29 June 2015
Hyderabad

Bay Area Telugu Association (BATA) organized “Sri Sita Rama Kalyanam” Hari Katha program. All the guests had great devotional time and witnessed highly accomplished performance by the well-known Bhagavatharini, Smt. Jayanti Savithri from Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD). The event was conducted at Sunnyvale Hindu Temple in in Sunnyvale, CA. There were over 300 guests.

The temple auditorium was traditionally decorated. BATA advisor Vijaya Aasuri welcomed all the guests and mentioned Hari Katha is an art form comprising of storytelling, poetry, music, drama, dance, and philosophy. It is one of our traditional art form through which we used to learn many devotional stories.

Smt. Jayanti Savithri started the program by thanking BATA for giving her the opportunity. Her inspired rendition of Sri Sita Rama Kalyanam moved the audience. Her immense performance showed her expertise, and displayed the mastery in poetry, literature, dance, drama, music, witty comments and sense of humor enthralled the guests. All the guests enchanted "govinda..govinda" along with her and they joined their tunes with her in all kirthanas.

Speaking at this event, Kalyan Kattamuri (President of BATA) thanked Smt. Jayanti Savithri for a wonderful performance . BATA team felicitated Smt. Savithri with shawl and memento. BATA committee thanked all the guests, Raj Bhanot & Sunnyvale Temple mgmt in making the event a grand success.

Kalyan introduced BATA committee consisting of Sirisha Battula (Vice President), Yaswanth Kudaravalli (Secretary), Sumanth Pusuluri (Treasurer) & Harinath Chikoti (Joint Secretary).

“Steering Committee” members Ravi Thiruveedula & Kamesh Malla.

“Cultural Committee” includes Sridevi Pasupuleti, Srilu Veligeti, Kiran Vinnakota &Taraka Deepti

“Logistics Team” includes Srikar Boddu, Arun Janga & Prashant Chinta.

BATA “Advisory Board” consisting of Jayaram Komati, Vijaya Aasuri, Veeru Vuppala, Prasad Mangina, Ramesh Konda & Karun Veligeti.