The International Hindi Association proudly announced its staple annual Kavi Sammelan tour of the Unites States and Canada for the year 2009 featuring hasya kavi Dr Surendra Dubey, Sardar Manjit Singh, and Geetkar Rajendra Rajan. All three are top tier poets from India. The 15-city tour starts in Houston, TX on April 3, 2009 and ends in Chicago on May 3, 2009. The other cities of the tour include Tulsa, OK (April 4), Midland, TX (April 5), Dallas, TX (April 10), Washington, DC (April 11), Raleigh, NC (April 12), Oklahoma City, OK (April 17), Rochester, NY (April 18), Toronto, ON (April 19), New York, NY (April 24), Nashville, TN (April 25), Cincinnati, OH (April 26), Detroit, MI (May 1), and Cleveland, OH (May 2). Each program promises to be filled with rip-roaring humor, non-stop laughter, and heart-warming recitals.

The International Hindi Association has been organizing these Kavi Sammelans every year, sometimes twice a year, for over a quarter of a century! Established in 1980 in the United States of America, the International Hindi Association (IHA) or Antarashtriya Hindi СSamitiТ, is one of the most vibrant Hindi institutions in the world. Its programs and activities focus on fostering the cultural heritage of India through promotion and propagation of Hindi and its literature among Indians abroad to ensure that future generations are not only able to speak Hindi with pride but can also learn and enjoy the reflections of Indian culture abundant in Hindi prose and poetry written through generations. The activities such as Hindi classes, youth camps, poetry recitals (kavi sammelans), literary symposiums and publications promote and inculcate human values inherent in the Indian culture. This non-religious, non-political, and non-profit lingo-cultural organization is run entirely by volunteers with the support and patronage from its growing membership worldwide.