7th America Telugu Sambaralu 2023, New Jersey convention & exposition center, New Jersey

Thankyou

Transportation Team
NJ 06-05-2023

I want to thank the wonderful transportation team volunteers to make the event successful. I certainly don’t have words to say, each one of you have contributed to our success, taking ownership of constant changes, some of you driving long hours without even having a breakfast or lunch or dinner. Some of you helped us at last minute personal requests, like 5AM pickups to NY Cruise trip. Anyone living in NY Metro areas know driving to JFK is not an easy job, some of you drove to JFK multiple times a day. Taking ownership and coordinating the last rush of exits by Ravi Appana, Venkat (Vasu) Gurram is admirable.

Satyagopal Reddy
NJ

Madhu Rachakulla
Edison, NJ 06-05-2023

Thank you for designing executing excellent litarary and spiritual programs. Providing great service to telugu literature. Congratulations on a job well done.

Diwakar Peri
Director

Gangadhar Vuppala
NJ 06-05-2023

On behalf of the convention team, we truly recognize your experience and appreciate your directorship, appropriate communication and coordination with the expo center staff, guiding the operations team on the requirements, do's and don'ts, and helping facilitate timely decisions around the quotes, contracts, vendors, negotiations, planning and execution. Thank You.

Leadership
NJ

Shyam Nalam and Guru Desu
NJ 06-05-2023

On behalf of the convention leadership, thanks for organizing and coordinating with the SEWA ADC and helping our convention in-person team meetings happen seamlessly. Appreciate your time, effort and resources in ensuring the team meetings happen, coordinating the snacks, tea and lunch, arranging water and cleaning staff and being there to support where required. Thank You.

Leadership
NJ

Entire NATS Convention Team
New Jersey 06-05-2023

Well Planned and Successfully Executed

Anuradha Bhamidi
Edison NJ

Vamsi Koppuravuri
NJ 06-05-2023

Our dear Vamsi, our sincere thanks to you for playing multiple roles as needed when needed where needed, being an integration part of the program revenue generation, diligently working with donors, sponsors, vendors, coordinating offshore resources, guests invitations, allowing the team to use your office space for meetings, offering your home space to store mountain of packages, transporting to the convention center and literally being everywhere silently making sure nothing falls thru the cracks. We really appreciate your sincerity, dedication, commitment and can-do attitude. Thank You for all your support.

Leadership
NJ

Program Execution Team
NJ 06-05-2023

Hari garu, Ashok garu, Uma garu, Lavanya garu, Sreedevi garu, Bindu garu and team. Congratulations in successfully picking up the Program execution role and nicely collaborating across cultural, community services and all other teams around the rooms, resources and schedule coordination. Also, managing the program sessions, timely execution and transitions between the sessions. We recognize the real time challenges managing the back stage, MCs, Artists, stage time and external pressures, considering all your team has done an excellent job. Thank you for your passion and dedication.

Leadership
NJ

Sri Sagaram and Suryam Ganti
NJ 06-05-2023

Sri and Suryam garu - thanks for coordinating the NATS Excellence Awards effort and taking through the solicitation process, communicating with the participants, receiving, reviewing and finalizing the participants all the way through getting the details published in souvenir, AV and closure. Job well done.

Leadeship
NJ

Nagamahender Velishala
Matrimonial Chair 06-05-2023

Dear Naga, Sambaralu leadership truly appreciates your passion, commitment and sincerity in supporting the NATS Matrimony event. Though your team was catching up with the plan, your team was the first to release the flyer with full details, form and the supporting details. It was good to see the interest from parents and participants, received positive feedback and the both the sessions was full. Thank you for your service contributions to NATS.

Leadership
NJ

Srnivas Kolla Subbaraju Gadiraju Sports Team
NJ 06-05-2023

Sports Team was way ahead of the rest. Thank you to the sports team chairs and team for your passion, dedication and personal time in putting together the sports teams, conducting, communicating and taking all the way thru finals. Congratulations to all the great work you and your team has contributed to the organization.

Leadership
NJ

Venue Team
NJ 06-05-2023

Venu, Deepak, Venkat Musti and team - thank you for being there helping throughout the planning, soliciting vendors for items, working with programs, community services and literary/spiritual teams in facilitating the resources and coordinating the venue run sheet, loading/unloading, setup and all the way till breakdown.

Om Maduri
Convention Secretary

Murali Medicherla
Media 06-05-2023

Thanks for the opportunity to work with Murali garu - I admire his dedication, compassion, calmness and ready to jump at any time personality. Most of the time, Murali garu was working on the go, during breaks and everywhere and anywhere he is. Hats Off to his dedication, sincere workmanship, his literary skill, kindness, his persistence and perseverance are commendable. I learnt many things from him and made everlasting friendship in this journey.

Om Maduri
Convention Secretary

Madhu Korrapati
USA 06-05-2023

Thank You Very Much For Your Hospitality. I Find Your Group, Which Has Been Interacting With Me, Is Extremely Focused, And Your Interest In NATS Is Very Appreciable. The Overwhelming Reaction Of The Audience When I Praised The Organization Was Beyond Any Racial, Communal, Or Geographical Differentiations. There Was A Huge Applause From The Audience, Which Shows Their Approval Of Your Stand.. I Appreciate Your Organization For Maintaining It.

Allu Arvind
Hyderabad

Hospitality Team
NJ 06-05-2023

Great job by the entire hospitality team working together to make the event success

Ravi Appana
NJ

Convention Team
NJ 06-05-2023

Dear team, Hope you all got some rest. Thank you all for your hard work, unconditional commitment and contribution towards NATS America Telugu Sambaralu and making it a grand success. There were multiple unintentional/unwanted developments especially on Sunday evening. Many people got upset. They have every reason and right to get upset. What ever reasons are, whether it is in our control or out of control, I take full responsibility and apologize to everyone. Irrespective of backstage issues, from audience point of view, we have done a very successful America Telugu Sambaralu. I am hearing lot of positive feedback from the attendees. Very soon we will have team appreciation party

Sreedhar Appasani
PA

Leadership Team
NJ 06-05-2023

అవరోధములను అన్నీ అధిగమించి అనవసర ప్రతికూలతను ప్రచ్చన్నము చేసి అనన్య సామాన్యముగా సంబరములను అంగ రంగ వైభవముగా జరిపించిన అధినేతలకు అభినందన చందనములు

Usha Darisipuri
NJ

Srinivas Todupunoori
NJ 06-05-2023

సావనీర్ అద్భుతంగా వచ్చింది మిత్రమా! it is a keeper. great job ! well done!!

Diwaker Peri
NJ

NATS Leadership
NJ 06-05-2023

No words can adequately describe the immense support and assistance provided by the NATS leadership to a small organization like 'Hope4Spandana. But the surprises from Sreedhar Appasani garu and the team did not stop there. True to his original promise, NATS generously donated $50,000 to Hope4Spandana. I am at a loss for words to express our gratitude for the immense kindness and generosity you have shown us.

Lakshmi Narasimham Kota
NJ

NATS Leadership
NJ 06-05-2023

Proud to be part of great cause 🙏🏽 and hats off to the wonderful nats leadership👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Usha Darisipudi
NJ

NATS Team
NJ 06-05-2023

Echo with this , 25% contribution to charities attracted people like me to come forward and donate 🙏 kudos to NATS Team

Kiran Tavva
NJ

ENTIRE TEAM
America Telugu Sambaralu 06-02-2023

My heartfelt thanks and gratitude to entire team of America Telugu Sambaralu for standing and travelling with me, for bearing my rudeness, for putting in enormous hours of hard work and for believing in NATS ideology. With all your support, we were able to make the difference. Besides NATS leadership from PA/NJ, I will have to extend my special thanks to OM Maduri, RK Gorrepati, Sreedevi Jagarlamudi, Uma Makam,, Bindu Yalamanchili, Kavitha Thotakura, Sri Atluri, Swati Atluri, Vamsi Koppuravuri, Arun Sriramineni Vaidehi Sasidhar, Satya Gopal Reddy, Suresh Bondugula, Ravi Indrakanti, Madhu Rachakulla, Srinivas Todupunuri, Srinivas Neelam, Suresh Padmanabhuni, Sanjana Chekuri, Srinivas Neelam, Ravi Narava, Gangadhar Uppala, Narasimha Peruka, Venu Giri, Deepak Katta, Ravi Appana, Ravi Peddi, Sudhakar Uppala, Damu Gedala, TP Rao, SDP, OSBT, Hope4spandana, Sewa and many more. It is always possible to forget names. Sorry If I missed any

Sreedhar Appasani
CONVENER

All dancers of Kavi School of Dance
New Jersey 05-31-2023

I thank all the dancers of Kavi School of Dance who put up the following dances: Mahaganapati dance during the Banquet on Friday, Back up dancing to Neha Shetty, Aadi Sai Kumar, Hebah Patel and the dance to pay tribute to Actor Krishna Garu. Thank you to your commitment, dedication, patience and skill. You are truly magnificent!

Kavita Thotakura
Edison

Telugu Ammayi Contestants Judges and Volunteers
New Jersey 05-31-2023

The Telugu Ammayi event was hugely successful. We received appreciation in superlatives from all quarters. The feedback was that the contestants were very skilled, highly prepared, extremely enthusiastic and that the judges were very accomplished in their respective fields and very dynamic. Everyone said that this was a great event to connect our kids and adults to their telugu roots. Volunteers did a terrific job to ensure seamless organization of the event. The event stuck to its scheduled time duration. All contestants and judges were very flexible to accommodate the changing program schedule for the day. All in all, a major success. As the national co-ordinator of the event, I sincerely thank all the contestants, judges and volunteers.

Kavita Thotakura
Edison

NATS entire crew
Edison 05-31-2023

Thank you so much for everything. The Sambaralu event is grand success.

Prasad Gurram
Monroe Township

Sambaralu Team
NJ 05-31-2023

Wanted to take a moment and thank heartfully for the opportunity to be part of this humongous effort & cause to spread telugu heritage 💐 Cannot appreciate the hospitality, program, food and other committees who relentlessly have flown along insane schedule changes & demanded speeds 👍👌 Did not find any volunteer missing to be calm or with etiquette, even when celebrities popped-up random 👏 Outputs are always easily judged, but the power & pleasure is in the actual journey irrespective. Thanks for making me part of this 3-day passionate journey into Telugu culture, literature, music, cinema & entertainment and more. Had unquantifiable levels of F3 : Fun, Food, Friends :). Hope all the organizers, volunteers, participants get to rest a bit now!

Sarada Kasivajjala
NJ

Hospitality Transportation
NJ 05-31-2023

Kudos to Srikanth & team, the transportation, lodging & food teams who were on top of their constant offers & services 🙏

Sarada Kasivajjala
NJ

Hospitality Food
NJ 05-31-2023

Kudos to Ram Indrakanti garu & team for ensuring food availability even at 3am, and for all the warm and unbiased treatment of everyone with random & repeated asks 🙏

Sarada Kasivajjala
NJ

Backstage Coordination.
NJ 05-31-2023

Ashok, Hari, Aruna, Sridhar, Raj, Sridevi garlu and few others backstage who handled the crazy adhoc demands and coaster plan changes, with incredible dignity & smile 🙏

Sarada Kasivajjala
NJ

NATS administrators
Pa 05-31-2023

Gampa nageswararao personal development and speaking skills practice session are wonderful This program is the best what I really enjoyed in NATS I feel he is the real celebrity And what we did there is really helpful

Sunitha
Bethlehem

Allorganizers and leadership
Nj 05-31-2023

The event took a loooot of effort from many many people, and I am sure it was a great success on many fronts. Hats of to all the volunteers and organizers. It was not an easy task. Hope the issues and lessons are reviewed throughly and the teams find improvements to the process going forward to avoid their recurrence. Key issue being that Local Artists and performers should be given importance over celebrities. Afterall the entire event was for the benefit of local … as in US kids and adults. No disrespect or offense to any celebrity who took the stage. 🙏

Nanditha
Edison

Allorganizers and leadership
Nj 05-31-2023

Nanditha
Edison

NATS Sambaralu Team
Brooklyn NYC 05-31-2023

Congratulations to NATS Sambaralu team for all your sincere efforts in making the convention event a big success.

Sai Suryadevara
Brooklyn NYC

Convention team
CA 05-30-2023

Good work team , it was nice seeing you all and you have successfully hosted every one and did well to take care of the guests, over all it was a great experience and GO NATS

Srini chilukuri
LA

All Zillenials
NJ 05-30-2023

Zillennials event went well with great enthusiasm, three days were packed with cruise attended by 150 Zillennials, “z got talent”, which was endorsed by our Oscar winner “ Chandra Bose” garu, “Chat with deepica mutyala”, “Business forum with Wild fire creator Hriday kemburu”.

Vasundara Desu
Advisor

Community Services
NJ 05-30-2023

Congratulations to all chairs and co-chairs for all your efforts in making the conference highly successful 👍👍

Chandrasekhar Konidela
NJ

Ravi Narava
NJ 05-30-2023

Ravi garu, THANK YOU for patiently gathering the volunteer needs from various committees/areas, coordinating with the local volunteer organizations like SEWA, HOPE4SPANDANA, registering and managing the check-ins etc., Also, thanks for being there to help at the Food Service at peak times with a humble service mood.

Om Maduri
Convention Secretary

Ravi Appana
Celebrity Coordination 05-30-2023

Excellent Job! taking utmost care of our special guests, accommodating beyond the planned, ensuring they are picked up/dropped off per the program schedule, taking care of the seating and safety. Thanks for taking up the voluntary role, serving with dedication and passion.

Om Maduri
Convention Secretary

Tribute to NTR
New Jersey 05-30-2023

NTR, was a legendary actor, filmmaker, and politician who left an indelible mark on the Telugu film industry and Indian politics. His contributions and achievements deserve a tribute for his lasting impact and was very well organized. The stage, time was very apt for the distinguished guests from India who spoke about his contributions for the Telugu folks in this Yugam. The musical extravaganza from Thaman was outstanding & provided great joy to the audience.

Kalyan Vijai
Hillsborough

Tribute to NTR
New Jersey 05-30-2023

Kalyan Vijai
Hillsborough

Organization was great
Nj 05-30-2023

The sound system was really bad for Thaman concert it was so loud couldn’t here the artists well I wish they had better sound equipment

Kumar duvvuri
Princeton

All NATS Organizers
NJ 05-30-2023

Well organized for all the activities , Great volunteers, delicious food and proper planning with lines and arrangements, stalls are good Need improvements in better planning at stage performances. I request someone take this feedback to NATS Team🙏

Naresh Maganti
Monmouth Junction

Everyone involved for making the Sambaralu event successful
Colmar PA 05-29-2023

I want to congratulate and thank each and every committee members for making this event such a grand success. I have seen how much of hard work went in to make it happen, months of preparation and dedication by all volunteers. Great planning by Om garu and all the executive committee. Amazing job by the registration team led by RK (there was never a long line), and finally a great list of programs and excellent execution by Hari!

Pardhasaradhi Madala
New Jersey

Everyone involved for making the Sambaralu event successful
Colmar PA 05-29-2023

Pardhasaradhi Madala
New Jersey

nats donors and organisers
garikaparrukrishna andhra 05-29-2023

very well done.thank u

surapanani
belle mead nj

Sambaralu
NJ 05-29-2023

We had a great experience over the weekend lots fun and entertainment good food everything went well. Entertainment Good Number Of Celebrities Good Food. May Be A Little Better Time Management Would Have Been Excellent.

Sreenivasa Daka
East Brunswick

The entire Nats committee and sahithya vedikaka
Telangana 05-28-2023

For givng a wonderful oppurttunity for Raga Avadhanam i'' Nats 7th convention

Venkata prabhakar garikipati
Hyderabad

Souvenir team
Holliston MA 05-28-2023

My art work has won to be published in NATS 7th anniversary souvenir. I am very delighted about it and most importantly all the volunteers hard work. I noticed following discrepancies in my art work publication. My entry was missing in table of contents, the verbose that I provided to describe all the details of my painting was missing. I am unable to download the publication . It would be nice if I get a hard copy of the souvenir book to keep in my personal library. All the best for rest of the celebrations.

Laxmi Balcha
Holliston MA

Dearest Sambaralu Team
NJ 05-27-2023

7th ATS is almost upon us after 10 months of preparation. Literally days now. You have all been very supportive, resourceful and worked very hard . It’s only a matter of four days now! All the hard work will be behind us, only beautiful memories will remain in our thoughts. Just wanted to give a shout out to all of you, all teams are in full swing mode.! Guests have started arriving. Excitement is building now. Let’s give it our best shot and have an excellent Sambaralu 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 No stopping now, as the popular dialogue goes” Taggedele”

Aruna Ganti 😊
Edison NJ

Ramakrishna Gorrepati
Registration Committee Chair 05-27-2023

The day before the day (May 25) and the the day (May 26) there were lot of last minute registrations, donations and guests needing to prepare the registration packets, and operating single handedly the registration database, updating the details and managing the registration counter. Well done RK, keeping up the calmness and consistent guest service mood. With the Banquet reaching over capacity and lot of surprises with the guest lists and add-ons, you have manage it very well. Also, thanks to Dileep and the registration supporting team. Kudos!.

Om Maduri
Convention Secretary

All Volunteers
NATS 05-26-2023

Sincere Thanks to all Volunteers for their dedication and Time, we truely appreciate all your efforts.. THANK YOU

Prasanna Kota
Tampa

Aparna Yeluripati and Raji Burra and Satya Tata
Edison NJ 04-19-2023

I express my heartfelt gratitude to Raji garu, Aparna garu, and Satya garu for their exceptional support in reviewing the literature content and proofreading it with remarkable precision. Their unwavering commitment and diligent efforts over the past two weeks have been invaluable in providing insightful recommendations and suggestions. Their dedicated attention to detail and exceptional ability to identify even the smallest errors, have enabled us to stay on track with our initial plans set forth in January. With their assistance, we were able to send the literature content to the designer/organizer as per our planned timeline. Their time, effort, and unwavering dedication have been integral to the success of our project. Once again, thank you for your remarkable contributions to this endeavor. Your hard work and support are truly appreciated.

Srini Todupunoori
Edison NJ

Subbaraju Gadiraju and Genesh Pillarasetti
Lawrenceville NJ 04-16-2023

Both Raju garu & Ganesh garu being part of sports committee took the whole responsibility of conducting the volleyball tournament. Both helped in booking the ground, communicating with the teams and doing all required preparations for the tournament. Would like to thank them and also want to notify the NATS team on their contributions.

Chandrasekhar Kinidela
Community Services

Govindaeaj Rangan
East Windsor NJ 04-16-2023

Would like to recognize the effort by Govind in conducting the sports Tennis Tournament. Right from the beginning he took the responsibility of preparing tournament rules, player communications, draws and organizing the matches. He is the main person behind getting 44 doubles teams and he has spent lots of his time in conducting the tournament. Would like to thank him and also want to notify the NATS team about his contributions.

Chandrasekhar Konidela
Community Services Sports Tennis Doubles

Dr. Vaidehi Sasidhar and Literary Team
NJ 04-14-2023

I am writing to express my sincere appreciation for your unwavering dedication and outstanding contributions on our literary programs, you planning for the NATS 7th American Telugu Sambaralu. Your passion for literature and your commitment to fostering a love for conducting literary programs have not gone unnoticed, and we are truly grateful for your invaluable support.

Madhu Rachakulla
Edison

Srinivas Todupunoori and Souvenir Team
NJ 04-14-2023

I wanted to take a moment to express my deepest appreciation for your exceptional work on the NATS souvenir for 7th America Telugu Sambaralu.Your attention to detail and literary skills are evident in every piece of the souvenir. Your professionalism, reliability, and passion for the project were truly inspiring, and you have set a high standard for volunteer work. Your commitment to the souvenir project has made a significant impact and will be cherished by our organization NATS and those who receive the souvenirs magazine.