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Hello All, 

I am very pleased to share that the Darshan project was appreciated and featured in the latest issue of the national publication, Yoga Journal. The team also selected to feature the same on their ipad app. I am attaching a snapshot of the article with this update. Please keep up to date on projectdarshan.com for continued news on this series and again thanks for supporting it when it was a wee twinkle in my eye.

Warmly,
Manjari Sharma 

Hello All, 

Project Darshan (projectdarshan.com) began in early 2011 and it's first half thereafter was successfully funded by all of you! Most recently I got a call from Anjan Das, Design Director of Forbes, India about Darshan. It was thrilling to hear the excitement in his voice about what he had in mind for our collaboration.

Anjan said his magazine has a yearly flagship issue called the Forbes India Rich List (Collector’s edition) and felt my Maa laxmi would be a fitting face for it. While the proposition was exciting, at first I was a little surprised that a business publication would go with such a bold cover? But as Anjan said “It’s all about having a vision”.

Finally with Diwali approaching, the timing was perfect. It indeed became a blessed time for Maa Laxmi and Forbes to have found each other! I have a photograph of the magazine and a location shot of the magazines at a landmark bookstore in Bandra, Mumbai attached in here. Also to our great delight this cover made it into Coverjunkies most popular covers of the month. 

I hope all of you have an incredible holiday with you families. We all have much to be thankful for. 

Warmly,
Manjari Sharma 

Im very excited to share that Darshan is featured as a six page story on the Huffington Post Magazine for iPad. If you own an iPad please download download the “Huffington” App. The Newest issue is for 99 cents has a section titled moving image. I am very happy about the way it is reproduced on there. Please download and enjoy!

Also if any of you are interested in owning a limited edition large print of this series, it is currently on a prepublication sale. This is in order to help me complete this series at the end of the year. Please get in touch with should you desire a larger piece of Darshan. And as always Thanks for being supporters of this ambitious project. 

Dear Backers, 

I am honored to be invited to speak at B&H Photo about Darshan and it's journey. For those of you in New York City on Sunday, June 10th, please come by and say hello. This is a free lecture and it will be great to see and meet you in person. 

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/eventDetails.jsp/id/1245

What: Talk on darshan and it's Journey
Where: B&H Photo - 420 9th Ave, New York, NY 10001.
When: 1-3 pm 

Also Darshan drummed up some more press from two respected industry publications. PDN Photo Annual 2012 (Photo District News) featured Darshan as a featured story and Resource Magazine. Thanks to both on their kind invite. The stories can be looked at on the links below. 

PDN Photo annual story  
http://www.pdnonline.com/features/Crowd-Funding-Succes-5690.shtml
Resource Magazine  
http://resourcemagonline.com/the-darshan-project/

Dear Friends, Backers and Supporters, 

I wanted to inform all of you that I have a dedicated website for Darshan that thanks all of you and your generosity. I am also offering Maa Laxmi greeting cards and the remaining 8X10 Kickstarter editioned prints to continue to support this series. Please feel free to take a look on this website.

I am very pleased to share that Maa Laxmi will be previewing at an art fair in Chelsea, New York City called Pulse, New York, 2012. The art fair runs from May 3rd to May 6th and the image will be at Booth B10 with gallerist Richard Levy gallery. Please stop in and say hi!