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With RJ Karishma
As we approach the end of this year or rather
decade its customary to look back and analyze
the year that gone by and this year it will be
decade that gone by .For Radio Karishma this
decade has been the most significant since Rk
came into existence at the dawn of this decade -
2010 and by the end of it we have created this
beautiful community called Radio Karishma
ADDA ! Drive has always been connecting with
people whether its playing music or informing
you about what is happening around the world
or interviewing someone or through ADDA
having fun together ,learn together and grow
together So taking this opportunity I thank
you all the people –”you” for making this decade
and year special for me and for my team .So
Cheers for the decade & the year that is passing
by -Will see you next year ☺

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Meet Your RJs
Sapna Rana : Dil ki bat aap
ke sath , Tuesday 1 pm
Rajeev kulkarni : Kannadavani,
Sunday 1pm and Cine Chat on
Wednesday at 10:00 am
Shilpa Lele : Suprabhat
Mon- Wed and Friday
morning 7am to 8am
Moushomi Bose : Food
Fundas Sunday 11 am
Aditi Goel ; Gungunati
Ghazals ;Friday ;1pm
Not Just Water Boys ; Manpal ,Munraj Bal and Abhi
Dhumpala : Sunday 4 Pm

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Radio Karishma Adda
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will enable & empower you & your business.
The Adda was launched on 8 th October with 20
members on board. With member networking
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Radio Karishma is committed to nurture its ADDA
with all its offline & online prowess and grow it
into a force to reckon with amongst the global
Indian community. Checkout the Radio Karishma
Adda page on our website regularly to see the
upcoming events/workshops. And of course
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once for workshop/skill building.
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Radio Karishma Gup shup
The Very first Radio Karishma ADDA
Banter /Gup shup
First ADDA Banter took place on 1 st December
2019 in the studio of Radio Karishma ;Topic : How
Comfortable are in your skin ;Participants : Dimple
Bhatia ; Rashmi Sharma ;Sapna Rana ; Shilpa Lele
and Karishma Himatsinghani
Some great thoughts , suggestions n opinions
shared in this gupshup which was aired live on
Radio Karishma and video is also shared on FB
page of Radio Karishma .If you are passionate
about a topic you would love to talk about let us
know on rjkarishma@radiokarishma.com
RK ADDA members are privileged to be part of the
banter/gupshup so join RK ADDA ☺
Stay tuned for the second episode of
RK Gup Shup on 5 th Jan 2020 ;
Topic – is lynching an option to
punish Rapist ?

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I want to mention that trafficking is a huge concern in the
international adoption community! The only legal way to adopt from
India are the ways I will outline below. The Indian government has
worked hard, with other countries, to enact Hague agreements to
deter unlawful adoptions that end up with the abuse of children and
families.
Still with me? Great! Let’s break it down. There are different
categories of PAPs (prospective adoptive parents). I will list them in
order of priority given.
Domestic families - Indian citizens living in India and non Indian
citizens living in India
NRI - NonResident Indians - they are treated on par with domestic
families, except they have to go through an agency in the country they
Article of the Month
Adopting From India
November was National Adoption Awareness Month in the USA. And
it is an exciting time in the adoption world for India. For the first time
ever, thousands of families in India and abroad are joining the que to
adopt India’s children. Which is a good thing, because India’s children
desperately need families.
If you are considering adoption or know someone who is, please read
on and share. This is not an article to guilt those who are not
interested into adopting. Adoption is an act of love, but it is also
steeped in loss and no one should take on a child if they are not truly
passionate about doing so and researching and constantly learning the
ways to help these children reach their full potential in life and
happiness. Parenting an adopted child can be very hard at times,
although the life-long reward is so worth it.
So who am I to be writing this? I am an adoptive parent, married into
the Indian culture. I run an international support group on Facebook
for those adopting from India. I am involved in the adoption world
and the adoptee world. I have seen and experienced an incredible
amount. Seen so much tragedy, like the unnecessary abuse and deaths
of children in orphanages and seen children united with families who
were labeled as “un-adoptable” and otherwise left for dead. I have
seen these children, once given the love and attention they deserve,
thrive to be happy amazing people. I have seen wonderful, successful
orphanages and the opposite. I have often worked with Indian
authorities to save children’s lives and expose unethical Orphanage
workers involved in bribes and abusing children.

Domestic Adoption:
1. Visit CARA (the legal adoption authority in India, run by the
government) website and go through the guidelines.
http://cara.nic.in/
2. Request for a counselling session with CARA consultants. CARA is
based in Delhi so if PAPs live in Delhi, it will be in person. Otherwise, it
will be over the phone.
3. Prepare the required documents for online registration (the list of
documents is given on CARA website.)
4. Locate the Specialized Adoption Agencies (SAA) registered with
CARA nearby in your city for conducting home study and uploading
home study report. Visit them to see how proactive the staff is, which
agency is willing to do home study at your place, depending upon
geographical distance. Your home study will include your preferences.
5. Once you finalize the agency, ask them if they have any specific
format for medical certificate and if they require any extra documents
other than the list mentioned by CARA.
6. Domestic families are allowed to choose up to 3 states or anywhere
in India. Realize that the more restrictions you put, the longer you
may wait. Our family is from Chennai, and we adopted an amazing
child from Mumbai. She is a perfect fit for our family!
7. Accordingly, prepare documents oand register online and upload the
documents. Your registration is considered complete only after you
upload all the documents. The referral seniority comes based on your
date of registration.
8. Inform the agency, which you choose for home study, about your
registration and ask them when they will conduct home study. You
might need to do a little follow up here as well depending upon the
efficiency of agency staff.
9. You need to pay Rs. 6000 (this may change, was accurate when
article was written) for home study to the agency either in cash or DD
or cheque for which you will get a receipt.
10. Once home study is done, the agency has to upload the home
study report online to CARA. This has to be done asap as only after
this, you will be able to check your seniority and immediate
placement list and special needs kids list.
11. After this, starts your waiting period. CARA will match you with a
healthy child based on your seniority and parameters. Utilize this to
understand more about how heart families bond and the challenges
and other things. Have faith and be positive during this period. Join
support groups and learn from other adoptive parents and Adoptees.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/622989274464148/ and
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ForOfHeartBabies/permalink/124
1320099220788/ are highly recommended

12. You can also keep checking immediate placement list. It
consists of kids from all categories together and the list doesn't
have a waitlist. You can reserve the child profile from here by
yourself, immediately.
13. Once registered, you will have access to the Special Needs
database of kids as well that you can match yourself to. Do not let
that term scare you! I know thousands of kids from this list that
are now thriving with their forever families!
More about that Next time ………..to be continue !!
Julia Chandrasekaran is a designer and Adoption and Adoptee Advocate. She
runs the international support group, India Adoption, on Facebook. She is
married to an awesome South Indian from Chennai. She enjoys staying at
home with her beautiful children; one of which was adopted from Mumbai,
India. They also have 2 cool dogs, Krrish and Dhoom, who are very tolerant of
her active kiddos! In addition to running after the kids and dogs and keeping
Indian traditions alive in their family, she runs a small charity with her kids to
help children and families in the slums of Mumbai and hopes to open a home
there for women that want to keep their children and need support so they do
not have to place them for adoption. The family visits India at least once a
year, to see family and their daughter’s origins as well as do charity work

RK ADDA –Meet the members
Dimple Bhatia
I am a CPA and I am very passionate about helping
my clients with meeting their tax compliance
obligations and also provide proactive tax planning
for tax efficient outcomes.
What I am most passionate about
I am most passionate about living a happy,
peaceful and clean life! Part of being clean is
keeping our environment clean. Living in the USA,
we use more disposable things than anywhere else
in the world in the name of hygiene and time
efficiency. I have always kind of wondered where
is my trash going, how are my plastic and glass
Bottles recycled, how are my plastic bags recycled.
I don’t believe the cities have the resources to recycle all that is set to recycle.
What if we go upstream and reduce what we throw out to trash and
recycle? The reusable grocery bag is the most common adaptation. How about
we use reusable bags to put our apples and bananas that we pick up at the
grocery stores. What if we use reusable dinner and flatware for meals for the
family and parties. Every dish, glass, spoons and forks can be washed in the
dishwasher. What if we changed the elastic on the pajama that is otherwise in
vey good shape? What if we fixed a leak on a water hose instead of creating
bulk waste by throwing away a otherwise very functional water hose except
for a small hole.
Recently my husband bought a hose to replace the one that had a hole on the
side. We looked at the hose laying on the floor and thought, wow, this will be
stilling in a landfill until it is hmmm, when? What happens to his bulk of water
hose after we throw it in bulk trash or regular trash. How is it disposed, when
does it happen, what if does not happen soon, it will lay in the landfill for
another 100 years because the plastic will not disintegrate for at least another
100 years and the metal will probably corrode or disintegrate based on what it
is made of! What if we just fixed the hole, Google maiya knows it all, she will
present us with options of buying some type of glue or patch and we should be
good to go for some more time!
I started thinking about it more seriously when I was planning my daughter’s
engagement party. We were expecting about a hundred guests. I could not
fathom creating trash bags after trash bags of at least a hundred lunch plates,
two to three hundred plastic cups for water, one hundred plastic spoons,
another one hundred snack plates! I was able to avert this disaster because
my sister-in-law had one hundred steel lunch plates, two hundred cups for daal
and desert and one hundred spoons.Now that we solved the serving situation,
what happens to our food waste, how is that handled when it goes to the
landfill. I had more questions than I had answers. In the meantime, we could
all do our share of responsible disposing.

RK ADDA –Meet the members
Meenal Sinha
My name is Meenal Sinha and I am a
state certified financial provider. I have a
diploma in business finance (DBF) and an
advanced diploma in finance (ADF). My
goal is to educate people on how to
maximize their savings and that matters
most- family and finance. Please contact
me for a free consultation to learn more.
I believe in education not selling. We
offer a wide range of services including
investments, college funds, insurance,
retirement, estate planning, wills, and
trusts
Vandana – Entrepreneur,Mentor, Artist,
teacher, Event planner, mom of 2 and
owner of Karavan Creations ( Gift shop
)since 5 years. The shop carries Beautiful
Collection of exquisitely designed and
Intricately handcrafted Gifts for any
occasion. As a teacher she brings in over 8
years of experience in teaching Art, Craft
camps to kids of all ages. Her passion for
art and creativity goes back when she was
as young as these kids and developed a
creative mind and artistic taste. She utilizes
age-appropriate language, definitions, and
examples to introduce children to complex
ideas and concepts that helps foster
creative skills. She loves listening to music,
traveling & spending time with family.
Vandana Khosla

Jhat-pat khana with RK Chef
Glazed Garlic Shrimp
Moushomi Bose
“This is fairly simple and quick dish to prepare. It is best to peel the
shrimp, as this helps them to absorb maximum flavour. Serve with a
salad as an appetizer or as a main course with a selection of vegetables
and other accompaniments.”
Serves 2-4
2-3 tablespoons olive oil
3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
Salt and freshly ground pepper
1 tsp mixed herbs(pizza seasoning)
2-3 tablespoon of lemon juice
10-15 jumbo shrimps, peeled and deveined
Method
1.In a medium saucepan heat the oil and butter on medium heat. To
this add the chopped garlic and sauté on medium flame until the raw
smell goes. This will roughly take 1-2 minutes.
2.Adjust the heat to medium-high and add the shrimps and cook for 2
minutes, then turn them. Add the mixed herbs, pepper and salt shaking
the pan to distribute them evenly. Cook for 2 minutes until the shrimp
are golden and just firm to the touch. Sprinkle on the lemon juice and
toss to blend.
Variations
To make a richer sauce, transfer the cooked scallops and shrimp to a
warmed plate. Pour ½ cup dry white wine into the frying pan and boil
to reduce by half. Add 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, whisking until it
melts and the sauce thickens slightly. Pour the sauce over the shrimp
and serve with Garlic Bread or boiled pasta or butter fried rice.

RK ADDA – Meet the Member
Story of S.M.A.R.T.S.
www.smartsclub.net
As a parent, I was looking for a Learning center that would provide my 8-year
old daughter after school STEM enrichment and the right environment for her
to learn, finish her homework and her social skills. Since I could not find such a
place, I decided to start one of my own in Frisco. Teaching has been my passion
and that is why it became my career.I used to participate in a kid show on a
popular South Asian radio, called ‘Science Smarts at 4’, and it inspired me to
formulate the word, SMARTS, an acronym for Science, Math, Art, Reading,
Technology and Social studies.
Soon we opened our own storefront center and grew to three centers in the
DFW area.
Frisco Preston Trace: 8780 Preston Trace Blvd., Frisco TX 75033Frisco
West: 4280 Main St, Suite 500, Frisco TX 75033 Frisco East: 5353 Independence
Pkwy, Suite 300, Frisco TX 75035
Personal achievements throughout the years:
Along with a business entrepreneur, I am an education expert with a Ph.D. in
the field of education and communication and my experience runs the gamut
from college professor to Texas State High School Certified teacher in Science.
I am a published author of many papers on Educational Pedagogy, Theories of
Communication and inclusion of science in the curriculum (K-12). My
interdisciplinary background is reflected in SMARTS which provides
supplemental Education and Enrichment classes for grades Kindergarten to 12.
I also serve as a Director for Department of Child
Care Licensing Texas for licensed afterschool
program since 2013.For many years,
yoga has been also one of my passions.
I am a certified Adult Yoga teacher
E-RYT® 200, Kids Yoga Teacher RCYT®,
and Yoga Alliance Continued Education
Practitioner YACEP®. I have been teaching
yoga for over 20 years and also came up
with a unique way to teach
science to kids with Yoga. I have been invited
by local schools, public libraries, and private
businessesto conduct workshops for kids,
teenagers, and adults.As for my passion in the
STEAM industries,
I serve as an Ambassador of E-Cyber mission
and as a virtual judge for E-Cybermission
which isthe Army Educational Outreach Program

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Editor’s Note
In Chile ,Capital Santiago thousands of women activists were
protesting against crime and sexual violence against women
wearing Red Scarf and blind folds and singing a song ( I know
song and sexual violence don’t ideally go together but let’s
see the context )
Song went like this ;
“its not my fault ….where I was ,what was I wearing …you are
the rapist …”
Singing in a chorus with a tune and beat, video of thousands
of women singing to protest went viral on social media !!!!
However this protest was happening in Chile but this song
resonated with all the women all across the world!
If this year saw some of the most gruesome crime against
women but this year has also seen the strongest and most
effective protests and voices coming from all departments ;
politics , sports , show biz and above all victims themselves
fighting to the death for the justice !!!
These are tough times but as they say “night is darkest
Before dawn “
So with the hope of sunshine in 2020 ,I would like to close this
years’ last edition of Radio Karishma’s Newsletter ……..Until
Next time lets keep doing some ADDEBAZI ……..☺
Karishma Himatsinghani
CEO Karishma’ show inc
www.radiokarishma.com