2011 KHNA Raffle Winners

Washington, DC. July 15 2011: Below are the winners of the Raffle Prizes at the recently concluded 6th Biennial Convention of KHNA. Raffles are conducted at every KHNA convention as a means to raise funds towards the convention and other activities of KHNA and was a big success this time as well. The raffle draw was done during the KHNA convention banquet and the Ganamela singers, film playback vocalists Vidhu Prathap and Shwetha Mohan, picked the winning numbers as below:

1. FIRST PRIZE: Ticket #1423 (Sold by Smitha Kutty, Maryland)
      Winner: KAMALADEVI S PULLANI, Maryland.

2. SECOND PRIZE: Ticket #3287 (Sold by Vinod Kearke, New York)
      Winner: THOMAS NEDUNILAM, New York.

3. THIRD PRIZE: Ticket #2500 (Sold by Baburaj Dharan, California)
      Winner: THRISIA THOTTIL, California

4. FOURTH PRIZE: Ticket #1014 (Sold by Ganesh Nair, New York)
      Winner: SURESH NAIR, Albany, NY.

5. FIFTH PRIZE: Ticket #2953 (Ticket not sold)

To see the raffle ticket and rules in effect for the 2011 raffle, please click the picture

The prizes were as follows:
Grand Prize: a 3D TV or the exchange value $3200
Second prize: Hawaii Tour for 2 persons or the exchange value $2000
Third prize: India Tour for 2 persons or the exchange value will be $1500
Other Prices: Large Nilavilakku ($300) and Large Nataraja Statue($350)

The raffle committe comprised Sanil Gopinath and Smitha Kutty Menon. The chairman of KHNA's raffle committee, Sri. Sanil Gopinath thanks all the KHNA volunteers for the hard work to distribute the raffle tickets around the continent during months leading up to the convention and those who helped in doing that at the covention. If you have not collected your raffle prizes, please contact Sri. Sanil Gopinath (301-335-9825, sanil.gopinath@yahoo.com). KHNA congratulates all the winners!