Atlanta, GA, March 22, 2022: Indian Friends of Atlanta (IFA) organized a spectacular Holi- Festival of Colors on Saturday, March 19th, 2022, at Yugal Kunj – Radha Krishna Temple, Duluth. More than 2000 enthusiastic people thronged the venue to enjoy the celebrations. The perfect spring weather made it all the more fun.
DJ VJ (Vai Vij) and his team from Dr DJ Productions rocked the event with their electrifying music and high energy. The crowd kept dancing non-stop to their tunes for five continuous hours.
Photographers from KK PIX captured the colorful moments.
Revelers got ecstatic with high-energy dance performances from Shiv’s Institute of Dance, Garima Dance Academy, Baljeet Kaur’s Group, Swetha Pakala’s Group and Swetha Shetty’s Group.
Master chefs from Yugal Kunj provided delicious food with a mouthwatering menu that included samosas, Chat, chole batura and traditional Indian sweets jalebi and gujiya. Patel Brothers supported IFA with organic, environmentally safe Holi colors.
This Holi event organized by IFA reiterates the organization’s vision of bringing the Indian Community together. This was the first outdoor event from IFA after Covid-19 hit two years ago. The IFA team with the help of dedicated volunteers rallied together to pull off a great event with near flawless execution.
IFA founding member and former Chairman Sunil Savili announced Kishan Tallapally as President and Sanjeev Akula as Vice President for IFA 2022. Sunil Savili, past IFA President Lakshmi Thesam and Kishan Tallapally said that they were overwhelmed by the support and participation from the community.
“We want to thank each one who participated in the event,” they said while also providing updates on IFA events planned for next few months. They thanked Patel Brothers for providing organic colors and Yugal Kunj for providing delicious food.
Kishan Tallapally thanked sponsors Patel Brothers, Suvidha International Market, 27th Investments, Rapid IT, Unicorn Technologies, Orpine. Inc, eis Technologies (SplashBI), Jhalak.com and Infosmart Technologies for their continuous support to IFA.
IFA Team members Sunil Savili, Sreekanth Uppala, Srinivas Peddi, Sairam Pamulapati, Shyam Mallavarapu, Kiran Gogineni, Kishan Tallapally, Sanjeev Akula, Raghuveer Gadipalli, Sandeep Reddy Gundla, Lakshmi Thesam, Hetal Mehta, Deepa Sharma, Rakesh Khanna, Giri Kotagiri, Niranjan Podduturi, Kranti Chennupati and Jamaluddin Masthakhan worked diligently to plan and execute this event and make it successful.
The IFA team thanked local organizations for their support as well as representatives from several Indian American organizations for their participation. IFA Team appreciated Yugal Kunj Temple Team for their cooperation and flexibility in helping accomplish the event, Team thanked DJ VJ for providing rocking music and KK PIX for providing Photography and media partners NRI PULSE, wownow, Atlanta Dunia and S&S Digital Media for the marketing help.
Please stay tuned for fore more events from IFA in the coming months.
