Priyanka Chopra expressed her joy over school holiday announcement on Diwali from from 2023 in New York
Priyanka Chopra, has responded to the recent announcement that Diwali will be a holiday in New York City public schools beginning in 2023. Priyanka re-posted a video on Instagram Stories. She wrote, “After all these years! My teenage self living in Queens is crying tears of joy. #representationmatters.”
In the video, New York Assembly Member Jenifer Rajkumar said, “Today I’m proud to say our time has come, The time has come to recognize over 200,000 New Yorkers of the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Jain faiths who celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights.” She was joined by Mayor Eric Adams. The video was originally shared by Brut India on their Instagram.
Priyanka, at the age of 13, moved to the US to study. She lived with her aunt and attended schools in Newton, Massachusetts, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after Queens, New York. She returned to India after a few years and finished the senior year of her high-school education at the Army Public School in Bareilly.
Last year, speaking on The Carlos Watson Show, she had said, “I was kind of bought in by the big high schools and not having to wear uniforms. And in my school you wore uniforms. (In the US) girls wore makeup in middle school. At that time, at 12, I was like, yes, I want to study in this magical land of vanity. ”
She added, “I told my mom I want to move here, and my mom’s sister was very happy to take me in. So I kind of lived with my mom’s sister and brother for a period of about three or four years. And they moved around in their jobs. So I lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I was in Indianapolis for a bit. I was in Queens — Flushing, Queens, actually — for a good year. Then I was also in Newton, Massachusetts, before I went back to India.”
The actress currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, singer Nick Jonas. In December 2018, Priyanka and Nick married in Christian and Hindu ceremonies at Jodhpur’s Umaid Bhawan Palace. In January 2022, the couple announced the surrogacy of their daughter Malti Marie.
On the work front
Priyanka will appear in international projects including It’s All Coming Back To Me and Citadel. Citadel, produced by Russo Brothers, will be available on Amazon Prime Video. Patrick Morgan is directing the upcoming sci-fi drama series, which stars Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra. She also has Farhan Akhtar’s Jee Le Zaraa, in which she co-stars with Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif.
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