Indian Weekender 17 July 2015

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MIGRANT TALES
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FACE OF
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COVER STORY
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Islamic Eid a true gift from God

Mustenser Ahmad Qamar
ore than 1.6 billion

Muslims
around
the world will be
celebrating the occasion of
Eid-ul-Fitr over the weekend,
which marks the end of the
holiest month of the Islamic
calendar, Ramadan.
Surely, it is a time to rejoice.
A time of happiness and joy. One
may think that the long arduous
month of fasting and abstaining
from food, drink and the
pleasures of the world is finally
over. The burden has finally been
released and now is a time to
relax, eat and enjoy. Not quite.
Ramadan is a month of blessings;
a spiritually enlightening month
for reformation, realisation and
reflection and by no means a
burden. The celebration of Eid is
in actual fact a commemoration
of many positive changes brought
about in a Muslim.
Whether it is Christmas,
Diwali, Remembrance Day or
Independence Day, all these
occasions have a significance
in reminding people of an
important message or historical
event. Likewise, the celebration

of Eid has a much greater and
deeper significance. Eid is a
time to reflect over spiritual
improvement and resolve not to
lose what one has gained during
the month of Ramadan, rather,
not only to maintain it but also
to press forward to even higher
spiritual and moral gains.
The main event of the Eid

celebration is the additional sixth
prayer on the day of Eid. This in
itself demonstrates that the true
purpose of Eid is to be reminded
of the Creator, to turn to Him
for help and strength to pursue
and proceed in the acquisition of
higher spiritual and moral gains.
Eid is a reminder to Muslims
to not only struggle and toil for

spiritual gain for one month, but
also to keep that progress going
throughout the year.
The occasion of Eid reminds
Muslims of another lesson learnt
during the month of Ramadan;
to spend on the poor and needy.
Fitrana is a compulsory donation
from Muslims to the poor and
needy before the Eid celebration.

This enjoins Muslims to celebrate
and rejoice with every member
of the society and help the poor
and needy throughout the year.
The underlying message given by
Islam is to include all members of
society, regardless of their race,
colour, creed or faith, in times of
happiness and joy.
During my time at a university
in London, I remember going
door-to-door
distributing
boxes of chocolates in our
neighbourhood with my fellow
Muslim brothers. The faces of
fear of seeing a Muslim at their
doorsteps quickly changed to
smiles when the message of peace
and love with a box of chocolates
was given. I recall the Eid parties
where hundreds of guests were
invited to join our happiness.
Eid reminds me of the days when
members of our community
celebrate by visiting old peoples
homes, hospitals and hospices
with sweets, chocolates and food
packs to share their happiness.
This year is no different. The
relatively small community across
New Zealand along with millions
of members spanning more than
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206 countries will be carrying

on this tradition of reaching
out to the wider communities,
neighbours, the poor and
the needy.
Eid for Muslims is a reminder
of the true teachings of Islam;
teachings of love, peace, harmony
and integration. While some
people spread their un-Islamic
teachings in the name of religion,
we are committed to continue
in our struggle to correct and
dispel the wrong distorted image
of Islam presented by these
extremist factions, by spreading
the message of love and peace
taught to us through the paragon
of the prophet Muhammad and
presented to us through the
peaceful teachings of Islam.
About the Writer
Mustenser Ahmad Qamar is

an Imam and Missionary of the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community who
has recently arrived in New Zealand.
Mustenser graduated last year
from the UK after a 7-year extensive
course in Islam and comparative
religions and is currently serving in
New Zealand.
Red
Fish Biryani
Ingredients:
}} 1 kg fish fillets
}} 2 tsp oil
}} 1 tsp Chilli Powder
}} 1 cup Coriander Leaves
}} 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
}} 1 cup Grated Onions
}} 1 tsp Garam Masala
}} 1 tsp Ginger paste
}} 1 Tbsp Coriander Powder
}} 1 tsp cumin seeds
}} 1.5 tsp Salt
}} Green chillies to taste
}} 1 tsp Biryani Masala
}} 1/3 cup Browned onions
For the Rice:
}} 2 cup Rice-Cleaned
Washed
}} 2 tsp Oil
}} 3 cups Hot Water
}} 4 Cloves
}} 4 Peppercorns
}} 1 Cinnamon-Broken
}} 4 green Cardamoms
}} 1 tsp garlic paste
}} 1 tsp Salt
}} Saffron mixed in 1 cup
warm milk
}}
}}
}}
}}
}}
}}
}}
}}
and
Process:
}} First cut the fish into equal
medium sizes wash the fish
properly
}} Fry the fish in salt, turmeric,
and red chilli powder
}} Put one glass of water cover
the vessel for few minutes
}} Let the smoke come then add
all above ingredient masala
}} Now open Lid and roast the
masala properly till the oil
}}
}}
}}
}}
}}
}}
separates from masala

Add fish one by one side by
side
Do not stir with spoon else
fish fillets may break
Sprinkle the Garam Masala
from top
Add Yogurt to add a little sour
quotient to fish curry
Now soak the rice for one
hour
And then boil the rice with
salt and khada Garam Masala
Make it half cook
Now we have to set the rice
and fish curry layer wise
First in a big vessel put little
oil and add boiled rice...then
put fish and its gravy on it
Then
sprinkle
some
Coriander Leaves, Pudina
leave then again rice then fish
The top layer should be rice
and sprinkle coriander Mint
Leaves,
Put a little Garam Masala
powder for dumm
Put the closed vessel on
semi flame for 10 min till the
vapour comes out
Pour Saffron Milk at different
places from top
Black
Orange
Oven Roasted
Boneless Leg of Lamb
Ingredients
}} 1 boneless leg of lamb,
preferably netted
}} 20 cloves of fresh garlic
}} 1 tablespoon sea salt
}} 2 teaspoons freshly ground
black pepper
}} 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
}} 3-4 sprigs fresh mint
}} 1/4 cup olive oil
}} 2 cups Saffron Road Culinary
Classic Lamb Broth
Instructions
}} Preheat the oven to 425 F.
}} Prepare the lamb directly in
its roasting pan. Sprinkle the
sea salt on top.
}} Remove peels from fresh
garlic then place each clove
under the netting. If the roast
does not have netting, simply
slit the meat semi-deeply
then place a clove in each slot.
Proceed to do this all around
the top and sides of the meat.
}} Place the fresh rosemary and
mint leaves under the netting,
as well.
}} Drizzle the meat generously
with olive oil.
}} Use one cup of the Saffron
Road Culinary Classic Lamb
Broth and pour in the bottom
of the roasting pan.
}} Place the meat in the
heated oven, uncovered, for
20 minutes.
}} Remove the meat from the
oven and reduce the heat to
325-350 F. Add one more

cup of the Saffron Road
Culinary Classic Lamb Broth
to the bottom of the pan.
Pour some of the juices from
the bottom on top of the
meat, too.
}} Continue roasting for another
2.5 to 3 hours, checking the
meat for dryness and pouring
juices over the top, as needed.
Alternatively, you can cover
the meat with foil. If doing
that, poke holes in the foil to
allow some air to escape.
}} Once the 2.5 hours has passed,
insert a meat thermometer
to check the temperature.
The middle of the roast
should read at least 165 F.
If its done, remove from
oven and let rest, covered;
if not, continue cooking for
another 20-30 minutes and
check again.
}} Remove the garlic cloves and
the herbs before slicing. Once
sliced, reserve the liquids for
dipping or pour directly over
the meat slices before serving.
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Eid Mubarak
messages
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Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi, National List MP

n this very auspicious day of Eid-ul-Fitr, I wish all
my brothers and sisters Happy Eid. Eid-ul-fitr is the
culmination of the holy month of Ramadan. During
Ramadan our Muslim brothers and sisters fast for a whole
month from dawn to sunset. Eid-ul-Fitr marks the end of
whole months fasting period. Very fittingly Eid refers to celebrations or festivities
and Fitr refers to breaking the fast.

For our Muslim brotherhood it is the time of year we rejoice and thank Allah. It
is also the time when all of us have the opportunity to reflect on our lives. Fasting
reminds us of how fortunate we are and of our responsibility to the less fortunate
than ourselves.
As National Member of Parliament of ethnic background, I was invited to attend
the iftar parties. It was great to meet and greet people from different backgrounds
there. I value the contributions of our Muslim Community. By sharing our culture
with the rest of New Zealand, we add to the vibrancy and diversity that makes New
Zealand a truly multicultural nation.
I hope that all of you enjoy the festivities of Eid.
Once again I wish all of you a very happy Eid.
Andrew Little, Labour Party Leader
It is with great pleasure that I join in celebrating

Eid al-Fitr with New Zealands Muslims.
This holiday marks the end of Ramadan, the
holy month of fasting. It is a time for inner reflection and
thanksgiving.
I think its significant that the Muslim community marks this day
with gifts to
the poor and needy and offers special prayers for peace and harmon
y around the
world.
Labour values its relationship with New Zealands Muslim commu
nity and my
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Dr Parmjeet Parmar, National List MP
y best wishes to the Muslim community on this great joyous occasion of Eid.
of joining many of you for the Iftar during the holy
This is a great time for the Muslim community all around the world.I had the honour
all those in your local communities.
month of Ramadhan.Thank you for sharing your great religious tradition with myself and
and participation in Eid all around the country has been a
New Zealand is a place where diversity is celebrated and embraced.The display of support
great indication of our wonderful sense of community here in New Zealand.
and beyond.
May the celebrations of this Eid enlighten your way throughout the year until the next Ramadan
Eid.
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prosperou
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I wish each and every one celebratin
Eid Mubarak!
Phil Goff, Labour Party MP
ssalaamu Alaikum. Eid Mubarak! I would like to offer my best wishes to you, your family
and to the Muslim community on the occasion of Eid
ul Fitr.
This is a time for celebrating with family and friends, and a time to offer charity to those in
need. I hope that this time of festivity and generosity
brings you happiness and fulfilment.
I believe in a New Zealand in which people of all ethnicities and religious faiths can live
together in harmony. We must all be committed to building a
society which draws on the strengths and contribution of all our communities.
Together we share the benefits and the opportunities for a better life for our children that
this country offers, and we share the common values taught by all faiths.
I wish to take this opportunity to wish you a joyous and peaceful Eid!
Mohammed Azeem,
Co-ordinator, Muslim
Council
of Auckland (MCA)
On behalf of the memb

er
organisations, I would
like
to wish the entire Mu
slim
community of New Ze
aland and abroad a joy
ous
and peaceful Eid. May
Allah Almighty strength
en
our spirit of brotherho
od and keep us all unite
d
as
one strong Ummah. It
is also time to pray for
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r
less fortunate brothers
and sister in the Midd
le
East, Afghanistan Soma
lia, Nigeria and Pakis
tan
who are suffering due
to conflicts and wars.
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showers blessings on all
Imraan Hussein
Eid Mubarak to all !
I have been observing Roz
ah
from my childhood. For
me
Ramadan and Eid is a
time to
remember and feel for the
lesser
privileged. It is time for giv
ing and helping the poor.
I
always make sure that wo
rds spoken during the hol
y
month, brings joy to peo
ple around me and spread
s
happiness. Though I miss
my relatives back home, my
friends around me make it
up for that loss. We meet,
do
prayers and celebrate togeth
er.
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Naima Ali
, in every prayer answered,
In every shared smiles and laughter
your way, may Allah swt bless
in every opportunity that comes
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to share meals and laughter
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Mubarak!
with our diverse community.Eid
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When I was a kid, on

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uld be lucky to
have one type of sweet
cooked at home. Toda
y
by almightys
grace, we have feast on
the day of Eid. Persona
lly
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Ramadan month in my
life, is a privilege. I try
to
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ma
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n.
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9, is fasting this year.
my son who is
The fasting is a way to
thank the almighty for
life that he has provid
all the luxuries in
ed to us for the other 11
months.
I from my bottom of the
heart, wish everyone Eid
Mubarak.
Afaque Kamran
The blessed month of Ramadan is ending and it feels a little
sad. I am fortunate that Allah SWT gave me this opportunity to
observe this month, fasting and namaz has made me a better
person. I will miss my family though and the delicacies my mom
would be cooking on Eid. I wish everyone a very Happy Eid and
may Allah bless us all so that we continue the good deeds we
Mubarak once again to all.
Eid
Ramadan.
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n, I am sure it
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IWK-Face of the Week to represent NZ at

U-19 Squash World Championship
Rizwan Mohammad
he
Squash
Junior
World
Championship starts on July 26 in
Netherlands and the New Zealand
Team is practicing vigorously for the big
game. Juee Bhide, one of the three top
contenders playing for New Zealand, is
thrilled for the matches ahead.
I have been training 12 to 15 hours
a week for the last couple of months
and putting all my efforts to get better,
says Juee.
Juee, currently ranks 3rd in the New
Zealand U-19 Squash, got the confirmation
from Squash NZ on May 21 that she will be
competing in the World Championship in
Netherlands this month.
Juee has been coaching under Manu Yem
twice a week and Squash NZ has offered two
weekly practice sessions at Unitec.
She was previously training under
former World Champion Carol Owens.
NZ Squash has also organised three-day
training camps and three to five fitness
programmes every month.
Juees first match is scheduled on July 26
and she will be competing against players
from Canada, USA and Egypt for the
world rankings.
Squash NZ has a blog that every player
has to update on daily basis about their
practices, matches and other information.
The blog will be a medium to update the
fans in NZ and the website will be updated
frequently too, added Juee.
PUBLIC LAUNCH
An estimated number of 180 players

will be competing for both, their individual
rankings and team games in Eindhoven this
month. The individual matches will be held
from July 25 to 30 and the team matches
will be held from August 1 to 5.
I am very excited for this tournament.
It is the first longest trip for me away from
my family and I will be missing three weeks
of my second semester classes, mentioned
the physiotherapy student from Auckland
University.
The U-19 NZ Squash team is leaving
for Netherlands on Monday, July 20 and
returns in the first week of August after the
completion of the tournament.
The players in the New Zealand U-19

Squash team in order of their rankings are
Ellie Epke, Abbie Palmer, Juee Bhide and
Nadia Hubbard.
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The workshop will take place on
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The free seminar covers how to find
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and volunteering in the health and social
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The session is also a crucial opportunity
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experience
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candidates and to receive tips from HR and
recruitment professionals.
The workshop will be held at the ARMS
offices in the Three Kings Plaza, 532 Mt
Albert Road from 9.30am to 1.30pm.
The full day engineering employment
workshop will take place on Saturday, 15
August from 9am to 4pm at the ARMS
offices and will offer participants the
chance to find out about the pathways to
employment from local employers and
successful migrant engineers.
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Responsive security key to safety
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ith growing number of crimes

like robbery and theft, it
has now become essential
for everyone to have their houses or
commercial premises secured with the best
and trusted security systems. To ensure a
safer environment for your family, business
and staff you need a security service that
can match your individual needs and
requirements. Rapid Response Security
is one such organisation that ensures the
security of your valuables and lovables.
Rapid Response Security (RRS) is a NZowned business and has grown over the last
15 years to be one of the most successful
security companies in Auckland.
Rapid Response Security offers a
wide range of services to large and
small
companies
and
residences
that include:
Alarm Monitoring
Radio and VOIP Monitoring
Alarm Response Call-outs
Static guard and Concierge Services
Patrol Services
property and personnel where everyone

feels protected.
With their experienced, trained and
licensed staff, RRS has the expertise and
technology to address your business
security needs 24/7, 365 days a year.
RRSs goal is to provide the highest
quality service at a competitive price with
the best possible customer satisfaction.
Rapid Response Securitys Business
Marketing Manager Nikhil Yanala says, At
Rapid Response Security, we dont consider
our new customers as sales, but as longterm clients. We do whatever is in our
power to satisfy the security needs of our
clients.
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115 Boundary Road
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Purpose built childcare

licensed for 60 children
Seven (7) year lease from
2015 plus rights of renewal
Annual rent increments for
assured growth
Returning $169,850pa plus
GST and Outgoings
Auction (unless sold prior)

11am, Wed 12 Aug 2015
4 Viaduct Harbour Ave, Auckland
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Prime Ministers Business

Scholarships awarded
welve senior executives

and business owners
have been given the
opportunity to attend the worlds
most prestigious business schools
after receiving Prime Ministers
Business Scholarships.
Economic
Development
Minister Steven Joyce says
the scholarships will allow
our smartest executives to
expand
their
international
expertise, and are designed to
grow business skills to help
make New Zealand firms more
internationally competitive.
The
scholarships
offer
recipients the chance to study at
the worlds best business schools.
They provide an opportunity to
learn international best practices
in management and leadership.
funding covers up to 50 percent of

course-related costs.
Our distance from overseas
markets and the size of our
economy can be a challenge
to firms wanting to enter
international
markets,
Mr Joyce says.
The scholarships will help to
develop valuable networks and
the global mindset of our business
leaders. Ultimately, this will help
to grow our economy and make
New Zealand businesses more
internationally competitive.
An extra month to get free

influenza vaccines
ealth Minister Jonathan

Colemansays the2015
seasonal
influenza
immunisation programme will be
extended from 31 July to the end
of August.
Ministry of Health surveillance
suggests that influenza has not
yet peaked this winter. To help
ensure people have the protection
they need we are extending the
funded vaccination season until 31
August, says Dr Coleman.
The A-H3N2 strain, which is
covered by the vaccine, appears
to be the predominant type
this strain affects the elderly and
very young more severely than
other strains.
The influenza vaccine is free

for people aged 65 years and over,
pregnant women, people with
long term health conditions such
as severe asthma, and children
under five years who have been
hospitalised for a respiratory

illness. People with Down
Syndrome and those with cochlear
implants are now eligible for
the vaccine.
Influenza vaccine is also
available for purchase from
general practices and many
pharmacies for those who are not
eligible for the free vaccine.
Although the vaccine was
delayed worldwide by a few weeks,
the health sector has quickly
caught up with previous years
distribution, says Dr Coleman.
To date, almost 1.19 million
flu vaccines have been distributed
across the country, protecting
over a quarter of our population.
WTO procurement agreement opens up the

world for Kiwi companies
conomic
Development
Minister Steven Joyce
and Trade Minister Tim
Groser has announced that New
Zealand has finalised its accession
to the World Trade Organisations
Agreement
on
Government
Procurement (GPA), and it will
come into effect next month.
New Zealand businesses will
have guaranteed access to bid
for an estimated US$1.7 trillion
in annual overseas government
contracts through joining the GPA,
which creates new opportunities
for Kiwi businesses to export more
products and services to more
destinations, Mr Joyce says.
Formal procedures in Geneva

have now been completed which
means that from mid-August,
New Zealand companies will be
able to do business freely across
43 WTO member countries,
including the US, Canada, Japan
and 28 countries of the EU.
The GPA covers the purchase
of a broad range of goods and
services that government agencies
buy from the private sector,
including
construction,
and
will help achieve the Business
Growth Agenda goal of increasing
exports to 40% of GDP by 2025,
Mr Joyce says. New Zealands
accession follows two years
of negotiations.
From next month, New Zealand

exporters seeking to access
the government procurement
markets of the other GPA
member countries will be able to
compete on equal terms with their
international counterparts, Mr
Groser says.
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for early stage
investment extended
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The knowledge gained from
the worlds top business schools
by our senior executives will
benefit the companies they
return to.
This is the sixth year
the scholarships have been
awarded.Recipients will study
at a range of top international
institutions such as Harvard
Business School, INSEAD (The
Business School for the World),
and the London Business School.
The study programmes range
from 4 weeks to 20 months and
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conomic
Development
Minister Steven Joyce has
announced this week that
the Government is extending its
underwrite of the New Zealand
Venture
Investment
Fund
(NZVIF) through to 2022.
NZVIF plays an important
role in developing the start-up and
growth capital markets for New
Zealand-originated
companies
with high-growth potential, says
Mr Joyce.
It has been instrumental in
building up New Zealands angel
and venture capital investor
markets from small beginnings to
the point where private and public
venture capital investment since
2003 has reached $1.1 billion. The
angel investment formal market
has provided a further $353
million since it started in 2006.
The $100 million underwrite
facility from the Crown will be
extended until 2018, and will
then continue at a reduced figure
of $60 million until 2022, as
returns to NZVIF from earlier
investments become available for
reinvestment.
This will give NZVIF the
flexibility and confidence to
continue to make co-funding
commitments into new venture
capital funds and partnerships,
Mr Joyce says.
To meet high demand for

NZVIFs Seed Co-investment
Fund, the Government is also
transferring $12 million within
NZVIF from the Venture Capital
Fund to the Seed Co-investment
Fund, which has helped to start
more than 115 companies.
NZVIF
has
made
and
continues to make an important
contribution
towards
the
diversification of the New Zealand
economy, and the development
of exciting new companies and
industries, Mr Joyce says.
The Government expects
NZVIF to become self-sustaining
over time, and the extension of
this guarantee will give the fund
the time to make that adjustment.
Since its establishment as a
government-owned and funded
company, NZVIF has invested
$147 million, alongside private
investors, into 187 of New
Zealands most promising growth
companies including Xero, Orion
Health, PowerbyProxi, Vend and
Booktrack.
Those companies have raised
total investment capital of more
than $1.4 billion. Four NZVIFbacked companies have market
capitalisations of more than $50
million and seven have listed on
stock exchanges.
Auckland kids missing out

on free GPs
housands of Auckland
children
are
missing
out on free doctors
visits despite claims from the
Government that take-up had
exceeded expectations, Labours
Health spokesperson Annette
King says.
Health Minister Jonathan
Coleman has been quick to talk up
the success of the Governments
scheme to subsidise doctors visits
to children under 13.
However 22 practices in
Auckland DHB have chosen not to
opt into the scheme.
That means up to 5000 six to
12 year olds will not be able to see

their GP for free.
If doctors feel they are unable
to provide this service, there is
clearly an issue with the amount
of funding available.
Dr Coleman has said if
practices didnt opt in there were
easily accessible alternatives.
That suggests he is comfortable
having
parents
driving
considerable distances with a sick
child to find a doctor.
This is another example of
this Government underfunding a
policy and expecting an already
stretched frontline to pick up the
pieces, Annette King says.
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Economy and jobs under

threat from dairy price
wipe out
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ilk prices hitting an all-time

low in the latest dairy auction
is more evidence of the
disastrous impact of the complacency of the
National Government ontheeconomy and
NewZealandjobs and incomes, Labours
Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson
says.
There has been another double-digit fall
in dairy prices overnight, whichare now at
their lowest level since Global Dairy Trade
auctions began. Prices have fallenmore
than 40 per cent since March and are 62 per
cent lower than last years peak.
Fonterras forecast of $5.25 per kg of
milk solids for the current season is based
on prices heading back towards US$3500
a tonne in the coming year. At $1848 per
tonne of whole milk powder, it is now closer
to half that price.
This ninth successive fall in dairy prices
is the latest in a series of bad news for
the New Zealand economy, so dependent
on dairy exports. Business confidence is
negative,wage and consumer confidence is
plummeting, unemploymentremains high
with fewer advertised jobs, wage growth
is stagnant and overall exports continue
to fall.
Theeconomicsignalshave been clear
for months now, yet thecomplacency of
the Government has put jobs, incomes and
the viability of productive New Zealand
businesses at risk.
Grant Robertson
Just a few weeks ago the Reserve Bank

Governor warned of the risk that dropping
dairy prices represents to our economy.
The expanding $13 billion economic black
hole from this price collapse willcause
significant economic damage to regions
that are heavily reliant ondairyand
the wider economy unless the government
acts swiftly.
Sitting on our hands and wishing it
all goes away cannot be the answer. New
Zealanders deserve better than that.
Labour believes a responsible government
would have made far greater efforts to build
and diversify industries, invest more in our
regions and in research and development.
National
squandered
economic
opportunities while it was riding the wave
of commodity prices, now that it is crashing
down, New Zealanders are paying the cost
of the wipe out, Grant Robertson says.
Multi Tenanted Investment Opportunity

8-12 Clyde Road , Browns Bay , Auckland
First time on the market ever!

Freehold investment with huge profile and exposure
Located on the corner of Clyde and Anzac Road
Fully leased returning $267,639 net pa + GST
Established tenants on the ground floor with various oce tenants above
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Properties of this nature are sought after in a tightly held location of Browns Bay.
Tenants enjoy huge exposure to high trac flows daily and the benefit of being
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Land Area
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Auction (unless sold prior)

11am, Wednesday 12th August 2015
Maritime Square, Ground Floor
4 Viaduct Harbour Avenue
Auckland, New Zealand
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M +64 21 711 755
B +64 9 489 0988
ranjan.unka@bayleys.co.nz
Devereux Howe-Smith Realty Ltd, Bayleys
Licensed under the REA Act 2008
Brian Caldwell
M +64 274 815 505
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Devereux Howe-Smith Realty Ltd, Bayleys
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Minister welcomes Tourism

Industry Association partnership
new partnership between the

Department of Conservation and
New Zealands largest tourism
industry organisation will benefit both our
natural environment and the economy,
Conservation Minister Maggie Barry says.
The partnership will see DOC work
with the Tourism Industry Association to
promote tourism on conservation land and
beyond across the country.
Tourism is our second biggest industry,
worth around $24 billion, and our unique
and spectacular natural environment is a
major drawcard for international visitors,
which is yet another good reason to look
after it. Ms Barry says.
DOC is at the heart of tourism in this

country, safeguarding and providing
access to our natural and historic heritage.
It makes sense for DOC and TIA to
work towards shared goals through a
formal agreement.
Both parties will work closely together
on five goals: communication, building
relationships,
ensuring
compliance,
promoting each others interests and
growing conservation efforts around
the country.
The partnership has been developed
after last years successful DOC/TIA
Tourism Connection Forums.
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Warmer, safer homes

Kanwaljit Bakshi
National List MP
ith
temperatures
plummeting recently,
many Kiwis will be
wondering what they can do to
stay warm. Its no secret many New
Zealand homes, particularly rental
properties, are not well insulated.
To bring more homes up to
standard, the Government is asking
landlords to provide under floor and
ceiling insulation in 180,000 rental

properties across the country.
This will mean less hospital
patients with circulatory and
respiratory illnesses, and less
money spent on medication. It will
also mean New Zealanders take
fewer sick days.
It is also worrying to note an
estimated 120,000 rental properties
currently do not have working
smoke alarms.
The Government is requiring
smoke alarms to be installed in all
tenanted properties from 1 July
next year. This is expected to save
three lives a year. Some people have
asked why we dont require more of

landlords. This is because landlords
will almost certainly pass the
cost of heavy-handed regulations
on to their tenants through
rent increases.
If a property requires a smoke
alarm, as well as ceiling and floor
insulation, we would expect the rent
to go up by $3.20 per week.
That cost is more than
outweighed by the benefits of a
home being warmer and safer, and
cheaper power and medical bills.
Other issues like leaky roofs,
excessive dampness and unsafe
wiring are already covered by
Black
existing regulations. They just need

to be enforced. As part of these
changes well be toughening up
on that.
The Government is taking the
first step by requiring underfloor
and ceiling insulation in heavily
subsidised social housing by 1 July
next year.
Other rental housing, including
boarding houses, will be required
to be insulated from 1 July, 2019.
Exceptions will be made for houses
in which it is physically impractical
to do so.
This is the logical next step
to follow Government initiatives
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Warm Up New Zealand Healthy

Homes and Heat Smart, which have
insulated 280,000 homes.
Abandoned rental properties are
also part of these changes because
every abandoned house that stands
empty is a place another family
could move in to.
Instead of the current six weeks,
there will be a new 10-day process
to get new tenants in where the
current tenant has no intention
of returning.
These are practical and cost
effective ways to improve the lives
and health of New Zealanders.
All sizzle and no sausage

Barry Coates
Green Party
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he government has plans for

growth. Lots of them - 350 plans
and only 62 priorities! But more
isnt better. There needs to be a strategy
behind the plans.
The reality is that the plans are not
working. New Zealanders work harder
and earn less than most other people in
the developed world. While GDP figures
say the economy is growing, wages arent
rising, except for Chief Executives their
pay has increased dramatically. Inequality
has grown over the past 30 years. Most New
Zealanders are struggling to pay the bills
and worried about keeping their jobs.
Finance Minister Bill English sees
our low-wage economy as a competitive
advantage, saying that New Zealands 30
per cent lower wages than Australias should
attract more business. This approach has
benefitted few, but harmed most of us.
New Zealands productivity per worker has
stagnated and our wages have fallen behind
the rest of the developed world. Wages are
so low that the government has to provide
tax credits for working families.
The governments plans help foreign
investors buy our coastal property, houses,
farms and local companies, and provide
incentives for environmentally-destructive
mining, deep sea oil drilling, coal production
and intensive dairy farming. This pumps
up the short-term economic data, but the
figures are misleading. As the saying goes,
its all sizzle and no sausage. In reality we
are living off a speculative bubble, with high
housing prices and environmental damage,
selling off our assets and making a few
people richer.
The governments gamble on more and

more commodity production has gone sour.
Our farmers are hostages of the boom-bust
cycles of commodity prices.
The milk powder price has halved since
the estimate in the government budget just
a few months ago.
The result will be continued deficits
and more government debt, compounding
the growing mountain of foreign owned
private debt. 1973 was the last year when
New Zealand recorded a current account
surplus, meaning we have been spending
more than we have been earning as a nation
for the past 40 years.
We need a clear vision that brings us all
together to build a better economic future.
The Green Party has a clear vision for
our economy. Our future lies in working
smarter, not working harder for lower
wages, and creating incentives for a high
value, sustainable economy.
We need to invest more in the businesses
of the future, and in education and skills that
will enable workers to benefit from higher
value production and better incomes. We
need to build businesses exporting higher
value added products, not commodities. We
need to support clean technology and grow
jobs in the fast growing sectors of the world
economy, not prop up polluting industries.
We need better regulation to ensure
competition and fair prices, and a long term
plan to transition towards a low emissions
economy, instead of the failed Emissions
Trading Scheme.
The Green Party policies behind this
vision are on our website at www.greens.org.
nz. Join us in creating a more sustainable
and prosperous future.
Barry Coates is a Green Party list
candidate just outside Parliament.
He is an economist with a Masters in
Management from Yale University and
was formerly Executive Director of
Oxfam New Zealand.
NEW ZEALAND
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Government move on
rental standards a
reasonable first step
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ucklandCouncils Deputy Mayor

said that the Governments
announcement
of
minimum
standards for rental housing is a reasonable
first step in improving the lot of tenants.
These proposed changes are an
important step in lifting the standard of
rental properties, while ensuring tenants
have greater rights, says Aucklands
Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse.
The new standards rely on tenants
making a complaint about the state of
their rental accommodation, says Penny
Hulse. Given the shortage of rental housing
in Auckland, the Deputy Mayor sees a
continuing risk that tenants would be
unwilling to complain.
Building and Housing Minister Dr
Nick Smith said that the Residential
Tenancies Act will be strengthened to
include new requirements for insulation
and smoke alarms, while allowing
for greater powers to investigate and
prosecute
landlords
for
breaking
tenancy laws.
Thirty-nine per cent of Auckland
households live in non-owner-occupied
dwellings, according to 2013 New Zealand
Census of Population and Dwellings figures.
All you need to know about your rates bill
rom this week, Aucklanders will be

able to see their individual rates
online for 2015/16. For some, the
changes may be confusing, and some may
see a larger increase than last year. It is a
complex picture and a number of factors
affect what people will pay.
First, the single rating system means
from this year everyone pays rates on the
same basis, no matter where they live. It
also means rates increases and decreases
are no longer capped.
For example, from this year a $750,000
property in Waitakere will pay the same
rates as a $750,000 property in Orakei.
Second, the average general rates increase
is 2.5 per cent. This breaks down to a 4.2
per cent average increase for residential;
business 1.4 per cent; and farm/lifestyle a
decrease of 9.7 per cent. This is needed to
respond to our regions strong growth. Note
how this compares to previous rises- pre
amalgamation the average rates rise was
5.4 per cent per year, and standardising the
rates across the board means that next year
residential increases will be 3.7 per cent
across the board.
Third- Revaluation. Auckland properties
underwent a three-yearly revaluation in
2014. Property values determine the share
of rates Aucklanders will pay from July 15.
All local authorities, including Auckland
Council, do this to help set the rates.
Property values dont determine the
amount of rates we collect, just how they
are shared out among ratepayers. If your

property has increased by more than
the average increase its likely your rates
will go up.
Fourth- the Interim Transport Levy:
Auckland needs urgent investment in
transport to respond to the demands of
growth, including new bus and cycle lanes
and roads.
Council is seeking support from central
government to reach an agreement on how
Auckland can raise its alternative transport
funding to help pay for this. In the interim
the council has opted for a three year
Interim Transport Levy to provide some of
the additional investment needed. This will
be a fixed charge as part of everyones rates
bill that will raise $186 million over three
years and be tagged to specific projects.

The levy works out to about $2 a week
for residential ratepayers and $3.50
for businesses. NZTA is helping out by
providing $215m and were using an
additional $122m from debt to see a total of
$523m invested over the next three years.
For people who may struggle to pay their
rates bills this year, Auckland council is
offering a range of options to help smooth
or even postpone payments. In some cases
people may be eligible for a rates rebate.
If you need assistance, councils call
centre staff can talk through your options,
including postponement or eligibility for the
Governments rebate scheme. The scheme
is administered by Auckland Council.
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Fiji media decree amendment may mean

more freedom
nder the amendment,

individual
journalists
are spared fines not
exceeding up to 500 USD ($1,000
FJD/$471 USD).
However, media organisations,
their editors and publishers,
and corporate bodies are still
liable to heavy monetary fines or
imprisonment terms, or both.
The president of the Fijian
Media
Association,
Ricardo
Morris, says this is a step
forward, as it means ordinary
journalists
don't
have
the
prospect of a fine hanging over
their head.
He says however, they are

concerned fines for editors and
publishers still exist.
"There's a possibility that
might have a knock on effect
on the work that editors and
publishers are ready to sanction.
But we remain optimistic that
won't be the case and it's a first
step in amending this decree or
removing it completely and so it
is to be welcomed." The editor in
chief of Fiji Times, Fred Wesley,
says he hopes the amendment will
allow journalists to do their work
without fear.
The Fijian Media

Association says
it has hoped an
amendment to the
Media Industry
Development Decree
will bring about
more freedom for
journalists
An amendment to the Media

Industry Development Decree in
Fiji means individual journalists
can no longer be fined up to
$1,000 Fiji dollars for breaches.
India to see more Fijian dancers
he
Indian
High
Commission in Fiji is
actively working to send
more groups to India from Fiji
who can perform both Indian and
iTaukei dance items.
Indian High Commissioner to
Fiji Gitesh Sarma said this was
one way they could help showcase
some aspects of the Fijian culture in
their country.
We would like to take Fijian
groups to India so eventually it
will not only be typical Indian
performances but this wonderful
music and culture that you have
as well, we would like India to
appreciate the Fijian culture as
well, Mr Sarma said.
Ancient Indian dances and
music,
fusion
performances
were performed by the centres
Bharatnatyam students. More than
amendment does not resolve the

issue of media censorship.
Its programme manager, Ken
Cokanasiga, says lifting fines on
journalists is positive, but the
status quo isn't going to change.
"Once that news hits that
organisation to the publisher, to the
editor, they will then have to tweak it
so that it will suit government, that
way they don't get into trouble. So
that's why we're saying that it hasn't
really changed much. Once it hits the
tables of the editors and the media
organisation, it still comes down to
the same thing, self-censorship.
NZ funds training
modules for WAF
progamme
T
Indian High Commissioner Gitesh Sarma (centre) with the dancers
50 people attended the event.

The mandate of the Indian
Cultural Centre is not only on
promoting the Indian culture but
also the local culture of where it
is located.
Fiji itself has a rich culture and
tradition, so we must give equal
importance to different kinds of
Minister hails role of Fiji Hindi

ducation Minister Mahendra
Reddy says the Fiji Hindi
dialect has remained and
evolved and needs to be preserved.
He says Fiji sits within a global
region identified for language loss
because of the effects of colonialism.
Mr Reddy made the comment
on Wednesday night during the
opening for Kaise Baat IV at USP.
The programme Kaise Baat
was initiated in 2012 by Mohit
Prasad with a view to encouraging
academic and community nexus on
promoting, reviving, and discussing
Fiji Hindi as a plantation language
unique to the Fiji Islands.
Mr Reddy said Fiji Hindi was
a unique language, which grew
from the indenture experiences
and became the common language
from diverse groups of dialects and
languages from India.
Fred Wesley says publishers

and editors still face the possibility
of huge fines, but the amendment
is a positive step forward.
He says it will impact on the
kind of stories journalists can do
more freely.
"There are obviously a few
challenges there, but it's a positive
move by the government, this is
the first positive step forward and
hopefully it's going to reflect in
young journalists being allowed to
do their work without fear."
But
the
Fiji
Citizen's
Constitutional Forum says the
This included dialects from

North India such as Bhojhpuri and
Awadi among others and South
Indian languages such as Tamil,
Telugu and Malayalam after 1903.
Fiji Hindi evolved as a common
language with borrowings from
these languages as well as from
Fijian and English, he said.
Mr Reddy said it remained and
evolving language and has its own
distinct language varieties and
local dialects like the Vanua Levu
Fiji Hindi.
Fiji Hindi has also become the
common language among later free
Indian migrants to Fiji and common
currency in spoken words between
Indo Fijians and other ethnic
groups like the Indigenous Fijians
or iTaukei, Chinese migrants,
Other Pacific Islanders and part
Europeans, he said.
News source: Fiji Sun
indigenous cultural aspects as well

so I think that has come out well and
how much respect and appreciation
there is for music and dances of any
kind, he said.
Meanwhile, the Commission is
now in the process of identifying
the dance group to showcase Fijian
culture in India.
he
New
Zealand
Government is providing
more than $800,000 in
funding for a series of training
modules for Water and Waste
Services in support for Water
Authority of Fijis (WAF) capacity
building programme.
At a press conference held at
the WAF head office, New Zealand
High Commissioner Amanda
Vercoe announced the initiative,
saying 180 of WAF employees are
expected to benefit from the series
of training modules that will start
this week and run through the
remainder of the year.
WAF CEO Opetaia Ravai says
as the national provider of water
Creativity at its best
pashna Lal, a Year 12

student of Korovuto
College in Nadi has a
passion for journalism.
In fact, shes on a creative streak
at the moment and decided to
show her interests off by designing
a dress made from newspaper.
Upashna created a dress made
out of Fiji Sun paper formed into
a simple bow. Her proud mother
Sashi Lal, was impressed with her
daughters creation.
It took her a week to make
that costume and we at home have
supported her for her interest,
Mrs Lal said.
She has done a lot of school
projects; she learned to make a
bow from paper where she then
decided to use that idea and
create something big. It was an
Upashna Lal (right) poses in the dress she

designed
awareness day in school and she

had no idea what to wear to school
at first until she came up with
this one.
Upashnas
passion
and
dedication to costume making
resulted in a beautiful piece of art
that caught the eye of many.
New Zealand High Commissioner

Amanda Vercoe
and waste water services, it is

absolutely critical for WAF to have
well-trained and highly skilled
staff to meet the ever increasing
demand for quality water and
waste water services in Fiji.
Upashna used the materials

to inform people that media
had a way of creating awareness
on issues. Upashna said, Fiji
Sun is the biggest paper in print
media and a good way to create
awareness such as on drugs.
Fiji Sun is readily available to
many people around the country
and people can learn a lot from
reading the paper.
I have an interest in journalism
and therefore this was an idea I
obtained to take to my school.
Upashna participated in a Drug
Awareness Day Programme at
her school where she marched in
her costume.
Her message to the public:
Stay aware from drugs, it is
within our hard work that you can
achieve your goals.
FIJI
15
History-making continues for Rio-bound Fiji
Red
Black
Orange
iji have continued their

record-breaking
streak
by qualifying for their
maiden Mens Olympic Football
Tournament after a nail-biting
final against Vanuatu this evening.
The final was played under
lights at Sir Hubert Murray
Stadium in Port Moresby and
went all the way to penalties after
120 goalless minutes with Jale
Dreloa, captain of Fiji during the
recent FIFA U-20 World Cup
campaign, converting the crucial
final spot kick.
Fiji coach Carlos Buzzetti was

ecstatic to have overseen another
historic performance from Fiji.
What an incredible game, a
truly final game. They deserved
as we deserved to win it,

Buzzetti says.
It was an amazing 90 minutes
of football, followed by 30
minutes of extra time and then
down to penalties and it was miss,
score, miss. But for me this is
something special.
Its the second historic
moment for Fiji and historic
because Fiji has never qualified for
the Olympics before, but also no
Pacific Island nation has qualified
before. This was an amazing
opportunity for both sides.
It was all systems go from the

outset with both sides putting
early pressure on their opponent
in an effort to get ahead. The
play flew from end to end, with
Vanuatu looking much more likely
to score.
While Vanuatu looked like
they were getting the majority of
chances, it was still a match that
either side could have taken at any
point with Fiji just as unfortunate
in front of goal as their opponent.
Adding to the difficulties up
front was Fiji keeper Tevita Koroi
and Vanuatu glove man Selonie

Iaruel having the performances of
their lives with some impressive
saves at either end of the field.
With the sides inseparable after
normal time, and extra time, it
came down to a penalty shoot-out
to help identify a winner. Vanuatu
captain Brian Kaltack was first
up and wasted no time firing in
the first penalty for his side. As it
stood, only Brian and his cousins
Jean and Tony were able to
convert from the spot while it was
a similar story from the Fiji side.
News source: Fiji Sun
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Action needed
to tackle sexual
violence in Fiji
he Fiji Womens Crisis Centre

says there needs to be more than
just the condemnation of sexual
violence, the words must also carry into
action. The comments follow reports last
week of the rape and brutal assault of a
nine-year-old girl in Nakasi.
The co-ordinator of the Fiji Womens
Crisis Centre, Shamima Ali, says whenever
there is a nasty incident there is shock and
horror and statements are made, but then
the issue dies down again.
She says all stakeholders, including
the government and faith based
organisations, need to come together
so they can share information, and look
at international best practice on how to
tackle sexual violence.
Everyone has to do their job, law
enforcement has to be trained, if you have
good laws, are they being implemented?
What is the attitude within the courts with
gender based violence, particularly sexual
crimes against women and children. So I
think those things need to be done, and
very honestly and openly. Shamima
Ali says gender equality must also be
promoted in all walks of life.
Ratu Epeli
Concerned With
Pacific STI/HIV
resident Ratu Epeli Nailatikau

said finding pragmatic and
sustainable solutions to STIs
and HIV/AIDS is one of his main
concerns now.
He made these comments while
opening the symposium for the Oceania
Society for Sexual Health and HIV Medicine
at Tanoa Plaza Hotel in Suva.
In this day and age when we have
medication that can prevent mother to child
or vertical transmission, we should not have
any such cases at all,he said.
Ratu Epeli added that every year globally
around 1.4 million women living with HIV
became pregnant.
I have and will continue to promote a
more practical solution to STIs and HIV
and that is to advise all but particularly those
in the 14 to 29 and the 30 to 39 age youth
groups the most sexually active, the bulk
of the education and working population
and the most vulnerable, on the need to use
protection such as condoms. The motto is to
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Editorial
From the desk of the

Managing Editor
When everything seems to be going

against you... remember that the airplane
takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
Anything but funny
am currently reading Jane Kelseys recently released book The FIRE economy.
A brilliant book that states that - built on finance, insurance and real estate is
now the worlds principal source of wealth creation. Its rise has transformed
our political, economic and social landscapes, supported by a neoliberal regime that
celebrates markets, profit and risk. From rising inequality and ballooning household
debt to a global financial crisis and fiscal austerity, the neoliberal orthodoxy has
brought instability and empowered the few. Yet it remains remarkably resilient, even
resurgent, in New Zealand and abroad.
In 1995 Jane Kelsey (currently professor at Auckland University) set out a
groundbreaking account of the neoliberal revolution in The New Zealand Experiment.
Now she marshals an exceptional range of evidence to show how this transfer of
wealth and power has been systematically embedded over three decades. I highly
recommend this book for those who are economically keen. The release of his book is
quite timely with the current economic environment exasperated by Labours creative
approach to blame Asian investors for the soaring house prices in New Zealand.
Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy says blaming ethnic groups for
complex economic problems is neither new nor unique to New Zealand.
Dumbing down complex economic woes and blaming them on an ethnic
community whose members are already feeling under pressure is neither new nor
unique but its always disappointing, said Dame Susan.
Economists have voiced real concerns with the legitimacy of the half baked data
thats been released this weekend, if we are going to address Aucklands inflationary
housing market then expert data, evidence and analysis is crucial.
Chinese New Zealanders deserve better than this and so does anyone keen on
actually solving this issue.
Social media sites and news agencies in China are running hot with feedback
in reaction to suggestions that overseas-based Chinese investors have an undue
influence on the Auckland property market.
Associate Professor Dr Henry Chung from Masseys School of Communication,
Journalism and Marketing, who has been studying the Chinese market for more
than 20 years, says reaction in China has been huge. He says responses on its
equivalent search engine to Google have multiplied since the release of figures by
the Labour Party claiming foreign speculators were fuelling Aucklands over heated
housing market. The Chinese Herald described the figures as a deep water bomb to
New Zealand society and especially the Chinese community, while the news agency
Xinhua could not agree with the Labour Partys findings because it is not possible to
confirm the real originality of these buyers.
Mr Chung, who is originally from Taiwan and is based at Masseys Auckland
campus, says it must be remembered that many other people born in Asia, including
Koreans and Malaysians, shared surnames such as his own with Chinese people.
While this may not directly affect the Indian community, it is a fact that the
majority of Indians diligently save to invest in the property market. Perhaps if data
was drawn up, Indians would also feature amongst the top investors in the property
market. While this is an interesting environment, it will be worthwhile to watch
this space.
On a brighter note, the holy month of Ramadan comes to a close and our Muslim
brothers and sisters heartily celebrate Eid, around the world. On behalf of the entire
Indian Weekender family, I would like to wish our readers Eid Mubarak. May this Eid
bring the best of health, wealth and happiness to all our readers and their families.
Until next time.
Giri Gupta
Courtesy:
Satish Acharya
Pick of the week
Thats the super tweet that went out from the Indian Prime Ministers official account
and went viral on the micro blogging site. The Twitterverse was quick to grab on to this
Theopportunity
much awaitedtoand
much
celebrated
imagetweets
of Pluto
taken
from
themost
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super
turn
into
fun memes,
and
gifs.
The
followed Indian
spacecraft
that reached
Pluto
on July 14
after
traveling
threetour.
billion miles. For an
politician
on
Twitter,
Modi
is
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Wheres the virtue in violence?
Red
Black
OPINION / EDITORIAL
17
Orange
We want to voice what affects us; we want to be heard. This is our platform to stand united against all odds.
Paula Ray
he cricket bat has made

the country proud, and
the same community of
people in New Zealand equally
proud. Yes, I am talking about
Indians and their relationship
with the magical swing of the
cricket bat.
Last year, the wielding of the
same bat, albeit with no magical
intention, had brought shame to
the Kiwi-Indian community. It
put the perpetrator behind the
bars for three and a half years and
has left a family with two young
children heart-broken. All this
only because of a temporary lapse
in judgement.
Last July, Daljit Singh beat
up his wife with a cricket bat and
almost killed her, in a fit of anger,
when he suspected she was having
an affair with their flatmate. In all
probability, the wife was involved
in an extra-marital relationship.
And, of course, it is not the right
thing to do. It amounts to being
unfaithful
and
irresponsible
towards her legal partner. But
does it give Daljit the right to
harm her physically? In this case,
the injury was almost fatal.
After being remanded in
custody for a year, Daljit did
plead guilty before the court and
admitted that he should have

managed his anger better. He also
referred to his Indian mentality
as the cause for his grave decision.
By it, he perhaps meant his sense
of entitlement over his spouse.
When a group of people, say a
family, stays together for a while,
there is an automatic sense of
entitlement over each other. It
often keeps the family together,
and in a patriarchal setup, the
oldest male member takes on
the decision-making role. The
sense of entitlement also allows
spouses within a familial setup
develop certain expectations from
each other.
All these happen by default.
That doesnt make it legitimate.
The same sense of entitlement can
also make the family members feel

claustrophobic, especially when
boundaries are outlined in the
relationship. Every entitlement
comes with expectations. When
the expectations are not met, the
so-called victims are enraged and
driven to use their power over the
other in such a way that would
harm the perpetrator. So that
the latter realise their mistake and
retreat to the boundaries laid out
initially in the relationship.
But we are also allowed the right
to choose who we want to be with.
Most times, people look outside
of their committed relationship
because they are unhappy with
what they have. They have the
right to explore and step out too,
of course after conveying their
Sania Mirza makes India

proud. Again.
Esha Chanda
In early 2008, a court case was

filed against her when she was
photographed with her feet in
the vicinity of the national flag.
Many questioned her patriotism
when she decided to marry Shoaib
Malik, who is on Pakistans
cricket team. Later, when she
was appointed as the brand
ambassador of Telengana, a BJP
MP said she was a daughter-inlaw of Pakistan and therefore
shouldnt take on the role.
The world of sports is subjected
to sexism around the world. For
Mirza, her problem rose from
being born in a country such as
India where patriarchy rules the
society. So whether it was the
length of her skirt or her personal

choice of marrying someone who
is not an Indian, Mirza found
herself in the middle of a system
who wants to control everything
she does. They wanted to crush
her pride and her can-do spirit.
But again and again, Mirza
held her head high and continued
battling critics off-court and her
opponents on court. Year after
year, she proved to be victorious,
and throughout her journey, she
has represented India with dignity
and made her country proud. And
now that Mirza has a Wimbledon
title under her belt, the country is
ready to embrace their daughter
back with open arms.
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.
suffering for what is originally
her fault. Thus, she forgives the
husband and wants to redeem
their marriage. It is possible that
the wife has realised that it was a
mistake to get involved in an extramarital relationship. Or it could
be that the morals a conservative
patriarchal family are tugging at
her conscience and forcing her to
belittle her own suffering at the
hands of her so-called spouse.
In either case, should she try
to go back to her marriage? Is
domestic violence not a crime
serious enough to take precedence
over morals and values of a
conservative family system? How
long will be excused in the name of
keeping the family together? How
long will the physically weaker
spouse suffer brutality in the
hands of the superior?
Asian Investment
for better or for worse
Kumar Suresh
ania Mirza, the 28-yearold Tennis player, has

achieved
something
no Indian woman has before.
Paired with former World No 1,
Martina Hingis, Mirza created
history as they defeated Russian
duo Ekaterina Makarova and
Elena Vesnina in the final to
win the womens doubles title at
Wimbledon. It was a big day for
the womens game in India.
Mirza become the first Indian
woman to win the title, and her
journey to reach this pedestal has
not been easy. Since the media
first spotted her in 2009 when she
became the countrys first woman
to win a Grand Slam, she has
been subject to criticisms from
religious groups and politicians.
But amid all controversies, each
time she pulled off a major win,
it validated her ability to triumph
over criticisms.
In the early years of her career,
Muslim scholars criticised her
for wearing a short skirt while
playing the game. A fatwa was
issued by a group of Muslim
clerics demanding that her attire
was un-Islamic. In 2005, her
statement on safe sex whether
before or after marriage found
her in controversial waters again.
decision to their spouses.

The spouse may not be
equally willing to let go
of the relationship, and
quite agreeably it is not easy to
end a relationship, especially if it
is legitimised.
But as a mature and rational
adult, we should also learn to
accept our spouses decision. The
liberated way of life teaches us to
live and let live, even if sometimes
we have to make difficult decisions.
The outcome of this will always be
much more positive rather than
resorting to domestic violence.
Daljits action amounts to an act
of violence, with an intent to kill
the victim. Agreed that the wife, if
she was involved in a relationship
with the flatmate, was being
unfaithful and it is unacceptable.
Even then, it is not a crime grave
enough to be killed for. If Daljit
did not lose his mind to anger,
he could have taken a much more
calculated course of action that
would have been within the folds
of law and perhaps much more
damaging for the wife. But love
does make us blind. Team that
with a sense of entitlement and it
kills all perceptive senses for good.
At the hearing of the case, the
said wife requested the judge to
excuse her husbands offence
because she feels the latter is
he Aucklands real estate

market is all of a sudden
under
the
watchful
eyes of the entire country as the
Labour party has spectacularly
brought out its new finding to
fore about Chinese investment in
the countrys financial capital. It
is now any ones guess as to how
authentic or credible the source
of these numbers are especially
when one is told that the research
or survey is based on assorting
the names based on the last
names phonetics.
The mere number, 39.5%, that
the Labour party has arrived at,
doesnt tell the real story. Labour
party which itself has kept away
9% Chinese-New Zealanders out
of its debate, needs to probably
look at some of the other numbers
as well. Just subtracting some
number they have arrived at with
the percentage of a communitys
population in a city and assuming
that the remaining numbers are
non-residents of New Zealand
is preposterous.
Even
if
Labour
partys
calculations are partially true, it is
not hard to imagine that it is just a
natural phenomenon that is taking
place as Chinese and Indians do
not just look at real estate as a
place to stay, but as an investment.
Total number of Indian migrants
given long term permanent work

permits was standing at 12,100
last year with China standing next
with 7,700 migrants. With over
26% of Aucklands population
earning more than $50,000
annually, it will be safe to assume
that these migrants are at the
natural progression in their life
which demands them to settle
down in a new country with a new
place to stay. One testimony to
the fact that Indians tend to save
or re-invest their profits is that,
Indian women have 11% of the
gold of the world in their closets.
This amounts to 18,000 tonnes of
gold in the form of jewellery which
is more than the gold reserves of
the US federal reserves, which
stands at 8,133 tonnes.
For a natural upward growth of
any economy, active reinvestment
in any form is a necessity and is
a fundamental right in an open
economy operating on free market
principles. Contrary to Labour
partys views, if investment from
Asia is indeed taking place in
Auckland, it would actually help
the GDP growth rate of the entire
country. Foreign investment in
real estate in open economies has
been taking place across the globe
and even USA is not left out either.
In such a scenario, it should be
seen as a step backward if we
are observing foreign investment
as a deterrent.
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INDIA
Red
Black
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Modi launches Skill India mission, says it

will be youths war against poverty
rime Minister Narendra Modi on

Wednesday this week, launched the
Skill India Mission, terming it a war
against poverty by training youth to earn
their livelihood with honour and how the
young population could do wonders with
proper abilities.
Industry welcomed the endeavour as
need of the hour, while the Congress
however termed it yet another relaunch of
a UPA government programme.
Launching the programme on the first
World Youth Skills Day in presence of
union ministers, chief ministers and leaders
of industry, Modi said a large number of
Indias population is young and could do
wonders if trained well for various works
and trades available in the world.
A major part of our population is below
the age of 35 years. They are young and
need to be trained, he said, adding that
India would have to build on its strengths.
The prime minister said that the central
government has launched a war against
poverty by embarking on the mission to
train Indian youth to earn his livelihood
with honour.
We have begun a war against poverty.
Every poor is my soldier in this war and we
have to win this war with their support,
Modi said.
We have a large number of young
people in the world, we just have to train
and prepare them and I can assure you that

India would provide largest workforce to
the world in the decades to come, he said.
The last century was of IITs (Indian
Institutes of Technology) in the country, but
his government would want this century to
be of ITIs (Industrial Training Institutes),
he said.
India Inc expressed support for Modis
vision to train the youth skillfully.
Terming the Skill India Mission a
renewed effort to capitalize on Indias
demographic dividend and create a large
pool of skilled workforce, which is crucial
to support growth across sectors and
the economy at large, Microsoft India
chairman Bhaskar Pramanik said that a
skills mission of this scale will make the
training efforts more systematic and will
ensure a workforce which is professionally

skilled and meets industry needs.
The
Indian
Electronics
and
Semiconductor Association welcomed
the mission to harness the countrys
demographic
dividend
through
appropriate
and
large
scale
skill
development effort, which in turn should
make India a country of choice to address
global skill shortage.
This initiative in tandem with the Make
in India initiative should result in good
diversity in skills and high employment
outcome via a public-private partnership,
said its chairman Vinay Shenoy.
The Congress, however, said that
Modi government was doing nothing new
and just launching re-named UPA
government programmes.
Be it Nirmal Bharat, be it Beti Bachao

Yojana, be it Namami Gange that have been
launched by the UPA and have been working
successfully are being re-launched by the
prime minister. Is this the achievement
and the originality of thinking that Prime
Minister Narendra Modi claims? Congress
spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala
told media persons, terming it a relaunch of the National Skill Development
Mission (NSDP) launched in August 2010
under which 35 lakh people have already
been trained.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in group
photo with the Skill trainees, who won
international awards in different fields of
Skill Development, at the launch of the Skill
India Mission, on the occasion of the World
Youth Skills Day, in New Delhi on July 15,
2015. Also seen The Minister of State for
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
(Independent Charge) and Parliamentary
Affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy (centre left) and
the Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development
and Entrepreneurship Sunil Arora.
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he Greeces debt crisis

for a brief period of time,
has once again put the
lime light on the worlds new
alternate to the IMF and World
Bank, the New Developmental
Bank (NDB) setup by the BRICS
(Brazil, Russia, India, China and
South Africa).
With Russia openly offering to
help Greece with its crisis through
the new institution, world now has
a new alternate for funds.
Its
a
different
matter
altogether whether or not Greece
accepts the offer, but what is
important is the fact that set of
countries, which have been on
the receiving ends of sanctions in
the past, have come together and
are on the verge of opening doors
to the developing countries that
are desperate for impartial
financial support.
The idea of NDB was given
a shape last year by the BRICS
countries with the headquarters
of the institution in China with
an Indian president.
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recent past, last few months
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have seen an upheaval of sorts

in the way these countries look
at each other diplomatically
and politically. South Africa
and Brazil have been the mute
spectators with relationships
between Russia, China and India
taking new routes.
It was clear from the beginning
as to why Russia, burdened by
the series of sanctions from
the western countries after its
involvement in Ukraines crisis,
was rooting for NDB.
With many of its state owned
and private companies kept
away from western markets and
with the fall of crude oil prices,
Russias economy is staring
at a deep and a dark unending
spiral hole.
Russia sincerely hopes that

this new monetary body can
help revive fortunes of many
Russian companies.
One of many such sectors in
Russia which needs all the help
it can get is the manufacturing
sector which sells defence
equipment to other countries.
With India being the chief
business ally and importer all
these years in south Asia, it has
all the right to feel done in by
the deal Russia has signed with
Pakistan which will give access to
Indias historical foe, the Russian
fleet of JF-17 fighter planes and
MI-35 choppers matching the
capabilities of Indian air force.
With recent Indian inclination
towards USA for its defence
procurement, it is
not hard to believe
the
Russians
response but this,
coming at a time
during
BRICS
meet, was indeed a
low point between
the two countries
at the summit.
Diplomatically
in recent times,
Pakistan and India have shared a
remote similarity. India is an ally
of Russia and has had close ties
with USA and on the other hand,
Pakistan is the only ally of China
which sees eye to eye with USA.
The entire balance has gone
through many changes and with
Chinas direct developmental
investment in POK (Pakistan
occupied Kashmir), India is
definitely cornered.
Chinas urge to drub India at
almost any given opportunity
at the world stage has also not
helped ties between the two
countries. With China opposing
Indias move in UN for action
against
Zaki-Ur-Rehman
Laqvi, who India feels is the
mastermind behind Mumbai
attack, there must have surely

been
un-easiness
during
BRICS meet.
Last year too, when Modi was
hosting Chinas premier at his
den, Gujarat, Chinas military
trespassed Indian territorial
borders on regular counts.
This made sure that at a time
when Modi was leading the
campaign Made in India, China
tactically mocked India on its
face, telling the world what to
expect from a country which cant
even manage its geographies.
Though singled in South Asia,
India has strong backing from
other countries. Its economy has
shown signs of improvement with
pro-business regime taking over
last year.
By the end of this decade,
India is expected to contribute
10% of the worlds growth but for
now, it has had its task cut out.
Russia and China for now, seem
to have gained the most from the
BRICS meet this year.
It will be interesting to see
what these developing economies
have to offer next year at
BRICS summit.
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Rahul meets Delhi street

vendors
ongress vice president

Rahul Gandhi on Monday
met street vendors in
Raghubir Nagar in west Delhi and
listened to their grievances.
He also asked party workers
to fight for the rights of the street
vendors, including for getting them
licences to ply their trades.
The vendors called me to
complain about lack of proper
facilities. The poor workers have
not been given proper space in the
city, Gandhi said after meeting the
hawkers. Gandhi, accompanied by
Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee
chief Ajay Maken and Congress incharge of party affairs in Delhi P.C.
Chacko, went around the makeshift
cramped sheds from where the
vendors do their business.
I have heard their grievances
and will take it up with the
authorities, said Gandhi.
Maken said Rahul Gandhi
was instrumental in the passage
of Street Vendors (Protection of
Livelihood and Regulation of Street
Vending) Bill, 2014, which aims to
regulate street vending and protect
the rights of urban street vendors.
The act also protects the street
vendors from harassment by
police and civic authorities, besides
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providing them with protection of

livelihood rights and social security.
The leaders of Gujarati Vaghri
community, whose members are
mainly into street vending in the
area, said some 4,000 vendors ply
their business from the cramped
spaces in Raghubir Nagar. They
sought more space and better
amenities. Addressing a press
conference later, Maken accused
the Aam Admi Party government in
Delhi of not properly implementing
the law aimed at protection of
street vendors.
The AAP made a promise
to bring a law for street vendors
but has not done it. It is not even
implementing the existing law.
The people whom we met today

(Monday) told us that they have
to pay bribes (to carry out their
businesses), Maken said.
He said the Street Vendors
Act provides for giving vending
licences to two-and-a-half per cent
population of a city.
In Delhi, five lakh people can
get this licence, but not a single
person has got it so far. Our effort
will be to get these people the
licences, he said.
If this many people get licences,
it will directly benefit 14 per cent of
the population, Maken said.
He said Gandhi has asked party
workers to take up issue of street
vendors in a big way.
No Swacch Bharat without childrens

rights: Kailash Satyarthi
obel laureate and child rights activist Kailash

Satyarthi said the Indian laws still do not
define child labour in a definitive way and
that Swachh Bharat cannot be attained if childrens
rights are not protected.
How can the country be Swachh Bharat (Clean
India) if childhood is not protected and children do
not have access to quality education, Satyarthi asked
while lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (Save girl child, educate girl
child) campaign.
Even if our countrys Gross Domestic Product is
as high as 15 per cent, it is still a challenge for India
if children remain enslaved, Satyarthi added while
addressing a session on Child rights and issues at the
PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The Right to Education (RTE) Act has increased
enrollment in schools, but drop-out rate has been
equally high. This points to the need for quality
education in our schools. The RTE is a fundamental
right which opens the door to all other rights, the
Nobel Peace Prize winner laureate said.
According to a World Bank study, each dollar
invested in education will give 15-fold returns in 20
years, he said, and sought from the government,
industries and civil societies liberal investments in
childrens education. Satyarthi is the founder of
Bachpan Bachao Aandolan, an organisation aimed at
protecting child rights. The Child Labour (Prohibition

and Regulation) Act has a list of 18 hazardous
occupations and 65 processes which, he said, should
be retained in amendments.
India has the largest child population in the
world and the government pegs the number of
child labourers around 45 lakh, while nongovernmental agencies fix this figure at
more than five crore, the child rights
activist remarked.
On the proposed legislation
on juvenile justice, Satyarthi
said the amendment to the
Juvenile Justice Act is very
important in dealing with
cases where juveniles
have
committed
heinous crimes such
as rape or murder.
The bill seeks to
lower from 18 to 16
years the culpable
age of a juvenile
to be tried as
an adult for
heinous crimes.
30 launches planned in next three

fiscals: ISRO chief
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he Indian space agency has a roadmap

of 10 launches per year for the next three
financial years or a total of 30 launches in
the period, its chief AS Kiran Kumar said.
The Indian Space Research Organisation chief,
who met with his team and discussed the test of the
demo reusable launch vehicle, told media persons
that this it would take place in the latter half
of October.
This would approximately cost Rs.3 crore. The
whole purpose of testing the demo vehicle is the first
step towards designing the actual one. The demo
vehicle will travel around 90 kms, he said. Kiran
Kumar said their target

is to achieve 10 launches
a year.
By the end of this fiscal,
we expect to finish seven
launches and then to have
10 launches every year in the
next three fiscals, he said. On
the SAARC satellite, the ISRO chief
said that there was a meeting with five
member countries including Pakistan in
this connection last month.
ourist arrivals in the country under the e-visa facility have

witnessed more than 10-fold increase between January and
June 2015 compared with the same period last year, the
tourism ministry has said. The maximum arrivals were from the
United States under the scheme.
During January-June 2015, a total of 1,26,214 tourists arrived by
availing of e-visa facility compared with just 11,953 during the same
period in 2014, the ministry said. In June 2015 itself, a total of 15,557
tourists arrived in the country using the e-visa facility compared with
2,112 during the same month in 2014.
This growth may be attributed to introduction of e-tourist visa
for 76 countries as against 12 countries earlier, the statement said.
Among the top ten countries whose citizens availed of the facility
were: United States (41.71%), Australia (9.67%), Germany (7.21%,
Canada (4.86%), Korea (4.29%), France (3.38%), Singapore (2.73%),
United Arab Emirates (2.7%), Russia (2.53%) and Mexico (2.47%).
India launched the e-Visa scheme in November 2014 for 43 countries.
It was extended to Guyana and Sri Lanka in January 2015 and April
2015 respectively, followed by addition of 31 other countries in
June 2015.
Flipkart announces scheme for

employees to adopt kids
eading e-retailer Flipkart has unveiled a novel policy this

week to allow its employees to adopt children.
Our employees will be granted paid leave and Rs.50,000
allowance to meet legal, agency and regulatory costs for adoption.
We have about 30,000 employees across the country, a Flipkart
spokesman said. Adoptive mothers will get six months paid leave and
four months of flexible working hours, while adoptive fathers will be
eligible for six weeks of paid leave.
Noting that more working couples were adopting children, the
e-commerce player said its adoption assistance programme would
add value and encourage work-life balance among professionals.
The company, however, did not give break-up of its employees,
including working couples and how many of them will opt
for adoption.
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Independence Day parade
he Chicago suburb of Naperville is to

officially host the India Independence
Day parade this year, making it the
first city in Midwest America to do so.
The parade is organised in many
American cities by private organisations such
as the Federation of Indian Associations. The
parade will be held on August 16, a Sunday.
Napervilles Indian Community Outreach
Organization(ICO) and the Alliances of
Midwest Indian Association have jointly
organised the parade and related celebrations,
which includes hoisting the Indian flag at the
Naperville Municipal Center.
The organisers said that they anticipated
a large turnout, rivalling the Independence
Day parade in Chicagos little India Devon
Avenue, traditionally the biggest such event in
the area. The India Day Parade will showcase

Indias rich and diverse culture, with several
floats organised by Indian cultural, business
and political organisations. Spectators will
be treated to a rich variety of Indian cuisine,

ethnic arts, apparel and jewellery. At an event
to announce the parade, senior city officials
were unabashedly enthusiastic.
Naperville Mayor Steve Chirico and
Mayor Emeritus George Pradel lauded
the contributions of the suburbs Indian
American community. There was even a
proposal for Pradel to be the parade marshal
attired in a traditional Indian attire.
Indian Americans are now a significant
part of Napervilles population in both
numbers and impact, said ICO chairman
Krishna Bansal. The community, which
saw a dramatic grown since the 90s, now
comprises 10 per cent of the suburbs total
population. Moreover, with the recent influx
of information technology workers and
other professionals from India, more than

70 per cent are first generation immigrants.
Local observers see the parade as a symbol
of the rapid growth of the Indian American
community in the Chicago suburbs.
Indian-Americans are the largest Asian
ethnic group in Illinois, according to data
from the last census. Demographers and
Indian community leaders say they expect
that the figures will increase even more as
highly educated Indians continue to fill jobs
in the computer industry and change the face
of the suburbs. Naperville, ranked as one of
the most desirable American cities to raise a
family, is home to more than 10,000 IndianAmericans, making it the suburb with the
largest population of the community in the
area outside Chicago.
Indian-American physicians launch research foundation
he American Association of Physicians

of Indian Origin (AAPI), the largest
ethnic association of medical
professionals in the US, has launched
a Scientific, Academic Research Foundation
(SARF) for supporting key academic
research initiatives.
The pioneering initiative was launched

during a solemn ceremony, attended
by physicians, community leaders and
international media personnel at the Indian
Consulate in New York recently, according to
an AAPI release. SARF has been founded to
support and promote excellence in medicine,
advance key research and academic initiatives

and establishing a robust and credible process
of recognizing significant contributions of
Indian American Physicians with Excellence
awards, AAPI President Seema Jain said.
SARF award categories include Lifetime
Excellence for Research & Innovation,
Sunita Williams NASAs

commercial crew astronaut
ndian American Sunita Williams is

among four astronauts who have been
selected by NASA for commercial
flights to the International Space Station
(ISS) from US soil.
They will work closely with companyled teams to understand their designs
and operations as they finalise their
Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX Crew Dragon
spacecraft and operational strategies.
Williams, Robert Behnken, Eric Boe
and Douglas Hurley will be trained for
commercial spaceflights that will return
American launches to US soil and further
open up low-Earth orbit transportation
to the private sector, the US space
agency said.
These
distinguished,
veteran
astronauts are blazing a new trail that will
one day land them in the history books and
Americans on the surface of Mars, said
NASA administrator Charles Bolden.
Williams, a US Navy captain, received
her commission in the Navy in May 1987
and became a helicopter pilot, logging
more than 3,000 flight hours in more than
30 different aircraft.
NASA chose Williams for the astronaut
programme in 1998. She spent a total of
322 days in space and currently holds the
record for total cumulative spacewalk time
by a female astronaut (50 hours and 40
minutes). She now ranks sixth on the alltime US endurance list and second all-time
for a female astronaut.
Their selection allows NASA to move
forward with the training necessary to
Excellence in Leadership to Young

Physician Award, Excellence in Global
Health, Physician of the Year award and
Hall of Fame award.
The first ever SARF Inaugural Awards
Gala will be held on August 14 at the Pierre
Hotel in New York.
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This is a new and exciting era in the
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The Commercial Crew Transportation
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Sania Mirza, Leander Paes and Sumit Nagal claim titles at Wimbledon grand slam
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ndian tennis ace Sania Mirza

defied all odds to win her
maiden womens doubles
title at a Grand Slam event by
clinching the Wimbledon crown
with Swiss veteran Martina
Hingis in Wimbledon, London.
The top-seeded duo made a
remarkable comeback to beat
Russian second seeds Ekaterina
Makarova and Elena Vesnina 5-7,
7-6(4), 7-5 in two hours and 25
minutes in the final last weekend.
This was Sanias first womens
doubles title at Grand Slams
though the World No.1 has
three mixed doubles trophies at
Major events.
The only time before this she
reached a Grand Slam final in
womens doubles was at the 2011
French Open.
After clinching her maiden
Wimbledon womens doubles
title, Sania Mirza said she and
her partner Martina Hingis gave
it their all on the court even when
they were down in the topsyturvy encounter.
This was also the Hyderabadis
maiden final at the All England
Club across all senior formats

though she had won the girls
doubles title here 12 years ago
with Russias Alisa Kleybanova.
For a match like this, the No.1
and No.2 seeds playing, it was
the best match you could have
asked for the tournament. It was
unbelievably exciting to play.
I really hope it was exciting to
watch, too, Sania said.
Even when we were down, we
knew we were giving everything
we had on the court.
These are the moments we
worked years and years and all
our lives for.
This is what we play for. We
feel really honoured to have won
that match really.
Paes clinches
Slam title
16th
Grand
In the other match for mixed

doubles, the 42-year-old Indian
tennis ace Leander Paes once
again defied his age to clinch
the crown with Martina Hingis
thereby claiming his 16th Grand
Slam title.
Nagal wins Wimbledon boys

doubles title
Martina Hingis (L) of Switzerland and Sania Mirza of India pose with the trophy in the royal box during
the awarding ceremony for the womens doubles final against Ekaterina Makarova/Elena Vesnina of
Russia at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships in Wimbledon, southwest London, Britain on
July 11, 2015.
Seeded
seventh,
Paes
and
This is the fourth time Paes has
it with American Lisa Raymond, in

2003 with the legendary Martina
Navratilova and in 2010 with
Zimbabwean Cara Black.
He also has the mens doubles
title in his bag which he won here
with Mahesh Bhupathi way back in
1999. Overall, the Calcutta-born now
won the mixed doubles title at the
has eight mixed doubles and eight
All England Club. In 1999, he won
mens doubles Grand Slam titles.
Hingis joined hands one more time

to completely thrash AustrianHungarian fifth seeds Alexander
Peya and Timea Babos 6-1, 6-1 in the
final at Centre Court on Sunday.
Earlier, Sumit Nagal made sure

the Indian flag soared high much
before Paes match. Nagal etched
his name in the history books by
winning the Wimbledon boys
doubles title with Vietnamese
partner Nam Hoang Ly.
The 17-year-old Nagal and
Ly, seeded eighth, defeated
American-Japanese fourth seeds
Reilly Opelka and Akira Santillan
7-6(4), 6-4 in the final in an hour
and three minutes on No.1 Court.
Both pairs broke each other
once to push the first set in to the
tie-breaker where Nagal and Ly
proved a tad bit better to win the
set and take the lead in the match.
The eighth seeds were offered
only one breakpoint opportunity
in the second set which they
grabbed with open hands to get
the break of serve and win the set
and the match.
The New Delhi-born, righthanded player had also entered
the boys singles competition.
However, he was ousted from the
category in his opener when he
lost to Argentinean Juan Pablo
Ficovich in three sets.
India trounce Zimbabwe NZ ride on

to clinch ODI series 2-0 Devine fireworks
he Indian cricket team

displayed an all-round
performance to register a
commendable 62-run victory over
Zimbabwe in the second One-Day
International (ODI), with a match
yet to play, and thus clinch the
series 2-0 at the Harare Sports
Club in Harare, last week.
For India, openers Murali Vijay
(72) and skipper Ajinkya Rahane
(63) starred with the bat to help
the visitors reach 271/8 in 50
overs. In reply, some tight bowling
by the Indians and the hosts
wickets falling at regular intervals
choked Zimbabwe as they were
bundled out for 209 in 49 overs.
For India, Bhuvneshwar Kumar
(4/33) was the pick of the bowlers.
Put in to bat, India got off to
a slow start with captain Rahane
and Vijay taking their time to
settle down.
The two went on to score 39
in the first 10 overs. But India
managed to keep their wickets
and posted 78/0 in 20 overs.
Zimbabwe
bowlers
Neville
Madziva, Brian Vitori, Donald
Tiripano were all disciplined
and economical.
For Zimbabwe, Madziva (4/49)

was the pick of the bowlers.
Chasing 271, the hosts were
reduced to 43/3 by the 11th over
as opener Vusi Sibanda (2),
Hamilton Masakadza (5) and
Elton Chigumbara (9) fell in
quick succession.
Sean Williams (20) also
went back to the pavilion after
a brief stint with opener Chamu
Chibhabha as Zimbabwe were
reduced to 95/4 by the 25th over.
Chibhabha seemed in touch.
The fall of wickets at the other
end did not bother him as he

scored freely and took on the
Indian bowlers.
The right-handed batsman
struck nine fluent boundaries en
route his 70, but was unlucky as
he ran himself out in the 32nd
over when his team needed him to
stay with the score on 130/5.
Soon after, Sikandar Raza (18),
Richmond Mutumbami (32) and
Graeme Cremer (27) got off to
starts but fell in clusters to make
it difficult for the hosts to save
the match.
half-century by opener
Sophie Devine (70, 22b,
5x4, 8x6) propelled
visiting New Zealand to an eightwicket victory against India in
the first of the three womens
Twenty20
Internationals
in
Bengaluru, India last week.
Indias modest total of 125 all
out in 19.5 overs proved an easy
target for the White Ferns who
rode on Devines big-hitting and
89-run partnership for the second
wicket with Amy Satterthwaite
(39 not out, 35b, 3x4, 2x6) as the
visitors made 126/2 in just 12.3
overs to take a 1-0 lead.
The Indian innings was rather
disappointing, especially after
the hosts had won the ODI series
3-2 only a few days ago, courtesy
some solid batting.
Earlier, however, only skipper
Mithali Raj (35, 23b, 6x4), who
opened the innings, stood up to
the Kiwi onslaught as seamer
Morna Nielsen and left-arm
spinner Kate Broadmore took
three wickets apiece while offspinner Leigh Kasperek came
away with two.
New Zealand women cricketer Sophie Devine

during 1st T20I match between India and New
Zealand at Chinnasawamy Stadium, in
Bengaluru on July 11, 2015
The New Zealand reply began

on the wrong foot as they lost
opener Rachel Priest in the very
first over.
But thereafter, it was a oneway street as Devine plundered
the Indian attack in the company
of Satterthwaite.
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Esha Chanda
ast week, a man in

Northwest Delhis Rani
Bagh area was arrested
and sent to judicial custody for
allegedly raping his friends maid.
When dailies in India regularly
carry reports of sexual abuse, it is
more disturbing when the abuser
behind bars is identified as a man
from the police force.
Assistant sub-inspector Javeer
Singh was accused of raping
his friends maid at gunpoint.
The 23-year-old domestic help
approached the police on Friday,
July 10. Medical tests confirmed
the rape, following which Singh
was arrested and sent to 14 days of
judicial custody.
Earlier in April, two assistant
police inspectors and a police
constable in Mumbai were
arrested for rape after a 29-yearold model filed a complaint
saying that she was kidnapped
and sexually molested at a
police station.
Police brutality in India is not

a new phenomenon, and the same
holds true for other countries. A
range of human rights violations
has been committed by the police
force that includes arbitrary arrest
and detention and extrajudicial
killings.
There
have
been
scathing reports on abuse, racial
discrimination and the use of
excessive force by the US police
departments for more than two
decades. The Counted, a project
run by The Guardian, reports that
601 people have been killed so
far this year by the protectors of
the country.
In most cases it has been found
that the jury finds them not guilty
of the charges. Last year, a jury
acquitted former police officers
Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli
of the death of Kelly Thomas, a
homeless and mentally ill man.
Although the surveillance camera
caught the two officers beating
Thomas and stunning him with a
taser, the law protected the officers,
as the jury and court often hesitate
to question an officers decision
during a confrontation with a

potentially dangerous person.
The video sparked a nationwide
outcry, but the law provided a
shield to the wrongdoers.
The perpetrators of crime
in such cases are the ones who
are meant to protect the society
against crime. Law keepers
are turning into law breakers.
Although this is not true for every
man in the uniform, we cannot
ignore the growing number cases

where police officers have abused
their power. The scale of the
problem is largely hidden with no
official statistics maintained. The
rise of police brutality can have
destructive effects on a society.
Whether the abuse is physical or
psychological, the repercussions
are severe. The consequences
go beyond the direct victim. The
emotional toll endured by the
society lingers long after the

campaigns end and the news
crew return to other stories. It
establishes a culture of fear and
mistrust between the police force
and the society, especially when
minorities are unfairly targeted
every time. Law enforcement
comes with many liberties, but
these liberties have created
a scope of misconduct that
goes undetected.
Police officials are obliged to
protect and serve individuals, but,
unfortunately, some have abused
the power that comes along with
their authoritative position. Police
brutality is a global problem. The
media has been heavily publicising
recent cases, thus shedding light
on a segment that shakes the
foundation of the society. Acting
as shields, guarding the walls of
the society, when these armours
turn back and strike, the law and
order comes crumbling down. But
the question still looms over dark
clouds: is this just a case of few
police officers or a broken culture?
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about 4-5 minutes.
Drain the rice from
the water- now your
rice is parboiled.
Soak the parboiled
rice with water in a
bowl, wash and soak
the lentils in another bowl for 5 - 6
hours or overnight.
Using a food processor, drain
and grind rice with its water into
a smooth consistency (when you
feel the batter with your fingertips,
the batter should not feel grainy).
Drain and grind the lentils in
its water, while adding water in
tablespoons little by little into
smooth, light and fluffy mixture.
Mix both the batters in a bowl,
add salt, mix, cover and leave to
ferment overnight (If thickened
too much, add a little water).
(After fermentation, the dosa
MASALA DOSA
INGREDIENTS
}} 2cups parboiled rice
}} cup split black gram lentils
(dhuli urad dal)
}} tsp fenugreek seeds (methi)
}} 2tsp salt
}} Water as required
}} Oil to smear the pan for cooking
the dosa
METHOD
In a bowl add rice and pour
enough water to cover the rice.
Use your hands to wash the rice
and drain with a sieve.
Add again enough water to the
heavy bottomed pan on medium
heat, add rice and allow to boil for
batter rises and doubles up).

Heat non- stick tawa or
griddle on medium heat, pour big
spoonful of batter onto tawa and
immediately start spreading thin,
with a circular motion.
This will have to be very swift
and will need a practice. After
spreading the batter, lower the
heat and dribble a little oil around
the edges so that it seeps under
the dosa.
When edges start browning a
bit, flip and cook the other side.
Make all the dosas and keep aside.
}}
}}
}}
}}
tsp turmeric powder

2tsp salt or according to taste
cup water
2tbsp oil for cooking
METHOD
Heat oil in a heavy bottomed
pan, add mustard seeds and curry
leaves when mustard seeds start
to crackle add onions, saute on
medium heat till light brown in
colour, add green chillies, saute,
add
turmeric
powder and salt
to the onion
masala
and
mix
well.
INGREDIENTS FOR MASALA
Add
the
}} 500gm potatoes, boiled, peeled
potatoes
to
the
and cubed
onion
masala,
}} 1tsp mustard seeds
mix well then
}} 4-5 curry leaves
add water and
}} 2 onions, large and sliced
let it simmer for
}} 2-3 green chillies, chopped
2-3 minutes.
TO SERVE
Add a tablespoon of masala on
the dosa and then fold the dosa to
one side, serve hot with sambhar.
TIP: while making the dosa on
a non-stick pan do not apply oil
straight on the pan as the dosa
will not spread evenly, first spread
the dosa and then drizzle oil
over it.
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Smile and say yes!

Kumar Suresh
hey say figuring out what

you want of your life is
half the job done. With the
difficult part taken care of, it then
comes down to how passionate
you are to achieve that milestone.
In this process at times, the
journey is more cherishable than
the actual goal itself. In this
feature, we try to bring to you the
story of people who persevered,
took the brunt of life on the chin
and still emerged victorious.
Its no childs play to move out
of your comfort zone to raise a
notch up in life against all odds.
Reema Patel is one such person
we came across who, though from
a typical Gujarati background
came to a new world called New
Zealand and made it her home.
Reema Patel
I was a simple Indian girl born
and brought up in a Gujarati
village. I come from a traditional
and a very conservative society
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where women are seen as a

burden to the parents. I did all my
schooling in Gujarati medium and
when I finished my education, I
strongly felt that all the barriers
holding me back just because I
was a woman, had to be broken.
I moved to the Ahmedabad where
I could work and fend for myself
without being told that I was
a woman.
I always wanted to travel

around the world and when I and
a friend decided to visit Australia
and New Zealand on vacation,
it meant I had to part with an
entire years savings. To say it
was totally worth it would be an
understatement. The moment I
landed in New Zealand, I fell in
love with the country and I knew
this is the place where I can chase
my dreams. I went back to India

and worked hard on my English
and with my skill sets, I found it
easy to get a work visa.
The first place I settled down
in New Zealand was in Wellington
and my first job was at a local dairy
farm. Coming from the hot and
humid conditions back in India,
the cold in New Zealand did take
its toll on me initially as it became
unbearable at times. Emotionally
as well, I came close to breaking
down many times.
But with time, things got easier
and with helpful friends I had
around me, I started to enjoy my
stay in New Zealand.
I found the love of my life Jason
Stokes, in my next job at a fruit
and veggie store. The love I saw
in his eyes was enough to make up
my mind to spend the rest of my
life with him.
We are now a family and have
moved to Auckland. I can never
thank god enough, for where and
what I am today. A girl born in
a dusty little village in Gujarat,

settled down with family in a place
like Auckland
One of the biggest things that
this country has given me is selfrespect. It gave me the opportunity
in life to express myself and
achieve what I wanted to.
What I have also learnt from
my life is that perseverance always
works.
Secret to success is that when
life asks you if you are ready for
the rigor, you got to smile and
say, yes!
We would love to
hear from you.
Share your feedback
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with us.
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shatters many records
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Shraddha
excited to
begin Baaghi
ilm-maker SS Rajamoulis latest

magnum opus Bahubali: The
Beginning, which has turned out
to be Indias biggest opener, has taken
the box office by storm by crushing many
existing records.
Said to have been made on a budget
of Rs.250 crore, including the upcoming
second part in the franchise, the film
collected between Rs.60 crore to Rs.70
crore on the first day worldwide.
The actual box office gross collection
on release day worldwide could be between
Rs.60 crore and Rs.70 crore. This is the
biggest ever opening for an Indian film,
surpassing even Bollywood blockbusters

like Happy New Year and Dhoom: 3,
trade analyst Trinath said.
On the first day, the film collected Rs.50
crore in India, with an additional Rs.16
crore coming from overseas.
With the distributor nett share of
Rs.42.3 crore on the first day in the
country, Bahubali has surpassed Happy
New Year (Rs.42 crore), Dhoom: 3 (Rs.32
crore), Singam Returns (Rs.31.8 crore),
Chennai Express (Rs.31 crore), Ek Tha
Tiger (Rs.30.3 crore), Bang Bang (Rs.28
crore), Kick (Rs.26 crore), PK (Rs.25 crore)
and Agneepath (Rs.22 crore).
Released in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam

and Hindi parallelly, Bahubali has
surprisingly performed extremely well in
all the languages.
Aamir Khans PK had collected $3.1
million in its first weekend in US.
Bahubali has already crossed $2 million
from Thursday and Friday, Trinath added.
The film, which stars Prabhas, Rana
Daggubati, Tamannah Bhatia and Anushka
Shetty in the lead roles, is about two
brothers fighting over an ancient kingdom.
With 9.4 IMDB rating, Bahubali is the
highest rated Indian film on the site.
hraddha
Kapoor,
who
is
still basking in
the success of
ABCD 2, is all
charged up to
start shooting for
her next, Baaghi.
The actress says
she cant wait for
the fun to begin.
The
actress
will join her
co-star
Tiger
Shroff in the shoot for Sajid Nadiadwalas
Baaghi in the next 15 days, a statement
said. I am very excited to join Tiger and
the entire Baaghi team on set. I have met
them a couple of times before and they are
absolutely fun to work with. I cant wait to
start shoot, Shraddha said.
According to a source, Shraddha is
in the preparation stage for the role at
the moment.
Her look for the film and other things
are being decided. She will start shooting
as soon as it is finalised.
The storyline of Baaghi is kept under
wraps and the only thing known is that it is
a story of a rebel.
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Always had
an inclination
towards designs:
Gauri Khan
Salman was present at a show

of Anupam Khers popular play
Mera Woh Matlab Nahi Tha
when he spoke of Fan.
Next year, the two Khans will
lock horns at the Bollywood box
office around Eid, with Raees and
Sultan releasing at the same time.
Humpty Sharma
Ki Dulhania
changed my life:
Varun Dhawan
auri Khan, who goes

beyond being a star wife
and is a successful interior
designer and entrepreneur, says
she always had an inclination
towards the world of design.
The
wife
of
Bollywood
superstar Shah Rukh Khan,
who personifies class and oozes
glamour in everything she does,
runs her own design studio named
The Design Cell.
I have always had an
inclination
towards
design.
Luxury and style have been key
elements in all my projects. At
the moment, I am concentrating
on expanding operations of my
design studio of The Design Cell,
Gauri said.
Her brand, The Design Cell,
has been the culmination of her
long-standing passion for interior
design. Her concepts reflect her
design sensibility and showcases
an eclectic mix of custom and
selective pieces, with some
creations made by the mother of
three -- sons Aryan and AbRam
and daughter Suhana.
Gauri is a fan of jewellery and
says that her personal style is
minimalistic yet plush.
Before this endorsement deal,
Gauri lent her creative skills to
Satya Paul to mark the fashion
brands 30th anniversary. She
put together must-have pieces
inspired by her signature style as
a part of the collaboration.
Salman hasnt
seen Fan teaser,
but knows its
superb
hah Rukh Khan was

among the first to tweet
support to Salman Khans
Bajrangi Bhaijaan, but the
Dabangg actor is yet to see the
teaser of Shah Rukhs new movie
Fan. Nevertheless, he is sure
its superb.
Asked if he had watched the
teaser of Shah Rukhs already viral
teaser of Fan, Salman said, No,
but Ill go and see the teaser. But
even without watching, I know
that its going to be superb.
ctor Varun Dhawan,

whose 2014 romanticcomedy Humpty Sharma
Ki Dulhania completed a year
since its release last week, says the
film has changed his life.
The 28-year-old, who starred
opposite Alia Bhatt in the film,
took to Twitter to thank producer
Karan
Johar
and
director
Shashank Khaitan for giving him
a chance.
#1YearOfHSKD has to be the
film that actually changed my life.
Im lucky I got to work with such
talented people and thank you @
karanjohar, Varun tweeted.
thank you @ShashankKhaitan
for working with me and teaching
me so much and @aliaa08 you
know why you are special thanks
man, he further added.
Not only Varun, but Alia and
Karan also got nostalgic over the
films one year completion.
Aaaah
#1yearofHSKD
alreadyyyy!!! Thank you Mr @
ShashankKhaitan for creating
Humpty
and
Kavya..AND
for giving me Samjhawan @
Varun_dvn, Alia tweeted. A
true #saturdaysaturday memory!
Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
was Alia and Varuns second film
together after the duo made their
Bollywood debut with Karans
Student of the Year.
Big B croons for

Pro Kabaddi
League
mitabh Bachchan has

gone behind the mike
for a promotional song
for Pro Kabaddi League (PKL).
The megastar has lent his voice to
a song titled Le panga, which has

been released in four versions.
The 72-year-old, who has sung
in some movies as well, shared
the news about the new track on
his official blog. His son Abhishek
is an owner of one of the teams
- Jaipur Pink Panthers - of Pro
Kabaddi League (PKL), which will
begin from July 18 in Mumbai.
Okaaayyyy... so the song that
I have been musing and easing
and frightening you all with, is a
promotional song for Pro Kabaddi,
the game that starts on July 18th...
and yes Jaipur Pink Panthers with
their new logo and the leadership
of its owner Abhishek will be
playing the opener in Mumbai...
and so Star that broadcasts the
game asked me to get involved
in its singing, Big B wrote on his
official blog.
Earlier, Big B has sung numbers
such as Holi khele Raghuveera
and Ekla chalo re and Piddly.
On the film front, the cine icon
is gearing up for Wazir, which also
stars Farhan Akhtar.
Didnt make
ABCD 2 for
money, says
Remo
horeographer-director
Remo DSouza is ecstatic
that his movie ABCD 2
has danced away into the Rs.100
crore club, but he says the intent
was merely to strike the right
chords with the audience.
ABCD 2, starring Varun

Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor and
Prabhudheva, crossed the Rs.100
crore mark at the Bollywood box
office last week.
At the success party of the film
in Mumbai, Varun said, The first
thing that I would like to say is
that we didnt make the film with
the purpose of earning Rs.100
crore at the box office. And I dont
think Remo sir has anything of
that sort in his heart.
Remo supported Varun and
said, I didnt make the film so
that I could earn a lot of money.
I made the film fully with my
heart and the audience for whom I
made the film have liked it. So, Im

very happy.
Red2, a
The success of ABCD
sequel to the 2013 film ABCD:
Anybody Can Dance has also
encouraged Remo to think about
making a third instalment too in
the franchise.
Nawazuddin
once became a
real life reporter
Documentaries
are
good things, and nowadays
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documentaries are more effectively
made as compared to films,
Kashyap said on the sidelines of the
screening of Amy, a documentary
based on the life of late singer
Amy Winehouse.
Kashyap, known for movies
such as Black Friday and Gangs
Of Wasseypur, has himself
presented two documentaries
The World before Her
and Katiyabaaz.
His last feature film Bombay
Velvet failed to impress audiences
and critics alike.
Not in talks for

Ram Lakhan
remake:
Shraddha
ctor
Nawazuddin
Siddiqui, who will be
seen playing a reporters
role in upcoming mega-starrer
Bajrangi Bhaijaan, says a past
experience as a journalist helped
him in his character.
The story of Bajrangi Bhaijaan,
which also stars Kareena Kapoor
Khan, is about a man discovering
love during a journey from India
to Pakistan.
I portray a Pakistani reporter
in Bajrangi Bhaijaan. The
character helps Salman Khans
character with his journey,
Nawazuddin said. Talking of his
past days as a reporter, he said:
I reached a saturation point in
acting, so I wanted to put myself
into an uncomfortable zone, I
became reporter for a channel. I
covered Lok Sabha elections. I did
eight to 10 episodes as reporter.
Having real life experience
for the character sure comes
handy, but Nawazuddin still made
extra efforts.
It is not a filmy reporter. It is
more based on real life reporters
and it is a Pakistani character,
so I have tried to keep as much
as Urdu words as possible. Id
watched plenty of Pakistani
reporters and Indian reporters,
whom I knew. We combined them
all with directors input to create
this character, added Nawaz.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan would mark
the second outing of Nawazuddin
with Salman. They earlier worked
together in Kick, which was a
superhit. The movie will release
on July 17.
Documentaries
superior to
films nowadays:
Anurag Kashyap
cclaimed
director
Anurag
Kashyap
believes that nowadays
documentaries are more effective
and well-made as compared to
feature films.
ctress Shraddha Kapoor

has shunned reports that
she has been confirmed
for film-makers Karan Johar
and Rohit Shettys forthcoming
remake of Ram Lakhan.
...I am not in talks with
them for this film. No one has
approached me yet, but Id love
to do a movie with Dharma
production someday, the actress
said at a jewellery exhibition
in Mumbai.
At
the
exhibition
that
showcased an exquisite range
of wedding and contemporary
ornaments, the actress said, I am
a typical girl who loves jewellery.
The first ever piece of jewellery
that I ever received was from
my mother, which belongs to
my grandmother. She gave me a
pretty pristine necklace, which is
very close to me.
Asked what she would like to
gift to her mother, the 26-yearold said, Id like to gift her
the Kohinoor diamond but
unfortunately its not in our
country. I hope it reaches our
country and then I will gift it to
my mother.
After having a successful run
at the box office with films such
as Ek villain, Aashiqui 2 and
Haider, actress Shraddha Kapoor
has once again managed to garner
appreciation for her role in new
dance film ABCD 2.
She will next be seen in Rock
On 2 and Baaghi.
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An accountant by profession - a model and singer by passion, Anita Prasad is all set to release her debut musical single. Indian Weekender
engaged her in a conversation about her passion, profession and future plans.
Swati Sharma
Miss United Nations Tourism in

2012 at Kingston, Jamaica. After
competing against 22 nations,
I was crowned as Miss Peoples
Choice and Miss Best Personality.
Thereafter, the door to success
opened. I was crowned as Face of
Beauty New Zealand, 2013 at an
event held in Auckland, NZ.
Currently, Im also a founder/
CEO of the beauty pageant called
Mrs New Zealand. The winner
of this event represents NZ in
the international pageant called
Mrs Universe.
Also, lately, I did modelling for
Studio 81 in New Market. That
was an amazing journey.
Tell us about your early life

and studies.
I was born in Suva, Fiji Islands,
and am the youngest sibling out of
four sisters. I completed my college
studies at Bhawani Dayal Arya
College, Nasinu (Suva). I further
pursed my studies at University
of South Pacific in Accounting
and Management. I also worked
at Fiji Television Limited.
Accounting is my lifetime career.
Hence, upon migration to
New Zealand, I continued with
further education in Accounting
at
Auckland
University
of
Technology (AUT) and graduated
in Bachelors of Business in
Accounting and Management.
Anita Prasad
Tell us about your first single

(Lets do it).
You said that accounting is

your lifetime career. How did
you then develop an interest
in modelling?
I love Accounting from When was your first break in
college and have been in this modelling?
field for the last 15years. In
I actually had my first
my leisure time, I was always
appearance in an extras session
interested
in
magazines,
on a local TVprogramme called
fashion, beauty and music..
I believe that a person must Shortland Street in year 2010.
maintain balance in all their Later on, I started taking part in
activities. So I have also tried fashion shows that were organised
to keep a balance in all that by Face of Beauty New Zealand.
Shortly afterwards, I was given
interests me.
an opportunity to participate in
a beauty pageant called Diversity
New Zealand, thatI couldnt
say no to because the pageant
was about celebrating different
cultures all over NZ, which I was
very much in support of.
With the success of Diversity
NZ, I got the opportunity to
represent New Zealand in an
international beauty pageant,
Lets Do It is a pop/rock song

that targets the young generation.
It is a clubbing song with seasonal
mix of summer. The lyrics send
a message to the young stars in
this western world to live life
as lifeis given tobe lived i.e.
happily, stress free and to be on it.
Lets do it is launching onJuly
25and will be available to
download from iTunes, YouTube,
Vimeo, Spotify, SoundCloud,
Amazon, Apple Music and all
other social media network.
With a full-time job in
accounting, how do you manage
Auckland Eid Day Eid ul Fitr
What inspired you to choose

this profession (modelling)?
The beauty pageants that
I participated in played an
important part in building my
confidence. It was a good platform
for me. I told myself thatnothing
is impossible in life, and therefore,
explorerather than being lazy.
Im inspired by few Hollywood
celebrities such as JLO (Jennifer
Lopez) and Kim Kardashian.
I see them as strong women
who switched onto different
perspectives in career from their
initial setups and expanded.
Where do you see yourself in
next few years? Any plans for
pursuing a career in music?
Music is something that I like
and I will continue. Lets Do it is
my first single. There are 6 other
singles to come and then an
album. I see myself collaborating
with other artists, both local and
international. Music is a universal
language and I will expand
as far as I could to touchthe
listeners hearts.
Sargam Fusion
Date: Saturday 25th July, 2015

Time: 6:30PM | Venue: Blockhouse Bay
Date: 18 or19 July(Dependent on
Community Hall.
sighting of the new moon)
You are invited to be a part of an
Time: 8:15am - 3pm
upcoming music experience by Sargam
Venue: Trust Stadium - Henderson
Fusion Auckland Eid Day is NZs largest
a band that brings together a unique
congregational prayer and celebration of
ensemble of Indian musical offering with a
Eid, to mark the ending of the Holy month
Western touch, backed by vocal brilliance
of Ramadan. From food and merchandise
covering a range of genres.
stalls to the cultural entertainment and
Limited Seats, Tickets are already on sale.
ladies VIP area, this event is for anyone
Tickets: $15. Available at Sargam School,
and everyone. To receive the official FIANZ
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to find time for modelling?

I believe in the saying that if
theres a will, theres a way. I do
not let one work affect the other.
One should allocate his/her time
wisely to accomplish all their
goals. Thats what I did.
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Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm
Venue: Waikato Migrant Resources
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CAB Hamilton will hold a free workshop
on Employment in New Zealand. Topics
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Date: Saturday 15 August 2015
Time: 6 pm onwards
Venue: New Lynn Community Centre
Totara Ave New Lynn
Maisuria Samaj of New Zealand is
organising its first general meeting. All
Maisuria Families are invited to attend.
The Baby Show
Date: 21-23 August 2015

Venue: ASB Showgrounds, Auckland
New Zealands biggest baby event of
the year, The Baby Show Auckland
is back again. The Show will be
showcasing everything there is to know
about parenting.There will bea range
of exhibitors, speakers and show-only
specialsavailableon baby products and
activities- its definitely one not to miss for
parents.
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