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Diwali 2016

Deepavali is a festival where people from all age groups participate. They give expression to their happiness by lighting earthen ‘diyas’ (lamps), decorating the houses, bursting firecrackers and inviting near and dear ones to their households for partaking in a sumptuous feast. The lighting of lamps is a way of paying obeisance to god for attainment of health, wealth, knowledge, peace, valor and fame.


NIAI would like to give a Big Thank you …….  ;
to all the participants who worked so hard to keep the entertainement level right at the peak:
Whangarei Intermediate School,
Community Education Whangarei bollywood dance team,
NorthTec students,
Auckland Bhangra team with Dhol,
Pompallier College participants;
local Indian community and
our one and only little shining child artist;
to all the sponsors who supported the event;
to Forum North Team for all the technical and pack up support;
to MC for hosting the event;
to all the brilliant volunteers who helped tremendously at the front, food servings, decorations, green room support, cleaning and pack up;
to NorthTec hospitality students for making delicious entry served sweets;
to chief guest Mayor Sheryl Mai, MP Shane Reti and NorthTec Directorate Phil Giles;
And another BIG THANK YOU TO “FOOD FOR LIFE” for serving the most delicious Indian feast – No event is complete without the food specially when it is provided by Food for life
And of course the colorful, energetic and most acknowledging Audience  See you all next year with a bigger venue …
From Niai Northland Team (Ralph, Sandeep Diwan, Anita Gupte-Patil, Rima Behere , Uday Behere, Sakshi Vij Sekhon, Jaswant Singh Minhas)