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Good morning LIFE IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS WE CHOOSE TO MAKE IT. A great RADIO show planned TODAY , https://www.seetamediainc.com/ on Viewpoint With Seeta and Friends AM 1510 WWBC at 1PM until 2PM, on AM1510, FM94.7, FM99.9, FM100.7 as well as online everywhere on SeetaMediaInc.com. https://www.1510wwbc.com/
Please tune in to listen to the discussion about the contribution by Indian immigrants to The USA , economical financial, political and spiritual; especially the Silicon Valley of California. My good friend Sunil Mehta, co founder of They See Blue®
We will also speak with Arthur Ruben,/Eleanor Cooney, about their book Ivy Hill book .
Seeta Media, Inc.@highlightEllen Onieal Ali Tambor
Sunil Mehta, THEY SEE BLUE
Sunil Mehta grew up in Bombay, India, and earned his bachelor’s degree in Engineering at IIT-Bombay. He moved to the U.S. in 1980 for graduate school and received advanced engineering degrees from Penn State and MIT. He has worked in the electronics industry for more than 40 years in both technical and management roles. He holds 92 U.S. patents.
Sunil was an independent who stayed clear of politics for more than three decades when the unthinkable happened in the November 2016 election. This spurred him to get involved in the ground game of politics for the first time. In June 2018, he co-founded They See Blue, an organization focused on getting South Asians to vote Democratic.
With the momentum from our 2018 achievements, we replicated our playbook nationally in subsequent election cycles. Our goal is to support They See Blue ® chapters in all states with large South Asian populations and mobilize these voters in battleground states to ensure Democratic control of the White House, the Senate and the House.
The mission of the They See Blue ® organization is to mobilize and engage Americans of South Asian* origin in the democratic process to help Democrats win federal, state and local races.
*Afghan • Bangladeshi • Bhutanese • Indian • Indo-Fijian • Indo-Caribbean
Maldivian • Nepali • Pakistani • Sri Lankan • Diaspora
IVY HILL Arthur Ruben/Eleanor Clooney
What happens when a loving family man dies suddenly and a stranger takes his place?
IVY HILL is a thoroughly American coming-of-age story set in the mid-20th century. Earthy, realistic, and mordantly funny, it is rich with details of that iconic era. It is also a timeless, universal tale of redemption, morality and conquering adversity, with nearly-mythic elements anyone from any century and virtually any culture would recognize: there’s a wicked giant, a good grandmother and a bad one, a “ghost” or two, and even, in a manner of speaking, a dark potion.
And at the center of the story, an innocent child.
Love, death, danger and fate intertwine in this novel, which was inspired by author Arthur Ruben’s actual life. It takes place in Brooklyn from 1952-1957, then Newark from 1958-1970. Ruben’s protagonist, five-year-old “Eddie,” is devastated following the death of his beloved 34-year-old father. He waits in vain and with a slowly breaking heart for Daddy to return. His mother’s disastrous remarriage, plus the family’s wrenching move from Brooklyn, NY, to the Ivy Hill section of Newark, NJ, turns Eddie’s life inside out. Over the next thirteen years, he is transformed from helpless brokenhearted child into an entirely different creature. The post-war society he was born into is also transformed: the repercussions of that potent and turbulent time, still in living memory-Viet Nam, Woodstock, the Mansons, and especially now, civil rights-are with us to this day, and will resonate with millions of readers.
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