Here’s the Empire State Building dressed up Saturday night in India’s colors, in anticipation of the India Day Parade which was to take place on Sunday, August 20, with Rani Mukherjee as the grand marshal:

and here’s Madison Avenue on Sunday morning, with the barricades up and the NYPD on the scene, prior to the parade kicking off:

 

Abhay Deol was in town too, to promote Mela, and after his press event for them, he was heading to the parade with the Mela folks to man the booth there, meeting and greeting the crowds.  More about him and them shortly.