The area has never been home to a large South Asian population, rather it has served for several decades as commercial centre for South Asians living in the Toronto area. Today, it attracts visitors from the Toronto area, and from elsewhere in Canada and the United States. It celebrates the annual Festival of South Asia in late August.
A group of Hindu and Sikh merchants have formed the "Gerrard India Bazaar Business Improvement Area" (BIA). The BIA sponsors events that appeal to the different South Asian groups that shop in the area: in 2004, Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, and Eid, the Islamic feast day that marks the end of Ramadan, occurred around the same time in November. The BIA held a joint Diwali-Eid festival. The area is also commonly referred to as "Little India", or Little Pakistan.
The neighbourhood originated in 1972 when businessman Gian Naaz purchased the Eastwood Theatre and began to show Bollywood films. This attracted large numbers of Indo-Canadians from across the GTA. This large traffic led to a number of other stores in the area to be created to cater to the South Asian community. The area expanded rapidly and features houses some 100 stores and restaurants and has spread over almost the entire length from Greenwood to Coxwell. While originally shop owners mostly spoke Hindi, Punjabi, and Bengali, in recent years a wide array of Pakistani stores have opened in the western part of the neighbourhood (near Greenwood), which is closely linked to the large Muslim community in the East Danforth area just to the north.
Phahurat or Pahurat, often known as Thailand's Little India, is an ethnic neighborhood surrounding Phahurat Road in Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok. The area that would become Phahurat was an enclave of Vietnamese immigrants who came to Siam during the reign of King Taksin (1768-1782). In 1898, a fire broke out and paved way for a road which was named "Phahurat" by King Chulalongkorn in remembrance of his daughter Princess Phahurat Manimai who had died at the age of 10.
Many of today's Phahurat residents are of South Asian descent. A Sikh community settled down in the area a century ago and established a textile trading center that is still thriving today. Their temple, the golden-domed Siri Guru Singh Sabha, is a landmark of Phahurat. In addition to the Sikh community, the neighborhood is also home to a number of South Asian Hindus and Muslims.
Although the sprawling of Chinese shops from the nearby Chinatown are
slowly spilling over into Phahurat, South Asian restaurants and
businesses are still prevalent in the area. The area is also the site
of some of the more unusual markets and shopping malls in Bangkok,
including the sprawling Sampeng Market, the colonial-styled The Old
Siam Plaza, and the new four-storey India.
Chakraphet Road is well known for its Indian restaurants and shops selling Indian sweets. One of the best eateries in the area is the Royal India Restaurant, which serves north Indian cuisine and is justly famous for its tasty selection of Indian breads (Naan and Tandoori Roti). On the opposite side of Chakraphet Road from the Royal India is a Chinese temple. North of this temple, in a back alley on the west side of the road, is a large Sikh temple-turn left before the ATM Department Store to find the entrance. Visitors to the temple-reportedly the second largest Sikh temple outside of India-are welcome but they must remove their shoes and cover their head. If you arrive on a Sikh festival day you can partake in the langar or communal Sikh meal served in the temple.
Several inexpensive Indian food stalls are found in an alley alongside the ATM department store. Behind the store, stretching westward from Chakraphet Road to Triphet Road, is the Pahurat Market.
Pahurat is easily accessible by walk, after alighting from a Chao Phraya River Express boat at Tha (pier) Saphaan Phut, which is just to the north-west of Phra Phut Yot Fa (Memorial) Bridge.
