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ASAP Celebrates Festival of Colors - March 22, 2008
We are back!!! This year's Holi celebration was awesome. True to ASAP tradition, we played with water and colors in the afternoon on Saturday, March 22nd. There was a party in the evening with Indian food, music, and dance. There were several fun and controversial moments during Antakshari. Check out all the fun here.
ASAP Celebrates Festival of Colors - March 18, 2006
We are far from home, but hey, that shouldn't stop us from celebrating Holi in its true style. Come join ASAP and play with water and colors on Saturday, March 18th at 11am at the Graduate College tower.

There will also be a dry holi celebration the same evening starting 7:00pm at the New Graduate College common room. Excellent food, music and dance for all of you. This will be followed by a surprise desi movie.

RSVP to ASAP asap by emailing asap@princeton.edu by March 16th. There will be a cover charge of $3 per head.

Click here for a copy of the Holi 2006 flyer. Do check out the Daily Princetonian coverage of ASAP Holi Celebration 2005. Hope to see you all there.
Diwali-Tihar-Deepavali celebrations - November 11, 2005 
DIWALI-TIHAR-DEEPAVALI
DINNER* & DANCE PARTY
FRIDAY, November 11
Carl A. Fields Center
                                                                                
Dinner*: 8:15 PM
Dance Party: 9:30 PM
                                                                                
Celebrate the Festival of Lights in a South Asian Atmosphere with South
Asian dinner* followed by a dance party with popular South Asian
Pop/Rock/Movie/Bhangra Music. We strongly encourage you all to join us in
your ethhic wear.
                                                                                
* For dinner, RSVP to asap@princeton.edu by Wednesday November 9.  No
RSVP required for the dance party. There will be a cover charge of $3 per
head.
                                                                                
This event is sponsored by VP for Campus Life, Office of Religious Life,
Graduate School Office International Center, and Carl A Fields Center.

To download a copy of the flyer in pdf format,  click here.
Freshers' Welcome Party - September 30, 2005
ASAP is organizing a welcome party for the newcomers. Stay tuned for an announcement in more details.
Kaavya Sangam, April 30, 2005
An evening of poetry in collaboration with the International Hindi Association. Be there to witness this attempt to showcase the unity, diversity and richness of poetry from different languages in the Indian sub-continent. Click the links to obtain a copy of the flyer in doc and pdf format. The event is free of charge.
South Asian New Year Celebrations, April 15, 2005
Event to be held in Carl Fields Centre at 7pm. Sponsored by Office of Religious Life, SEAS Office of Graduate Affairs, Office of VP for Campus Life and Carl A. Fields Centre.
Holi Party, March 27, 2005
Click here for more details.
ASAP Birthday Party, Feb 25, 2005
Celebrating the foundation of ASAP a year back.
Diwali-Tihar-Deepavali celebration - November 12, 2004
Celebrate the Festival of Lights in a South Asian Atmosphere with South Asian dinner*, skit performance and Housie followed by a dance party with popular South Asian Pop/Rock/Movie/Bhangra Music. Click here for more details. To download a copy of the flyer in pdf format, click here.
Nepalese Film Series - November 10 and 22, 2004
The purpose of this series of events is to challenge participants see Nepal as a beautiful country that is ethnically diverse, traditionally rich, conflict torn yet hopeful.

Participants will be able to hear from Princeton students who have been involved in a volunteer run non-profit organization, The Nepalese Children's Education Fund (NCEF) (co-founded by Atul Pokharel '05) as an example of small ways of making a difference.

All showings are free and open to the public. They will be followed by a moderated discussion and Nepalese appetizers.

For details and the schedule, click here. To download a copy of the flyer in pdf format, click here.

Freshers' Welcome Party - September 10
This year's first ASAP event was a welcome party for the newcomers. The event began with introduction session of the new students and was followed by dinner and a movie.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Office of Religious Life, The VP for Campus Life and the International Center in organizing this event. Details and pictures from the event will be posted soon.

P-AID helping Bihar Flood Victims
The Princeton chapter of Association for India's Development (AID) is trying to raise money to be sent to flood victims in Bihar by screening a wide assortment of movies. Please attend and help. Popcorn and drinks will be served. A voluntary donation (suggested $5) will be appreciated.
As the last event of this academic year, we bid farewell to our graduating members. On June 19 Saturday a bunch of us got together at the new restaurant in the neighbourhood, Ganges, and treated the parting members to a farewell dinner. After the dinner, over coffee at Small World, we said good-byes and promised to stay in touch! Pictures from the evening will be posted soon.
The Outdoor Action Club went for a white water rafting trip to the LeHeigh river in the Delaware water gap on May 22. Photos coming up soon.
The outdoor action club went on it's first Hiking trip in St. Minsi in Delaware water gap on April 18. Since this was the first trip, a moderate difficulty trail (6 miles) was chosen. It was a lot of fun. Thanks to Pallav for organizing this trip. The pictures are here

ASAP celebrated the South Asian New Year, Harvest, Spring Festival, on Friday, April 16th. This was a combined celebration of traditional South Asian festivals like Baisakhi, Gudi Padva, Poila Boishakh, Vishu, Puthandu, Aluth Avurudhu and others celebrated in the month of April. It involved South Asian food (dinner) along with traditional music and dance, painting rangolis, an antakshari competition with attractive prizes and was a lot of fun. Have a look at the pictures

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Carl A. Fields Center, the Office of Religious Life and the International Center in organizing this event.

Travelling Film South Asia 2004, the travelling compilation from the Film South Asia festival, concluded on March 28th. Fifteen films of TFSA 2004 were screened over the week from Monday, March 22nd, to Sunday, March 28th. Thanks to everyone who came to watch the films.

For More information visit the TFSA website. This event was organized in association with Drishti, P-AID and SASA.


celebrations took place on Saturday, March 6 in GC. Both the sessions (the outdoor one with water and colors and the indoor one with just colors and food) were great! Thanks to all the enthu volunteers (mostly first year grad students) who made this event enjoyable.

Check out the photos.

The ASAP Open House was a big success, thanks to all those who attended it, especially the faculty members who took time off from their busy schedules and of course, our sponsors - SEAS, Campus Life and the Graduate School

Also, special thanks are due to the office bearers, and all other volunteers who worked really hard to make this event possible.