Indian Weekender 31 July 2015

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Interest-free home loans... possible?
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RIZWAN MOHAMMAD
he Muslim communitys
belief of not taking and
giving interest, as it
creates an imbalance in the society
with the rich getting richer and the
poor getting poorer, has given rise
to a dilemma for Muslims living
in New Zealand. Should they
compromise on their faith and opt
for home loans on interest from
national banks or should they not
buy a home at all? Sara Jawaad
has been living in New Zealand
for the past 10 years. A former
dental therapist and hygienist
by profession in Pukekohe, she
is currently teaching alternative
education in college and resides in
Manukau.
Sara, who has a big family
comprising of her husband, two
kids, sister and parents, is struggling
to find an avenue that will provide
her with an interest-free home
loan so that she does not have to
is practised in Australia, the US and

UK. In her research Sara found that
this finance model was practiced
in New Zealand by few small firms
in 2006 and 2007 but none could
survive the global recession.
The couple is looking for a similar
alternate medium of getting finance.
They have put forth their application
in BNZ, ASB and Westpac hoping
for an authorisation of the finance
model, but they havent received a
response from any bank yet.
It has almost been a year since
I started applying but whoever I
speak to would refer me to the next
person.
They also came across the
Amanah Saver Scheme that was
recently introduced in New Zealand
mostly for the Muslim community.
In Amanah, the money is
invested in halal trade and it grows,
so they are considering of providing
options to buy houses for Muslims.
But they need to grow their business
with Kiwi Saver first, so they need
more people to join in Kiwi Saver,

invest in their money and that will
generate an income that will provide
a base to buy houses and sell it to
the Muslim community. But that
is a long-term proposal and it will
need a lot of commitment from the
community to change their Kiwi
Saver and there is a long wait, says
Sara.
Sara further mentions that
she knows many others from her
community who have taken house
loans on interest because they were
left with no choice. She is seeking
an option where she doesnt have
to choose between her faith and
financial stability.
There are different models that
can be applied such as a trust where
everyone contributes and a house
is purchased. One family occupies
the house and their contribution
gives them their share of the house.
The rest is owned by the remaining
members of the trust. The occupant
family pays the rent and eventually
How safe are you? Talking incidents in

our community
Kumar Suresh and
Rizwan Mohammad
ast week we initiated

a
discussion
around
how safe does everyone
feel in our beautiful city called
Auckland. This has given rise to
many a discussion and people
coming forward with their
stories. This week we bring
you several stories of what has
actually happened to some of our
people. A few people who were
willing to share their stories wish
to remain anonymous but were
still willing to share nonetheless.
There seem to be some trends
that seem to come through. In a
lot of the instances there seems
to be a hesitation in reporting
an incident, in others there have
been reports and perceived
inaction on the part of the Police.
We bring these stories to you not
because they make interesting
reads but so that we can all learn
from them and be more aware of
the times we live in.
While awareness can be a great

contributor to your personal and
property safety there are other
resources, online and in the
community that can be tapped
into. The consistent messaging
from the Police is that at the end
of the day, your personal safety
is in your own hands and in the
face of a high risk situation, fore
warned is fore armed.
We came across a wealth of
information being shared by
Neighbourhood Support in how
you and your neighbours can
help Police by providing a good
description of anyone you see
acting suspiciously or committing
a crime.
If you see someone acting
suspiciously write down what
you see as soon as possible.
Make a note of the most obvious
features by which this person can
be identified.
If you do see a crime being
committed, dial 111 immediately
and ask for Police. Keep calm,
give your name, address and

telephone number. Report where
and what is happening. Stay on
the phone and, if you can safely,
keep watching and write down
any further description.
Its important to try and build
up a complete picture of a person
from head to toe. Were they
carrying anything e.g. a weapon?
Were they smoking? Were there
any other characteristics of note
about the person? If you heard
them speak, did they have an
accent or speech impediment?
What did they say?
If a vehicle is involved, write
down the registration number,
colour, make and model. Observe
if it was damaged or rusty. Did
it have any writing on it? Which
way did it leave the area?
Also remember to keep a
record of the time and date of
your observations. These details
can be very useful when giving a
statement to Police and can help
piece together the chain of events.
compromise on her faith. The only

option open to her is if the bank
buys the house on, so they own the
house and resell it again on profit.
In this scenario, the bulk payment is
subtracted from the original selling
price and the balance can be paid in
regular instalments.
This scheme of buying house
and using the profit as interest is
not prevalent in New Zealand but
30-year-old dairy shop shuts

after robbery & assault
Black
Orange
when the full value of the property

is paid, the ownership is transferred
to the occupant and the money
collected can be used to fund another
house.
It is like renting your own house
for some time until the full value of
the house is paid and then the house
belongs to you, says Sara.
We are using examples from
around the world. We have lawyers,
accountants and financial advisors
and we are trying to formulate
something so that families such as
mine can afford to buy house in the
future with different schemes and
not just on loans with interest. The
important thing to consider is that
the Muslim population is increasing
and they will have to own a house
eventually, so why not adopt or
introduce a method to cater to their
needs? After all, they too are paying
their taxes in due time and they are
as much citizen of this nation as
anyone else, concluded Sara.
Indian student found

dead at Mission Bay
22-year-old native of killed by someone due to ulterior

Karnal, Manjit Singh, motive.
was found dead under
Manjit had been studying at
suspicious
circumstances
at International College of Auckland
jit Singh Sagoo, owner
Mission
Bay,
Auckland.
for the past two years and never
of the Ulster Street
A
local
woman
saw
the
body
at
faced
any problem. Some of
Dairy Shop, celebrated
around 6.30am on Wednesday (13 our close relatives are settled
the stores 30th anniversary in
May) while walking her dog.
in Auckland and Manjit never
January this year, but fate took a
Manjit was scheduled to get a complained of any issue with
drastic turn after a recent robbery
management degree on June 20 anyone, he said.
prompted the family to shut the
and his parents were planning to
He said that a woman while
dairy and put it up for lease.
visit New Zealand to celebrate the strolling on the sea beach spotted
In 1985, Ajit Singh Sagoo
occasion.
the body and informed the police
one of the first few diary shop
However, the family received a about it.
owners during the time
telephone call from Auckland in
Following
verification
of
started the Ulster Street Dairy
the wee hours of Wednesday that official documents recovered from
in Hamilton. He migrated from
The news of assault spread Manjit was found dead with injury
the body, the Auckland police
England to Hamilton in 1975
quickly to the community and the marks on his face.
identified Manjit and informed his
with his family and worked as
people living in that area.
Deceaseds father Jeet Singh local contacts about his death.
a professor of Physics, Applied
There has been immense and others met the local deputy
Meanwhile, the deceaseds
Mathematics and Calculus at the
support from the community. commissioner to get back the body father said that he was told that the
Fairfield College. 10 years later,
People have been sending their at the earliest for the last rites.
police had spotted two suspects
he established the first dairy shop
kind messages and flowers ever
My nephew Navneet Singh on the basis of CCTV footage, who
of Hamilton.
since, added Mr Ajit.
called me at around 4am today were taking meals separately at
On Friday, 11 April, around
79-year-old Ajit, who hails about this tragic incident. Manjit the restaurant where Manjit was
7.30 pm, Mr Ajit was at his shop
from Punjab, lives with his three called us yesterday to inform that also seen.
when a masked man stormed into
sons and seven grandchildren
We have been informed that
he was leaving to meet a relative
6
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the store, pointed a gun to his
in the house he built alongside in the vicinity. But he never body may be brought back about
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head and demanded for money
the Ulster Street Motel. The reached there and his body was after 12 days. But I only want the
from the counter. After initial
incident has not only cost an found nearly 40km away from body flown back at the earliest to
resistance, the man assaulted ran towards the gate and called estimated $1,000 in cash but also his apartment, said Jeet Singh enable us perform the last rites,
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while suspecting that his son was he said.
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neck injuries and had his jaws was covered with a balaclava, to such an extent that they have
dislocated.
the police have not been able decided to shut shop. RIZWAN MOHAMMAD
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man
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After listening to the news Ajay drove
the man pushed me, I hurt the extensively going through the individual and well known
in the
variety Loans
shop owner in
Business
back to his house from the store and called
back of my head. His fist punch CCTV footage from the store. The community for his down to earth
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raised concerns for the safety and 111 was that there was no one around to
week in two of his five stores in
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Varun
Makol has been brokeshelves
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in this
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in
twice
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a
week
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lives
with
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wife,
eight
year
old
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is the president
area.given
Everythe
time I think about the
the who
complaint
number of
too was
Suman Sharma
Ph: 09 266 9890
daughter
a young
male. This
drawer,and
broke
the working
glass panes
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next day when I called up and asked for an
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the
theft Financial
to be around
$1000 in
is the
time
that was
this away for a function that from that evening, said
of second
the store
andsince
ran December
towards the
Mr. Ajit.
info@reliancefinance.co.nz
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update added Ajay.
cash
and an estimated $2000 in
schoolhas
behind
store. It
Mrwas
Ajiton evening.
address
been the
targeted.
the
goods
from each store apart from
I am not satisfied by the way the police
at the Glen Eden store that they have been delaying their
PERSONAL DISCLOSURE STATEMENT AVALABLEalarm
ON REQUEST.
4th of June, Thursday between 1 pm and 3
broken glasses at the entrance and went off, by the time the owner investigation.
reacted. We work so hard day and night,
4 Charles Prevost Drive
The Gardens Auckland
pm, that this theft is reported to have taken
inside the stores.
reached the store along with the
When I called the police and
trying to save every penny, but when such
place. The burglars entered the house by
On the night of Saturday 9th security company, the intruders reported the theft they asked me
things happen and the delay in action really
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breaking the door lock, took a laptop placed
already left the premises unnecessary questions about the
is really upsetting. mentions Ajays wife.
am the first theft occurred at the leaving the cash counter empty store instead of coming here at
in the dining room, entered the bedroom
A month back Ajays car was stolen from
Henderson branch of the shop. and $1500- $2000 worth goods once. Then person on 111 asked me
and opened every possible cabinet and
The burglar appearing to be an missing.
his drive way but was found in Mt Roskill 3
if I have an insurance, when I said
sifted through suitcases.
islander between the age of 15 and
Varun Makol who again gave yes he said dont worry insurance
The items reported missing were gold days later, after he paid $300 to get it back
20 broke the entrance glass of the the CCTV footage of the store to the will pay your damages
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jewellery worth $1000 to $1200, $1200 from Otahuhu yard.
store, opened the cash counter police reported his dissatisfaction
They dont know that the
Two weeks back two similar burglaries
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were reported in Rimu Street and Maioro
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items and boxes from the bedroom.
goods
from the store.
Though
the
alarm
was able to ascertain any information on that too, plus damage caused
None of the suitcases are now usable Street. The residents are worried about
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them from inside too says Ajay.
report at the store. The store had of the thief via CCTV. No one has it so lightly? said Mr Varun.
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When Ajays wife arrived home after Most of these houses are rented and do not
previous instances of false alarm been arrested on this case yet.
Mr Varun added that the total
have
any
alarms
or
security
doors.
picking her daughter from school, she saw
Suresh
Ph:
625 3800
going
off,Sharma
the owner who was not
The09 way
the thefts have damage taking into account
A month ago two thefts were reported in
the door open and the whole house ravaged.
in(Extown
asked
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The whole bedroom was trampled like two convenience stores in Henderson and
report to the store and shut the pretty sure it is the work of one broken is estimated to be around
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alarm. The manager on arrival group because they have taken $10000 and will take months to
anything, cupboard and drawers wide open, in Mt. Roskill, that were covered by Indian
discovered
that STATEMENT
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theft and
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the suitcases upside down, clothes thrown, Weekender, issue dated May 22, 2015. No
called the police in the wee hours both shops and broke in the same
Mr Varun concluded that he
documents lying on the floor, the whole progress has been updated by the police yet
4 Charles Prevost Drive
The Gardens Auckland
of the morning.
way and around same time of the was not happy with the way the
house was in a mess, added Ajays wife.
in either of the two cases.
The police reported the incident night
police were investigating since
and also took the footage from the
Varun recalls that the police there were no developments in the
CCTV installed in the store.
instead of reporting the theft case yet and nothing positive has
Again on Wednesday morning blamed him for keeping expensive across him by the police in the last
between 2.30 am to 3 am, the goods at his store and mentions 2 weeks.
RIZWAN MOHAMMAD
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burglary perplexes residents
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We hope reading the stories
that follow help you to ask your
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better for your safety at all times.

We will take these stories back
to the Police to get some advice
when faced with situations such
as these and bring these back to
you in the final and concluding
part in our next issue.
Kiwi-Indian girl, Parie Malhotra, q

World Championships
arie Malhotra is a member

of and the team manager for
Robotics at Mount Albert
Grammar School (MAGS). One
of MAGS two Robotics teams has
qualified to represent New Zealand at
the World Robotics Championships
in Louisville, Kentucky, in April
2015.
Mount Albert Grammar School
has Robotics as a co-curricular
activity since 2008. Students meet
every Tuesday after school for
about 2 hours and learn to make
robots. However, once students get
involved, it is very common for the
team members to meet not only
during lunch breaks, but also on
weekends at their houses. Despite
robot parts being quite expensive,
the membership is under $100 per
year in order to encourage more and
more students to join.
Parie is the only girl member of the
MAGS Robotics team. Traditionally,
this field has been male dominated
however girls are beginning to make
their mark. Parie has always been
interested in science and has been
encouraged and supported by her
family.
Her hobbies not only include

building robots, LEGO, star gazing
and helping her dad with DIY projects
but also doing orienteering, playing
lacrosse, squash, debating, camping,
tramping and girl guiding. Despite
all the co-curricular activities, she
also actively participates in serving
the community. She is fascinated
by the problem solving knack,
and plans to become an aerospace
engineer one day!
Worldwide Robotics competition
is held annually by an American
Company named VEX since 2007.
The game project is declared each
year, this years being Skyrise.
Participants are to make robots that
play the game fast, accurately and
get high scores.
MAGS team is made up of Parie
Malhotra (year 12), Harry Duncan
(year 13) and Alex Boyd (year
13). They and the other MAGS
team spent the weekend of 28
February - 1 March at the National
Championships at the Vodafone
Events Centre in Manukau.
Nearly 70 teams competed. Both
MAGS teams were placed in the top
10 in their divisions and made it to
Parie Malhotra (year 12), Harry Dunc

Alex Boyd (year 13).
the semi-finals.
Although the second team was
eliminated at that stage, Parie,
Harry and Alex won the National
Design Award, qualifying them for
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Proprietor, South Auckla
nce, I have
many years, and in my experie
iness for
have been managing this bus
often heard stories
r compared to others. I have
safe
is
e
realised that this plac
have been times
community and friends. There
of thefts and mugging from the
und under the influence
groups of teenagers roaming aro
when we were intimidated by
t our shop early.
when we sense trouble, we shu
of alcohol. On many occasions
$300 dress for $200.
ped by our shop and offered a
Last month, a teenage girl stop
away by politely saying
t she was drunk. We sent her
You could make out clearly tha
we didnt deal in western
y from our supplier and that
that we bought garments onl
around the store. And
e time and pretended to look
apparel. She returned after som
felt helpless and did
We
picked up stuff from our shop.
right in front of our eyes, she
, therefore, asked
and
day
y had lady staff present that
not know how to react. We onl
afraid to report
was
I
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stor
by then, the girl had left the
help from our neighbours. But
the area and
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Anonymous
Student, Central Auckland
Last year my $150 bike alon

g with accessories worth $10
0 was stolen from
Hamilton CBD. The bike was
locked at the cycle stand in fron
t
of ANZ Bank ATM
terminal in the city. I lodged
a complaint with the police
tha
t
eve
ning. Since that
was my only mode of commu
tation around the city, I had to
buy
a
new
bike the next
morning. I parked my second
bike in the Wintec campus and
went for my classes. I
returned after 2 hours and fou
nd the second bike was stolen
too. I bought a third bike
the next day and after three mo
nths that was stolen too, once
again from the Wintec
campus. In all the three case
s, the cameras installed nearby
would have caught the
burglar, but the police made no
progress with the case.
Since I had student insurance
from India, I claimed $500 for
the bikes and the
accessories, but I received onl
y $22. The insurance compan
y sighted some rules and
denied anything more than $22
in return.
Few months later, when I was
walking past the campus, a
man hit me slightly
on the head from behind. Wh
en I turned back, he gave me
a stern look, came close,
showed me the middle finger
and left. I did not respond to
him but complained to the
security officer of the campus
. I was asked to complain to
the police if the incident
occurred again.
Anonymous
Red
Jewellery shop owner, Sout
h
Black
Orange
Auckland
couple of years ago, a fam

ily friend, who also owns
a jewellery store, had
a burglary at his stop. A
customer had just left the
shop when two armed
men entered the store. Th
e customer, sensing som
ething was wrong, called
the cops. The police, ins
tead of acting quickly, ask
ed unnecessary questions
the appearance of the me
such as
n and what they were we
aring. The men were in
for six minutes. The police
the
shop
turned up 12 minutes aft
er the thieves had left the
A person on the road eve
sce
ne.
n followed the burglars in
his car and reported abo
whereabouts, but the pol
ut
the
ir
ice did not show any int
erest in the information.
they took the shop owner
Ins
tea
d,
and the staff to the police
station and questioned
for more than three hou
them
rs.
They were only concer
ned about whether the
store was insured. Once
owner confirmed, the situ
the
ation was not dealt with
any seriousness. We kno
insurance companies wo
w how
rk. The maximum they
pay is 40% of the claim
and at times, it feels as if
ed money
the insurance is also a sca
m.
We run our business wit
h fear. We even tell peo
ple that the jewels at our
are imitations. As a metho
store
d of precaution, we do not
keep the store open after
Police is hardly a force to
6 pm.
reply on.
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Student, West Auckland
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ost 10 minutes without loo
break free and ran for alm
art.
and boarded one to Britom
trators, I was asked to not
nce to my college adminis
ide
inc
When I took the
classes and advised all the
changed the timings of my
approach the police. They
after dark.
students to move in groups
EXCLUSIVE
Red
Black
Orange
Ramanjit Singh
l Auckland
Works at liquor store, Centra o of the four attacks were
times in three years. Tw

have been assaulted four
u, I was hit by a rod
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Anonymous
Student, West Auckland
One day after college, when I was waiting at the bus stop, four teenage boys
joined me. They were shouting, singing and abusing at each other. After a while,
they came up to me and tried selling drugs. When I politely declined, they sat next
to me. One of them started a conversation with me while the other started to go
through my bag. When I saw a bus approaching, they did not let me board it. One
of the boys pulled out a knife and started to play with it. Although their tone was
friendly, their actions were not. This continued for 10 minutes until they took away
some money from my bag and left.
When I shared the story with my friends, I was advised to not report the
incidence to the police, as they thought I could be falsely accused of drug abuse. My
father has taken a loan to send me to New Zealand. I couldnt risk everything he has
done for me. If I would be accused or framed for using illegal drugs, it would ruin
my career and my permit to stay in the country could be revoked.
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Anonymous
Nurse, North Shore
Anonymous
South Auckland
every other day, there is a car parked

leave from work every evening at six and
makes it impossible for me to take my
right outside the parking place, which
p of people standing next to the car. I
car out on the road. One day, I saw a grou
g
was the owner. When they replied sayin
approached them and asked if any of them
red
ente
p
grou
the
from
men
the
re one of
no, I waited for nearly half an hour befo
the same incident repeated, I called the
when
day,
next
The
!
away
e
the car and drov
s
blocks away, but they hung up three time
police station, which is just a couple of
with
lem. By that time, the car owner had left
before I could tell them about my prob
again.
call them back if I faced the problem
his car and so the police asked me to
my
ged
chan
police anymore and so have
But after that incident, I dont trust the
parking arrangements.
Karan Verma
Works at a liquor store, Central Au
ck
land
feel that Auckland as a whole is safe

. It is a bit of bad luck if you or anyo
ne you
know has been a victim of mugging
or burglary, as it can happen to
anyo
ne,
anywhere in the world. I work for
a liquor store and contrary to the
belief, I
have always felt safe at work. At
the restaurant I was previously wor
king, which is
considered to be a safer environm
ent, my colleagues were mugged
at parking lots
on multiple occasions.
At times, I feel that it also depend
s on which part of Auckland you
live in. For
example, I feel it is a lot safer in
CBD compared to other places in
south and west
Auckland. The only disappointin
g thing is the way police handles
the case. They
question the victims as if it was
their mistake to be at the wrong
plac
e at wrong
time. If the police buckle up, the
crime rate would fall drastically in
our city.
Red
Black
Orange
Once, after I had finish

ed my shift at the hospi
tal, I stopped by a sto
groceries. When I was
re to buy
about to enter my car
parked in the parking
built men came up to me
lot
,
a
few
welland started a conversat
ion. I tried to avoid the
of them asked if I wo
m, but one
rked as a nurse in a ho
spital. I wasnt wearing
and so was taken aback
my uniform
by the question. Look
ing back now, I feel tha
followed me. They quest
t they had
ioned about my ethnic
ity and asked if I had an
me. Their tone was int
y drugs with
imidating. When they
asked me for money,
$20 note, handed it to
I pulled out a
them and drove away.
The police were not he
reported the incident.
lpful when I
Now I just make sure tha
t when it is dark, I dont
reason until I reach ho
stop for any
me.
Ajay Sharma
West Auckland
live in New Lynn and I have had my car stolen and house broken into on two
separate occasions. I filed a complaint with the police and the investigation went
on for a couple of weeks. After some time, the police told me that the case would
be closed, as they were unable to trace the culprit.
In a similar kind of incident, a burglary took place at my friends shop, and the
police still couldnt nab the thieves in spite of having CCTV footage of the crime to
work with. The police failed again. I feel that in Auckland, no one can depend on the
police for safety.
Anonymous
Pizza delivery boy, South Auckland
Students often work as pizza deli

very boys. We have faced many case
s where our
boys have been assaulted in the
middle of empty roads or at poo
rly lit parking lots.
They have been beaten up and robb
ed off the money they have.
Recently, we stopped delivery to
places where such incidents take
place. But the
miscreants have devised new met
hods of harassment. They ask for
deli
very at a new
place, where they wait for the pizz
a boy. Fast food joints do not repo
rt
such
incidents,
as it can spoil the brand reputatio
n, and also because they fear a
back
lash
from
troublemakers. The police are awa
re about the situation but have don
e nothing to put
an end to this problem.
NEW ZEALAND
Need Asia, but not Asians
Red
Black
Orange
Kumar Suresh
ew Zealand First Leader and

Member of Parliament for
Northland, Rt Hon Winston
Peters in a recent statement said that the
governments immigration policy will limit
the chances of New Zealanders finding jobs
and finding rental places to live. He was
referring to the rules that allow students a
grace period post their studies to find job in
New Zealand. He also went on to say that it
is becoming more difficult for youths of this
country, who now have to compete with
foreign students staying back after studies
for work.
This statement, coming just a week after
Labour partys research and finding of the
magical figure of 39.5% relating to Chinese
investment in Auckland real estate, one is
forced to imagine if this is just the beginning
of finding and pinning scapegoats for the
spite of the economics in the country.
The major immigrants in New Zealand
in the last couple of years have been
Indians and Chinese. With many from
Asian countries coming to pursue studies
in New Zealand, one sector that is really
doing well in these tough economic times
is the education sector. So this is to imply
that, while the investment in the education
sector in the country by immigrants is
welcome, they themselves are not, once
they finish their studies.
One also wonders if the anger that one
can so obviously see in these words, is the
frustration towards their helplessness and
the lack of control on the economic situation
in China, which has seen fluctuations in the
last six months. Over dependence on China
as the main exporter and fall in the currency
prices have just meant that the country is

in economic situation from where the relief
and respite seems a long time and distance
ahead.
One just has to wonder what kind of
economic cloud we would be in if not for
the IT industry, which most of students
from India aspire to work for or for that
matter where the dairy industry would be
without China, where majority of our milk
products is exported.
For a dismal year for air operations in
New Zealand, where one saw many changes
in tariff and operations even in the state
owned Air New Zealand, only saving grace
was the report in the increase air traffic
and a record 7.2% increase in international
passengers at Auckland airport. Even the
tourism industry, which is thriving in
the country, has been built on the back of
good number of Asian tourists flocking the
country.
One just needs to give cursory glance at
the stats and records to find out the amount
of money that is flowing into the country
through foreign exchange from Asia. Even
the Indian community which make up 5%
of New Zealand population, contribute
as much as 8% to the GDP growth of the
country. To say that the people from
countries, which form the backbone of the
economy of New Zealand, are not welcome
in New Zealand would mean taking forward
the wests colonial mind-set of the past, to
the future.
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NEW ZEALAND
India Trade Alliance the need of the hour
Red
Dr richard worth
s India sits on the cusp

of taking the next step
on the world stage
headed by a visionary, it is timely
that New Zealand trade relations
with India take a step forward as
well. To bridge the existing gap
in the Indo Kiwi trade relations
at a time when the markets in
China, which is currently our
biggest trade partner, seem to be
on shaky ground the launch of
the India Trade Alliance is not
just timely but is also the need
of the hour.
The launch took place with
a meeting of its founding
members along with elections
of a part of the executive
committee.
The
committee
currently consists of Giri Gupta
QSM, an entrepreneur with
business interests in real estate,
travel and tourism, hospitality
and media as Chairman, Dr Don
Brash, Economic and Financial
Policy Adviser, Ex Governor
of the New Zealand Reserve
Bank, Ex leader of the National
Party along with myself (Hon
Dr Richard Worth, Monacos

honorary consul to New Zealand)
as Deputy Chairmen and Mr Vijay
Goel as Treasurer and Gawan
Bakshi as Assisstant Secretary.
The current Executive Committee
would appoint the balance of
the Committee.
Amongst
the
other
heavyweights who make up the
founding membership of the
alliance are Denis Mcnamara,
honorary consul of Mexico
and Chairman of New Zealand
Committee
of
the
Pacific
Economic Co-Operation Council,
Alistair Bell, Senior Advisor to
the Prime Minister and Board
Member of the National Party,
Alan Towers, Northern Region
Chair, National Party and Mahesh
Bindra, Member of Parliament,
NZ First.
India Trade Alliance has
an India Chapter that is being
spearheaded by the luminary Uday
Madhav Chitale, Senior Partner
at MP Chitale and Co. at Mumbai,
Director ICICI Securities,
ICICI
Prudential
Pension
Funds Management amongst
many others.
Memberships
to
India
Trade Alliance will shortly
Black
Orange
Chairman: Giri Gupta, QSM
Deputy Chairman: Dr Don Brash
Deputy Chairman: Hon Dr Richard Worth
Treasurer: Vijay Goel
Assistant Secretary: Gawan Bakshi
Chairman & Convener India Chapter:

Uday Madhav Chitale
be invited.
Although the
full details about the aims,
objectives and other activities
are yet to be made available,

the commitment and passion of
its founding members towards
bridging the Indo-Kiwi trade

gap was apparent from the
inaugural meeting.
NEW ZEALAND
Is NZ heading towards recession? Aiming for excellence?
Red
Black
Kumar Suresh
Orange
n the coming weeks, many

New Zealand companies
are going to announce their
quarterly financial performance.
At a time when the New Zealand
dollar is standing at all-time
low since 2009, it will be a time
for a lot of introspection, hardcore analysis of what has gone
wrong and importantly, the
projection of the annual GDP
growth. Coming weeks will give
us a peek into the economic
whereabouts of the country which
is in a tangle over issues related to
Greece crisis, hiccups in Chinese
economy, interest rate cuts, dairy
exports, etc. Many economists have
already predicted the annual GDP
of no more than 2.0% this year.
On the back of New Zealand dollar
falling appreciably against USD
and AUD, the importers might see
their margins falling dramatically
and the exporters gaining but,
nothing to suggest countrys
economy is getting better any
time soon.
Dairy prices since March
have been down by 40% and the
industry, which measures 30% of
the countrys exports, is suffering
the brunt. Further, things are not
looking any bright as the 40% of
all the dairy exports from New
Zealand, which is going to China
has fallen by more than 60% as
the Asian Giant itself is reeling
Its still not too late
under its own economic slowdown

since the start of 2015. The revival
of the industry unfortunately
seems uncertain at this point of
time with first signs of fallout
starting to show in the form of job
cuts. Dairy giant Fonterra, with an
employment base of over 16,000
in the country, is downsizing and
has announced its plans of 500 job
cuts already.
One of the bright spots in recent
times economically, has been the
re-building phase of Christchurch,
but with the new reports from
the banking sectors is that the rebuilding phase has hit the peak,
it will be hard to assume that
the earthquake reconstruction
phase will have a positive impact
on the economic growth like in
previous years. The peak that the
construction industry has attained
will remain for no more than a
year or two and it will be wrong
to expect it to help bail out the
country in this economic crisis.
Another factor that economy
would love to hold on to is the Real
o you feel that your

children are struggling
with their preparation
for the end of year exams as well
as internals?
It is still not too late! says Raji
Chacko, the director of Brilliance
Educare Centre, which is located
estate bubble created in Auckland. at 20 Frost Road, Mt Roskill.
If you havent already started,
This small bubble though, is
waiting to explode as the current this is the right time to start tuition
scenario is precariously holding as most schools concentrate on
on to the fact that the job market externals in term 3.
Started in 2008 by the Husband
is healthy and foreign investment
is at all-time high. Currently the and wife duo, Brilliance is the first
mortgage on a house is almost comprehensive afterschool tuition
8-10 times that of the average centre in Auckland offering
annual income of an Aucklander. tuitions for most of the school
Any further change or fall in subjects in all 3 streams-NCEA,
economy of China or the world Cambridge and IB- right from
will mean doom to people who year 1 to 13.
will end up paying more than the
Recently, 25 of their past
actual cost of the house post the students
graduated
from
crash in the market.
Auckland University and AUT.
IT sector, tourism and other They have their past students in
industries though are showing leading Universities around the
good signs, it will be hard to globe including the prestigious
believe that they will in itself be CALTECH and Bond University
able to stand up and account for
Almost all our past students
a revival ofcountrys economy. have secured University admission
The reserve bank has a big roles to in a course of their choice, some of
play in coming days and it will be them with full scholarship, says
interesting to note if there will be
Lotus Raji.
any cuts in the interest rates. For
With the increased level
now though, one can only wait and
of competion for University
watch and hope that we are not
admissions it is always better
heading to a recession.
Raji Chacko and Lotus Raji
to get that extra help which

unfortunately is lacking in schools.
Many top scholars of most
neighbouring schools are students
of Brilliance.
Brilliance have students from
different countries and more
than 25 schools in and around
Auckland,
including
leading
private schools such as ACG, St
Kent and Cuthberts.
Students travel from West gate,
North shore and even Howick to
Roskill to attend the classes.
There are exclusive batches
for schools such as MRGS,
Lynnfield College, AGS, and St
Peters College.
Brilliance is a proud sponsor
of St Peters College football and
supports Starship, Kids Can and
the St Vincent de Paul Society.
For more information visit:
www.brillianceducare.co.nz
or call 6240829 / 6204690 /
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NEW ZEALAND
10
Red
PM to attend
Cook Islands
50thcelebrations
rimeMinister John Key

will lead a delegation to
Rarotonga next week
to celebrate the Cook Islands
50th anniversary
of
selfgovernment in free association
with New Zealand.
Fifty years ago, NewZealand
and the Cook Islands entered into
a unique bilateral relationship,
says Mr Key.
We welcome the opportunity
to celebrate that and to reflect
on an important partnership
that is based on our shared
values, history, and the positive
contribution that Cook Islanders
make to New Zealand.
Mr Key will meet with Cook
Islands PrimeMinister Henry
Puna and take part in the official
Constitution Day Ceremony which
will feature a traditional welcome
and flag raising ceremony.
The Prime Minister will be
accompanied by Pacific Peoples
Minister Sam Lotu-Iiga, Associate
Minister of Foreign Affairs Todd
McClay, Maori Development
Minister Te Ururoa Flavell and

Internal Affairs Minister Peter
Dunne.
Also in the official party are
Opposition
Leader
Andrew
Little, New Zealand First Leader
Winston Peters,anda number of
MPs from National, Labour and
the Green party.
The delegation will depart
on the morning of August 4,
returning the evening of August 5.
Improved access to upto-date cancer info
ealth
Minister
Jonathan
Coleman
says a new national
cancer information strategy will
benefit patients, clinicians and
researchers.
Access to high quality and
reliable cancer information is
important, says Dr Coleman.
Currently
information
is
collected and stored by a range
of health professionals which
makes it challenging to get a
comprehensive view of a patient.
While progress has been made
in joining information across
DHBs, until now there has been
no national approach.
The New Zealand Cancer
Health Information Strategy
provides a five-year framework for
changes to the way cancer clinical
data and patient information is
collected and stored.
Released this week, the
strategy will ensure information
is consistent and accessible across
the country and help to inform
future investment in cancer health

information-based initiatives.
Delivering
better
cancer
services is a priority for the
Government. We have made
significant progress since 2008
and patients are getting better
faster cancer care, says Dr
Coleman.
This strategy will help
support
the
faster
cancer
treatment programme which the
Government has invested $63
million. It is also linked to the
NZ Cancer Plan which sets out
the activities that need to happen
over the next three years to ensure
patients receive even better
faster care.
The strategy has been developed
by the Ministry of Health in
collaboration with cancer care
clinicians and patients.
It
will
be
implemented
gradually with the initial focus
on improving cancer information
around ethnicity and multidisciplinary meetings.
facebook/indianweekender
Black
Orange
Agency sought to help reduce

cyberbullying
he search is underway
for
an
Approved
Agency where victims
of cyberbullying can turn to for
help, Justice Minister Amy Adams
announced this week.
The Agency will be required
to work with victims and the
offending party to resolve
complaints about cyberbullying
in a quick and efficient way.
Its a core part of the Harmful
Digital Communications Act,
which passed through Parliament
last month.
The agency will help victims
of harassment or cyberbullying
to resolve complaints as quickly
and painlessly as possible. It
will work with parties to help
get objectionable content off the
internet and provide advice on
other possible remedies, Ms
Adams says.
Ms Adams said the Approved
Agency would also have a role
reducing harassment or bullying
by advising on policies and

educating people in appropriate
online behaviour.
The establishment of an agency
to consider complaints about
harmful digital communications
will set a new benchmark for
curbing online harassment and
intimidation that cause serious
emotional distress, Ms Adams
says.People or organisations
interested in becoming the
Approved Agency should register
their interest online:www.gets.
govt.nz/ExternalIndex.htm.
Ms Adams said the information
received during the ROI process
would guide the next steps in
selecting the Approved Agency.
Flag the referendum if 50% or

more dont vote
abour has moved to

have the second flag
referendum
canned
if the first attracts fewer than
half the eligible number of
voters,Opposition Leader Andrew
Little says.
John Key has already wasted
more than $8 million on his
vanity project at a time when New
Zealand can least afford it.
He has committed the country
to spending another $10 million on
the first referendum in November
and refused to put a simple yes or
no question into the mix.
We
have
added
two
Supplementary Order Papers
to the flag referendum bill, one
seeking to defer the referendum
for five years and the second

to stop the final referendum if
voter apathy continues at its
current level.
New Zealanders all around the
country have told us now is not
the right time to change the flag.
Almost no one turned up at public
events to promote it, millions of

dollars were wasted on websites
and postcards and a celebrity
panel of experts. And now John
Key is continuing to push his
pet project through despite
overwhelming opposition.
Even those who want to
change the flag are appalled at the
process that has been used.
These SOPs offer a final
chance to save some of the
millions of dollars being spent by
a Government out of touch with
public opinion.
If fewer than half of the
country turns out to vote in John
Keys referendum in November,
then even he must admit it is an
abject failure, Andrew Little says.
Clinicians asked to showcase IT ideas
ealth Minister Jonathan

Coleman is encouraging
clinicians to submit
their innovative ideas to improve
health services.
Each year the Clinicians
Challenge generates a whole raft of
innovative ideas that have exciting
potential to improve patient care,
says Dr Coleman.
The Clinicians Challenge
encourages health professionals
to find ways technology can solve
problems they face in their day
to day practice, as well as making
a difference to the health of
New Zealanders.
Effective use of information

and technology solutions can
also enable patients to be more
involved in their own healthcare,
and
can
ensure
clinicians
have access to a fuller range of
information, helping to improve
patient care.
Last years winners of the
Clinicians Challenge were a
team from Nelson Marlborough
DHB who developed Emergency
Department at a Glance - a
dashboard system with realtime information for managing a
patients journey through an ED.
This
years
Clinicians
Challenge has two categories - for

a new idea yet to be developed,
and an innovative system or
application already developed
that is having a positive impact on
patient care.
The winner in each category
will receive a grant of $8,000.
The results will be announced at
the 2015 Health Informatics New
Zealand conference in October.
The Clinicians Challenge is
a joint initiative by the National
Health IT Board and Health
Informatics New Zealand. Entries
can be submitted atwww.hinz.org.
nzuntil 14 September.
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Supporting Kiwi children to get the best

start to life
Kanwaljit Bakshi
National List MP
hildren
are
getting
the best start to life
under this National-led
Government. We are supporting
our kids before and right through
school, ensuring they are healthy
and well-fed, which is leading
them to achieve strong academic
results in their teens.
Latest figures show a record
number of eligible four-year-
olds are receiving a free B4

School Check, meaning most
children are getting their hearing,
eyesight, height, weight, and
oral health assessments, as well
as comprehensive health and
development checks.
These checks help to give
children the best start at school
by identifying and addressing any
potential health or developmental
problems at an early stage. This
year, 92 per cent of four-year-olds
received this free comprehensive
health and development check.
Thats up from 91 per cent
last year, and means over 58,600
children and their families have
benefitted from this free service

in the last year. The check helps
families to connect with any
additional support services they
might need before their child
starts school.
Ensuring children are healthy
and focused is important to help
them achieve at school.
Thats why weve also invested
$9.5 million in the KickStart
Breakfast
programme.
This
investment
expanded
the
programme from two to five
mornings per week and to include
all primary and secondary schools
that want or need it, regardless of
decile.
Mismanagement at a cost
David Shearer
Labour MP
here have been many

headlines this week about
violence in our prisons. It
would be easy to forget that they
started with the death of a young
man someones son.
Although Nick Evans had
committed a crime serious enough
for a prison sentence, he still had
the right to physical safety and his
family still had the right to expect

him to return home after serving
his time.
Tragically, now they will
never know the contribution he
might have made to society after
his release.
The 25-year-old died after
injuries, including a ruptured
lung, were inflicted in Mt Eden
prison. People are sent to prison
to be punished and hopefully,
rehabilitated not dropped,
beaten or killed.
The fact weve had extreme
violence and understaffing at Mt
Eden prison is inexcusable in a
modern society like ours.

Labours Kelvin Davis told
Corrections Minister Sam LotuIiga about the violence a month
ago. A competent minister would
have gathered the facts and
acted immediately. Safety in our
prisons is one of his most basic
responsibilities.
Instead, Mr Lotu-Iiga ignored
the warnings and failed to act.
Only media coverage forced
him from his inertia. Facing
reporters, he didnt know crucial
information, his story kept
changing it was unclear whether
he was covering something
KickStart has now served five

million breakfasts across the
country since the Government
expanded the programme in 2013.
Schools say through KickStart
they are seeing improvements
in the health and wellbeing,
concentration, and behaviour of
students. It is helping keep New
Zealand children healthy and
ready to learn.
This is translating into good
outcomes in our classrooms.
Public Achievement Information
released for 2014 shows primary
school achievement in writing and
mathematics has increased in 15
of New Zealands 16 local body
regions since 2011.

The proportion of 18-year-olds
with NCEA Level 2 has also risen
in every region. The breakdown
shows that between 2011 and
2014 the percentage of 18-yearolds with NCEA Level 2 rose by
between 3.8 per cent and 18.4 per
cent on a regional basis.
This is setting our kids up to go
on to achieve in tertiary education
and the workplace.
National is committed to
supporting families through our
public services, to ensure all
young New Zealanders have the
best opportunity for success in
their lives.
up, or just not quite up to the

responsibilities of his job.
Meanwhile,
new
cases are emerging of
young men suffering
serious injuries through
violence at Mt Eden
prison.
This is not the highquality prison system
New Zealanders should
be able to rely on. Serco
has a $300million, 10year contract to run the
prison. For that money,
the taxpayers of New
Zealand should be able to
expect excellence.
Privatisation driven by ideology

Barry Coates
Green Party
he governments agenda
for privatising public
services in New Zealand is
in disarray. The latest revelations
from Mt Eden prison, run by
the company Serco, include
riots, assaults, fight clubs,
manufacturing of contraband,
injuries from violence and
allegations around the death
of a prisoner. Last year the Mt
Eden prison had more cases of
assaults than any other jail, and
there are constant reports of
understaffing. This follows reports
of serious mismanagement in
other Serco-run services in the
UK and Australia. But despite all

of these problems, and at least six
Performance Notices in the last
three years, Sercos contract has
still not been terminated.
These problems raise serious
questions about the governments
private sector approach to prisons.
The role of corrections should be
to ensure that those in their care
are denied their freedom, not their
human rights.
It should also be to create an
environment in which inmates
are able to develop the skills
and mentality to make a positive
contribution to society upon their
release.
These responsibilities do not
sit easily within a profit making
model.
There are also problems
with a private sector approach
to education. At a time when
international reviews point out
that our school system is failing
children in poorer districts, the

government has diverted much
needed funds to set up private
sector schools (charter schools).
Despite giving them preferential
treatment, there have been
major problems at a number of
the charter schools, including
financial
mismanagement,
poor teaching and an unsafe
environment for students. This is
not surprising.
The introduction of charter
schools was driven by ideology,
not by evidence. The charter
school model has had, at best,
mixed results in other countries.
The
government
should
be focused on making the
state school system work well
instead of diverting funds and
management attention to pursue
an ideologically-driven model of
education.
The government has also been
pursuing the sell-off of state
houses. The original idea was that

these might be sold to housing
providers, but organisations like
the Salvation Army declined. Now
the government has opened the
door to selling off state houses to
overseas companies.
This is the wrong approach.
With Auckland house prices
hitting new highs, rents have
become unaffordable for working
families as well as beneficiaries.
The Green Party has been calling
for more affordable housing,
especially in Auckland, not less.
Now there is a push for new
deals with corporate contractors.
The government has said that they
will force local Councils to contract
out regulatory functions. But
profit-driven companies should
not be authorised to undertake
functions like environmental
regulation and resource consent
decisions. It is inevitable that
public accountability will be
sacrificed along with protection of

the environment.
It is clear that there is
deep public concern over the
governments
privatisation
agenda. It is only 18 months
since more than two thirds of
New Zealanders said no in the
referendum on selling off shares
in electricity utilities and Air New
Zealand. But the government went
ahead anyway.
Democracy was swept aside and
our valuable assets were sold. We
now see the costs of privatisation
mounting, in terms of peoples
lives as well as financial costs.
The Green Party opposes the
governments ideologically-driven
agenda of privatisation. We need
your support. www.greens.org.nz.
Barry Coates was a
candidate for the Green Party at
the last election.
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A modern twist on
Maori history on a
mobile app
uckland Transports gone high tech

to help youngsters learn the Mori
history of Tmaki Makaurau.
As part of Mori Language Week,

Auckland Transport, COMET (an Auckland
Council educational department) and Kiwa
Digital have produced a bilingual app that
showcases historic Auckland. The App
features the story of a family trip by train
from Pukekohe to Eden Park for a day
at the Dick Smith Auckland NRL Nines.
Along the way the family shares stories
about sites of significance such as maunga,
traditional names for landmarks and some
family history.
The original idea came from Tui Gilling,
Senior Mori Policy and Engagement
Advisor at Auckland Transport. The
App was co-authored by Tui and Nikora
Wharerau with illustrations by Moanaroa

Te Whata. The interactive book is voiced
story is acted by children from Te Raki o
Pukekohe/Pukekohe North School. The
children also helped develop the characters.
As far as we know this is the first App
to introduce Mori history in an interactive
way, says Tui Gilling. You can choose
English or Mori and then swipe to read,
double tap to spell or just listen to get the
correct pronunciation.
Other interactive features let users
record their own voice for the story, paint
the pictures and learn more about the
history of landmarks on the journey.
The Apps primary target is children
aged 9 to 13 in rumaki reo or Kura Kaupapa
Mori but it is also likely to appeal to a
wider audience.
The App covers the Mori cultural
heritage of Tmaki Makaurau in a general
way, taken from published sources, books
and treaty settlement material.
The mobile App is available free for
download to Android and IOS devices from
Google Play Store and iTunes (search:
whanau tereina).
A positive step for

street trading
uckland Council recently introduced

a new bylaw to manage commercial
operations in public places, including
outdoor dining at restaurants, bars
and cafs.
TheTrading and Events in Public Places

Bylawis designed to ensure that outdoor
dining, mobile vendors, markets, filming
and events all positively contribute to
Aucklands vibrancy.
An important aspect of the bylaw

which we received public feedback on is
that when using shared outdoor spaces,
pedestrian access is clear for people of all
abilities or with prams, and there is clear
access for emergency services.
Under the new bylaw, businesses trading
in public places are licenced for exclusive
use of certain public places, for example
outdoor dining on the street frontage of a
caf or a mobile food truck on a road.
Otahuhu recreation
precinct opening
soon
fter years of anticipation, thuhus

new recreational precinct, Tia
(pronounced taw-wee-a), will open
on 8 August.
Tia is a $30.9 million project

that incorporates the new thuhu
Library, aquatic and leisure centre, new
playground and outdoor recreational and
community spaces.
The community is so excited to finally
have this facility opening something they
have wanted and talked about for more
than 10 years, says Mngere-thuhu
Local Board Chair Lemauga Lydia Sosene.
Its going to be a great place for them to
gather, relax, get fit and learn.
An artists impression of Tia
Opening day festivities start with a dawn

blessing at 6am, followed by a civic opening
from 10am-11am and entertainment,
performances
and
activities
from
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represent Australia in
Miss Universal
iji-born Indian model

Pooja Priyanka has been
selected
to
represent
Australia in the 2015 edition
of Miss Universal Peace and
Humanity pageant to be held
in Dubai from August 18 to 30, a
media report said.
I am both humbled and
honoured to be representing my
country Australia in the annual
pageant in Dubai this 2015,
Priyanka posted on Facebook, the
Fiji Times reported.
I am looking forward to meet
all the beautiful contestants from
over 80 countries and cant wait
to work with all of them to take
on challenges we face in our world
Pooja Priyanka
today, said Priyanka, who is also

a dancer and actor.
She was second runner-up in
Miss Face of Beauty international
pageant 2014. Miss Universal

Peace and Humanity 2015
is
an
international
beauty
contest founded by the World
Peace
Mission
Organisation
under the patronage of the
International Human Rights
Commission (IGO).
The aim is to awaken, through
the theme of peace, the peoples of
all countries to create a peaceable,
fraternal
and
harmonious
world community, says the
organisations website.
India-born
model-turnedactress Ruhi Singh was crowned
Miss Universal Peace and
Humanity in the 2014 edition of
the charity event.
Hazelman seals spot in pageant
rittany Hazelman, 24,

was crowned Miss World
Fiji at the Pearl South
Pacific Resort in Pacific Harbour
last week.
Miss Hazelman, who was the
favourite, will represent Fiji at
the Miss World Pageant which
will be held in Shanghai, China
on December 9. Miss World Fiji
managing director Lara Chung said
the show was a success.
The show was sold out and
we had people still wanting to
buy tickets and we didnt have
any space during the show, Ms
Chung said.
She said the contestants were
impressive and the public could not
believe the transformation they had
undergone from day one until the
crowning night.
We are all happy about the
winner. She will be able to compete
on an international stage, she said.
Ms Chung said Hazelman
was a good representative for
the Fijian people and asked the

public to support her to the Miss
World Pageant. Unfortunately
there will be no rest for Hazelman
as the preparation for the road
to China begins today. She will
have her four-hour make-up
tutorial with make-up artist from
Australia, Anselyn Wright at the

FNU School of Hairdressing at
Garden City, Raiwai. Hazelman
beat nine other contestants for the
prestigious title. Varea Romanu was
crowned the first Princess, while
Anshuka Kumar was crowned the
second Princess.
Government optimistic of film sector
usic, dance, theatre

and
film
are
celebration of nations
identity, transition and selfconfidence in terms of expressing
itself, says Attorney General
Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. Mr SayedKhaiyum made the comment as
chief guest at the HFC Bank Kula
Film Awards night at Civic Centre
in Suva last week.
Film industry is one of those
mediums that in Fiji needs to be

developed, he said.
I know that in the movies
tonight you will see a wide range of
views, ideas and representations
of how youth see Fiji. The issues
they think are important with
Fiji and indeed the showc ase
of their talent of their ability to
communicate with you through
big screen. He said Government
was committed, as the chair of Fiji
Film highlighted, in branding Fiji
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further.
Those of you may know
before, for example, they used to
have Fiji Visitors Bureau today
it is called Tourism Fiji. We said
Air Pacific today its called Fiji
Airways, we had Fiji Investment
Trade Bureau today its called
Investment Fiji and then we had
Fiji Audio Commission and today
its called Film Fiji. In all of this is
the promotion of brand Fiji, the
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Fiji gets a Bollywood

connection
oted
producerdistributor Shyam Shroff
has been appointed
as the Consulate General of Fiji
by the Fiji Government for their
new consulate in Mumbai. The
new role, says Shroff, is a great
honour and also comes with a lot
of responsibility.
I am happy and honoured
that I was chosen for this job. I
definitely hope that we can help
put Fiji high on the wish-list of
tourism as well as for investors
here, says the senior filmmaker,
adding, Its an island nation of
330 islands and among several
of them each island is a resort.
In fact many celebrities own
resorts there.
Shroff also hopes that the
beautiful country will gradually
become a hotspot for the Indian
filmmakers too.
As for Indian filmmakers, we
get as much as 30 per cent rebate
when shooting there, but we
hope that they make some more
Shyam Shroff
dynamic policies that will make it

more accessible technically.
A few films have been shot
there, but largely it is still
unexplored in Bollywood. So, that
will be something I am looking
forward to working on. I hope
to streamline the process and
help guide them with the right
methods so that there is a good
working relationship that can be
built between us. It will work for
Fiji as well as our filmmakers in a
big way, adds the filmmaker, who
had also produced the National
award winning film Filmistaan.
EI to award Krishna Datt
Brittany Hazelman (centre) wins Miss World Fiji crown. She will represent Fiji at the Miss World pageant
which will be held in Shanghai, China. Varea Rommanu (right) was crowned the first princess and
Anshuka Kumar (left) was crowned the second Princess.
Black
rishna Datt is set to

receive a distinguished
award
at
the
7th
Education International (EI)
World Congress.
EI represents organisations
of teachers and other education
employees across the globe. It is the
worlds largest federation of unions,
representing 30 million teachers
and education workers through
some 400 organisations from 172
countries and territories.
Mr Datt had been invited by the
general secretary of EI to receive the
Distinguished Associate Award for
his service to EI and to the teaching
profession. He will also participate
in the congress as a guest. Mr Datt
began his career in education as a
teacher at Labasa College in 1969.

He served as senior education
officer before taking up positions as
assistant principal, vice-principal
and ultimately as the principal of
Suva Grammar School from where
he moved on to active politics
and became the founder general
secretary of the Fiji Labour Party
in 1985. At the 25th Anniversary
of the Council of Pacific Education
in 2010 he was given a special
award for meritorious service
to education. In 2013, the council
renamed the award after him and
called it The Krishna Datt Award
for Meritorious Services to Pacific
Unions. He continues to maintain
his association with the trade union
movement particularly with the
teacher organisations.
Karan is Fijis first

ambassador to Bhutan
ijis High Commissioner

to India, Yogesh Karan
is the countrys first
ambassador to Bhutan. Mr Karan
has presented his credentials
to the King of Bhutan, Jigme K.
Namgyel Wangchuck.
A statement from the Fiji High
Commission in New Delhi said
Mr Karan conveyed Fijis message
on behalf of the President, Ratu
Epeli Nailatikau. Mr Karan said
Fiji was keen to work closely with
Bhutan since the two countries had
many similarities. He met with the
Fijis High Commissioner to India, Yogesh Karan

presents his credentials to the King of Bhutan,
Jigme K. Namgyel Wangchuck at the Royal
Palace in Bhutan.
Prime Minister of Bhutan, Tshering

Tobgay and discussed climate
change and the possibility of
Bhutanese students studying in Fiji.
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Red
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rime Minister, Voreqe

Bainimarama has raised
some key issues regarding
trade, aid and aviation in his
meeting with Chinese Premier, Li
Keqiang (Ker-jhang) in Beijing.
Bainimarama says Fiji is
extremely
concerned
about
the imbalance of the trading
relationship with China and
the obstacles faced in getting
reasonable access to the Chinese
market for our goods and services
especially compared to our
neighbouring countries. Trade
between the two countries has
increased from $86M in 2005 to
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$987M last year. This is because

Fiji is importing a lot more
from China than it is exporting.
Bainimarama says for every dollar
of exports to China, Fiji imports
$5.60 worth of Chinese products.
The Prime Minister says a
large part of this imbalance is
due to the fact that Fijis ability to
export to China is being severely
hampered by the tariffs that are
being imposed on Fijian products.
He says these tariffs are not being
applied to some of the countries
such as Samoa. Bainimarama told
the Chinese Premier that resources
such as fisheries face import
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Best actress surprised
anhvi Kant said she could not

believe she won the Best Actress at
the HFC Bank Kula Film Awards in
Suva last night.
Ms Kant, a student of Xavier College,
said she always wanted to be an actress.
I have been watching a lot of movies
since my childhood. And its very easy for
me to do any role, she said. She played a
negative character in their movie, Prank.
I am very excited to receive the award,
she said.
Last of Fiji Police

officers in Liberia
pulled out
$29m upgrade
he Fiji National University Council

has approved $29million worth of
resources to go into the upgrade
and refurbishment of various facilities
this year. Of this amount, about $500,000
to $700,000 has been set aside for the
upgrade of the universitys Raiwai campus.
FNU acting vice-chancellor Professor Ian
Rouse said the council had approved the
funding a month ago for developments
across the board.
The plans for the uplift at Raiwai was a
timely boost following this weeks Fiji Film
Festival 2015 organised by the institution
in collaboration with the US and Republic
of China embassies, and high commissions
of Australia and India.
Xi Jinping meets with Prime Minister Josaia

Voreqe Bainimarama of Fiji.
challenges. He says this is a nation

that is not as close a friend to Fiji as
China has been of late.
The Prime Minister Voreqe
Bainimarama has also informed
the Chinese Premier that Fiji
cannot agree to Chinas proposal

that would have the effect of
steering business away from
Fiji Airways. The Chinese Civil
Aviation
Administration
is
proposing that the agreement
should allow flights from anywhere
in China to Nadi, and also added a
provision allowing Chinese airlines
to make at least three intermediate
stops along the way, as well as
points beyond. Bainimarama says
Chinas huge passenger capacity
and its ability to undercut the fares
of Fiji Airways would lure fliers
away from Fiji Airways and cause a
negative effect on the airline.
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in the UN Peacekeeping mission
in Liberia has been pulled out and
is awaiting reassignment possibly to Haiti.
Fijis
police
commissioner
Ben
Groenewald says the withdrawal began
earlier in the year at the height of the
Ebola epidemic but says all his officers
who were in Liberia are now safely home
awaiting redeployment.
Mr Groenewald is part of a ministerial
delegation visiting Fiji defence force troops
and police officers this week in various UN
Peacekeeping missions around the world.
He says so far he is satisfied with the
conditions and support being provided to
Fijian police officers overseas.
It is deployments from United Nations
countries up to 100 I think 138 countries
plus are involved in the Peacekeeping
missions. And I think it is a good learning
curve for our officers to be deployed
in peace keeping missions. Fiji Police
Commissioner Ben Groenewald said.
duties of an average of 14% while

exports from the ASEAN countries
are duty free. He says this means
we have a situation where an
Indonesian fishing vessel can fish
in Fijian waters and export fish to
the Chinese market duty free but
the catch of a Fijian vessel from
the same waters entering China
attracts duty.
Bainimarama also asked China
to consider the fact that Australia
has given Fiji and other Non
Least Developed Pacific countries
non-reciprocal duty free access
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Thought of the week
Dream, Dream, Dream.

Dreams transform into thoughts and
thoughts result in action.
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
Editorial
From the desk of the

Managing Editor
Anything but funny
Nations consist of people. And with their effort a nation can accomplish all
it could ever want. Motivating Indias people, and its youth especially, is the
central theme of Ignited Minds. I have chosen to write about this subject of
igniting young minds so that India turns into a developed nation by the year 2020
because all through my career in the field of technology and its management, I relied
on the power and potential of youth. My strength has been my young teams who never
let me down. And what satisfaction there was in working with them on some of the
most complex projects in some of the most challenging situations! Given the freedom
to achieve and guided properly, I am convinced the young of India can accomplish far
more. - APJ Abdul Kalam
India bids farewell to a true jewel. Amidst messages, thoughts and prayers from
around the world, the Peoples President undertakes his final journey.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was born in India on October 15, 1931. A lifelong scientist
who studied physics and aerospace engineering, Kalams prominent role in Indias
1998 nuclear weapons tests established him as a national hero. Among his many
accolades, including honorary doctorates from 40 universities, he was granted the
Padma Bhushan (1981), thePadma Vibhushan (1990), andthe Bharat Ratna (1997)
Indias highest civilian awards for his contributions in modernizing government
defense technology.Dr. Kalam became the 11th President of India on 25th July 2002,
with his focus on transforming India into a developed nation by 2020.
Known as the Peoples President, Kalam was so popular that MTV nominated him
for aYouth Icon of the Year award in 2003 and 2006.
His passion and spirit touched every single person who even remotely interacted
with him. A man who believed that the most important thing to do was to become a
good human being and had great dreams and vision for India and its youth, putting
his heart into everything he did. He said Those who cannot work with their hearts
achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
To become unique the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can
imagine, until you reach your destination, said Dr Kalam and unique he was.The
entire team at the Indian Weekender joins India in mourning its fallen hero. With a
heavy heart we have put together a special feature on Dr Kalam and we hope everyone
will take a minute from their busy schedules to think of the great life of Dr Kalam.
Sharing with a group of youth, his life experience from how keen he was to fly from
his childhood, to being an aeronautical engineer, making missiles and satellites, and
being the president of India, he said, If four things are followed-having a great aim,
acquiring knowledge, hard work and perseverance then anything can be achieved.
He said Wings to fly- believe that I am born with potential, goodness and trust,
idea and dreams, greatness and confidence. And I am not meant for crawling because
I have wings and I will fly.
Farewell Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, farewell the Peoples President, farewell Indias
Missile Man as you take on your final flight be rest assured that you will live in the
hearts of the people forever more!
Until next time,
Giri Gupta
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Pick of the week
The stunning photo

taken in Tauranga, by
Kiwi Indian photographer
Amit Kamble was chosen
as NASAs coveted
Astronomy Picture of
the Day
Harshaali Malhotra who played Munni in Salman Khans blockbuster Bajarangi Bhaijaan
has been making waves for the effortless portrayal and innocense which endeared her to
every cinegoer
Tip from the trenches
When moving homes, pack a box

with toilet paper, paper towels, and
everything you need to cook a meal.
Label this BOX 1 and take it in your
car with you.
When working with your boss or
supervisor, never ask Can you do this
for me?, always ask Can you show
me how to do this?
OPINION / EDITORIAL
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Reuse the refuse; make lifestyle choices
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Black
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We want to voice what affects us; we want to be heard. This is our platform to stand united against all odds.
Paula Ray
ike every year, this year

too Auckland Council
organised for the Trash
to Fashion Awards among school
children. Their mantra: Were on
a mission to prove that fashion
and art can be a fun, powerful and
educational tool to raise awareness
about waste and recycling.
Yes, indeed. The trashes that
were put together to create the
clothes and accessories were

commendable, to say the least.
Children from year 1 to year 13,
approximately from 6 years of age
to 18 years of age, showcased their
talent at various venues across
the city. From among the few
hundreds who participated, about
a hundred participants will make
it to the final round scheduled to
be announced next week.
Touted to be a magnificent
theatrical production, every
single ensemble presented by
the students is made from trash
and reusable elements. In fact,
students had to explain what
they sourced their design from.
Schools Trash to Fashion Awards,
referred to as ST2F, includes not
just school-going but also homeschooled students to participate
as individuals or in groups.
Some of the most striking
materials used were broken
umbrellas and vegetable
net bags. While one model
sported a broken umbrella
material as an off-shoulder
poncho, another model wore the
umbrella frame as a skirt that
was embellished with tin foil
patterns. The diversity of designs
and materials, not to mention
the age of the models, reflected
the dedication of the school and
students themselves in thinking
of constructive ways in which one
can recycle waste.
New Zealand is one nation
that does take recycling its waste
seriously. So much so that
primary school students are
taken to recycling plants

around the city to teach the
importance of segregating
and reusing wastes. The
onus for this is also shared
by Auckland Council. If the
Council was not proactive
enough to push its mission
forward, it would perhaps not have
motivated young minds to engage
in such eco-friendly activities.
This mission of Auckland
Council fits in perfectly with
the 100 % Pure New Zealand
campaign undertaken by the
tourism industry to promote the
nation. It also fits in with the
governments pedantic efforts
to dispose of waste in a way that
is environmentally friendly and
supports recycling. Encouraging
dress-up parties and charity shop
purchases not only of clothes,
but also furniture and other
household utilities shows the
general culture of the Kiwi people
to reduce wastage.
A vegan Kiwi friend of mine
had once claimed that she does
not support killing of animals for
leather accessories. So she only
uses leather bags from op-shops.
I had tried in vain to understand
her skewered logic. In hindsight,
it does make sense. She meant
to say perhaps that she reuses
somebodys discarded accessories
instead of being a direct consumer
of the animal product. By buying
it at op-shops, she also supports
a charitable cause. This is how
evolved the recycling culture is.
In this column, I share my

experiences that would
perhaps be familiar to
you too.
If you can relate to them,
please share your thoughts
or similar experiences.
I wonder how many countries
in the world promote recycling
of waste at an age as early as 6!
That is how young some of the
participants were at the ST2F
show. Their creations were
invariably based on fairy tale
characters and thats perhaps the
best way to appeal to such a young
clientele.
Indian
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
introduced
Swachh Bharat campaign right
at the beginning of his tenure
and urged every citizen of the
country to engage in the act,
including senior politicians who
were spotted wielding the broom.
Perhaps Modi would have done a
better job had he introduced the
measure as a compulsory activity
for every school-going child,
irrespective of the social strata
they come from. That would have,
by default, involved the parents in
the act.
Igniting
young
minds
was
the success mantra expounded

by Swami Vivekananda. Being
an ardent follower of Swamiji,
Modi often quotes him in his
public speeches. Following the
philosophy, instead of simply
preaching it could have had a
better fate for the Swachh Bharat
campaign.
A cause worth a pause, and
rethink?
10 years: 1,303 death sentences, 3 executions

Chaitanya Mallapur &
Devanik Saha
death sentence such

as the one handed to
Yakub Memon,lone
convictof the 1993 Mumbai serial
bombings is common in India,
with 1,303 such verdicts between
2004 and 2013, according to this
National Crime Record Bureau
(NCRB) prison statisticsreport.
However, only three convicts
were executed over this period,
one each in West Bengal (2004),
Maharashtra (2012) and Delhi
(2013). India saw an executionfree period of seven years between
2004 and 2012.
On August 14 2004, Dhananjoy
Chatterjee washangedat Alipore
Central Jail in West Bengal on his
42nd birthday, convicted for the
rape and murder of a teenage girl.
On November 21 2012,
Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab
the only terrorist to havesurvived
the
2008
Mumbai
terror
attacks, was hanged in Punes
Yerwada Jail.
On
February
9,
2013,
Mohammed Afzal Guru, a convict
in the 2001 parliament attack

case,was hanged inside Delhis
Tihar Jail.
In addition, 3,751 death
sentences were commuted to life
imprisonment during this period.
Former chartered accountant
Memon is set to be hanged on
July 30 2015, the day he turns 53.
A debate has now broken out over
the verdict against him and the
death sentence in general.
In July 2007, Yakub and
11 others were convicted and
sentenced to death by a special
court for planning or carrying
out the 1993 Mumbai bombings
that killed nearly 260 people and
injured 700.
In March 2013, the Supreme
Court upheld Memons death
sentence, while commuting the
death sentence of 10 others (one
died later) to life imprisonment.
On social media, a raging
debate with dubious data
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
leader Subramanian Swamy
reacting to assertions that only
Muslims were being hanged
recently said that 170 people have
been hanged in India after 1947
with only 15 of them Muslims,

according
to
Asian
News
International (ANI).
Since independence, at least
60 Muslim (according to their
surnames) convicts were hanged,
according to the Death Penalty
ResearchReportby National Law
University, Delhi.
The report compiled data
from central prisons but is not
an exhaustive list because many
states did not provide complete
information.
Some
states
provided such reasons: the Kerala
and Andhra Pradesh authorities
said termites destroyed records.
The
35th
Law
Commissionreport, released
in 1967, said more than 1,400
prisoners were executed from
1953 to 1963 but does not

give religion-wise details of
hanged convicts.
2007: Year of death sentences
The most death sentences
were awarded in 2007 (186),
followed by 164 in 2005. That
year20051,241
death
sentences were commuted to life
imprisonment, the most ever.
Uttar Pradesh awarded the
most death sentences (318) over
the last 10 years. Maharashtra
was second with 108, followed by
Karnataka (107), Bihar (105) and
Madhya Pradesh (104).
These top five states comprise
almost 57 percent of all capital
punishments awarded in the
country between 2004 and 2013.
In Delhi, 2,465 prisoners had
death sentences commuted to
life imprisonment (between 2004
and 2013). Jharkhand and Uttar
Pradesh were second with 303
death sentences commuted to life
imprisonment, followed by Bihar
(157) and West Bengal (104).
Delhi alone accounted for
nearly 66 percent of all prisoners
whose death sentence was
commuted to life imprisonment
between 2004 and 2013.

Death sentence abandoned by
160 countries not India, China,
the US and Japan
About 160 countries have
abolished the death penalty in
law or practice while 98 have
abolished it altogether, according
to a United Nationsreport.
In 2007, the United Nations
General Assembly adopted a
resolutiontowards the abolition
of capital punishment and the
protection of human rights when
it endorsed a call for a worldwide
moratorium on the death penalty.
Apart from India, other
prominent
countries
thatopposedthe resolution
included China, Japan and the
United States.
In 2013, nearly 778 executions
were reported in 22 countries,
a 14 percent growth over 682
executions in 2012.
On Monday, Pakistan executed
two murder convicts following a
one-month break during the holy
month of Ramadan. This adds to
176 executions since December
2014, after a six-year moratorium
on the death penalty.
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INDIA
PM Modi talks about road safety,

sanitation and social issues
Red
IWK Bureau
9. It was decided that the officers

of Ministry will camp for
seven days at various places
in the North Eastern States.
10. We have separate Ministry
for
the
North East
n his tenth edition of Mann

ki Baat, the Prime Minister of
Indian Narendra Modi talked
about a range of issues from
road safety to sanitation facilities
and the need for more focus on
north-eastern States.
Modi said that the government
would be bringing a Road
Transport and Safety Bill soon and
will also launch cashless treatment
for accident victims.
In his 15-minute address,
he paid tributes to the farming
community, praised scientists
and also hailed the armed forces.
He also mentioned that a team
of officials will pay a week-long
visit to the north-eastern States
to address the problems of
the region.
Several people have been
writing to me that I should speak
on road safety to create awareness
about it. When we see the figures,
we notice that in India, an
accident takes place every minute
and a death due to these takes
place every four minutes. Among
the victims, one-third is in the age
group of 15-25 years, the Prime
Minister said.
He added that the government
is also planning other important
measures like putting a National
Road Safety Policy and Road
Safety Action Plan in place. A
project under which cashless
treatment will be given to accident

victims, wherein the victim does
not have to worry for the first
50 hours as to who pays the
money for treatment, will also be
launched soon, he said.
He also invited peoples
suggestions for his Independence
Day speech.
While talking about various
social issues, he avoided politics at
a time when Parliament is unable
to function due to a deadlock with
the Opposition.
Highlights of the 10th Mann
Ki Baat
1. Shocked to know statistics
about road accidents; every
minute one accident takes
place; every 4 minute one
person dies in road accidents.
2. Another important initiative
of government is cashless
treatment policy for victims
of road accidents.
3. Harda district of MP gives
inspiration. Under Brother
No 1 drive, youth are inspired
to gift toilets to sisters on
Raksha Bandhan.
4. We are working towards 24*7
electricity in villages.
5. People of Kesla village of
Chhattisgarh
constructed
toilets for each family of the
village, making the village
open defecation free.
6. India
launched
5
heavy satellites of the
U.K., through PSLV
C 28. These are
heaviest
satellites
launched by India
so far.
7. Science
&
Technology is DNA
of
development,
says PM. He says
the HRD Ministry
has
launched
a
scheme to promote
scientific innovation
called
Rashtriya
Avishkar Abhiyan.
8. The produce of pulses and
oil seeds increased by 50%
& 33% respectively, a matter
of great joy.
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Punjab attack ends after 11hrs, three

terrorists among 10 killed
Jaideep Sarin
I am busy, call me later, police

officers last words
hree
civilians
and
four
security
personnel, including a
superintendent of police, were
killed Monday this week when
three heavily-armed terrorists
said to be from Pakistan went on
a killing spree here, shattering two
decades of calm in Punjab and
sparking an 11-hour gun battle
that left all three attackers dead.
It took several hours for Punjab
Police commandos to eliminate
the terrorists who, in military
fatigues, stormed a police station
complex in Dinanagar town
in Gurdaspur district, once a
hotbed of militancy and adjoining
Pakistan, taking security forces
by surprise. Dinanagar is located
barely 15 km from the Pakistan
border. Punjab Director General
of Police Sumedh Singh Saini told
the media: We (Punjab Police)
engaged them and killed all three
terrorists. We lost four security
personnel. The terrorists were
well armed with good firearms
and good ammunition and were
carrying GPS sets.
Asked if there was a Pakistani
hand in the mayhem, he said: It
is too early to say from where they
have come.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh
said: If we are hit, we will give
a befitting reply. We want peace

with Pakistan but not at the cost
of national honour.
This was the first major
terror attack in Punjab after
the assassination of then chief
minister Beant Singh on August
31, 1995 in Chandigarh, joint
capital of Punjab and Haryana.
The bloody saga began at 5.30
a.m. and ended by 4.30 p.m. when
the police took back the entire
police complex, which included
the police station and residential
quarters which were quickly
emptied once the attack started.
The final assault by the SWAT
(Special Weapons and Tactics)
team of Punjab Police on the
complex ended with intermittent
firing and grenade attacks from
both sides. A Home Guard jawan
survived the 11-hour ordeal and
ran out of one of the complex

when the operation ended.
When journalists and police
personnel finally entered the
residential quarters, they were
pock-marked with bullets fired
from automatic weapons and light
machine guns. In an emotional
outburst, locals raised slogans
hailing the Punjab Police.
Superintendent of Police Baljit
Singh succumbed to injuries
suffered in the gun battle between
security forces and terrorists who
were holed up in the complex,
officials said.
The dead included three
civilians, one of whom was shot
dead in a bus stand and two others
who were killed in a hospital near
the police complex. Three Home
Guards in the complex were also
killed. Police officials admitted the
I am busy, call me later.

These were the last words
Punjabs Superintendent of
Police Baljit Singh told his
eldest daughter Ravinder Kaur
before terrorists killed him in
Gurdaspur district.
Singh, 48, died while fighting
the three terrorists holed up in
the police station complex in
Dinanagar town, about 15 km
from the Pakistan border.
I called my father on his
mobile at around 9.30 in the
morning when we came to know
that an encounter is going on. I
complex was a soft target. We

were hit by a burst of gunfire. I was
hit on the shoulder, said a police
sub-inspector in the morning as
he was taken to a hospital. They
are firing indiscriminately every
five minutes.
The clearly well-planned attack
took the small town of Dinanagar
by surprise. Gurdaspur district
borders Pakistan on one side and
Jammu and Kashmir on the other.
In New Delhi, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi soon went into a
huddle with senior ministers.
As panic gripped Dinanagar,
police and troops from a nearby
am busy, call me later was his

only reply, Ravinder Kaur told
reporters.
Singh, who headed the
detective branch of police in
Gurdaspur, suffered bullet
wounds and died in a hospital.
army unit quickly surrounded

the complex. But police officials
said that it was the Punjab Police
which battled the terrorists.
The armys Special Forces
and the National Security Guard
provided the second ring of
security. Television crews were
told not to provide live footage of
the fighting.
That the terror attack was
multi-pronged was evident from
the recovery of five live bombs on
the Amritsar-Pathankot rail track.
The discovery took place minutes
before a passenger train was to
cross the section.
Yakub Memon hanged till death in Nagpur jail
akub Memon, convicted

in the March 12, 1993
Mumbai bomb blasts,
was hanged till death at the Nagpur
Central Jail in Maharashtra on
Thursday morning, officials said.
He was sent to the gallows -on his 54th birthday on Thursday
-- after several of his court
appeals and clemency petitions
were rejected by various courts,
including the Bombay High
Court, the Supreme Court, the
Maharashtra governor and the
president of India.
Memon was hanged at 6.35 am
IST (1:05 pm NZDT). A medical
team at the jail pronounced him
dead a short while later. His
body was sent for an autopsy by
a medical team from a Nagpur
government hospital, before being
cleared for the last rites.
The last of the legal procedures
continued till barely a couple of
hours before the execution on
Thursday morning before sunrise.
In an unprecedented hearing
held at the Supreme Court at 3

a.m. IST on Thursday, the court
rejected Memons plea seeking
postponement of his hanging by
14 days.
The
apex
court
bench
comprising
Justice
Dipak
Misra, Justice Prafulla C. Pant
and Justice Amitava Roy postmidnight rejected Memons plea
seeking 14 days time before the
execution of his death sentence is
carried out.
The court said that the
petitioner did not raise any
question when earlier, the mercy
petition by his brother was

rejected by the president in 2014.
Memon had challenged the
rejection of his mercy petition by
the president.
His mercy petition was earlier
rejected by the president on
Wednesday this week, wherein, he
raised fresh grounds for clemency
-- commuting his death sentence
to life imprisonment.
The apex court bench, while
rejecting Memons latest plea,
observed that there was nothing
new in the new petition as it was
a repetition of the same argument
that was advanced on Wednesday.
Same thing was there in
yesterdays (Wednesday) petition.
There is nothing new in the new
petition, said Justice Misra in the
course of the hearing.
Saying that Memon was given
ample opportunity to present
his case before the apex court,
the bench said that he was heard
for 10 days in the course of the
hearing of his review petition
while law mandates per half an

hour hearing.
Addressing the court, senior
counsel Anand Grover said that
Memon should get 14 days time
after the rejection of his mercy
petition, which was a matter
of right given by the court in
the
well-known
Shatrughan
Chauhan case.
The court was told that
Memon wanted to challenge the
presidents decision to reject his
mercy petition in which he has
raised fresh grounds including
his mental health related to his
schizophrenia. Grover said that
his client did not even get time to
execute his will.
Contesting Memons plea,
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi
said that this way there would be
a mercy petition every day and
repeated mercy petition was bad
for the system.
Contending that Memon has
exhausted all the legal avenues,
the attorney general said that the
mercy petition should have been

filed before the issuance of the
death warrant.
Memon was the first -- and
only convict out of 100 in the
1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case
-- whose hanging was upheld
by the Supreme Court. The
death sentence of 11 others was
commuted to life. A Mumbai
Special Court had sentenced him
to death in July 2007.
The death warrant was issued
by a Special TADA Court judge on
April 29, scheduling the execution
for July 30. Maharashtra had
started preparations for the
noose for Memon almost three
weeks ago.
Memon filed a fresh appeal
in the Supreme Court, followed
by a clemency plea with the
Maharashtra governor, again a
fresh plea in the apex court and
a final appeal with the president
of India. He got no relief from
any quarters, paving the way for
his execution.
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TRIBUTE
Red
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
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INDIAS
MISSILE MAN
1931 - 2015
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam: Indias missile man,

an indomitable spirit
r APJ Abdul Kalam,

who rose from humble
beginnings to become
one of Indias leading scientists
and later a hugely popular
president, died in Shillong on
27 July evening after collapsing
during a lecture at the IIMShillong, plunging the entire
country in mourning.
Kalam,
who
occupied
Rashtrapati Bhavan in 2002-07
as Indias 11 president, breathed
his last at 7.45 p.m. at the Bethany
Hospital where he was rushed
to from the IIM where he was
delivering a lecture on liveable
planet, officials at the premier
institute said.
Kalam must have barely
spoken for five minutes when
he suddenly collapsed, IIMShillong director Amitabha De
said, recalling the tragedy. We
rushed him to the hospital by 7
p.m. where he passed away.
Doctors at the hospital said
Kalam was brought almost dead
after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Hospital director John Sailo
Ryntathiang said they did their
best to revive him. But he could
not be saved.
The
Indian
government
announced a seven-day state
mourning, till August 2, during
which the national flag will fly
at half-mast and there will be no
official entertainment.
An enthusiast till the last for
sharing ideas with students and
youth, it was not surprising that
former president A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam was delivering a lecture
at the IIM-Shillong when he
collapsed and died in a hospital
shortly afterwards.
His last tweet on Monday
sounded enthusiastic Going to
Shillong.. to take course on Livable
Planet earth at IIM. His handle @
APJAbdulKalam, described him
as Scientist, teacher, learner and
writer. Served as the 11th President
of India (2002-07). Working for
an economically developed nation
by 2020.
Popularly known as Indias
Missile Man, Avul Pakir
Jainulabdeen
Abdul
Kalam
crowned a illustrious scientific
career with a term as Indias
first citizen after the then Atal
Bihari Vajpayee-led National
Democratic
Alliance
(NDA)
government put forward his name
as K.R. Narayanans successor. He
was recipient of Indias highest
civilian honour - the Bharat
Ratna - in 1997.
The leader must have

vision. Without vision,
you cannot be a leader.
Second, the leader
must be able to travel
into an unexplored
path. Normally the
tendency is for people
to travel along well-laid
out ways.
One of Indias best known

scientists, Kalam was full of ideas
on how to solve Indias problems on bridging the rural-urban divide
through his pet concept of PURA
or Providing Urban amenities in
Rural Areasa - for empowering
villages, and also to use solar
power in a big way to tide over
Indias energy needs.
I believe that connectivity
is the key to bridging the
rural-urban divide. The corecompetence
of
the
village
will enable the production of
competitive products for national
and international markets.
This will lead to rural
enterprises which will create jobs
in villages and lead to a vibrant
economy in Indias hinterland.
That is how prosperity will emerge
in the rural environment, he
said in an interview to Wharton
in 2008.
He enumerated five traits that
a leader, especially the president
of India, must have. The leader
must have vision. Without vision,
you cannot be a leader. Second,
the leader must be able to travel
into an unexplored path. Normally
the tendency is for people to travel
along well-laid out ways. Third,
the leader must know how to
manage success, and even more
importantly, failure.
The fourth trait is that the
leader should have the courage
to make decisions. Fifth, the
leader should have nobility in
management. Every action of the
leader should be transparent. And
finally, the leader should work
with integrity and succeed with
integrity, he said.
Kalam had also drawn up
an elaborate plan to power
Rashtrapati Bhavan with solar
power, but his term ended before
he could implement it.
He believed that besides solar,
India should also go in for nuclear
energy and also bio fuels from
jatropha plant and algae.
Dr Kalam with Friends. Image: pinterest
SLV III Review meeting, with presence of Sathish Dhawan. Image: www.jagran.com
Life Journey
Born on October 15, 1931
at the Hindu pilgrim town of
Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu,
Kalam specialized in aeronautical
engineering
from
Madras
Institute of Technology and in
1958, joined the Defence Research
and Development Organisation
(DRDO).
He moved to the Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO),
where he was project director of

Indias first indigenous Satellite
Launch Vehicle (SLV-III), which
successfully injected the Rohini
satellite in the near earth orbit
in July 1980 and made India
a member of the exclusive
Space Club.
In his two-decade stint in the
space agency, he was responsible
for the evolution of ISROs launch
vehicle programme, particularly
the PSLV configuration.

He rejoined DRDO in 1982,
and planned the programme that
produced a number of successful
missiles, earning him the Missile
Man nickname. He took up
the responsibility of developing
indigenous weapons as the
chief executive of the Integrated
Guided Missile Development
Programme (IGMDP).
He
was
responsible
for
the
development
and
operationalisation of Agni and
Prithvi missiles.
From 1992 to 1997, Kalam was
scientific adviser to the defence
minister, and later served as
principal scientific adviser (19992001) to the government with
the rank of cabinet minister.
He played a prominent role
in the countrys 1998 nuclear
weapons tests, Pokhran-II, which
established Kalam as a national
hero. He also gave thrust to selfreliance in defence systems by
progressing multiple development
tasks and mission projects such as
Light Combat Aircraft.
In 1998, Kalam put forward
a
countrywide
plan
called
Technology
Vision
2020,
which he described as a road
map for transforming India
from a less-developed to a
developed society in 20 years,
and called for, among other
measures, increasing agricultural
productivity, technology as a
vehicle for economic growth, and
widening access to health care
and education.
From November 2001, Kalam
was professor, technology and
societal transformation at Anna
University, Chennai.
He wrote four books - Wings
of Fire, India 2020 - A Vision
for the New
Millennium,
My Journey and Ignited
Minds - Unleashing the power
within India.
One of the most distinguished
scientists of India with the unique
honour of receiving honorary
doctorates from 30 universities
and institutions, he was was
awarded the Padma Bhushan in
1981, and Padma Vibhushan in
1990 before the Bharat Ratna.
Not many known that he was
a poet too. His favourite poem
was The Vision, which he also
recited in parliament.
On July 22, Kalam tweeted: An
indomitable spirit stands on two
feet.. vision and firm thought. It
could serve as an apt description
for him.
TRIBUTE
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REMEMBERING
PEOPLES PRESIDENT
Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi

National MP
Dr Parmjeet Parmar
National MP
Mahesh Bindra
NZ First MP
It was indeed a sad day for Indians in

India and across the globe.
Three militants disguised in Army
uniforms opened fire at a moving
bus and forcefully entered a local
police station in the state of
Punjab, India.
Indians also had to bear the loss of
their much loved former President of
the country Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, the
renowned scientist who is credited
with Indias nuclear programme.
This act of terrorism and irreparable
loss of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam would
have without doubt been hurtful to
all of us.
Dr Kalam was an inspirational mind,
an excellent scientist and a great
President yet he was the simplest
human being one. He has left a void
that can never be filled. May his soul
rest in peace.
I express condolences at the

passing of APJ Abdul Kalam.
Dr Kalam was a great servant
for the Indian community both in
the fields of science and politics.
He was very well respected for
the excellence he achieved as
an academic and scientist in the
fields of defence and
space research.
I stand with the New Zealand
Indian community in celebrating
his achievements, and send my
condolences to his family.
New Zealand First wishes to

express its sympathy to the Kiwi
Indian community on the passing
of the Peoples President,A. P. J.
Abdul Kalam.
New Zealand First wishes to
acknowledge Kalams contribution
to India while he was President
and since. Kalam was the
11thPresident of India from 2002
to 2007 and was the first scientist
and bachelor to occupy Rashtrapati
Bhawan.
Please accept our condolences
at the loss of one of the well-liked
Presidents of India.
Phill Goff
Labour MP
It is with great sadness that I
learned of the death of former
Indian President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam. On behalf of Labour,
I would like to express my
condolence and sympathies
to the family of Dr Kalam, the
people of India and to the Indian
communities in New Zealand.
Dr Abdul Kalam served as
Indias President from 2002 to
2007 and was known to be one
of the countrys most popular
Presidents. Dr Kalam was greatly
admired for his intellect, his vision
for Indias development and for
his warmth and humility. He spoke
and wrote extensively of the role of
youth in Indias development, and
was a role model for many young
Indians.
Jeet Suchdev, QSM, JP

Chairperson, Bhartiya Samaj
Charitable Trust
We have lost a transformer of
the Nation, Missile Man of India.
It is a major loss of the nation.
We sincerely value his advanced
knowledge bank and him as a
personality of grace. Abdul Kalam
was a true patriot, a nationalist to
the core, a visionary, a statesman,
a builder, a reformer and, without
doubt, professor, a researcher,
a scientist, knowledge spreader.
He was a unique phenomenon in
Indian politics and science.
On behalf of everyone at Bhartiya
Samaj Auckland we offer sincere
condolences and deepest
sympathies to the family of great
human, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
We join the nation India in paying
tribute to his departed soul.
Veer Khar
President, Manukau Indian
Association
Abdul Kalam will always be
remembered as the person of
integrity, conviction and clarity of
purpose. His role in putting India on
the lead map of modern technology
will always be remembered by one
and all. With his sad demise, India
has lost a great patriot.
You cannot change your future. But, you

can change your habits. And surely your
habits will change your future.
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Indian-American to represent
Washington in US pageant
ndian-American
Priya
Gopal-Walker, a survivor of
child abuse, will represent
Washington in the 2015 Miss
Teen USA Pageant to be held in
Bahamas. Gopal-Walker, 17, will
compete with contestants from all
over from the US at the pageant
on August 21-22. She made her
entry to the pageant after winning
the Miss Washington Teen USA
crown, India West portal reported.
Gopal-Walker, who is of half
Indian and half American heritage,
is a student at the Academy of Arts
and Sciences in Seattle. She was to
Priya Gopal-Walker
compete in 2012, but had to pull

out of the competition as she was
facing physical and emotional
abuse, the report said. The beauty
queen said she would like to use
her title to spread awareness on

domestic violence.
I knew I needed time to
emotionally heal from what I had
gone through, Gopal-Walker was
quoted as saying by the portal.
Taking the time to get my life
restored, I believe, is part of the
reason I won this year. I have a
strong message of hope for those
children who may feel there is
no hope or way to get out of their
fearful situation, she said.
I now live with foster parents
who love me as though I am their
own, Gopal-Walker added.
Pranoti Nagarkar-Israni
Automatic one-minute roti maker
It has been an amazing year for

us and these new partnerships will
only help to improve what we see
as a revolutionary product that
enables families to eat healthier,
Rishi Israni, Pranotis husband
and CEO of Zimplistic, was
quoted as saying. The automatic
roti maker is smart enough to
use its 15 sensors to figure out

the ingredients put in it and the
measures in which to combine
them. The user needs to put in the
ingredients in the given containers
and press a button.
Within a minute, a flat, circular
roti slides out of the machine much like a sheet of paper that
Sikh kitchens turning new food

banks in Britain
he homeless in Britain
are turning to Sikh
community kitchens at
gurdwaras for hot meals as the
demand for food banks rises, a
media report said.
Nearly, 5,000 meals are being
served to non-Sikhs each week
by Britains 250 gurdwaras and
efforts are being made to take
langar out of gurdwaras to
fulfill its core objective of serving
the whole community, according
to Britain-based The Conversation
website.
British Sikhs have established
food relief organisations in
cities
across
Britain.
The
Midland Langar Seva Society in
Birmingham, the Kirpa Food Bank
in Wolverhampton, Guru Nanaks
Free Kitchen based in Doncaster
and Edinburgh, the Bedford
Langar project, the Sikh Welfare
and Awareness Team (SWAT)
based in London and Nishkam
Help based in Birmingham and
Leeds are some examples, Jasjit
Singh, postdoctoral research and
impact fellow at University of
Leeds was quoted as saying.
In these community kitchens,
meals are offered for free and
everything from the buying of
the food to the preparation of

the meals is based on donations.
The trend is not just confined to
Britain, according to Singh who
is carrying out a research on the
religious lives of young Sikhs in
Britain.
In Canada, the Seva Food
Bank serves food to low-income
families. In Los Angeles, the
Khalsa Food Pantry and Khalsa
Peace Corps provide meals to
the destitute, while the Sikhcess
project provides food and clothing
to the homeless in a number of
local communities across the US,
Singh said.
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Three Indian-origin scholars among

2015 Asia Studies Fellows
he
East-West
Center
has
announced
the
appointment of six scholars,
including three of Indian-origin
as 2015 Asia Studies Fellows. The
East-West Center is an education
and research organisation in the
US. The fellowship provides
residence at the East-West Centre
in Washington to scholars and
analysts who wish to undertake
policy-relevant research and
writing on topics of relevance to
contemporary US-Asia policy,
the Americanbazaar.com website
reported. While Surupa Gupta
and Vibhanshu Shekhar are
Indian Americans, Rahul Mishra
is an Indian scholar based in
India-born engineers roti maker gets

$11.5m investment
n Indian-origin engineer
in
Singapore
who
invented an automatic
one-minute roti maker machine
seven years back has now fetched
a second round of investment of
$11.5 million from venture firms,
a media report said.
Pranoti Nagarkar-Israni, a
mechanical engineer from the
National University of Singapore,
came up with a prototype for an
automatic roti maker which won
her the Start-Up Singapore
competition in 2009.
She later floated a product
design company called Zimplistic
with her husband to promote the
roti maker brand called Rotimatic.
Zimplistic has now announced
an investment of $11.5 million
from Southeast Asia-based NSI
Ventures and Germany-based
Robert Bosch Venture Capital, web
portal TechinAsia.com reported.
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comes out of a photocopier.

The machine also allows its
users to customise the doughballs
and flour discs.
Within a week of the launch
of its beta version last year, $5
million worth of roti makers
priced at $999 each were sold and
Zimplistic had to close pre-orders.
Today, there is a huge waiting
list for roti makers and over
5,000 requests for distribution
partnerships from around the
world are pending with the firm.
With this funding, Zimplistic
plans to finish the Rotimatic
beta, accelerate manufacturing
rollout and set up operations in
international markets to fulfil the
big demand, Israni said.
This new round of funding has
been secured just few months
after raising the first round of
investment worth more than $1
million from NSI Ventures.
New Delhi. Gupta is an associate

professor at the University of Mary
Washington in the department of
political science and international
affairs while Shekhar is a scholarin-residence at the ASEAN Studies
Center at American University.
Rahul Mishra is a research
Fellow at the Indian Council of
World Affairs in New Delhi.
The fellows are offered roundtrip travel to Washington and are
supported through residence at the
East-West Centre complex.
In addition to a publication of
an article or monograph on their
research topic, the fellows are
required to give one public seminar
during their residency.
Indian American
wins junior title
ndian-American
Amitoj
Chhabra lifted 628 kg at the
US Powerlifting Association
National Championships in Las
Vegas last week to win the junior
title, the media reported.
Chhabra, 20, who is based
in Nevada and competed in
the 198-pound (90kg) weight
category, also set a state record. The
tournament was held at the Golden
Nugget Casino in Las Vegas and
the final took place on July 11, the
Reno Gazetta-Journal reported.
Chhabra, who began powerlifting
in December 2013 and started
competing in May 2014, is training
with Adam Lauritzen of Silverback
Strength and Conditioning in Reno.
Son of a Punjabi father and a
Nepalese mother, Chhabra credits
his parents for his strength.
Both sides have warriors
genetics, so I have the warrior
drive. I really like powerlifting. I
was always strong, I always had
strength, but I didnt know anything
about powerlifting, said Chhabra,
who works part time at the United
Parcel Service.
Lord Venkateswara Temple to be

built in US city
state-of-the-art
Sri
Venkateswara Temple
with an eight-feet granite
statue of Lord Venkateswara will
be constructed in the US city of
Columbus in Ohio state, a media
report said.
It will be the second temple after
the Bharatiya Hindu Temple that
opened in the area in 1994, the
Columbus Dispatch daily reported.
It will be a state of the art temple,
spread over at least 20,000 square
feet with a capacity to accommodate
at least 1,000 worshippers, said
Ganesh Vathyam, a spokesperson
of the temple committee.
It will include an ornate,
colourful
towering
entrance
called gopuram and a brass or

copper covered flagstaff called a
dwajasthambam, he added.
The
committee
is
also
planning to bring sculptors from
India to build the temple and
early projections put the cost at
about $3million.
Our goal is to introduce this
culture not only to our kids
because the reason we build temples
is to let our future generations know
the significance of the temple and
the heritage but also to introduce
it to the other side of the world,
Vathyam said. The temple plans a
four-day grand opening ceremony
from July 30 to August 2 to enshrine
Lord Venkateswara.
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Answers to last weeks
Ge
ography word scrambl

1. Land, 2. Urban, 3. En
e
vironment, 4. Climate,
5. Soil, 6. Volcano, 7. Ec
Rural, 9. Navigation, 10
onomy, 8.
. Water, 11. Erosion, 12
. Explore, 13. Weather
15. Galcier, 16. Culture
, 14. Coast,
, 17. Population, 18. To
urism, 19. Map, 20. Earth
quare.
The hare with many friends

A Hare was very popular with the other beasts who all
claimed to be her friends. But one day she heard the hounds
approaching and hoped to escape them by the aid of her
many Friends.
So, she went to the horse, and asked him to carry her away
from the hounds on his back. But he declined, stating that he
had important work to do for his master. He felt sure, he
said, that all her other friends would come to her assistance.
She then applied to the bull, and hoped that he would repeal
the hounds with his horns. The bull replied: I am very sorry,
but I have an appointment with a lady; but I feel sure that our
friend the goat will do what you want.
The goat, however, feared that his back might do her some
harm if he took her upon it. The ram, he felt sure, was the
proper friend to apply to. So she went to the ram and told him
the case. The ram replied: Another time, my dear friend. I do
not like to interfere on the present occasion, as hounds have
been known to eat sheep as well as hares.
The Hare then applied, as a last hope, to the calf, who
regretted that he was unable to help her, as he did not like to
take the responsibility upon himself, as so many older persons
than himself had
declined the task.
By this time the
hounds were
quite near, and
the Hare took
to her heels and
luckily escaped.
Moral: He
that has many
friends, has
no friends.
Send us stories, drawings,poems

and other contributions by your little
ones along with their photographs for
this page. Email us at
editor@indianweekender.co.nz
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From the desk of
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Literary jewels
The world of literature has seen many women voice their deepest emotions through the power of words.
We take a look at some of their illustrious careers.
Esha Chanda
Harper Lee
Maya Angelou
JK Rowling
Jhumpa Lahiri
Mockingbirds dont do one

thing but make music for us to
enjoy. They dont eat up peoples
gardens, dont mess in corncribs,
they dont do one thing but sing
their hearts out for us. Thats why
it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Best known for writing the
Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a
Mockingbird in 1960, American
novelist Harper Lee rose to fame
after the publication of her first
book. The storythat deals with
the racism then observed by young
Lee as a child in her hometown of
Monroeville, Alabamawas later
adapted to be released on the
screen in 1962.
Although the first novel was
an international bestseller, Lee
did not continue her career as
a writer. It was only recently,
when her lawyer Tonja Carter
discovered
an
unpublished
manuscript, which was thought
to be lost, in a safe deposit box.
Lee announced the release of Go
Set a Watchmana novel written
before Mockingbird that features
the main character, Scout.
There is no greater agony

than bearing an untold story
inside you. I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou has been
credited with many inspirational
works in her lifetime. She started
her career as a performer in the
mid-1950s when she landed a role
in a touring production of Pordgy
and Bees. Her later performances
included
off-Broadway
production Calypso Heat Wave
and The Blacks. But it wasnt
until she returned to the United
States when Angelou was urged
by her friend to pen down her life
experiences, which culminated
into the highly successful I Know
Why the Caged Bird Sings.
The poignant memoir achieved
international acclaim and was
the first non-fiction bestseller
by an African-American woman.
Angelou continued breaking
records and become the first
African-American woman to
write a screenplay that was
produced. Other publications
include collections of poetry such
as Just Give Me a Cool Drink of
Water Fore I Die, which was
nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
It is our choices, Harry that

show what we truly are, far
more than our abilities. Harry
Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets
British author JK Rowling,
who penned a spellbinding
page-turner, is one of the most
celebrated contemporary fiction
authors. Her magical world filled
with wizards and witches cast
a spell not only on children but
also adults.
The increasingly dark tones in
the series following the adventures
of an 11-year-old bespectacled boy
were inspired from the authors
life experiences. Her struggle
with depression in her 20s gave
form to the Dementors that we
see in the third instalment. The
series had a rough start when the
draft was rejected by more than
a dozen publishing houses in
Britain before Bloomsbury agreed
to publish the first book.
Even after the completion of
the series, Rowling continues to
capture the hearts of her readers
by revealing the back story of
characters in the magical world.
Thats the thing about books.

They let you travel without
moving your feet. The
Namesake
The poignancy in her prose
that explored the experiences of
South Asian immigrants in the
United States won her the Pulitzer
Prize in 2000. Jhumpa Lahiris
debut Interpreter of Maladies is
a collection of short stories that
give a fresh insight into the lives
of immigrants. Her following
novel The Namesake that was
published in 2003 expanded on
the same theme and was later
adapted into a film directed by
Mira Nair.
first.
Analyze
your
inner
conditions, work with yourself,
dont grumble but ask yourself
whether you deserve one and
are capable of attracting a
Guru? Are you prepared to be
guided? Scriptures say, When
the disciple is prepared, the Guru
appears otherwise Guru would
be still there but you wont notice
or Guru wont respond.
The spiritual aspirant goes
to the Guru and offers a bundle
of dry sticks, signifying he is
surrendering himself to Guru
with all his thoughts, words
and deeds with a single desire
to attain the highest wisdom.
Then the Guru burns those sticks
signifying he would guide and
protect the aspirant, initiates
him on various levels of spiritual
sadhana and gives him the
disciplines to practice.
Gurus ways of teaching could
be mysterious. The Guru is both
external and internal.
From
the exterior he pushes spiritual
aspirants mind to turn inwards
and from the interior, he pulls

the mind towards Self.
Genuine Guru does not want
anything in return as Selfless
Service and Selfless Love are
his very nature. He radiates his
unconditional love to one and all.
Take Guru Purnima as the
opportunity to remember the
purpose of your existence, that is,
to become complete and to attain
liberation. Regard this very day
as the beginning of the Spiritual
New Year. Introspect impartially
your deeds performed in the
last year. Determineto come
over the spiritual shortcomings.
As Purnima is, when the Moon
reflects the maximum light of
Sun onto Earth, similarly make
a vow to Reflect Gurus teaching
through thoughts, words and
deeds hereafter.
God resides within as Sanatan
Sarathi (Eternal Charioteer).
Search for this within yourself
and anyone who leads you to
your inner Self is your true Guru.
Jane Austen
It is a truth universally
acknowledged that a single
young man in possession of a
good fortune must be in want of
a wife. Pride and Prejudice
This first line from Austens
most famous novel Pride and
Prejudice, which celebrated 200
years in 2013, is widely recognised
not only by Austen fans.
In her 30s, she anonymously
published Sense and Sensibility,
Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield
Park
and
Emma.
Unlike
contemporary women writers,
Austen, a Gregorian era author,
did not receive the same fame.
One of the greatest writers in
English literary history, her
timeless works have been adapted
into plays, television series and
movies that include popular
sequels and spinoffs.
Guru- your personal tutor

Ravinder Grover
Gurur Brahma, Gurur

Vishnu, Guru Devo Maheswara
Gurur Sakshat Para Brahma,
Thasmai Sri Gurave Namaha.
yasa
Purnima
is
observed on the full
Moon day in the Hindu
month Ashada (July-August)
in memory and expression
of the gratitude to the great
sage Maharishi Vyasa.
He
was born, codified and written
the four Vedas and eighteen
Mahapuranas on this very
day. Owing to the passage of
time,Vyasa Purnimacame to be
calledGuru Purnima.
Guru (Gu-darkness, Ruwho dispels the darkness) means
the preceptor who dispels the
darkness of ignorance.
The above Sanskrit stanza
hails theGuru as Brahma
(creator), Vishnu (sustainer),
Maheswara (destroyer) and
Parabrahman (Highest God)
is misinterpreted. The right

approach is to consider Brahma,
Vishnu, and Maheswara as
theGuru. These are symbolised
by the three Gunas (attributes);
Brahma is Rajaswic (activity),
Vishnu is Sathwic (serenity) and
Maheswara is Tamasic (inertia).
The
whole
cosmos
is
constituted by these three
qualities which are also present
in human being. Gu signifies
one who transcends all Gunas
(attributes); Ru signifies one
who has no Rupa (form), hence
means one who is beyond
attributes and forms, namely
the Brahman (Supreme Self).
Hence only God is the true Guru.
Purnima means Full Moon
with all its sixteen aspects being
illumined by the Sun, referring
to sixteen black spots in human
beings, i.e., the six inner enemies
(Lust, Anger, Greed, Attachment,
Ego and Jealousy), two Gunas
(Tamasic and Rajaswic) and
eight type of Mada (conceit)
based on Lineage, Scholarship,
Wealth, Youth, Pride, Beauty,

Position and Penance.
It is only when man gets rid
of these sixteen evil traits then
he would be able to get to the
state of Poornatva (fullness)
and realise oneness with Divine.
The term Guru is often loosely
used to describe anyone who
gives out spiritual advice, but
the word has a much more
restricted definition. Its a sacred
word, generally used with its
suffix, Deva (bright being), is
called Gurudeva
Guru is someone who has
realized the Self, who teaches
by example, is egoless, has good
conduct, mental discipline and
sense of duty. He uses his power
to assist others towards the goal
of Self Realization. He is the
one who reveals the Guri (Atmic
Principle one in all) to the
aspirant. Guru is not a physical
being, but a tradition; he is a
stream of knowledge that goes
through many channels.
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Honesty and sincerity will surely bear

fruits of success
Kumar Suresh
wami Vivekananda once

said - Take up one idea.
Make that one idea your
life - think of it, dream of it and
live on that idea. Let the brain,
muscles, nerves, every part of
your body, be full of that idea, and
just leave every other idea alone.
This is the way to success.
Though the lines make for

good reading, we being mere
mortals, find it real tough to
follow these simple but yet
difficult path to success. But
when an ordinary man does
take it upon himself to pursue
what he really wants do in his
life, it is hard to believe how
easy he makes it look for others
to follow suit.
One
such
person
is
Munish Seth, who by sheer hard
work and dedication has defined
the path to success to many
around him. He has proved that
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however difficult the goal, the

right tool for success is always
hard work and sincerity.
Munish Seth shares his story
with Indian Weekender
First time I set my foot in

this beautiful country was in
2002, when I arrived here on a
work visa for six months. I was
so hooked to this country and
its people that I had to come
back in 2003 with a permanent
residential visa. As expected in
any new place one moves to, it is

hard at the beginning but I was
ready for the grind.
Those days there was a large
and new influx of migrants
from India and everyone I knew
was trying to make a life in
this country. Some failed and
some succeeded but one good
thing about the experience and
the journey were the good and
honest friends we had on each
others side all the time. We
worked for long hours doing
menial jobs at multiple places
to make our ends meet.
My first real job was at a
warehouse where I had to take
care of goods moving in and
out. I was sure I was destined to
do something big and I was just
patiently waiting for the right
opportunity. Six months after
coming to New Zealand, I got
into real estate business as an
agent and since then, there has
been no looking back. I think it
took me around 18 months to

safely assume that I had my foot
settled firmly over what I was
doing in my life in New Zealand.
My
hard
work
and
perseverance paid off as I got a
job in Barfoot and Thompson as
a real estate agent and before I
even knew, I was their top agent.
I was the face of the company
for two years and figured in
their top 25 agents for many
years, straight. I think I was the
only Indian in that list for a long
time. Even during recession in
2008-2009 I was one amongst
very few who did well in real
estate business. Since last three
months, I have been handling
Harcourt in Botany, Auckland.
I believe all this could only be
possible only with the support of
my community and I always try
to give back whatever way I can,
back to the community. Also, I
will be doing great injustice if I
dont mention my wifes name
here. She was one big support

and has stood by me during
thick and thin. She has been
working as a real estate agent
for last seven years as well.
At the end of the day when
I go back home from work,
I am filled with joy as I see
my wonderful family, happy.
My mother, wife and our two
children are thankful for the
life that this country has given
to us. The quality of life in New
Zealand along with freedom,
happiness and not to forget
wonderful friends are the real
treasures to cherish for the rest
of my life.
When someone asks me the
secret of my success in life, I tell
them the only mantra to achieve
glory in any field in this country
is hard work and never to look
for shortcuts. Tree with its roots
of honesty and sincerity will
surely bear fruits of success.
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Happy
Birthday
CMJ
New Zealand Herald reported the wild scramble for invitations to

the Party of the Year, the Bollywood themed birthday bash was
every bit in true Collin style.
The guests dressed in loud and vivacious Bollywood fashion, food,
music and performances were all A-listers! Indian Weekender reports directly from the Bash.
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Film industry helped me evolve: Manish

Nivedita
e entered the film

industry as
a costume
designer
when
the
concept
of
costume
designing was
alien to many.
Designer
M a n i s h
Malhotra, who
has
enjoyed
a
successful
run of 25 years
in
Bollywood,
says the industry
helped him evolve
and gave him a
platform to explore
and
experiment
with
his
creativity.
My journey has been

unconventional; instead of
mainstream designing,
I started my career
with film costume.
The journey has
been phenomenal
My journey has been
unconventional;
instead
of mainstream designing,
I started my career with
film costume. The journey
has been phenomenal, I have
received tremendous response,
Malhotra said.
Talking about the evolution of
Bollywood over the years, he said:
I came into an industry where the
concept of costume design did not
exist, but now it has become a very
important part. Costume, in
any Bollywood story, has
always helped
the director
c r e a t e
Never imagined Ill be

around for so long: Juhi
ctress Juhi Chawla, who has

completed more than 25 years
in the industry, says that when
at the beginning of her career, she never
imagined that shell have such a long
innings in Bollywood.
Talking to media, Juhi said: My journey
has been wonderfully long! And I am today
amazed that I am still around, relevant and
visible, which I never even imagined 25
years ago. I just had no clue that I would be
around for so long!
I am really grateful and happy for
this. So overall, my journey has been very
eventful, and I am very glad that I have
been in the movies!
I mean once one has worked here, the
highs, the lows, laughter, tears, insecurities,
self-centeredness,
fame,
adulation,
heartache, hardwork, and just everything
has been fantastic! It has all been a great
lesson in life.
The manner in which Juhi has managed
her film commitments and business
endeavours while taking care of her family
has been commendable.
Well, sometimes its been a little
overwhelming, but now I make sure to just
take one thing at a time.
I try not to overcrowd my whole
schedule, so thats why I pick and choose
what I do.
Her performance in a negative role in
Gulaab Gang was appreciated with Juhi
characters visually, which with time, in its

own way, has become an integral part of
the film industry. The celebrated designer,
whose tryst with designing for films began
with Juhi Chawla starrer Swarg, says his
journey comprised great experiences.
Since the beginning, I was fond of
watching Hindi films and was fascinated
with the costumes worn by Bollywood actors.
The film industry helped me evolve and gave
me a platform to explore and experiment - I
learned my craft, travelled and met some
great people across the globe, he said.
Malhotra redefined and modernised
costumes in films like Rangeela, Raja
Hindustani, Dil Toh Pagal Hai, Kuch Kuch
Hota Hai, Mohabbatein, Kabhi Khushi
Kabhie Gham and many more, giving some
of Bollywoods leading actresses makeovers
that changed their fate in showbiz.
From Kajol, Karisma Kapoor, Kareena
Kapoor Khan, Rani Mukerji, Aishwarya
Rai Bachchan and Preity Zinta -- dressing
up such beauties and more earned him
the tag of Bollywoods favourite designer.
And he rightfully credits each of them for
their support.
I would credit each and every person
in Bollywood -- from Sridevi to Rekha to
Priyanka Chopra to Kareena Kapoor Khan
to Parineeti Chopra to now dressing Mira
Rajput (Shahid Kapoors wife) and many
more. All have helped and supported me
for so long...I would like to give credit to all
actors for embracing the costumes I created

for them, he said.
To this end, Malhotra will have former
beauty queen Aishwarya as the showstopper
for his finale show at the Amazon India
Couture Week (AICW) 2015, where he will
bring a preview of his limited edition London
label. At an offsite show at The Leela here on
August 2, he will present Couture Soire in
the form of an intimate evening with a 1950s
vibe to it.
Aishwarya will return to the runway after
five years as the showstopper for my show...
When it comes to doing limited edition and
new beginning, there is no one more global
than Aishwarya.
She is a true Indian beauty and known
across the globe, said Malhotra, who is
also styling the actress for Karan Johars
next directorial called Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
apart from a few other projects. Im currently
working on Dilwale where Im styling Kajol,
Ka & Ki for Kareena Kapoor Khan and Arjun
Kapoor, he said.
Manish, who says 2015 is an important
year for him as it marks his silver jubilee in
the film industry as well as a decade of his
label Manish Malhotra, plans to continue
the successful journey with the launch of his
London and Dubai store in spring 2016.
He also plans to launch in November an
exclusive menswear store in Delhi, where he
already has a fancy flagship store.
Actors think 100 times

before working with
independent filmmakers
Juhi Chawla
even being nominated for Filmfare best

supporting actor. She will now be seen as
a teacher in upcoming educational drama
Chalk N Duster.
Umrao Jaan director Muzaffar Ali,

who is coming up with his new film
Jaanisaar, says actors are nowadays
unsure about working with independent
filmmakers as they are more inclined
towards big budget and mainstream
cinema.
At a media interaction for Jaanisaar,
Ali spoke about the current mindset among
actors, and shared: In India, there are
several actors.
Whenever they feel that something
positive is going to happen in their life,
they get inclined towards multi-starrer,
big banner and studio films. And before
working with independent filmmakers,
they think 100 times, eventually getting
into a dilemma of which one to go for.
In cinema, both good and bad things
always happen. Artists are born and are
finished regularly.
There are actors who dont compromise
and there are some who do compromise.
More the number of mouths, more
the talks.
What is the way you want to move
forward with, how you want to live and
what you want to say, is eventually what
your journey is.
However, Imran Abbas, who plays
the male lead in Jaanisaar, didnt have
Imran Abbas
any apprehensions about taking up a role

in the movie.
According to the demand of the script,
we needed a boy like Imran. He had the
guts to say yes to me.
Its a big thing that he came forward
during such a period, added the
filmmaker, who is also an accomplished
fashion designer.
Jaanisaar is slated to release on
August 7. It marks the debut of stylist
Pernia Qureshi.
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Red
Sunny Leone
wants to don
superheros
avatar
ctress Sunny Leone has

expressed her desire to
play a superhero in a
movie. The former Indo-Canadian
adult film star was asked by one
of her fans on Twitter about her
dream role. The user asked: Sunny
which is your dream role in your
career? Playing a superwomans
character #EqualPartnerships.
A film should get a fair chance. If

it is better for the film, then why
not? I feel that by postponing
the film by one week, probably
well have a better showcasing,
Riteish said.
While S S Rajamoulis magnum
opus Baahubali - The Beginning
has already broken several records
at the box office, Salman Khans
Bajrangi Bhaijaan too collected
Rs.197.77 crore in just eight days
since its release on July 17 and is
expected to cross the Rs.200 crore
mark this week.
Directed by Karan Anshuman,
Bangistan, which was mostly shot
in Poland and Ladakh, is about
two suicide bombers, Hafeez
Bin Ali Ishwarchand Sharma
(Riteish) and Allah Rakha Khan
Praveen Chaturvedi (Pulkit), who
have been brainwashed into an
explosive mission but eventually
realise the death wish is
futile exercise.
Anushka to take
strict measures
online
To which Sunny replied: Yes i

want to play a superhero.
Sunny is known for her bold
image in the industry thanks to
movies like Jism 2 and Ragini
MMS 2. She was also seen in Ek
Paheli Leela, a thriller drama
film. She will be soon seen
in the upcoming sex comedy
film Mastizaade.
ctress
Anushka
Sharma says she will
block
people
who
write nonsense on the micro-
release date of his forthcoming

comedy Bangistan to August 7, as
the film should get a fair chance.
The fact is that Baahubali and
Bajrangi Bhaijaan are doing great
business at the box office. I think it
was the right call by the producers.
appearance after a long time at the

trailer launch of Phantom.
She was responding to queries
about if she had got engaged.
All
engagement
rumours
were sparked on the occasion of
Katrinas birthday on July 16 when
reportedly she and Ranbir had set
off to Alibaug to celebrate, and it
was there that Ranbir proposed to
her and gifted her a platinum and
diamond eternity band.
There have been numerous
rumours
of
their
alleged
engagement or break-up over the
years. Ranbir and Katrina are said
to have got close during shooting
of their romantic comedy, Ajab
Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani in 2009.
blogging site Twitter. Some of

the celebrities, including veteran
actor Rishi Kapoor and filmmaker
Karan Johar, have fallen victim
to cyber bullying. Anushka, who
mostly uses the digital platform
to share her opinion on various
subjects, has now warned people
to behave or else get blocked.
Trying to keep my Twitter
positive (well as positive as
possible) so will BLOCK people
who rant nonsense with no sense
of
responsibility,
Anushka
tweeted.
Anybody would
be lucky to
have Katrina as
girlfriend: Saif
aif Ali Khan, who will again

be seen onscreen with
Katrina Kaif in Phantom,
said he is very fond of his co-star
and that any person would be
ctress
Katrina
Kaif
sought to dispel rumours
that she had got engaged
to Ranbir Kapoor and said she had
no marriage plans for now.
Im glad you asked that but

Im definitely not engaged. I know
you guys are so sweet and you
seem to want me to get married
but there are no such plans now.
So please bear with me being not
married for some more time, said
Katrina, who was making a public
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low-caste boy falling hopelessly in

love, a daughter ridden with guilt
of a sexual encounter ending in
a tragedy, a hapless father with
fading morality, and a spirited
child yearning for a family, long
to escape the moral constructs of
a small town.
Wait for
Shaandaar
worth it: Alia
ctress
Alia
Bhatt,
who will be seen in
Shaandaar, has shared
with the Twitterati that the wait
for her forthcoming film will
hopefully be worth it.
Word of mouth
boosts Masaan
ticket sales
agged as one of the

finest Hindi films and
technically
brilliant,
Masaan witnessed a strong fillip
in ticket sales last weekend,
thanks to the strong and reliable
word of mouth.
Not engaged, no
marriage plans
for now, says
Katrina
Bangistan
deserves a fair
chance: Riteish
Deshmukh
s Baahubali - The
Beginning and Bajrangi
Bhaijaan
continue
to garner enormous response
at the box office, actor Riteish
Deshmukh says its the right call
by the producers to postpone the
lucky to have her as a girlfriend,

fiancee or more.
I think Katrina is one of the
most lovely girls Ive worked with.
And anybody would be lucky to
have her as girlfriend, fiancee or
in the future something more,
he told reporters at the trailer
launch of their upcoming action
film directed by Kabir Khan and
produced by Sajid Nadiadwala
Saif, who also did Race with
Katrina, termed her: One of the
most beautiful and biggest stars
in Bollywood.
Ive known Katrina for a while.
Ive watched her from being a
relatively new actor in Race to
becoming one of the biggest stars
in the country, working very
hard and becoming an amazing
personality on screen. Its always
nice to spend time with her. She is
extremely relaxed and is someone
who Ive enjoyed talking to and
working with. I think we had an
easy equation, he said.
Saif is returning to action
two years after Bullet Raja and
according to him, it is a dream
situation to feature in a film
like Phantom.
I love this kind of movies.
To get a chance to work with
Kabir and having Sajid as
producer has given me a
dream situation. The film,
based on the theme of terrorism,
is gearing up for release on
August 28.
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Produced jointly by Drishyam

Films, Phantom Films, Macassar
Productions
and
Sikhya
Entertainment, Masaan hit the
Indian screens on 24 July.
In major cinema chains like
PVR, Cinemax the film opened on
Friday morning with an average
occupancy of 17.5 to 18 per cent.
By Friday night, it rose to around
24 per cent and by Saturday
the average occupancy was 37.4
per cent, Shiladitya Bora, CEO
of Drishyam Films, said in a
statement.
The film, which has opened
in around 250 screens in the
country, is looking stable to go in
the second week with more shows.
Vikramaditya Motwane of
Phantom Films shared that the
strong word of mouth and the
super reviews have added to the
buzz around the film, and the
ticket sales went up by almost
double on next day of release.
The story of debut directorial of
Neeraj Ghaywan revolves around
four lives which intersect along
the Ganga ghats in Benares: a
Heheh
woke
up
to
#ShaandaarWaitIsKillingUs!!
Coming up veryyyyyy soon guys..
sorry for the wait but hopefully
itll be fully worth it!!!!, Alia
tweeted last week. In response
to her tweet, Karan Johar, one of
the producers of the film, wrote
#ShaandaarWaitKillingUs
is
trending!!! Well not for long...
coming up really soon!!! @aliaa08
@shahidkapoor. Shaandaar is
a romantic comedy film, directed
by Vikas Bahl. It also features
Shahid Kapoor, Pankaj Kapur and
Sanjay Kapoor.
BMW India
Bridal Fashion
Week to be held
in Delhi
August 7-11
esigners like Abu Jani

Sandeep Khosla, Anita
Dongre, Ashima Leena,
Falguni Shane Peacock, Gauri
Nainika and Tarun Tahiliani will
showcase their creative excellence
in bridal couture in New Delhi
from August 7-11.
Other names who will showcase
their works include JJ Valaya,
Jyotsna Tiwari, Rina Dhaka,
Shantanu Nikhil and Suneet
Varma, said a statement.
Sponsored by BMW with
Swarovski as the Fashion Partner,
the event will be held at DLF
Emporio in New Delhi.
It promises to bring alive
the latest trends and designs in
bridal couture.
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ife
throws
different
challenges
every
day
and they are supposed
to help you discover who you
really are. The one who accepts
those challenges with a positive
outlook stands out in the
crowd. Nirmita Santanu Ghosh
shares how she accepted these
challenges and how it has helped
her grow.
Nirmita Santanu Ghosh
I am a housewife and mother

of two. I have an 11-year-old
daughter and an 8-year-old son. I
work as a librarian and a teacheraid. I love working with special
aid children. It is something very
close to my heart. I enjoy being in
their company and spending time
with them.
I also organise and choreograph
drama and dance shows for
children and elders. I am running
a business for creative fields
through which we provide props
and sets for plays, musical or
dance shows and events.
How did the idea of taking
part in the Mrs India New
Zealand contest come to you?
I was approached with this idea.
I always love to try new things. I
was a part of a theatrical drama
recently and have been doing
dance shows from a long time. So

I thought that it would be a good
experience to try something new
and interesting.
How are you preparing
yourself for the pageant?
Theres isnt much to prepare
for. I just need to present my true
self. The only bit of preparation
that I am doing is shopping

for new and good dresses and
jewellery. And I am loving it!
The contest has five rounds:
talent round, traditional wear
round, beachwear round, evening
gown round and then a final
interview. We will be preparing
for those rounds on the day of the
event itself.
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Say if you win the contest,

what after that?
No, this is my first experience

in modelling. Although I have
been part of creative professions
such as dancing and acting, this
is a first, and I am quite excited
about it.
This contest is definitely going

to be a completely different
experience from what I have
done till now. I am thrilled about
the contest and then what comes
my way next. I have never learnt
to quit so I am sure that I will
definitely be doing something
new, challenging and exciting
after this contest.
What do you think makes you

different from others in the
contest?
Tell us something about you.
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Have been into modelling

before?
I have always tried to promote

Indian and Bengali culture
through various cultural activities.
Currently, I have 34 cultural
events lined up. I have always tried
to stay connected with my roots
and have been working towards
making our new generation
understand their culture, language
and traditions too.
I have a masters degree in
commerce, but I chose a profession
that is close to my heart, which is
being with children. That is why I
started working as a teacher aid
for children with special needs. If I
can do something for our younger
generation, I am on for it.
I think this is what makes me
different from others. I have to
balance everything at the same
time, my family, job, hobbies
and passion, and I have been
successful in doing that so far.
And I hope to maintain the same
balance in future as well.
India Independence Day
Date: Saturday 15 August 2015

Time: starts at 10:30am with flag raising
Venue: The Mahatma Gandhi Centre,
145 New North Road, Eden Terrace, Auckland.
Let us honour, salute and be proud. Auckland Indian
Association and NZICA is celebrating 68th Indian
Independence Day and inviting all individuals and groups
interested in participating to showcase their talent by
performing a patriotic themed item, song, dance or play.
Register your interest ASAP so you do not miss out.
Contact Baldevbhai (billy) Bhaga at 027 535 8438 or
email at billy.bhaga@yahoo.co.nz
Workshop by HOTA Forum
Date: Sunday 16 August 2015

Time: 1pm to 2pm
Venue: Chinmaya Mission NZ, 63 McKenzie Road,
Mangere
HOTA Forum presents a free workshop on Why are
we CREATED? In this workshop, Br. Adarsh Chaitanya
from Chinmaya Mission New Zealand will share with us
the ancient wisdom on popular questions like: Is there a
purpose to creation, why do I exist, why creation? You
will also get an opportunity to interact with Br. Adarsh
Chaitanya during the workshop to clarify any specific
questions on this topic.
Wills and Power of Attorney. Refreshments and Light

lunch will be provided. To register, please email at
newlynn@cab.org.nz or call 8274731 / 8277830
Immigration information
workshop for migrants
Date: Thursday, 13 August 2014

Time: 9am to 1pm
Venue: 532 Mt Albert Road in Three Kings Plaza,
Three Kings.
Auckland Regional Migrant Services (ARMS) is holding
an immigration information workshop for migrants in
partnership with the Auckland Community Law Centre.
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to learn about the rights and obligations of holding a
residence visa, the visa options and restrictions, and visa
expiry and unlawful stay in NZ. Auckland Community
Law Centre will also explain how Immigration New
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find further immigration help and information and the
costs involved, and the role of other immigration bodies
including the Immigration Protection Tribunal and the
High Court.
To register or for more information contact ARMS on 09
625 2440 or email reception@arms-mrc.org.nz
Maisuria Samaj NZ General

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Date: Saturday 24 October 2015
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Time: 9:30am to 1:30 pm
Venue: CAB New Lynn, New Lynn Library Building, 3
Memorial Drive, New Lynn
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better for your safety at all times.

Kiwi-Indian girl, Parie Malhotra, q

arie Malhotra is a member

Her hobbies not only include

Parie Malhotra (year 12), Harry Dunc

Last year my $150 bike alon

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couple of years ago, a fam

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times in three years. Tw

Lifestyle Caf Prime Location

Franchised Caf, North Shore

Licensed Restaurant, Short Hours,

Franchised Fish and Chip, Weekly

Fruit & Veg Shop,

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every other day, there is a car parked

feel that Auckland as a whole is safe

Once, after I had finish

Students often work as pizza deli

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Need Asia, but not Asians

ew Zealand First Leader and

prices have just meant that the country is

Subway Franchise in Auckland

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India Trade Alliance the need of the hour

s India sits on the cusp

Dr Richard Worth, Monacos

Chairman: Giri Gupta, QSM

Deputy Chairman: Dr Don Brash

Deputy Chairman: Hon Dr Richard Worth

Treasurer: Vijay Goel

Assistant Secretary: Gawan Bakshi

Chairman & Convener India Chapter:

are yet to be made available,

bridging the Indo-Kiwi trade

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