Priyanka Chopra reacts to Diwali currently being declared public college vacation from 2023 in NYC

Bollywood-cum-Hollywood actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas not too long ago took to social media to respond to Diwali staying declared a community getaway in New York City’s community educational institutions from next calendar year. On her Instagram Tales, she re-posted a video and wrote, “Following all these a long time! My teenage self living in Queens is crying tears of joy. #representationmatters.”

In the video shared by PeeCee, New York Assembly Member Jenifer Rajkumar can be listened to declaring, “Now I’m very pleased to say our time has arrive, the time has arrive to understand around 200,000 New Yorkers of the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Jain faiths who rejoice Diwali, the Pageant of Lights.” Jenifer was accompanied by Mayor Eric Adams when she built the announcement.

For these unaware, Priyanka moved to the US to study at the age of 13. She lived with her aunt and attended schools in Newton, Massachusetts, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after Queens, New York. She afterwards returned to India to end the senior 12 months of her significant-faculty schooling at the Army Community University in Bareilly.

Talking about her university days on The Carlos Watson Show, Priyanka formerly claimed, “I was type of purchased in by the big higher faculties and not possessing to put on uniforms. And in my school you wore uniforms. (In the US) women wore make-up in middle college. At that time, at 12, I was like, of course, I want to study in this magical land of self-importance. ”

She additional, “I instructed my mother I want to go in this article, and my mom’s sister was very satisfied to consider me in. So I form of lived with my mom’s sister and brother for a period of about a few or 4 years. And they moved all around in their employment. So I lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I was in Indianapolis for a bit. I was in Queens — Flushing, Queens, actually — for a fantastic yr. Then I was also in Newton, Massachusetts, just before I went back again to India.”

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The actress currently lives in Los Angeles with her partner-singer Nick Jonas. The two bought married in Christian and Hindu ceremonies at Jodhpur’s Umaid Bhawan Palace in December 2018. This calendar year in January, the two welcomed daughter Malti Marie by means of surrogacy.

On the function front, Priyanka will be next viewed in ‘It’s All Coming Back To Me’ and ‘Citadel’. She also has Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Jee Le Zaraa’, starring Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif.