This was an excellent event and it was a pleasure to be part of the opening.
Todd McClay (Member of Parliament)

Thank you for a great day on Saturday and we all enjoyed the Festival. Look forward to working with you next year.
Shane Southby,
Business Development Manager, ANZ

You are doing a great job in promoting Indian culture and also developing partnerships with different cultures!
Yogesh Wadhwa

The function keeps getting better, and this year it was superb in varieties and excellence of performances – just the right combinations. Our hearty congratulations!
Dr Adya Singh

Thank you whole heartedly for giving an opportunity for our dance school to perform in the evening. The way it was received by the audience was so encouraging. Thanks a lot once again.
Padmalatha Dev (Padma School of Dance)

WOW, what an awesome amazing festival that you have put on. The scent just captured and tantilised the senses as soon as I walked thru the door. There was a variety of food and I sampled many different dishes. The clothing that was on sale was extremely impressive and the selection of dried goods/spices outstanding. The workshops were so fantastic. The dances were awesome and some of the dancing brought tears to my eyes. Each segment of the dancing was of a high standard and I am thankful I got to witness it first hand. The fireworks were soooooooo spectacular, the finest and best display I have ever seen. The Deepawali festival has opened my eyes more to the Indian culture which is truly awesome and beautiful.
Taawhimiriama Koria

Congratulation, the whole organisation was excellent. The fire works were spectacular. It’s a good idea to bring all the cultures together as one, we feel at home.
Alain Ramaya & Family

Thank you for the lovely cultural show and the firework display – we thoroughly enjoyed the evening.
Sonia and Pete

My husband & I attended your festival of lights & we enjoyed it exceedingly. Thank you for making us feel welcome & indeed accepted into your huge family.
The Indian cultural show was wonderful & we loved the young children participating. The fireworks were amazing. We would like to see this event get more & more popular.
Dilys Chapman

Congratulations on such a successful event enjoyed by all and so well organised. We look forward to Deepawali 2011
Chandra Bala

Thanks very much for putting this big event together. I am happy to contribute if you need any kind of help for coming year.
Karamjeet Sidhu

It was a pleasure to attend Deepawali festival ….so good to see Indian culture along with collaboration with other culture here in Rotorua …heads off and a big applause to all your efforts
Ashok Adlakha

What a wonderful programme. We had a wonderful time. Looking forward to participate again
Nirmita Ghosh

Rotorua Chinese Association was so grateful to attend this year’s Deepawali Festival. We thought the festival was a major success and we were blown away by how exciting and well organized it was. We would love to support the event in further times.
Peony Wang (Rotorua Chinese dance group)

It was great. Good effort by the organising committee for this wonderful celebration of Deepawali third year in succession. Keep up the good work.
Karam Khokra

Congratulations to the team for organising Deepawali festival for three years in a row….it is not just the happiness of organizing for three years but more appreciating is the fact that on such a scale, all inclusive of Hindu-Maori-Chinese-Fijian and all communities that matter so much for the up-bringing of a healthy, youth- supportive and peaceful community. Indeed a great event which I wish every year will grow leaps and bounds.
Dr Alankar Vaidya

Thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to attend your Indian Cultural Show – it was fantastic! It was great to see the strengthening relationships with different communities. Thank you once again for putting on such a wonderful event for Rotorua.
Amanda Hohneck

Thanks for organising a memorable and beautiful evening and please accept our heartiest congratulations to all who helped to make this evening so great.
Mohan Anand

Thanks for such an awesome night .Can’t get better than this
Alok Guasin

An Indian occasion being celebrated here in New Zealand with great zest…. it seemed to me that we are celebrating this occasion in our India…. I could smell the fragrance of India in NZ
Ramandeep Kaur
(Student, Waiariki Institute of Technology)

Congratulations on a wonderfully spectacular Festival – the atmosphere and anticipation of what was to come next was certainly there. Many thanks for bringing a truly wonderful festival to Rotorua,
Lois Ion

Thank you very much for a most enjoyable evening last night. We very much enjoyed our evening, the cultural show was very professional and to a high standard, and we enjoyed it immensely. The fireworks were excellent.
Rae Martin

WOW! It was totally amazing and wonderful – the children LOVED watching the show – it was fantastic and may we congratulate all of you on putting on such a fantastic event!
Belinda Heron and Whanau!

The program was fantastic. I would say, all the sessions was very well organised.
Atonu Bhowmik
(Treasurer, Probasee Bangalee Association)

Thanks also for putting on the best fireworks show if the year – it was brilliant!
Chris Lenth

Congratulations!! This was a fantastic show. Well done!! Fireworks as usual were very fabulous!
Sanjeev Kumar khokhar

The festival was great. Loved every moment
Joyce Childs

It was absolutely fantastic showcase of our Indian culture. The performances were great, very colourful and the fireworks were very good too. Looking forward to the next year celebrations
Bipul Das

I would like to thank you for the most wonderful day organized. It was FANTASTIC.
Annette Stock

The function was great and my families from Wellington and Palmerston North enjoyed it.
Navneet Nair

It was an excellent program and extremely heart-warming. The lead the Maori community in Rotorua has taken in bringing the ideals and words of plularism to real life strengthens my belief in the bright future of New Zealand. Look forward to more such events not just in Rotorua but all over New Zealand.
Rajiv Chaturvedi

10 out of 10. Volunteers were very friendly and helpful. Planing and co ordination was excellent. If given an opportunity we will love to participate and work with you again. Santanu Ghosh
(Secretary, Probasee Bangalee Association)

The vast array of different cultures that attended and were welcomed at the Deepawali festival was fantastic to see.
Tania Henwood

We both had Mehndi designs done on our hands in the morning, and had some lovely food for lunch. We especially liked the dancing displays. Congratulations on such a successful event.
Jo Hedge & Natalie Hewitt

Great news! It is heartening to see how Maori community and Hindus are coming together to celebrate Deepawali in a non alcoholic and vegetarian environment.
Anand Agarwala

I was totally blown away by the experience. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you for the experience of having a cameo view into your fascinating culture.
Sheree James

What a fabulous (family) evening of entertainment. The music was great and the temple-like decoration of the hall set a promise that the evening would be a wonder to behold…. and it didn’t fail to measure up to that expectation. A “not to be missed” occasion
Chris Harrison

Thanks a lot to give us the opportunity to perform on this big level. It was awesome experience. I really enjoyed it.
Harpreet Kaur

Thanks for a lovely opportunity to see the proud Hindu community up close. It was a holiday for the body as well as soul. My Hindu soul is fully satiated. We will definitely make it an annual feature of our calendar now. Thanks for a lovely opportunity to see the proud Hindu community up close. The programmes were brilliantly choreographed and performed, the intellectual calibre of people we met was amazing and I’m prouder to be a Hindu today than I was yesterday.
Rakesh Krishnan

The Deepawali Celebration organised by you and your team were outstanding. Especially the evening programme and fireworks were brilliant and much better than the one in Auckland last year, which we attended.
Jimmy (Neelkanth Holdings Ltd)

I had great time at Deepawali function, and wish we have it every year in coming future.
Asha Singh

Deepawali festival has started in Rotorua in a grand way and other towns in NZ will follow suit. You have set a standard others will have to follow or better it.
Ilango krishnamoorthy
(Secretary, New Zealand Hindu Temple Society)

Thank you for a wonderful day and evening. Arthur and I attend a workshop and the stalls etc during the day and also the evening show and fireworks display. We thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of the festival.
Irene Warren

Thank u for every thing it was beautiful and the dances was brilliant and the place was nice.
My family loved the fireworks at the end it was beautiful.
Manorathy Sothilingam

Thank you for letting me be part of such a wonderful, spiritual and positive event. The cultural evening was wonderful with some very sophisticated and stirring performances.
Ann-Elise Miles

Congratulations on this great achievement to you and the group. It speaks volumes at the magnitude of these programmes. It in essence is true multiculturism. Keep up the good work.
Muni Ratnam

The festival was awesome. The fireworks were out of this world. Thank you for putting something back into the community.
Marlise de Vries