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Subtlety, elegance imbue Sudima’s new Auckland hotel

The one feature that strikes you as you enter the spacious, well ap-pointed reception area of Sudima Auckland Airport – the city’s newest hotel – is the all round understated elegance. It’s a fine instance of how subtlety and simplicity can spell class and sophistication much more effectively than glitz and ornateness that so many misconstrue as classi-ness.

Simplicity, subtlety and el-egance imbue every aspect of the spanking new property, beginning from the very concept. The Sudima Auckland Airport positions itself as

“Just Right.” Explaining its philosophy, di-

rector Sudesh Jhunjhnuwala says, “As a product, the hotel delivers the right service experience that our guest profile would expect at just the right price. We believe we can deliver just the right experience with just the right features at a great price that our customers would con-sider just right and excellent value for money.”

The Jhunjhnuwalas are no strangers to the hospitality indus-try. Sudesh’s family, which origi-nally hails from India but has spent

long decades in Hong Kong and Singapore have run hotels among a range of other businesses. The family owned Singapore’s Impe-rial Hotel for nearly three decades before selling it off to another chain in 1999.

The family owns two other hotel properties in New Zealand and one coming up across the Tasman in Brisbane, which will open its doors late next month. The new Sudima Auckland Airport joins Sudima Hotel Lake Rotorua and Sudima Hotel Christchurch in completing the group’s New Zealand based trio.

A ‘fully loaded’ hotelThe Auckland Hotel, built over a span of fourteen months at a cost of $30 million, sports 153 plush rooms – 26 of these being executive rooms and one suite. Every room is equipped with wireless and plug in broadband connectivity and a mul-tichannel television and entertain-ment system.

In addition, there are four meeting rooms, a large conference facility that has options for hosting banquets and receptions with sub-stantial indoor-outdoor flows and a car park that can hold 170 vehicles.

Rated a four star facility, the six level Sudima Auckland Airport has a sprawling restaurant called Visaya and an eatery, Bistro 18, that is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, sporting an elaborate menu.

Tastefully designed in the same understated manner, the bright and elegant ambience is just right to drive away travel weariness and put one in the right frame of mind for a sojourn in the city or for the onward flight overseas. Located within the restaurant area is the Stonefields Bar serving a wide range of alco-holic drinks and beverages.

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The Department of Labour is reminding employers that the law now requires them to keep signed written employment agreements for all their staff.

Since 1 July all employers are required to keep signed copies of employment agree-ments or current terms and conditions for all employees, or they may face a penalty.

“Employment agreements are required for all employees no matter when they started work,” says Annie Newman, the De-partment’s Acting Chief Adviser of Employ-ment Relations.

“This affects all employees including those hired on a verbal agreement or employ-ees who do not have current written agree-ments in place,” says Ms Newman.

“Having a clearly written employment agreement helps reduce the risk of misun-derstandings and there are some provisions that must be included in employment agree-ments,’’ she says.

They must include the name of the em-

ployer and employee, a description of the work to be performed, the place of employ-ment, times the employee is to work, the wages or salary, and an explanation of ser-vices available for solving problems.

“It’s the employer’s responsibility to maintain and keep an up to date copy of each employee’s agreement and provide a copy of the agreement if an employee requests it,” Ms Newman says.

The Department of Labour has developed an Employment Agreement Builder to help employers through this process.

Failure to ensure an employment agree-ment is in place for all employees may result in a labour inspector taking a penalty action against an employer.

This involves a seven-day notice period to rectify the breach and if this isn’t com-plied with then penalties may be sought in the Employment Relations Authority of up to $10,000 for individuals and $20,000 for companies.

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Aucklanders and visitors will soon be able to enjoy enhanced and expanded Wi-Fi services, offering more wireless coverage and faster access to the internet across central Auckland and its fringes.

Auckland Council has entered a partner-ship with Tomizone, Australasia’s largest Wi-Fi services provider, which will see network expansion start immediately.

The expansion will offer economic devel-opment benefits to the region and provide an important service to visitors to Rugby World Cup and beyond.

“With 85,000 visitors expected during Rugby World Cup and more than 200,000 ex-pected from next year’s cruise season alone, visitors to Auckland will be able to step off their plane or ship and immediately access information about Auckland. For Auckland-ers, it means more and better wireless inter-net access for portable devices such as iPads,” says Len Brown.

The Wi-Fi zone will expand into areas such as Kingsland, the entire length of Queen

Street, Britomart and Queens Wharf, lower Parnell, northern Ponsonby Road, Mt Eden Village, Onehunga, key rugby training areas and selected transport hubs around Auckland.

The network will remain in place follow-ing Rugby World Cup and continue to expand to other parts of Auckland with re-investment of profits from the service.

“Auckland Council will retain control of the content, which gives it a flexible platform for the future,” says the Mayor.

Service will be offered at a guaranteed dis-count to benchmarked market rates, with free access provided to a number of websites offer-ing information about public services, RWC activities, tourism and transport services.

“This enhanced network coverage will be attractive to residents and our international visitors who want to use their Wi-Fi gadgets to roam around the city,” says Tomizone Ex-ecutive Director Steve Simms. “Many of our visitors will want to use their roaming account from providers such as Skype, iPass and Boingo which they can do on this network.”

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Diversity forum will focus on mediaA multi-media study about Paul Henry and Hone Harawira is being presented by Wellington’s Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research at next month’s 2011 New Zealand Diversity forum jointly hosted by the Human Rights Commission and the Hamilton Multicultural Services Trust.

Its work examines the intense public ar-guments around comments made by promi-nent media figures in 2010, such as Henry’s deliberate mispronunciation of an interna-tional dignitary’s name and then repeatedly laughing about it, and Harawira’s alleged racist comments about Pakeha. The forum will also include activities that tackle race

relations priorities identified in this year’s Race Relations Report, and feature the pre-sentation of the Annual Diversity awards. A parallel youth forum is being held at the same time.

The New Zealand Diversity Forum 2011 is being held at Hamilton on 21-22 August Also on the programme on Sunday at 3.30-5.00 pm is a forum on “Community Media and Diversity” hosted by the Community Access Radio Waikato Trust.

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The hotel also has a heated, en-closed, all-weather swimming pool and a compact gym on the lower level.

Laxmi Jhunjhnuwala, Sudesh’s highly accomplished artist wife, who also takes an active part in the running of the hotel denies she had any major role to play in the hotel’s understated design philosophy and rich but muted, earthy colour schemes. But it is not hard to see that the denial comes more from her sense of humility, which she shares with her equally soft-spoken husband.

Incidentally, Laxmi’s recent ex-hibition of paintings and installa-tions at a art gallery on the North Shore received great reviews and was featured in an earlier issue of Indian Weekender. A series of her bright acrylics painted in circu-lar motifs provides a wonderfully bright contrast to the calibrated mutedness of the reception area’s surrounds.

Ecologically responsibleBehind the quiet sophistication of the hotel’s look and feel is a strong

commitment to environmental con-servation. To begin with, rainwater harvested from the roof of the fa-cility is what is used to flush toilets rather than fresh water, says Sudesh. “Sustainability is our Mantra.”

A major and rather path break-ing decision that Sudesh took while planning the hotel, thanks to his absolute belief in the sustainability mantra, is to dispense with minibars in the hotel rooms. “Our experience everywhere in running hotels has been that minibars are hardly used. They just consume a lot of electric-ity, need more resources to maintain and have over the years, just become another fixture in hotels.” Guests can instead order instantly from the state of the art digital audiovisual ordering system that is integrated into the room’s television system.

Another innovation, a first for any hotel in the southern hemi-sphere, is the installation of the chilled beams air conditioning system in guest rooms. The system is far more efficient, offers better individual controls at the hands of guests and is far easier to maintain. “The initial costs are indeed higher

but the payback if great,” says Sudesh.

There are no energy hogging in-candescent bulbs anywhere in the property. Instead, the hotel uses the latest light emitting diode (LED) bulbs, which are hugely energy effi-cient, besides compact fluorescents. Motion sensors activate the light-ing in common areas – where lights come on only when someone is around – thereby saving on wanton energy consumption. “It does not seem much, but little things do add up – and it’s good for the city, the country and the planet,” adds Sudesh.

Also, the hotel’s management made sure that its suppliers and service providers like the garbage disposal company had genuine green credentials. “We did a thor-ough audit and visited their prem-ises to look at their systems before awarding the contracts,” Sudesh says.

Though adjacent to the busy 20A motorway that connects down-town Auckland to the airport, the hotel’s double glazed, sound proof

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A moving, personal tributeLong time associate, friend and legal luminary Thakorbhai Parbhu spoke engagingly about Sir Anand at the evening, peppering his address with little known anecdotes that revealed many biographical and personal facets of the Governor General. Excerpts:

“Your connection with the Indian community goes back to your late Father – Dr Sati as he was affectionately called. He practised at 201 Ponsonby Road. He originally came from Fiji and on completion of his medical degree was supported by the Indian Association for residency in New Zealand. He was one of our first Indian doctors in New Zealand.”

“You are the by-product of a good family. Your late father and your mother Taraben were respected stalwarts and great supporters of the Indian community. You married a lovely girl – Lady Susan, a Legal Executive from the law firm of Cairns Slane & Co. and you both raised your lovely family.”

“My personal reflections over all these years are the dinner parties at our place, your place and your parents’ place; too many to mention. You and Lady Susan attended by grand-daughter Shaila’s first birthday at May Road Hall.”

“The hockey game you organised with the Justice Department and my tea, our frequent meetings in the Law Library and the dinner at your unit in Freeman’s Bay with David Lange who lived around the corner in Wellington Street are still fresh in my mind.”

“I try to keep in touch with your movements at the local gymnasium which you attend with our mutual friend Norman Elliott.”

“Your nature, disposition and character, your amiable attitude, your ability to relate to all ethnicity, your friendship and contact with people and organisations has made you a likeable and acceptable person in fitting with your high office. You have been a great bridge builder in New Zealand with the various communities.”

“Your dignity in difficult circumstances has stood you well. In the position that you have attained you have brought honour and respect to the Indian community not only in New Zealand but throughout the world.”

“You have walked into the pages of New Zealand history.”

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there were fewer than 10000, now there are more than 100,000 making Indians the second largest ethnic Asian group. The participation of Indians is huge. When I joined law, Indian lawyers could be counted on one hand now there is a whole roomful and more,” he added.

While being Governor General, he had the occasion to attend several functions with “an Indian dimension” throughout the country, he said. Among these he recalled Diwali in many parts of the country, the diamond jubilee of the Wellington Indian Sports Club, the 85th anniversary of NZICA in Palm-erston North and the NZICA Womens Conference in Wel-lington in 2008 that Lady Susan inaugu-rated.

Touching upon relations between Indian and New Zealand, Sir Anand acknowledged the current negotiations on the free trade agreement and the commitment of Prime Ministers John Key and Manmohan Singh. He said there was “real substance” in the negotia-tions and that the relationship between the two countries “ was becoming closer in a substan-tive way”.

Sir Anand described the Pravasi Bharatiya Award that was presented to him at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi was one of his most cher-ished. While it made him proud of his Indian heritage, it also reflected the greatness of a

country like New Zealand where it was possi-ble for a person of Indian, whose grandparents and parents were migrants, could stand proud with achievements as lawyer, judge, ombuds-man and finally as Governor General.

He said he looked forward to “restore the spontaneity and relative anonymity that comes out of stepping down from office.” He was car-rying a multitude of memories with him, he added, many of these were shared closely with

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Secretary Raj Thandi said, “Sir Anand is a great New Zealander and distinguished com-munity leader. He is a fine example of a New Zealander who made good through hard work and a commitment to realising high goals.

“The Association was very proud to honour Sir Anand and his wife, Lady Susan. A special plaque, designed by myself was presented to Sir Anand that symbolised the respect that he deserves.”

About 200 members and guests, including representatives of the New Zealand Govern-ment attended the function. Sir William Birch, a former New Zealand Minister of Finance, Ramesh Patel, a New Zealand Olympian, Judge Ajit Singh, Auckland City Councillor Des Morrison and Member of Parliament Kan-waljit Singh Bakshi also attended the event among several other community luminaries.

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One of the plush executive rooms at Sudima

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The tastefully designed multi-cuisine restaurant

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windows shut out all ambient noise.

Qualmark has already awarded the hotel a silver rating and Sudesh is confident that as operations roll on and the hotel adopts other measures stipulated by the rating agency, it will soon be in line for the highest green rating.

Growing in the niche of choiceSudesh says the group has found its niche in the four to four and a half star space of the hospitality industry. “We are not in the unit title accommoda-tion or back packer hostels segments and we would not like to go there. Full service business hotels and resorts is our expertise and we would like to stick by that,” he adds,

though he believes innovative and trendy products like boutique hotels do deliver a higher profile – but it’s simply not Sudima’s space.

Sudima’s hotels are all single ownership properties not affiliated to any chains domestic or interna-tional. In fact, Sudesh is contem-plating franchising his own brand to other hoteliers. “We are about a year away from that activity,” he says.

There are enough Kiwi hotel op-erators that want to avoid dealing with the big chains and would prefer smaller, proven brands, he says. “We are small enough and importantly Kiwi enough to attract that segment and offer our expertise.” “Being small, we are quicker to react to market realities and decisions are made more rapidly and implemented even quicker than in larger chains.” Being small obviously avoids analy-sis paralysis.

Meanwhile, the hotel is gearing up for the country’s biggest ever event, the Rugby World Cup, which kicks off next week. Like all ac-commodation around New Zealand, Sudima Auckland Airport is chock a block full throughout the tourna-ment. “We’re also expecting guests to use our big screen facilities in our meeting rooms to get together and watch their favourite games in the exclusivity of the meeting rooms,” says Laxmi. The Sudima Group employs 250 staff across its three properties in new Zealand and will see new additions shortly. The new hotel has already signed up corpo-rate deals with the likes of Main-freight, Progressive Enterprises and Bendon, with the list growing rapidly because of the marketing team’s efforts. Sudima has a corporate office in downtown Auckland.

If you’re planning a wedding, partic-ularly one with the pomp, ceremony and gaiety of an Indian one, look no further than the new Sudima Auck-land Airport Hotel for the complete wedding package.

It boasts of every single facil-ity that an Indian wedding would demand in a venue. A large com-modious reception area with indoor/outdoor flow, a huge car parking fa-cility, a modern kitchen and catering facility, guest rooms for the wedding entourage, a special suite for the bridal couple: you name it and its all there – and everything under one roof.

Sudima Director Laxmi Jhunjh-nuwala, who oversees the wedding and events part of the hotel’s busi-ness says there is already a growing interest in the property as a possible wedding venue. One Indian wedding has already been booked for January next year and a couple more are at various stages of discussions.

“The reception and banquet areas are quite removed from the main hotel and have separate access – which gives the venue its own privacy and independence,” says Laxmi. “In fact there is even the space to have a traditional baaraat from the gate of the hotel along the long driveway that leads to the venue.”

The hotel is gearing up to provide every service in the long and de-

manding lists of Indian wedding planners. From elaborate floral dec-orations to multicourse meals, even when they are special vegetarian tra-ditional ones, Sudima plans to offer the entire package.

Being from a traditional Indian family, Laxmi and husband Sudesh

have a keen understanding of the myriad things little and big that go into a wedding – considered the greatest and most memorable event of peoples lives. “A right venue that is well geared for the celebration is hard to come by for Indian families living overseas. Sudima’s infra-structure and knowhow of plan-ning and processes would take a big load of families planning weddings here,” says Laxmi.

The hotel management is already liaising with a number of wedding planners and families that are seeking wedding venues in the fore-seeable future. Quite clearly, there isn’t another venue yet in Auckland – or for that matter anywhere else in New Zealand – that could be so geared to suit Indian weddings as Sudima Auckland Airport Hotel.

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The conference centre which can easily be configred to host weddings

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Presented at an American Physical Society meeting in Dallas (Texas, USA), this study reportedly listed these countries as: Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand and Swit-zerland.

This study titled “Modeling the decline of religion” by Richard Wiener (University of

Arizona, USA), Haley Yaple (Northwestern University, USA), and Daniel Abrams (North-western University), points out that “societies in which the perceived utility of not adhering is greater than the utility of adhering, religion will be driven toward extinction”.

People claiming no religious affiliation con-stitute the fastest growing “religious” minority in many countries throughout the world. It is said that in Czech Republic, about 60% iden-tify themselves as non-affiliated to religion.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA), suggested to organisations and leaders of various world religions and de-nominations to make religion more vibrant, at-tractive and engaging if they wanted to keep their people in God’s fold.

Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, said that people with “no religion” were increasing and we (religious leaders and

organizations) were responsible for their alien-ation. Our efforts at social control, judgmental-ism, stagnant approach, etc., might be turning them away resulting in many of them question-ing belief in God, equating religion with fear, etc. Some of them, who still believed in God, were bypassing religion to reach God question-ing the linkage between “man made religions”

and God. “If I ‘just do good’, I should be fine”, many of them argued.

Rajan Zed pointed out that life was getting complex and distractions were increasing, so religion was slipping away from the prior-ity list of many. Conventional style of dealing with spirituality and religion did not appear to be effectively working, especially with today’s youth. Make it more exciting and challenging, Zed suggested.

If religious leaders and organisations do not attend to this challenge more effectively in this consumerist society, we can lose our youth to the other marketplace players, which are more powerful, attractive and vocal than religion and spirituality. Many youth appear to be bored from religion. Serving God does not have to be dull. For youth, make religion “cool” and do not force anything on them, Rajan Zed argues.

Religion heading to extinction in NZ: studyA study has reportedly found that religion is set for extinction in nine countries.

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Some of the most memorable songs in the long history of Hindi cinema, like those sung by stalwarts Moham-med Rafi, Kishore Kumar and other greats begin with a gentle, melliflu-ous hum before the singer actually breaks into the song. The hum sets the tone for the rest of the song and as it becomes popular, gets the lis-tener to hum and sing with it.

That’s exactly how Auckland’s newest Kiwi Indian radio station Humm FM 106.2 began its broad-casting life on April 1 this year. After slowly and steadily getting more and more listeners to hum along with it following its quiet start, it is now breaking into song as its puts the crucial first quarter of its ex-istence behind it. And by all counts the chorus of hummers it is taking along with it is growing in numbers and volume enough to get even more people humming along.

So, what made the successful husband-wife team of Satyan and Roshila Prasad get into the business of starting another Indian flavoured radio station in a space where two others already existed for a while?

“The idea was suggested by a group of close friends, who like Roshila and me, have for many years wished for a good, meaning-ful FM radio station for the growing Kiwi Indian community here in Auckland,” co-founder and director Satyan Prasad tells Indian Week-

ender. “Our children who are born and raised here did not find the fare dished out by existing radio stations interesting or engaging and almost never liked to listen to Indian radio, though they strongly wished to, because of our love for everything Indian,” adds Roshila Prasad.

Satyan and Roshila emphatically state that they own Humm FM, dis-pelling all sorts of rumours about the station’s ownership that have swirled since it went on air. “The idea for the station came from some well known friends and people have jumped to conclude that they have a stake in it,” says Satyan. “That is simply not so.”Addressing A needHumm FM was carefully planned to appeal to growing numbers of dia-sporic Indians who cherish their tra-ditional cultural roots while reveling in the culture and mores of their adopted country – an interesting bi-cultural blend as it were. That’s what led to the radio station beginning and growing with bilingual content from day one.

“It most definitely is a bilingual channel broadcasting in Hindi and English – quite like the manner in which most of us here of Indian origin speak in our everyday lives. That’s what’s the most distinguish-ing factor of Humm FM, which listeners like, according to the feed-back we have been receiving,” says

Satyan.Roshila illustrates this with an

interesting instance of customer feedback: “It was rewarding to hear from a keen Humm FM listener – a mother of two teenagers – who said that the bilingual content playing both English and Hindi favourites helped her familiarise herself with what her children were listening and that ‘it gave me something to talk about with the kids at the dinner table’.”

Bilingual content is a conversa-tion starter between parents and children and those who speak with each other in varying degrees of Hindi and English content, as is the case in most Kiwi Indian house-holds.

“It’s helping build bridges between generations and between people because of the chatty, every-day language that our radio jockeys use,” says Satyan. “Humm FM is happy to play whatever little role we can in helping people integrate better and build and strengthen re-lationships.”

Roshila is quick to add that language used on the station is “Shuddh”: “We absolutely insist that both Hindi and English spoken on the station, while being quite col-loquial and chatty, is always gram-matically correct – and the grammar we follow is that of Shuddh Indian Hindi.”

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eArly AchievementsIn just over a quarter, Humm FM has managed to notch up quite a few achievements, thanks to the critical mass of listeners that it has so quickly gained. Providing a judi-cious mix of relevant local content presented innovatively and dishing out musical fare in response to what the listener segment is really inter-ested in, has helped Humm FM ac-cumulate its listenership.

“Contemporary and modern music that intersperses our regular Hindi and Bollywood fare has helped bring the larger segment of listeners of wider Asian music to Humm FM,” says Marketing and Business Development Manager Gaurav Gupta.

Other innovative local program-ming like offering a platform to community organisations and non government organisations doing meaningful work in society to present their own content and slot-ting appropriate content for the right kind of listener segments at the right time of day and night has also helped the station grow.

Some of these are programmes like “Meri Marzi” a topical one by popular Kiwi Indian comedian and playwright Tarun Mohanbhai, in which he takes his trademark ir-reverent and funny view of current affairs, the more cerebral Sunday morning “Power Talk” featuring people of eminence interviewed by current affairs expert Shailen Shandil and a slot that popula-rises new gizmos and gadgets called exactly that – “Gizmos and Gadgets”.

More traditionally, there is “Rewind” with fare from yesteryear, “Ghazal Hour” featuring ghazals and “Mausiki” that focuses on sher-shayari, Sufiana music and more traditional tracks. “Encouragingly, this is attracting more and more ap-pointment listening,” says Gaurav, meaning listeners make a conscious

decision to switch on during the respective broadcast times of these programmes.

But one of Humm FM’s greatest successes in such a short span of its existence is the tie up it has managed to secure with popular New Zealand mainstream radio station Newstalk ZB for live broadcast of its local and national news every hour. That tie up has been termed a coup in media circles and helped boost both Humm FM’s profile and credibility.

Word of mouth spreads popular-ity Though it is too new to have had any official ratings and statistics to its on air listenership, if one goes by statistics available on Humm FM’s online listenership, the station is on the right track and growing at an incredible rate. Online statistics is far easier to measure and analyse, thanks to embedded technology on internet hosting servers and it is possible to tell how many people have listened to content for how long and from where.

The numbers have pleased the management and creative team of the 24X7 live radio station: Live streams have grown by leaps and bounds in every successive months and its social networking strategy has greatly helped. Its Facebook page has more than 2500 likes. “We don’t pay to get liked on Facebook,” adds Gaurav. “All those likes are quite spontaneous from listeners.”

The popularity of Humm FM underscores the power of word of mouth publicity for a good product. The team attributes this factor for the rapidly rising popularity of the station. “When your offering is good, the word just gets out there,” says Gaurav.

Advertisers Indian Weekender spoke to have heaped praise on the radio station and its management. “We take pride in our systems and culture of transparency,” says Roshila. “This is what clients deeply appreciate. The fact that so many have stayed with us and renewed contracts after the trial period is tes-timony to this.”

Humm FM has some big plans on both the technology and pro-gramming fronts. But because of commercial sensitivity the found-ing couple would rather not discuss it at this stage. There is a sense of humility that characterises Roshila and Satyan. Both insist that they are new to the business and are on a steep learning curve. “I know very little but we are learning fast and we would rather that our actions speak more than our words.”

We’ll hum along with that – and standby for the next big announce-ment.

The switch was flicked this morning on six new real time travel informa-tion signs installed by Auckland Transport on a key arterial route between Auckland International Airport and the city centre.

The electronic message boards give drivers advanced informa-tion about estimated travel times between their current and intended destinations, giving them time to plan route changes and cutting down on potentially unsafe manoeuvres.

Information on the six signs – located on George Bolt Memorial Drive (airport end), Queenstown

Road (bottom end, after SH20 off-ramp), Manukau Road (corner of Rangiatea Rd on northbound approach to Greenlane West in-tersection, southbound approach to Greenlane West intersection, Newmarket end approaching Great South Rd/St Marks Rd intersection) and Gillies Ave (opposite Albury Ave) – will be refreshed every 20 seconds.

Auckland Transport CEO David Warburton says drivers will now have the benefit of end-to-end travel information on motorway on-ramps and the key arterial road (Route 12)

between Auckland Airport and the central city.

“As part of our ‘One Network, One Customer’ approach, Auck-land Transport worked closely with the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) to secure signage technol-ogy that integrated with its existing real-time travel information signage network,” Dr Warburton says.

“The result is an enhanced signage network that provides effec-tive end-to-end travel information that benefits Auckland’s road users and helps to create a safer and more efficient road network.

“The technology will be of particular benefit to commuters, taxi drivers and tourists, particu-larly during the Rugby World Cup, when extra demands will be placed on the road network and there will a marked increase in traffic between Auckland’s airport and city centre.”

Adapting NZTA technology already in use for motorway drivers to the city’s key arterial roads is a great collaborative result for both the Transport Agency and Auckland Transport, says the NZTA’s State Highways Manager for Auckland

and Northland, Tommy Parker. “Real time messaging is one part

of an exciting and expanding range of information services to help all drivers make better and safer choices about their journeys, and we look forward to continuing our work with Auckland Transport to deliver more of those benefits,” Mr Parker says.

The NZTA’s electronic signage at Hobson St, Symonds St and Queenstown Rd now also includes travel times to the airport, in addi-tion to its motorway off-ramp des-tinations.

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The ten day Vipassana courses were known to me for a long time in India. However, I actually did it recently in Kaukapakapa, near Auckland.

It is a 10 days residential course. The code of conduct is to be strictly followed during this course. One of the major ones is not to speak a single word to any one for ten days. No reading, no writing, not to follow

any religious rights, eat only vegetar-ian food, no eating after 5.30 pm. The restriction of not speaking really sounds quite hard to follow. The day starts at 4 am with a gong, to get ready for meditation at 4.30 am, which goes till 6.30 am. At 6.30 am breakfast is served and then there is some free time to get shower etc. From 9 am till 11 am is meditation session. At 11 am is lunch break followed by free time till 1 pm to do washing of clothes etc. From 1 pm till 5 pm next meditation session. At 5 pm fruits and tea/coffee is served. That is the last meal of the day. Again there is meditation from 6 to 7 pm, followed by discourse by Shri. S N Goenka for 1.5 hours. From 8.30 pm to 9 pm is the last session of meditation and the day is over by 9 pm to take rest.

My experience of this course has been wonderful. Initially one does not know what to expect and how one can meditate for 10.5 hours a day, as normally we are not used to meditate at all. But the course teaches various techniques to concentrate our mind. Initially one has to struggle for concentration, but after a couple of days, the techniques taught in the course help one to concentrate. Mind becomes sharper and sharper. Old memories start surfacing the mind. The struggle to bring back the wan-dering mind to observe breathing and the sensations, which appear on your body becomes less strenuous. With the constant encouraging messages given by Shri Goenka on the cas-sette motivate you to sit through the meditation. One starts experiencing and searching one’s own mind. The “noble silence” makes one introvert.

As per Buddha’s teaching the

main reason for our misery is created by our own mind. Aversion and at-tachment to anything is the reason of misery. The more we create aversions and attachments, the more miseries get created. So Vipassana teaches us to look objectively and with equa-nimity at any sensations one expe-riences during the meditation. No aversion to bad sensations, no attach-

ment to pleasant sensations. No reac-tion…. Just observe the sensations as you feel. They are “impermanent”… they come and go. These teachings go deep in your subconscious mind, when you are in meditation. They go deep in your receptive mind in that mode and one really understands the truth of “impermanence” of this life to the core. The only truth of our life is the “breathing”. The constant message of “impermanence” of life, changes your attitude to look at what happens in real life and the urge to “react” weakens. Anger lessens.

I found that the restriction of ten days silence is not at all difficult. The course and the total experience are intense. After a couple of days, one feels like running away. I was extremely eager to come back to the normal life. But the discourses of Shri S N Goekna motivate par-ticipants to continue. And at the end, one realizes that this course is really very pleasant. The deep journey of one’s mind reveals our own faults, wrong doings. The knots of unpleas-ant experiences start opening. The experience of quiet, peaceful mind makes one really fresh and one starts looking forward to going to medita-tion and re-experience that peace. No wonder there are “old students” who come there every year… for over 12 to 15 years!

Vipassana courses including ac-commodation and food are free of charge. Donations are welcome. Their web address is www.medini.dhamma.org. The centre phone number is 09-4205319. The address is Vipassana Meditation Centre, Dhamma Medini, RD3 Burnside Rd, Kaukapakapa, New Zealand.

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It is a 10 days residential course. The code of conduct is to be strictly followed during this course. One of the major ones is not to speak a single word to any one for ten days.

The Rotorua Deepawali Festi-val 2011 committee is organising workshops for those interested in traditional Hindu arts.

The "Indian Art for Kids" workshop will be held at the Rotorua Arts Village on Saturday, 27 August 2011, from 12 noon to 3.00 p.m. for Rotorua children aged 6 to 12 years. In addition, a Rangoli (traditional Hindu art) workshop will be held for adults on Saturday, 17 September 2011, at the same location.

Hindu Council of New Zealand has been promoting inter-cultural exchanges in arts, culture and heri-tage. Celebrating Hindu festivals such as Deepawali and Holi on a wider community scale is part of sharing culture.

A number of pre-events have been planned to promote Rotorua Deepawali Festival.

The first two events are the art workshops that will be organised by Rotorua newcomers Mrs. Hetal Bhatt and Ms. Shereena Sumeran.

Hetal Bhatt is a new migrant from India who is currently study-ing at Waiariki Institute of Tech-nology. She had also helped with Mehndi-Moko workshop during Rotorua Holi Festival in March 2011.

"Our motive of conducting these art workshops is to allow kids, as well as the adults, to express their talent, and give them a platform to explore their creative sides” said Hetal Bhatt.

Shereena Sumeran has recently returned to Rotorua after five years of university study in Auckland majoring in architecture. She is interested in Maori architecture. Shereena had participated in last year’s Deepawali festival as one

of the models in the Indian fashion show during the cultural evening.

"The Rotorua Deepawali Fes-tival is a way of encouraging a shared diversity in the community, and holding such art workshops allows all cultures to learn about and participate in Indian cultural activities" Shereena Sumeran said.

The art workshop for kids is free, and the adult’s Rangoli workshop is $10 per head. Those interested can email [email protected].

Other pre-event activities include an essay-writing competi-tion for young writers and Hindu cultural display at Rotorua Library.

Students and young profession-als aged 15 to 25 years are invited to participate in the essay compe-tition. The essay topic is ‘Women Empowerment and Society”. The 750 to 1000 words essay is to be emailed to [email protected] by 11 September 2011. The winner will be awarded $250 in prize money, and the winning article will be published in the Rotorua Deepawali Festival 2011 booklet. This competition is spon-sored by ANZ.

The display of Hindu culture at the Rotorua Library will be set up from 12 September to 2 October 2011.

The Rotorua Deepawali Fes-tival will be celebrated at the Rotorua Convention Centre on Sat-urday, 1 October 2011. Entry to the festival is free. This year’s focus is Women Empowerment and the fes-tival is being planned, and organ-ised by women.

Last year, more than 4000 people from both Rotorua and out of town attended this unique smoke-free, alcohol-free and meat-

free family event. As in previ-ous years, people will come from Auckland, Hamilton, Taupo, Tau-ranga, Whakatane, Taumarunui and Wellington.

“Our aim is to make Rotorua Deepawali Festival a role model community festival not only for Rotorua, but also for the rest of New Zealand,” said Ms Praneita Narayan, Secretary of the festival organising committee.

A measure of the popularity of the manner in which Deepawali is celebrated in Rotorua is that fes-tival organisers from other cities have shown their keenness to par-ticipate and observe; and to see how this could be implemented in their respective cities.

“We will have two represen-tatives from Malaysia who are coming to study our festival themes – importance for women, youth de-velopment and Hindu-Maori rela-tions. Rotorua is setting standards and has provided a model festival for others to follow,”.

“We are also expecting some representatives from Australia this year,” Ms Narayan added.

Rotorua Deepawali Festival Committee welcomes volunteers genuinely interested in promoting Deepawali in the spirit of commu-nity well being on the principle of “Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam” (World is one family). For more information, please contact: Ms Praneita Narayan Secretary, Rotorua Deepawali Festival 2011 021 0257 8402

Dr Guna Magesan Festival Coordinator 021 034 5621

Art workshops for Rotorua Deepawali

The Act Party has selected Indian origin candidate Pratima Nand on its list for the November elections. Ms Nand, who hails from Fiji, is a well-known social worker and a tal-ented personality.

She has been honoured with a QSM and is a Justice of the Peace.

Act has selected her as the elector-ate candidate for Mount Roskill in Auckland.

Ms Nand is an experienced broadcaster who has hosted several shows and is also a talented singer of devotional songs and light music, with several compact discs and cas-

settes to her credit. She is also a cuisine and cookery expert.

She is the first Fijian-Indian woman, to have been selected as an ACT Party electorate candidate.

She is a member of several social organisations in and around Auck-land.

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Coming to the city on September 16 is the Queen of Dandiya, Falguni Pathak, who will lead Auckland-ers dancing the popular dandiya raas at the Telstra Clear Pacific Events Centre, Manukau. The much awaited event is being brought to Auckland by Rock Garden Enter-tainments and Travel Shop.

Falguni Pathak is a hugely popular singer and performing artiste from India. She is based in Mumbai, but with a strong affinity toward the traditional music of the Gujarat. She has, since her debut in 1998, developed into an artiste with a large fan following all over the world.

Her debut album was released in 1998, and was the first of at least a dozen bearing her name. She has also recorded numerous songs that have featured in Bollywood movies. Most of the themes in her songs are about love. She has performed in many shows, and a number of her shows have raged on throughout the night, both in India and other coun-tries.

Falguni Pathak, rightly crowned as the undisputed 'Queen of Dandiya' is a hot favourite personality in the dandiya world. A very talented and energetic performer, Falguni is con-sidered as a 'Diva' amongst today's young generation.

She is not just famous for her powerful vocal talents but also for her stage appearance and entertain-ment. She is one of the most noted and respected singers in India and

abroad with a lot of fan-following. She could be rightly called

today's 'mover & shaker' in the field of dandiya.

She is backed by a powerful and dedicated band 'Ta Thaiyaa' which provides the required punch to make the show a grand success.

With a long list of shows in India and abroad Falguni has come a long way since she started off as a dandiya singer.And now there is an added achievement in her success story. Falguni has released a pop album of which 'Yaad Piya Ki Ane Lagi' has become a chartbuster.

She has claimed in interviews that she became a singer "by default", having had no particular aspirations in that direction. Indeed, when she performed in public for the first time at the age of nine, her father made no secret of his disapproval, even giving her a sound beating. Never-theless, having won him over, she was performing regularly from the age of ten.

Dandiya Raas 2011 is organ-ised by Areddy Private Limited, it has been conceptualized to serve the purpose to promote the Indian culture and the festival itself and proudly sponsored by Relianz Forex, Bank of Baroda, India Gate, Mandap, Indian Weekender and Radio Tarana.

Doors open at 7pm and the cel-ebrations will go on until midnight. Children below 5 years are free to enter. Dandiya Sticks will be on sale at the venue.

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Talented young golfer Teghbir Singh got selected in the mens under 19 Auckland team and played against Wellington on August 27 and 28 at Taupo. He won all his matches against the Wellington team and secured a 100% record in his first appearance representing Auckland. In the final result Auckland beat Wellington by 8 to 7 matches.

Teghbir started his golf at the age of 13 under the watchful guidance of his father, Kharag Singh Sidhu who is well known and respected in Auckland’s golfing circles. Teghbir and his father also won the Non Res-ident Indian (NRI) Tournament in Chandigarh, India, in 2008, where they were felicitated by the chief minister of the state of Haryana. From thereon, Teghbir’s interest in the game got cemented and he started focusing more on its finer aspects and has had a very success-ful run in the local Auckland golf tournaments.

He is a member of Manukau Golf Club in Takanini and has been for-tunate enough to receive training from some of the best professional names in the country, including

Rore Morre who is a NZ PGA Pro who has been coaching Teghbir to fine tune his game. Recently, Teghbir represented his club in the senior team and he tasted success there as well. As a member of Manukau Junior Golf team, Teghbir won the Auckland Championship last year and are in Finals this year which will be played at Pukekohe on 4th September.

Ever since the news of his win, congratulations have been pouring in from friends and family in New Zealand, India and his relatives in the USA. The entire Sidhu family is proud at the achievements of this young boy and are confident that one day he will be duly recognised on the international stage and make the name of his family proud.

Talking to some veterans, they believe that it is the first time a young lad of Indian origin has achieved this success in the game of Golf. It is indeed a proud moment for the entire 120000 Indians living in New Zealand. Teghbir is a prac-ticing Sikh and dons the traditional Patka (head gear) and an unshorn beard.

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structure of the mutual Funds in india:

In India, Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is a regula-tor of all Mutual Funds. SEBI has stipulated the legal structure for Mutual Funds in India, which has inherent checks and balances to protect the investors. Following is a representation of the stipulated legal structure for Mutual Funds in India.

constituents of a mutual fund:* SEBI: Securities and Exchange

Board of India (SEBI) was formed to regulate the securi-ties market. As far as Mutual Funds are concerned, SEBI for-mulates policies and regulates the Mutual Funds to protect the interest of the investor.

* Sponsor: Sponsor means any person who establishes a Mutual Fund. The Sponsor of a Fund

is akin to the Promoter of a Company as he gets the Fund registered with SEBI. A Sponsor has to satisfy certain conditions, such as capital requirement, track record (at least five years' operation in financial services), and a general reputation of fair-ness & integrity in all business transactions. The Sponsor forms a Trust and appoints Board of Trustees. The Sponsor, either directly or acting through the Trustees, also appoints a cus-todian to hold the Fund assets. It also floats an Asset Manage-ment Company (AMC) to act as an Investment advisors to the Mutual Fund. The Sponsor is the Promoter of the AMC and is required to contribute at least 40% of the minimum net worth of the AMC. Once the AMC is formed, the Sponsor is just a stakeholder. However, Sponsors do play a key role in supporting

and promoting an AMC.* Trust/ Board of Trustees: Mutual

Fund is a Trust that pools the savings of a number of investors who share a common financial goal. Each scheme of a Mutual Fund can have different char-acter and objectives. Trustees hold a fiduciary responsibility towards unit holders by protect-ing their interests. Sometimes, the Trustee and the Sponsor are the same or it could be dif-ferent entities performing the roles. Trustees float and market schemes, and secure necessary approvals. They check if the AMC's investments are within defined limits, whether the Fund's assets are protected, and also ensure that unit holders get their due returns.

* Asset Management Company (AMC): The AMC is a company formed and registered under the Companies Act, 1956, to

manage the affairs of the Mutual Fund and operate the schemes of such Mutual Funds. They are the ones who manage investors' money. An AMC takes invest-ment decisions, compensates investors through dividends, maintains proper accounting and information for pricing of units, calculates the NAV etc. It also exercises due diligence on investments, and submits quar-terly reports to the Trustees. It charges a fee for the services rendered to the Mutual Fund Trust.

* Custodian: Often an indepen-dent organisation, Custodian takes custody of securities and other assets of a Mutual Fund. Among public sector Mutual Funds, the Sponsor or Trustee generally also acts as the Custo-dian. The Custodian has custody of the assets of the Fund. As part of this role, the Custodian needs

to accept and give delivery of se-curities for the purchase and sale transactions of the various plans of the Fund.

* Registrar & Transfer Agent (RTA): The RTA maintains in-vestor records. Their offices in various centres serve as Investor Service Centres (ISCs), which perform a useful role in handling the documentation of investors. Investors invest in various plans of the Mutual Fund. The record of investors and their unit-hold-ing may be maintained by the AMC itself, or it can appoint a RTA. These agencies are also registered with SEBI.

Email: [email protected] above information has been written for general guidance only. Please consult your own financial advisor before making any finan-cial decision.

What are Mutual Funds? Part 2 of a tWo-Part series

In this issue, we aim to provide an overview about the various constituents of a Mutual Fund.

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Members of the Muslim commu-nity are gathering at Parliament on Tuesday 6 September to celebrate the Islamic festival of Eid ul-Fitr (Eid).

Eid-ul Fitr is a festival of feasts, celebrated by Muslims all over the world when the fasting month of Ramadan is completed.

The Minister for Ethnic Affairs, Hon Hekia Parata, is hosting the celebrations in the Banquet Hall at Parliament. She will be joined by the Minister of Immigration, Jona-than Coleman and other Members of Parliament.

The audience, expected to be around one-hundred, will also be addressed by the President of the Federation of Islamic Associa-tions of New Zealand, Dr Anwar-ul Ghani. There are around 36,000 Muslims in New Zealand. Most are

based in Auckland and are of Fijian-Indian extraction belonging to the Sunni sect.

In addition to immigrants from India, Africa and the Middle East there are around 1000 Māori and 1000 Pacific peoples who identified

themselves as Muslim in the 2006 Census.

The Director of the Office of Ethnic Affairs, Mervin Singham says Eid is a great opportunity to recognise Muslims as an integral and growing part of our society.

“Having a strong and proactive Muslim community in New Zealand has paid economic dividends, partic-ularly in relation to halal industries, which are worth billions of dollars.Building on the halal meat and dairy trade, work is now being done to

find ways to develop halal tourism – that is making New Zealand tourist friendly to those wanting to know they can find halal food when they visit other countries.”

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India’s 65th Independence Day was celebrated with much festivity and fervor in Auckland last month. Bhartiya Samaj, helped put up the day’s proceedings comprising per-formances showcasing the diversity of Indian culture.

The flag hoisting ceremony at 10:30 am marked the beginning of celebrations. This was followed by the customary string of speeches by a bevy of politicians called upon by Bhartiya Samaj chairman Jeet Suchdev to speak. Among these were Auckland Mayor Len Brown, Labour Party leader Phil Goff, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters and National Party leaders Jackie Blue and Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi to speak a few words. The dignitaries addressed the packed house con-

g r a t u l a t i n g India on its 65th Indepen-dence Day and spoke highly about India’s prog-ress in the past 64 years since Independence. Mr Sachdev spoke of the idea of a “Culturally Appropriate Old Age Home” for the elderly of the South Asian Community in New Zealand. Some MPs present at the event donated toward the project. A cheque of $3500 was also handed to Hon Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi – pro-ceeds from the amount collected by Bhartiya Samaj’s seniors and chil-dren toward the victim of Christ-church earthquake.

The highlight of the day was the cultural performances, which saw performers from many organisa-tions present their items. The entire crowd including dignitaries thor-oughly enjoyed the performances as most of them stayed back to watch all the performances.

Bhartiya Samaj has been organ-ising the India Independence Day Celebrations in New Zealand for the past 16 years. This year over 5000 people attended the 65th Indian In-dependence Day Celebrations.

Auckland comes alive for India’s I-Day

Community

Anna Hazare may have carried out his fast on the other side of the world in India but his message got through loud and clear to his many support-ers in New Zealand.

Indo Kiwi Forum, Bharatiya Samaj and a number of other groups organised demonstrations and pro-cessions in Auckland and Welling-ton as Hazare’s fast to convince the Indian government to give teeth to the Lok Pal Bill progressed in New Delhi.

Indo Kiwi Forum, which is working toward becoming a high profile representative body of people of Indian origin according to its members, was one of the first to organise a demonstration at Aotea Square in downtown Auckland.

"The gathering is to show support for India in New Zealand and to show our appreciation and support to the campaign launched by Anna Hazare - the face of India's fight against corruption. Anna has taken that fight to the corridors of power and challenged the rot at the highest level in India," a represen-tative of the group was quoted as saying in the media.

In another demonstration, hun-dreds marched through Aotea Square in Auckland in support of Hazare. The marchers carried plac-ards and waved banners declaring their support for Hazare’s actions. The Auckland peace march was or-ganised by Hardik Patel.

Hazare ended his 288-hour fast

last Sunday. News of Hazre ending his fast over this huge issue of cor-ruption also featured in New Zea-land’s mainstream media with TV3 featuring the item in its 6pm bulle-tin. In Wellington, More than 100 supporters of Hazare’s campaign turned out in the Parliament grounds to pledge their backing to a “worthy cause”.

“Our fight is against corruption and I urge to all the Indian citizens to be responsible and honest in their actions (includes the Political leaders, Bureaucrats, Government officers) and perform all the as-signed duties honestly and with in-tegrity contributing towards build-ing a corrupt free India,” organiser Bhupesh Suri said.

Kiwi Indians back Hazare with rallies in Auckland, Wellington

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National Party list Member of Parliament Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi hosted a fundraising evening in Auckland. The evening was attended by eminent Kiwi Indians, where each one of them had a chance to listen to Prime Minsiter John Key and shake hands with him. Many also availed of the photo opportunity that the occasion provided.

National Party fundraiser

Noted community leader and industrialist Roshan Lal Nauhria added another feather to his cap when he was awarded a trophy and honoured for his contribution to society. The award ceremony took place in Canada. Mr Nauhria has received honours in several countries including New Zealand, India and Canada and has featured in several books listing Indias' achievements.

Roshan Nauhria honoured

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Pune: As New Zealand prepares for the world’s greatest rugby show on earth, India is making small but rapid strides in gaining competen-cy in the fiercely competitive team game. What’s more, women are at the forefront.

Pune ‘A’ emerged as the National Women’s Rugby Sevens champions by overcoming every opposition that they came across at the Pune Police HQ ground, Shivajinagar, last week.

In the final the hosts dethroned defending champions Jungle Crows from Kolkata blanking them with a one-sided 26-0 verdict.

Pune dominated the Division One Cup final right from the kick-off and rightly so their defence did

well to hold out the opposition.The Jungle Crows were not

allowed an inch and within no time were in arrears when Pune’s Vahbiz Bharucha got hold of the ball and made an amazing run to score the first try for her team.

Vahbiz then went on to add another try to the team’s tally. Vah-biz’s runs inspired Neha Pardeshi to pull up her socks. Neha went on to ground-in a couple of more tries for her team. The Pune attack left the defending champions reeling as the final score read 26-0 in favor of Pune.

Earlier, in the Division One Bowl final Kalinga Institute of Social Studies (KISS) from Orissa emerged

victorious. They beat Kerala 10-5.Sanjuta Munda opened the

account for KISS, but a superb run Sarita S brought Kerala back into contention. It was only in the second half that Sanjulata Singh of KISS managed to break the deadlock. The KISS defence then held their line against the Kerala assault to win the match.

In the Division Two Cup final Delhi Lions beat Young Rugby Club (YRC) from Kolkata 15-5. Delhi’s Anita A scored a hat-trick of tries to help her side over come YRC.

Meanwhile, in the Division Two Bowl final, Bangalore blanked J&K Belmont 10-0.

Indian Women's rugby: Pune ‘A’ remain undefeated

New Delhi: Actor Om Puri is facing the collective ire of the parliamen-tarians for calling them "illiterate" and "incompetent" during the Anna Hazare campaign against corruption.

Though Puri has apologized, privilege motions are being moved against him in the Houses.

Om Puri at a TV channel later said he was sorry for his remark.

On 'IBN 7', he said he regretted calling the MPs 'uneducated' and 'useless'. He said he spoke in excite-ment at a particular moment.

Reports said some Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs have submit-ted privilege notices against the actor before the Speaker and Chairman of the two houses respectively.

A privileged motion is a Par-liamentary motion that is granted precedence over ordinary business because it concerns matters of great importance or urgency.

It has to be seen if the Speaker or the Chairman of the Houses admitted the motions or not.

The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) might also move against him.

Anna group member Kiran Bedi meanwhile defended his mocking of the politicians with a scarf from the fast protest stage of Anna Hazare, holding that her action was against her grain but was necessary then and even moved a leader like L K Advani to support their cause.

Om Puri in soup for "derogating" MPs

Mumbai: Indian energy major Reli-ance Industries on Tuesday said it had completed the deal with British Petroleum PLC to sell a 30 percent stake in 21 oil and gas production sharing contracts for $7.2 billion.

The two companies are set to form a 50-50 joint venture to build infrastructure and market gas pro-duced from the leases, and BP could pay Reliance a further $1.8 billion, subject to future exploration success.

The company on Aug 9 had an-nounced that it had received the Indian government's formal approval

for the deal, which RIL chief Mukesh Ambani said would help India to unlock the full potential of its gas re-serves. Even though the transaction had received a nod from the govern-ment on July 22, the companies were waiting to for the approval in writing to complete the deal.

The government, however, has not cleared the deal on two blocks of the Reliance’s original proposal of sell the stake in 23 blocks for $7.2 billion and another $1.8 billion depending on linked to exploration success.

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Travelling on the shiny air-con-ditioned Delhi metro is nothing unusual for me. But this Thursday the co-passengers made it a little different.

Different not only because I had boarded the metro to visit Ramlila Maidan, the 'battlefield against cor-ruption' but also because the other-wise indifferent Delhiites suddenly appeared worried and united against the menace, perhaps in a way I had never expected them to be.

''Is Anna's health ok? Is he doing well?'' asked a apparently worried metro passenger to a Anna crusader who had boarded the train to reach the Ramlila Maidan.

The Gandhian activist, who wore an exuberant smile, beneath his pointed Gandhi topi that had the words 'Main Anna Hu' or 'I am Anna' on it complete with a khadi kurta pajama , said, ''Yes, he is doing fine and the fast will go on unless the government succumbs to

our demands.'' A conversation, which lasted for

quite some time from then on among ourselves (me and my colleagues who were in India on a food sov-ereignty project from other South Asian countries like Nepal, Af-ghanistan and Bnagladesh, besides the Anna crusader and other ordi-nary Delhites) revealed a lot about the pulse of a nation that has agreed to stand united--putting aside caste,

creed and religious differences--against corruption.

''I admire his patriotism. He is unselfish and is fighting to free the country from the clutches of cor-ruption. His non-violent ways, much like Mahatma Gandhi, attracts

me. My conscience tells me I must support him in this noble endeav-our,'' Jay Prakash, a mechanical en-gineer by profession and a Gandhian activist by choice, told me.

Prakash led our team to the Ramlila Maidan amidst a cheer-

ing crowd waving tricolours and screaming 'Vande Mataram' throng-ing the stretch that took us to the 'ground zero'.

Patriotic songs, plays and slo-ganeering to protest 'corrupt' prac-tices seemed the order of the day

as people, from different walks of life, gathered in droves to express their solidarity with Anna Hazare.

''I have come here to extend my help to Anna. I have nothing to offer him, expect myself. He can use any of my body parts if need be,'' Nar-endra Jana, a landless agricultural labourer from Ghaziabad, told me holding a Rs 10 affidavit that made it legal to donate any

of his body parts to the noble cause.

''It does not even take 10 minutes for the corrupt leaders to pass a Bill in Parliament that favours their corrupt practices. But when it comes combating it, the Parlimant raises many eyebrows,'' opined Hoshiyar Singh, an agricultural labourer from Haryana who had also

joined the s"freedom movement" against corruption.

For once, it appeared patriotism can be strong enough to unite people and fight against a cause of common concern-corruption.

''People united can never be de-feated,'' said Prianka Sharma, one of the crusaders, and she was perhaps right...

Anna broke his fast finally having got the Parliament's assurance in a resolution to back his demands in any future anti-corruption agency, but I felt the remains of Ramlila Maidan will stay for long time to come in the national psyche.

Train of hope to Ramlila MaidanWhile the fair at Ramlila Maidan is over with Anna Hazare breaking his fast on Sunday, Correspondent Debayani Bose recalls her visit to the ground zero of fight against corruption

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Paris: Streets of the French capital saw “Fête de Ganesh”, the 16th annual colourful and joyful pro-cession including a flowers-fruits-leaves decked float of Lord Ganesh, on August 28, according to reports.

Reports suggest that coco-nuts were cracked open along the route during this procession which left from Sri Manicka Vinayakar Alayam Hindu Temple after a reli-gious ceremony through the streets lined with crowds. Devotees, bare-footed and bare-chested, pulled the float which was lead by drummers, singers, pipers and dancers; while the procession was purified with saffron and rosewater.

Women carrying earthen pots full of burning camphor on their heads and singing devotional songs were also part of the procession, while area restaurants/businesses/individuals distributed food and drinks along the route. A large number of devotees from various parts of Europe attended the cer-emony, which was officiated by leading priests (Kurukkal).

Meanwhile, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, applauded efforts of

“Fête de Ganesh” organizers and area Hindu community to realize this wonderful Lord Ganesh proces-sion and thus keeping the tradition alive.

Founded in 1985, "Temple de Ganesh" (Sri Manicka Vinaya-kar Alayam) in Rue Pajol of Paris holds three daily poojas besides Abhishekams on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. It helps in organiz-ing various homams, poojas, sasas-ranamams and kantishti at homes of the devotees; while at the temple it holds weddings, Lakshmi Pooja, 9-planets pooja, homams, etc.

It runs a "boutique" also for selling religious icons, artifacts, etc. V. Sanderasekaram is the Founder and President. Temple website claims that on September 23, 1995, the statue of Ganesh in the temple drank the milk deposited in the offering.

In Hinduism, elephant-headed and human-bodied Lord Ganesh is worshipped as god of wisdom and remover of obstacles and invoked before the beginning of any major undertaking. Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about one billion adherents.

“Fête de Ganesh” held in Paris with fanfare & devotion

University of London is holding exhibition on Amritsar’s Golden Temple, holiest shrine of Sikhism.

Titled “The Golden Temple of Amritsar: Reflections of the Past”, this exhibition sponsored by UK Punjab Heritage Associa-tion (UKPHA) in Brunei Gallery of School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of University of London will continue till Septem-ber 25.

It reportedly displays about 80 historical artifacts, including bat-tlefield weapons, earliest-known paintings and photographs of the Temple, Sikh warrior outfit, jewelry worn by Rani Jindan (mother of last Sikh king of Lahore Maharaja

Duleep Singh), original handwritten receipt for the transfer of the world’s largest Koh-I-Noor Diamond to the British Empire, Perspex model of the Temple as it once stood, various historical items from Sikh history, and film footage and is organiz-ing symposiums on related topics. As most of the artifacts come from private collections, these have not been publicly viewed before, reports suggest.

UKPHA claims the exhibition as a “cutting-edge, world-class show” and adds, “Visitors to the exhibition will learn about the Golden Tem-ple’s history and devotees, and be able to, experience its awe-inspiring beauty and artistry in a way that has

never been presented before”. With students from over 130

countries, SOAS claims to be the world's leading centre for the study of a highly diverse range of subjects concerned with Asia, Africa and the Middle East and its library holds over 1.5 million items. Paul Webley and Nirmala Rao are Director and Pro-Director respectively while Tim Miller is Chairman of Govern-ing Body. Brunei Gallery hosts ex-hibitions from Asia, Africa and the Middle East and its aim is to present and promote cultures from these regions.

Founded in 1836 and publicly funded University of London with over 120,000 students and interna-tional programs in 180 countries, claims to be “the biggest and most diverse universities in the world” and “recognised globally as a world leader in Higher Education”. Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal and Geoffrey Crossick are Chan-cellor and Vice-Chancellor respec-tively.

Sikhism is fifth largest religion in the world and Sikhs believe in one immortal Being; Ten Gurus, from Guru Nanak to Guru Gobind Singh; the Guru Granth Sahib; the utterances and teachings of the ten Gurus; and baptism bequeathed by the tenth Guru. Personal contact with Sikhs usually impresses the outsider with energetic hospitality.

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New Delhi: He sat on a fast. He saw the people forming an ocean of support before him. And after 12 days of down to the wire bargain, he conquered.

Amid frenetic chants of inquilab and cel-ebratory cries of Anna, Anna at the Ramlila Maidan, the self-styled Gandhian broke his in-definite fast on the 13th day of his protest on Sunday after the Parliament and the ruling gov-ernment bowed before his intransigence for a strong anti-corruption agency with some key features.

He took coconut water and honey from two small children, including a Dalit girl, and there were songs and chants eulogizing Anna, as the corruption crusader feebly clapped after days of fasting.

The gathering at Ramlila ground erupted in joy with the breaking of the fast. It was a perfect finale to a fortnight long battle of nerves that beats the fertile imagination of even Bollywood script writers.

It was an extraordinary August movement in India when the will of the people prevailed over an obstinate government and politicians at loggerheads with the civil society.

But finally it was a victory of Indian democ-racy as the parliamentarians relented while the protesters put up a show of stoic endurance and a peaceful endurance that is seldom seen any-where in the world, torn by strife and violence.

"This is your victory. This is the victory of all the people of India," Anna said.

"Now we have to bring real change. We have to bring right to reject [an option in ballot paper to vote for none] and right to recall [the right of citizens to recall a representative they have elected to power] features in election process," said Anna, indicating that a second battle will start to bring electoral reforms.

While Anna was taken to Medanta Medic-ity hospital in Gurgaon, his group urged people to celebrate the occasion at the India Gate in the evening.

Examining him, Anna's doctor Naresh Trehan said he is exhausted and dehydrated.

"So he is being given fluid slowly, coconut water and honey. He is okay now, there would be blood test," Trehan said.

"His blood pressure is 110/70 and pulse rate is 94. He has lost 7.5 kgs but there is no need to worry as all vital organs are settled," the doctor said.

Even in what is called a victory, Anna's group was controlled and charitable on Sunday.

"We thank the Prime Minister above all," said Anna's key aide Arvind Kejriwal, while he said not all political leaders are corrupt.

Kejriwal thanked a long list of people for supporting the campaign and making it a success and true people's movement.

"We are not against the Constitution of India. We salute it and its architect Baba Ambedkar," said Kejriwal, adding that the makers of Constitution had perhaps not imaged

that people would take their money out of India to Swiss banks.

Wearing smiles and waving tricolours, the anti-corruption crusador's soldiers hailed their win.

Clad in white Kurta-pajama and pointed Gandhi cap that screamed the letters 'Main Anna Hu (I am Anna)', the throngs of people were basking in their new found victory, though a sense of responsibility and restraint tempered their celebrations.

The Anna supporters tried not to project themselves too overtly as a victor and the gov-ernment a vanquished.

''Anna is a great patriot. His honesty and simplicity finally defeated the government,'' said an euphoric Jay Prakash (36), one among the many supporters of Anna who had been with the Gandhian leader.

The government also was gracious in its reaction as well.

"We may have lost ground, but we will regain it. We reached out to a remarkable man," said Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid.

On Saturday the Indian Indian Parliament backed a landmark anti-corruption legisla-tion, agreeing to much of the veteran activist’s demands after passing a resolution.

After the triumph on Saturday when the government accepted his demands, Anna was cheered lustily by thousands and thousands who continued to pour in onto the streets and in Ramlila Maidan.

But he called his victory only half a battle won even as there were nationwide celebra-tions, including in his village in Maharashtra.

A letter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Hindi was also brought to him by union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh Saturday night in which the PM said the Parliament passed a resolution agreeing to include his three demands in the proposed Lokpal Bill.

The three demands were appointment of state Lokayuktas, inclusion of lower bureau-cracy and a citizen's charter in the ambit of the Lokpal.

"Parliament has spoken. The will of Parlia-ment is will of the people," the Prime Minister said later.

Anna agreed to break his fast after the Indian lawmakers unanimously voted in favour of his key demands of bringing civil servants under a proposed anti-graft agency alongside parliament and the judiciary, form similar agencies at a state level and create a citizen's charter.

Hazare had earlier said that he would break his fast when a voice vote on the motion con-cluded but the government had appeared reluc-tant.

Saturday also witnessed Anna's ability to draw star power as Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan and filmmaker Raju Hirani visited him at Ramlila ground and supported his version of the Lokpal Bill.

The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said it would vote on a resolution in Parliament on all three conditions by Hazare’s group.

Its leader Sushma Swaraj had called untrue the Congress' purported remark that BJP had refused to vote on the same.

"We are ready to vote on all the three points. The Congress should not spread such untruth ," said Swaraj, after the Anna group said they were told by Congress that BJP has refused to vote on a resolution in Parliament on the Anna conditions.

Earlier, after high hopes, confusion pre-vailed when it appeared that the government and the Anna group hit another roadblock in their talks.

When there was jubilation in the Anna Hazare camp and it appeared the fast of the Gandhian activist will end with the govern-ment accepting broadly the three conditions of Anna Hazare group, albeit with riders, to be included in the proposed Lokpal Bill, Anna member Prashant Bhusan emerged out of a meeting with the government to say they are unhappy and taken for a ride again.

But ahead of Bhusan's press remarks outside, after a meeting of government minis-ters has ended and Parliament was debating the bill, Kiran Bedi took the Anna stage and told the gathering at the Ramlila ground that the lawmakers are now united.

"This is a good news. Anna's sacrifice, honesty and your non-violence reached the ears of our parliamentarians. This is a history. Anna's voice has united the parliamentarians,"

said a jubilant Kiran Bedi.And finally after high drama and frequent

developments, Anna Hazare's wishes largely prevailed.

Hazare had begun his hunger strike on Aug 16 and spent three nights in jail after being briefly arrested and then bargaining his way out to take his protest to the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi where it drew thousands of support-ers over the week.

Faced with outpouring public resentment, the government, which has been battered in recent months with scores of corruption scam exposes, made first attempts at a direct negotia-tion with Hazare’s aides only after the protests entered their second week.

After seemingly making some headway on Tuesday night when both sides reported the talks to be ‘fruitful’, Hazare’s associates, nick-named ‘Team Anna’, on Wednesday said the talks had broken down after a blunt approach by the government.

Reeling under pressure as the protest con-tinued drawing unprecedented public support from the urban middle class tired of pervasive corruption, Prime Minister Singh on Thursday intervened in a seemingly more earnest manner by making a strong statement in the Parliament.

Choosing generous expressions, Singh said he "salutes" the activist for his fight against corruption and that his life is "precious" for the nation, as he agreed to debate the Hazare-backed draft of the Lokpal Bill along with other versions by various groups in Parliament.

(With additional inputs by Debayani Bose)

India basks in triumph as Anna breaks fastsujoy Dhar, indian weekender india correspondent


IndianWhy Anna Hazare deserves wholehearted supportThe Royal family of Congress – bahu, beta, beti, damad and natis – have all disappeared and are supposedly in USA because of some medical condition. Or have they now been able to move the Swiss funds out with help of Berlusconi and mafia, and Congerss is ready to talk? How come these well known sources of corruption have disappeared just when things were getting hot? I do not think Indians are smart enough still to lynch them.

– Varun

A previous IWK newsreport has talked about "both the corrupt babu-netas in India and their Western and other financiers where stolen wealth of Indian poor and taxpayers is hidden. All laws in the world hold both the thief and the holder of stolen goods guilty". To truly support Ramdev and Hazare from outside India, we need to bring pressure on these banks that hide stolen wealth from India and other countries,in the same manner that Islamic terrorists' finances have been targetted by the "West".

“Hazare will win”Anna Hazare is the role model for people of India. It is a lesson to the politicians to learn.

– Brij Bhatia

Corruption was rapidly becoming a ball and chain on India's development. Anna Hazare brought the issue to the surface and into the public domain by fasting. Irrespective of the method used, the objective has been achieved and India now has to confront and remove this blight on it's landscape. It is now out there, in the open. I think that is something worth celebrating, personally.

– Ram

Free discourse on Bhakti YogaThis meditation acts on a very subtle level, eradicating all our negative tendencies, slowly but surely, and gives noticeable practical results very fast....How can it be slowly and very fast?

– Sarfaraz Masih

The Charge is to cover the cost of materials and the hall hire. Any remaining money will be used for Amma's humanitarian activities. The negative tendencies are eradicated slowly, but surely. These tendencies are deep rooted and take a long time to be com-pletely removed, which is a slow process. But the meditation has other effects on your personality that are noticeable immediately. Your mind becomes calmer and you are able to handle stress more easily. These changes take place very fast.

– Vimla Narula

Aryan invasionAs evidence based history has showed, again and again, Aryans have conspired to develop scholarly history based on evidence to wipe off native culture. This conspir-acy has continued for thousands of years and is happening again now. Moreover this millennia-old conspiracy happens all the time according to the whims of contradictory scholars and different times, but they are all part of conspiracy to wipe off native culture by Aryan whims, which change all the time.

– Crackpot Historian

Priyanka Chopra debuts in pop music Is this some kind of a joke! Her films are one flop after another, hence she is trying different things to stay in the news! How Katrina Kaif is suddenly trying her hands at playing the guitar! PC, a trained western classical singer, why don't we hear her some time!!! I am a western classical and contemporary pianist and my husband is a rock/jazz guitarist. It took us several years to sort of master the art, and these jokers with lots of money and contacts get away with all kinds of nonsense!

– Chandrima Roy

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The New Zealand and the Pacific islands have strong ties stretching back to ancient times when seafaring islanders from Polynesia began making New Zealand their new home.

As well, New Zealand has had significant roles to play throughout the recorded history of the islands – from managing the islands for colonial masters to being a close friend in the post colonial era.

Auckland is regarded as the world’s biggest Polynesian city. There are more Niueans and Cook Islanders living in Auckland than there are back in Niue and the Cook Islands. That is the extent to which New Zealand and Auckland are inextricably linked to the islands.

Naturally, the region and New Zealand have had a continuously thriving relation-ship spread across a wide spectrum of activities – from cultural exchange and com-merce to rugby. New Zealand cannot be grateful enough for islanders’ contributions to the All Blacks’ successes down the decades and has always deeply acknowledged it.

That acknowledgement and the general sense of bonhomie that New Zealand-ers feel toward the islands comes through spontaneously in the manner in which the islands are being celebrated in and around the region’s most high profile event since the Sydney Olympic Games more than a decade ago.

The spanking new purpose built “Cloud” facility specially for the Rugby World Cup on Auckland’s spectacular waterfront will be thrown open to the public by Pacific Island events rather than those centering on New Zealand. The tastefully and func-tionally designed enclosure showcases a range of different aspects of New Zealand’s relationship with the islands.

The series of events start next week – the week of the kick off – after the inaugura-tion of a Pacific themed party for VIPs by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key on Monday.

A one-day investment summit titled “Oceans of Opportunity” coordinated by Pacific Islands Trade & Invest (PIT&I) in collaboration with the New Zealand Govern-ment’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes place at the convention centre in “The Cloud” on Tuesday, September 6.

The summit discusses the range of opportunities available for trade and investment in the resource-rich region while helping interested investors establish the next steps toward following up on exploring their chosen investment areas.

The event aims at exploring the range of opportunities that the Pacific has through discussion panels hosted by industry experts. The intention is to create interest and en-courage people to view the Pacific as a potential investment destination. On following days, a veritable food and cultural fest follows.

Visual and performing arts, live demonstrations of Pacific Island handicrafts like lei making, weaving, painting and sculpting is expected to regale crowds that will mill around the vast areas around the Cloud.

Plastic, performing art and handicraft from Niue, Tahiti, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tokelau, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea will be show-cased.

Visitors will have the opportunity to purchase artifacts and handicrafts from all these countries at a night market, which promises to be a hit being the first night event during the cup festivities. On sale will be fashion, jewellery, beauty, furniture and tourism experiences.

Most significantly, the Auckland event is in the same week as the 40th anniversary of the annual Pacific Islands Forum Summit, which will see the heads of government of the Pacific Islands Forum nations all in one place.

Auckland City and all of New Zealand has worked hard to make the big event happen. And much of the opening phase, indeed one of the most anticipated and charged with infectious enthusiasm, is dedicated to the Pacific Islands.

The Rugby World Cup in New Zealand is one big opportunity to further strengthen the already strong links between the Pacific Islands and New Zealand.

- Dev Nadkarni

Celebrating a long and deep friendship


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In George Orwell’s celebrated 1949 novel titled “1984”, the world com-prises just one mega nation, a com-pletely totalitarian state, run by a ruthless group called the “Party”. Its leader is a dictator called Big Brother. The Party is so powerful that it controls every bit of people’s lives – including their thoughts.

That imaginary nation in Or-well’s novel is called Oceania. Could the state of affairs encoun-tered in the imaginary Oceania – especially the aspect where your every move, message and commu-nication is potentially decipherable to the authorities – become reality in today’s countries? Even in the real Oceania we live in?

One of the concomitants of instant unwired technologies that have taken off so spectacularly in such a short span of time across the world is the ease with which the privacy of individuals can be com-promised.

In traditional mass communi-cation modes like print and broad-casting, the communication flow was one to many and the feedback loop had to be completed outside the mode of communication. For instance, one cannot respond to a radio programme through the radio – one needs to use the phone or write a letter. The same goes for publications and television.

It is only in network driven tech-

nologies like the internet that one to one, one to many and many to many communications are possible on the same platform. While this has pro-vided a level playing field to media producers and consumers, putting the publisher or broadcaster on an equal technological footing with the receiver or consumer, this has made all parties in the communications chain fairly easily identifiable.

This is a major departure from traditional mass communication modes where the receivers of com-munication messages were one huge, largely amorphous mass, nearly impossible to be identified if the receiver did not wish to be.

With today’s networked media models, it is pretty much impossible not to be identified, much less cover ones tracks no matter where one may be on earth or even beyond.

This aspect of modern net-worked communications, whose very technological structure com-promises privacy, has the potential to give governments the power to pry on people’s lives under pretexts ranging from perceived threats to sovereignty or national security to tracking transnational crime.

Instances of both were demon-strated in separate incidents across the globe last month. The hoax collar bomb case, which put the whole of Australia on the edge for more than a day was solved purely

because of the digital trail that the perpetrator left, despite his careful and clever planning.

The masked perpetrator walked into a home in Australia, forced a tight collar around a young woman’s neck and warned her if she tried to prise it open it would explode. He asked her to await instructions via electronic communications. The perpetrator then fled the country to the United States. His email trail was easily traced and in no time was he arrested half way across the world from the scene of the crime as a result of cooperation between the police forces of the two countries.

Over in England, the foolhardy bravado of the young looters during the mayhem in London that led them to brag about their shameless deeds on their pages on social net-working websites led to their arrest and conviction.

Digital tell tale trails and loca-tion services that many times un-beknown to users of mobile tech-nologies transmit their whereabouts that can be picked up by anybody motivated enough to do so. This has led to many arrests not only in the aftermath of the London rioting but also in cases of civil unrest around the world.

The British government’s dis-covery that keeping tabs on social networking websites and mobile phone networks helped track down

wrongdoers raised the shackles of libertarians. They expressed fears that the government could quite easily raise the bogey of the poten-tial damage networked technologies could inflict on sovereignty and na-tional security.

Governments around the world could quite easily exaggerate such fears with a view to bring pressure on lawmakers to consider passing laws in the interests of safeguard-ing sovereignty and national se-curity, which could give easier access for a range of authorities to private communication records and the date stamped location of users. This would be a scenario not at all different from that imagined by George Orwell in his novel 1984. The spectre of Big Brother is surely upon us.

Following the British riots, there was widespread debate and discus-sion across the world on the British government toying with the idea of legislation that would give it powers to shut down social networking sites or parts of the mobile phone network or even mass eavesdrop on conversations, messages, emails and all other communications in times of trouble – some sort of super emergency power over communica-tion networks.

This is quite like the scenario that exists in China where there is severely restricted access to inter-

net search engines and global social networking sites as well as services like Twitter.

Nearer to home in Papua New Guinea, there have already been reports that networked commu-nications had a role to play in the outcome of the election of the new Prime Minister following heated debates and exchanges on social networking sites.

Political leaders know there is no going back once such technolo-gies are unleashed. The only way to prevent them from being used by people to challenge entrenched power structures is to try to find ways and means to regulate their use.

In coming months and years, networked technologies will play an increasingly pivotal role in holding people in powerful positions to account. But the very nature of these technologies leave common people potentially exposed, espe-cially if governments succeed in enacting laws that make identifying users easier.

People therefore need to be watchful about governments need-lessly raising the bogey of the poten-tial dangers of networked technolo-gies as posing threats to national security and sovereignty of coun-tries.

People must be on their guard to call the bluff of Big Brother.

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Mrs. Irene Jai Narayan, who died a few weeks ago, was the only woman born in India who became a member of the Fiji Legislative Council (Par-liament). Until the 1930s the Indian leaders in Fiji were mainly from India. This was because most of the Indians who were brought to Fiji as indentured labourers were illiter-ate and did not have the potential to provide leadership to the communi-ty. The few who could read and write looked up to India for leadership, es-pecially to Mahatma Gandhi.

Gandhiji sent C. F. Andrews to Fiji in 1914 while the indenture system was still on.

Andrews successfully sought to end the system with the last batch of labourers coming to Fiji in 1916 on a five year contract which ended in 1920. He visited Fiji for a second time in 1917 while the indenture system was in the process of being abolished and again in 1936 and gave sound advice to the Indian settlers. He emphasised multiracial schools and stressed the paramountcy of Fijian interests.

Even before Andrews, a lawyer from Baroda, Manilal Doctor had come through Mauritius who could be considered the first leader of the Indian community in Fiji. His arrival was described as a ‘seminal’ event and Fijians seemed to have been as excited about it as the Indians and organised a grand reception.

Unfortunately the administra-tion found it easy to find fault with

him and arrange for his deporta-tion. He was held responsible for the 1920 strike by the Indian workers. However, during his stay of a few years, he was able to provide lead-ership to the Indian community by fighting for their rights. In doing so he challenged the European vested interests and the colonial adminis-tration.

Sadhu Bhashisht Muni was the next person to come from India and assume leadership of the Indians. This time it was the internal divi-sions among the Indians which helped the administration to get rid of him. The Sadhu was a Sanatani (an orthodox Hindu) and the Sana-tanis believed that the Arya Samajis (the reformed Hindus) had a hand in urging the government to send him away. He was blamed by the authori-ties for the 1921 strike and was also deported.

Pandit Vishnu Deo was the most important Indian leader in the 1930s. Unlike the other leaders so far, he was born in Fiji. He was the first Fiji-born Indian leader to be accepted by the whole Indian community as their leader. Vishnu Deo was first and foremost an Arya Samaji but Ahmed Ali had noted that he “was pundit to all Indians irrespective of religion; the community as a whole accepted his position as the leader”.

Swami Rudrananda, who was sent by the Ramakrishna Mission as a resident monk to help the Sangam (the South Indian associa-

tion) became an important leader, not only of the South Indians but of the whole sugarcane farming com-munity, which consisted of the ma-jority of the Indians at that time. He also had a major role in getting A.D. Patel, a Gujarati lawyer practising in Fiji, who had been made the legal adviser of the Sangam, involved in the struggle to get a better deal for the sugarcane farmers of Fiji.

A.D. Patel was the most outstand-ing among all the leaders Indians in Fiji ever had. He was a lawyer like Manilal and had come to Fiji in 1928. He soon earned a name as an eloquent speaker and a brilliant ad-vocate but he did not make a great impact as a politician. He was defeat-ed at the polls twice. Later Swami Rudrananda persuaded him to join hands with him and help the sugar-cane farmers. Until then even when approached by the farmers’ leaders to help them in their struggle Patel had refused because he did not feel any commitment to them. Finally he was drawn in by Swami Rudranan-da. This involvement undoubtedly helped him in his political career but he gave a lot of his time and energy so it was not one sided.

Patel was fearless and highly principled and even his opponents appreciated his sincerity and com-mitments to his ideals. Patel saw the Fijian commoners also as victims of exploitation and genuinely wanted to help them as well just as he wanted to help the sugarcane farmers who

were exploited. It was only after the 1968 by elections, when he saw the reaction of the Fijian people to his party’s attack on the Fijian chiefs that he realised that he was mistaken in his conclusions about the Fijian commoners.

When Patel realised the offence he had caused to Fijian sensibilities through his lack of understanding of the relationship between the Fijian commoners and their chiefs he has-tened to make amends through a gesture of reconciliation. Unfortu-nately Patel died a year before inde-pendence and according to Satendra Nandan “the Indian Fijians never recovered from the death of their leader”.

In paying tribute to Patel at his death, Ratu Mara noted that as “the first Leader of the Opposition, he set a standard of dignity, of eloquence and of courtesy in the finest tradi-tions of Parliamentary form of gov-ernment”. He further noted that there were deep divisions between Patel and himself but they all respected his sincerity and the devotion to the cause for which he fought.

One scholar accuses the ‘expatri-ate’ Indian politicians of exploiting the Fiji Indians. This was far from the truth. It was true that they were not just helping the Indians as they had broader outlook and looked at what was best for Fiji. R. D. Patel, the brother of A .D. Patel, was the first one to advocate nationalising the Vatukoula Gold Mine which

would have helped the workers who were mainly Fijians. Later NFP had it as its policy and if Patel had lived longer he would surely have taken it up. NFP leaders after Patel only looked at things that affected the Indians.

After independence there were two Indian born leaders in par-liament, R. D. Patel and Mrs. Jai Narayan. R. D. Patel left the NFP in 1975 claiming that it was not what it was before as it slowly became a communal party. R.D. also resigned from Parliament and then there was only Mrs. Narayan left. Since she did not have a supporting team she was not as effective as she was before. But she cannot be accused of exploiting the Fiji Indians in anyway. She served Fiji sincerely for many years.

Mrs.Narayan was one of the two ladies in the Legislative Council/Parliament when Fiji became self governing. There was Mrs Narayan on the opposition side and on the ruling Alliance side was Adi Losa-lini Dovi, the wife of Ratu Dovi, the brother of Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, and the mother of Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi.

Both Mrs. Narayan and Adi Losa-lini were such effective members and spoke boldly on any issue that they felt strongly about. They were so dignified and graceful at the same time and commanded the respect of the people. In Mrs. Narayan’s passing Fiji has lost a great leader. May her soul rest in peace.

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"They (the Indian players) were not properly prepared to deal with an England team that are playing top cricket at the moment," Kapil was quoted as saying in 'The Sunday Times'.

"After winning the World Cup in April, they played in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and then toured the West Indies, winning against the inexperienced side. So, they thought playing England would also be easy," Kapil said.

England beat India 4-0 in the four-match Test series. It was India's worst defeat in England after the 5-0

whitewash in 1959 - which included three innings defeats and others by 171 runs and eight wickets.

Kapil also dismissed the issue of fatigue from non-stop cricket in recent years and said there was just no proper planning for a tough tour of England.

"The bowlers have to work harder," said Dev in comments on the Indian players' bowling against England.

"There is no short-cut to success. Only with proper training can they expect to do well. They were not fully prepared," he said.

"I don't know who can come in. The board must decide. But proper planning is important," he said.

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It is too immature to view Anna Hazare’s campaign in terms of victory or defeat. Half victory means half defeat too, and such narrow descriptions don’t do any justice to the extraordinary qualities of the movement. In any case, it has not achieved much in terms of the original goal, and as Anna himself puts it, the work is only half-done. The real task has just started and the challenge now is to keep the mo-mentum going.

It should not be difficult now. The movement has delivered a jolt to the slimy and arrogant political class by reducing it to the level of ordinary mortals — this must be one of its biggest achievements so far. Now that their double standards have been ruthlessly exposed and the movement has admirably stayed steadfast on being apolitical, leaders are expected to be more amenable to discussion on reforms of all kind.

It was clear that the civil society had managed to wrest the advantage from politicians and shake them out of complacency. Now it should aim higher. Reuters

“The crux of the matter was changing the relationship between Parliament and people,’’ said activist Medha Patkar yesterday. The change was visible in several speeches made in Parliament on Saturday. It was clear that the civil society had managed to wrest the advantage

from politicians and shake them out of complacency. Now it should aim higher. Momentum is a big factor in mass movements of this nature.

The civil society is apparently prepared to make the most of the current mobilisation. Anna, while breaking his 12-day fast, promised not to stop at the Lokpal Act. He said he would focus on the right to recall elected representatives and right to reject electoral candidates. Great ideas. Both would make leaders

more accountable, keep parties on their toes and basically change the nature of how politics plays out at different levels.

But there’s scope of these rights being misused too. Given the nature of our politics, this could become the recipe for instability. The Jan Lokpal Bill attracted criticism because it was poorly thought out and was not the product of a broader consensus. Any further reform ini-

tiative from the civil society must avoid these weaknesses.

While on the topic of reforms, here is one stray thought. Why not reduce the preponderance of politi-cians at lower levels? In Mumbai, a small experiment is afoot. The residents’ association in Juhu has elected its own citizen corporator, ignoring the political party candi-dates. Many other associations have evinced interest in fielding their own candidates for the civic body polls of 2012. It is worthwhile to encourage such a trend. More politicians un-attached to political parties would dilute the disproportionate influence the parties have on our routine lives.

But there’s a word of caution too. The civil society is feeding off the public disenchantment with the po-litical class at the moment. It should not go too far in undermining its po-sition. The country needs its politi-cians. They bridge several segments of the society and bring coherence to the scattered aspirations of an electorate with multiple demands. Moreover, the humiliated political class would be looking for revenge. It is likely to strike back at the civil society once the public mood gets distracted.

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The island nation, ranked 15 in the world, arrive in New Zealand on Monday, September 29, and play their first match against Namibia in Rotorua on Sept 10.

Fiji are in Pool D with Namibia, Samoa, South Afriva and Wales.

With pace and strength in abun-dance, Fiji could well prove a sur-prise package at this World Cup.

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Head Coach: Illivasi Tabua.Fiji will look to build on a strong

appearance in the 2007 World Cup. While they are yet to transfer their fantastic 7s record to the 15-a-side game, the Fijians will provide a stern test for teams in Pool D. With pace and strength in abundance, they could well prove a surprise package at this World Cup.

Fiji's first World Cup appearance in 1987 resulted in a quarter-final appearance against France. They had to wait until 2007 to repeat that achievement and bombed in the 1991 tournament, losing all three matches.

They failed to qualify in 1995 after losses to Tonga and Western Samoa, but made the quarter-final playoffs in 1999. Fiji kicked off well in 2003 but didn't manage to prog-ress past the pool stages. In 2007, Fiji won a memorable 38-34 match against Wales to reach the quarter-finals for the second time.

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Saturday September 17 v South Africa, Wellington Regional Stadium (Wellington)

Sunday September 25 v Samoa, Eden Park (Auckland)

Sunday October 2 v Wales, Waikato Stadium (Hamilton)

Meanwhile, Rugby New Zealand 2011 yesterday welcomed the deci-sion of the England and Australian Rugby World Cup 2011 teams to include Christchurch in their Tour-nament itineraries.

“Both teams were due to play matches in Christchurch, but the devastating earthquake of February

22 of course changed those plans so we are grateful that the team are able to do their bit to raise the spirits of the city,” said RNZ 2011 CEO Martin Snedden.

England team manager Martin Johnson and several team members

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Australia team members will travel from Hanmer Springs on September 28 undertake a variety of community activities prior to flying to Nelson for their match against Russia. This will include a tour of the new Fanzone at Hagley Park, a

fund raising lunch and school and hospital visits.

“I thank Martin Johnson and Australian coach Robbie Deans for making team members available for these visits during what is an intense time for any RWC team,”

said Mr Snedden.“But I know they will mean a

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The New Zealand team has already announced plans to base themselves in Christchurch from September 17 to 20 ahead of their key pool match against France at Eden Park on September 24.

“The New Zealand Government, the Christchurch City Council, the NZ 2011 Office and many others have worked hard to ensure the people of Canterbury can still share in the excitement of this Tourna-ment. The Hagley Park Fanzone, REAL New Zealand Festival events and now these team visits will I am sure help people feel a real part of this fantastic six week celebration that is nearly upon us.”

Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker says, "It was very disappointing to lose our matches, but Cantabrians are still getting into the spirit of Rugby World Cup 2011 and these team visits will certainly help them to feel part of the hype. We look forward to welcoming members from both the England and Austra-lian teams to the Garden City."

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Commodore Bainimarama, who is also the Minister for the iTaukei Ministry clarified the issue when it was raised by the district repre-sentative of Waidina at Nabukaluka Village last week.The Prime Minister said any laws to be passed would be in line with the laws of the country.

A review is being conducted by the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs on

proposed by-laws and the ministry has taken into consideration submis-sions made by various individuals and organisations.

In a statement, the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs confirms that there is a working committee now looking into the draft developed earlier.

The review is based on feedbacks gathered from public consultations and issues raised will be considered if deemed necessary to be included in proposed by-laws.

Village bye-laws under review

The Ministry of Education has con-ducted a survey with all primary and secondary schools in the country to ensure they are following the minis-try’s language policy.

And the ministry is now looking at its current language policy.

“There are three parts to this policy. Firstly, we look at teaching of vernacular in the lower primary, that is, classes one, two and three where teaching is done generally in the ver-nacular languages- mainly in Hindi, Fijian, Rotuman, Banaban and so forth,” the ministry permanent sec-retary Dr Brij Lal Dr Lal said.

“The ministry will encourage teachers in the lower primary to teach in vernacular so that it is easy for students to understand as well.”

Dr Lal said the teaching of the conversational i-taukei and Hindi, which started from Class Five and goes up to secondary level, is also encouraged by the ministry.

“We would like the Fijian stu-dents of Indian ethnicity to know a

little bit of conversational Fijian and the i-taukei students to know a little bit of conversational Hindi,” he said.

“No child should be deprived of his or her mother tongue. That is why we are taking a good survey throughout the country of all primary and secondary schools to see that all these are being implemented.

“So far we have received about

60 per cent of forms with positive outcomes. Some have some difficul-ties of not having the right teachers

and so forth, which we will address after all these survey forms have come back.”

The ministry has furthermore provided Licensed Teacher Grants to facilitate the teaching of vernacular in primary schools.

Ministry looks at Language policy

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LICI) will be opening its new sales and service point in Si-gatoka today.

LICI general manager Fiji Op-erations Krishnan Narasimhan said this is part of LICI’s plan to expand its operations in Fiji and take its services nearer to the doorsteps of customers.

“This new office will now provide access to all customers in the Coral Coast/Nadroga area and they need not visit Suva, Nadi or Lautoka for their policy services anymore.

Mr Narasimhan said LICI also planned to open an office in Navua in the near future. “Through these initiatives, LICI

proposes to greatly enhance its footprint across Fiji and is part of its strategic initiatives for the future.

“It is also important to note that LICI recently launched Fiji’s first micro insurance product Micro Life.

“LICI also earlier this week tied up with Vodafone Fiji for the first ever premium paying facility through Vodafone’s mobile money transfer service M-PAiSA,” he said.LICI at present has its Fiji head office in Suva and branches in Lautoka and Labasa.

In addition, it has sales and service points at Nausori, Nadi, Ba, Tavua, Rakiraki, Taveuni, Levuka and Marks Street in Suva.

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The Fiji government on August 19 teamed up with the Fiji Rugby Union, Fijian Holdings Limited and renowned artist Steve Macomber in what will be the biggest morale boost for the Flying Fiji rugby team to the world cup in New Zealand.

Launching the official song for the rugby team today at Fiji Hold-ings Limited in Suva, the song not only reflects the commitment and support by all parties involved, but is a display of rare patriotic enthusi-asm, only reserved for sporting tour-naments.

Today government came out strong in showing its support towards the rugby team by facilitat-ing and assisting in the production of the video of the song adding that the rugby team has the full confidence of the country.

Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama said that gov-ernment will always support the sporting fraternity in the country, especially rugby. “We know that all the team members have trained hard

during the lead up to the World Cup. In your determination to win the

tournament, you have made sacri-fices and done everything possible to prepare for what lies ahead.

Commodore Bainimarama said despite that the geographical size of Fiji, the extent of the support towards the nation’s rugby team is enormous.

“Nothing unites this country like sport and especially rugby, the people of Fiji will always be behind our boys who will take on the might of the world on the rugby field”, the Prime Minister said.

“Fijians throughout the world will be watching the game, that’s for sure. We will either win or lose, either way every TV set in the nation will be tuned into the Rugby World Cup and will be cheering on the team.

Commodore Bainimarama said 'On the rugby field everyone is equal and that is this governments vision, a united Fiji for all'.

“My message to our boys to the world cup is simple. Play with all your heart and all your strength and whether you win or lose, Fiji will always be proud of you”.

FHL Launches Official Song for Flying Fijians

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Ratu Finau Secondary School at Tubou Village on Lakeba, Lau now boasts a new building block after it was officially opened by the Minis-ter for Education, Mr Filipe Bole last week.

His visit to schools on Lakeba was the highlight of a tour of the Lau Group.

The newly opened block, con-tains classrooms, a new administra-tion office and the new Form Seven classroom.

The initiative was completed

through government assistance. “ You are as good or equal to any

other student in any school in Fiji and your new facilities should make you work to your best,” Mr Bole told students.

“Now as you have Form Seven, work hard and work your way up to the university level.”

Mr Bole also explained to stu-dents and communities of Lakeba the Ministry of Education’s expecta-tions and initiatives.

“ We are glad to have this minis-

terial visit so that our new block can be officially opened by the minister,” said school principal Mrs Mereoni Motukiliu.

“For the development to Ratu Finau Secondary School we are all so thankful for the Government .

“The opening of the new block is also another chapter being opened for the school,” added the Principal.

People of Lakeba came together on this day to witness this official function.

School boasts New Block

The song not only reflects the commitment and support by all parties involved, but is a display of rare patriotic enthusiasm, only reserved for sporting tournaments.

There are three parts to this policy. Firstly, we look at teaching of vernacular in the lower primary, that is, classes one, two and three where teaching is done generally in the vernacular languages- mainly in Hindi, Fijian, Rotuman, Banaban and so forth

One of Fiji’s most experienced radio broadcasters, Anirudh Diwakar, has passed away.

Diwakar, who was the Pro-grammes Director of Communi-cation Fiji Ltd’s Hindi speaking station, Radio Sargam, passed away at the Suva Private Hospital on Friday.

CFL Managing Direc-tor William Parkinson said that Diwakar would be greatly missed by many fans in Fiji and overseas.

Diwakar was a veteran of the broadcasting scsne in Fiji, heaving first served at Radio Fiji in the 1980s and later helping in the etab-lishment of Radio Sargam.

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Every year, Mumbai and Maharashtra in general goes bananas with the ten day Ganesh Utsav. The cities of Maharashtra get inundat-ed with creative Ganesha idols that are sculpt-ed to delightful perfection. Experts say that during this festival Mumbai alone eats up as much as 500 tonnes of the milk based modak sweets in just 10 days (something for the New Zealand based milk giant Fonterra to take note who are expanding in India).

It is well known that perhaps no other God except Lord Ganesha has been depicted in as many varieties of forms and depicted in every conceivable form, anywhere in the world. Every year several Ganapati mandals (groups) in India fully use their artistic license to showcase Lord Ganesha in many themes including contemporary ones. So, it is no surprise that some groups have chosen Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption movement to capture the imagination of a dynamic India during this year’s Utsav.

Historically, the community Ganesh Utsav was started by Lokmanya Tilak in 1893. However such celebrations were also prevalent in ancient India. According to his-torian Shri V.K.Rajwade (1863 – 1926), the earliest Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations can also be traced back to the reigns of dynas-ties like Satavāhanas 230 (BCE–220 CE), Rāshtrakūtas (753–982 CE) and Chālukyas (543–753 CE). These dynasties also offered

royal patronage to temples which used many sculpted idols to tell a story to the sensitive thinkers.

It is commonly understood that an idol serves the same purpose for a devotee as a flag does for the army. In Hindu traditions the idol or the pratima is symbolic of higher truths just as a country’s flag is symbolic of the country’s ideals. In esoteric traditions of India that continues till today, visual art and sculpture were employed to give a

spiritual message. Through the myriad idols of Lord Ganesha, the artists with their clever art of God symbolism try to reveal something that we are unable to grasp through our senses. So what is it that the Ganesha idols and art try to tell us? What is the symbolism that Ganapati Bappa is calling us to?

Though there are symbolic meanings at-tached to each aspect of Lord Ganesha like the elephant head, the mouse, the belly, the trunk, the noose, the goad, the modaka etc the single most reality about Lord Ganesha is about a transcendental nature of reality that sustains creation.

So why is a symbol used to point to the Ul-timate truth? What is at the heart of god sym-bolism? Swāmi Chinmayānanda explains “It must evidently clear to all sensitive thinkers that the representations given in the various symbolisms are not as many different deities, but that they are vivid pen-portraits of the subjective Truth described in the Upanishadic lore.”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar confirms “Our ancient Rishis were so deeply intelligent that they chose to express Divinity in terms of symbols rather than words, since words change over time, but symbols remain unchanged. Let us keep these deep symbolisms in mind as we experience the omnipresent in the form of the elephant God, yet be fully aware that Ganesha is very much within us. This is the wisdom

we should carry as we celebrate Ganesh Cha-thurti.”

Swāmi Krishnānanda of the Divine Life Society adds “The Mahāganapati Purāna, the Ganapati Atharvasirsha Upanishad, the Ganesha Gita and several anecdotes occur-

ring in the Mahabharata and the other Puranas glorify an aspect of the Supreme Almighty which requires our submission at His feet, and expects us to recognise Him as the sole power that can remove all obstacles on the path of the spiritual seeker towards the attainment of Godhead. This seems to be a part of the meaning hidden behind the holy worship of Sri Ganesha.”

In the traditional invocations of Lord Ganesha, there are some popular Sanskrit shlokas that presents a portrait of subjective truths personified in Lord Ganesha. In the Sri Ganapati Atharvasirsha or the Ganapati Upanishad from the Atharvana Veda, the seer invokes Lord Ganesha as the embodiment of the ultimate truth, in this way: “You are the divine truth. You are the only creator of the world. You are the only protector of the world. You are the only destroyer of the world. You are the ultimate supreme divine power. You

are the only soul which is present partly in each and every living form.”

the other popular invocations are:--------------------------------------------------Vakratunda Mahakaaya, Suryakoti SamaprabhaNirvighnam Kuru Mey Deva, Sarva Kaaryeshu Sarvadameaning: Lord Ganesha with a curved trunk and a mighty body. He who has the brilliance of a million suns. I pray to you Oh Lord to remove all the obstacles from all the actions I intend to perform.--------------------------------------------------Tatpurushaaya Vidmahe Vakratundaaya DheemaheTanno Danthihi Prachodayaatmeaning: We meditate on that super power, We invoke the single tusked boon giver, Ganesh.--------------------------------------------------Ganaanaam Twam Ganapathi Gam HavaamaheKavim Kaveenaam Upamasra VastamamJyeshta Raajam Brahmanaam BrahmanaspathaAanashrunvanna Oothibhi Seedha Saadanammeaning: The Lord of spiritual faith, son of Lord Shiva, is the wisest among the wise. Ganesha has no comparison. He is the senior Lord of the Vedic mantras, who listens to the devotee's prayers. I invite Lord Ganesha to visit my home with prosperous things and be seated here.--------------------------------------------------

Wishing you a happy and auspicious Ganesh Chaturthi. Ganpati Bappa Morya.

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Ganesh Utsav perhaps provides a platform for the biggest display of God symbolism on earth. The ten day Ganesh Utsav is probably the only festive period when we see most idols of any Hindu deity. In Hinduism, art & sculpture has been traditionally employed from Veda Vyāsa’s time to help us discover the hidden meaning of subtler truths. Given this Hindu methodology of communicating the greater truths through arty idols, Lord Ganesha with the elephant head on a human body also relay something deep and esoteric. What is the heart behind the art of Ganesha? “our ancient rishis were so deeply

intelligent that they chose to express divinity in terms of symbols rather than words, since words change over time, but symbols remain un-changed. let us keep these deep symbolisms in mind as we experi-ence the omnipresent in the form of the elephant god, yet be fully aware that ganesha is very much within us. this is the wisdom we should carry as we celebrate ganesh cha-thurti.”

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Will to Live, an American-Indian film released recently, talks about a desperate father’s courageous search for a rare herbal cure for cancer to save his son’s life. The father jour-neys from America to India and into the Himalayas, making friends who empathise with his condition and extend help to him.

Looking back at mainstream Hindi films, the first unforgettable treatise that involves impending death as a way of celebrating life even though one is afflicted with a termi-nal illness is Anand (1971) directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Anand is a cult film that consolidated Rajesh Khanna’s phenomenal stardom. It is also remembered for its feather-light flourishes of humour, bonhomie, a touch of romance tinged heavily though with melodrama, as it runs along several tracks, involving a deep friendship between Anand and his young doctor Bhaskar Ba-nerjee (Amitabh Bachchan), his self-constructed ‘family’ relation-ship with doctor friend Kulkarni (Ramesh Deo) and his wife, the elderly nurse who mothers him and Bhaskar’s wife. The grave and silent

Bhaskar watches Anand draw the last drop of life’s juices while there is still time. For him, it is a learn-ing experience. Karan Johar pro-duced a lavishly mounted, loud, glitzy but rather watered down poor imitation of Anand in the name and style of Kal Ho Na Ho (2003) star-ring Shahrukh Khan and directed by Nikhil Advani.

The tremendous box office success of Anand with a memorable music track by Salil Choudhury and lyrics by Gulzar pushed Mukherjee to create another film haunted by the dark shadow of death- Mili. Jaya Bachchan in Mili (1975) was fleshed out along the same lines as Anand. There was a marked difference though. A young man (Amitabh Bachchan) comes to live in the same housing complex as Mili. Her bub-bling personality irritates him as he is a depressed introvert who shuns all social relationships haunted by a boyhood tragedy that has made him an alcoholic. The two eventually fall in love. He marries Mili and takes her abroad in search of a cure. Mili’s father (Ashok Kumar) stands on the terrace of the complex to watch the aircraft fly away, wondering with a sense of resignation about whether Mili will return or not. Though this was a better made film, Mili failed to set the box office on fire the

way Anand did.Sunil Dutt in Dard Ka

Rishta (1982) plays Dr. Sharma who lives in New York and is a widower with a daughter (Khush-boo). He marries again. His second wife (Smita Patil) is involved in re-search on leukemia. The marriage falls apart when Sharma decides to return to India with his daughter to take over as head of the leuke-mia department at the Tata Cancer Hospital in Mumbai. In a strange twist of fate, his daughter falls sick and is diagnosed as suffering from leukemia. How he struggles to save his sick daughter and how ultimately she survives and so does the mar-riage is a touching tale of courage and determination. Dutt’s film was possibly inspired by wife Nargis’ death by cancer. It was a good film without melodrama and with a lovely musical score but could not touch the hearts of the Indian audi-

ence the way Anand had.Death looms in the background in

Paa (2009) directed by R. Balakrish-nan (Balki) as Auro, a 13-year-old boy afflicted by Progeria, goes through life. His single mother, a gynaecologist and widowed grand-mother try to live as happily as they can, under the shadow of death threatening to throw their lives asunder. When the boy – essayed by Bachchan in an incredibly brilliant performance –learns that he does have a father but his parents were never married, he uses his impend-ing death to emotionally blackmail them to come together. The con-fused parents are forced to take the ritual seven rounds around his hos-pital bed even as he is dying. Though this is slightly stretched in logic and full of melodrama, it is a wonderful celebration of death by a child who wants life for his parents to go on after his ends.

Guzaarish (2010) a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film tackles the issue of willful suicide through mercy killing for the first time in Hindi cinema. Ethan Mascarenhas (Rithik Roshan), a talented magician becomes a wheelchair-bound paraplegic from a spinal injury resulting from an ac-cident manipulated by a rival magi-cian during a perormance. He finds new meaning in life by becoming a successful radio jockey who peppers his programme with a lot of spice, humour and satire, attracting a large crowd of fascinated fans who cannot imagine he is bound to a wheelchair for 14 years. Life gets by alongside a deep bonding with his beautiful nurse Sofia (Aishwarya Rai).

On the 14th anniversary of the accident, Ethan decides to file an appeal to the court for euthanasia. Sofia is devastated but Ethan is de-termined despite insistent plead-ings of his doctor friend. Even his mother backs him in his last wish. Ironically, the FM Station he works for is called Radio Zindagi. When the judge rejects the appeal, Ethan turns to his millions of listeners to back him through his new pro-gramme Project Euthanasia. Death is a grim reality in these films, hard-hitting and sharp. It is not a metaphor, nor does it symbolise any larger philosophy to be inspired by. It has nothing to do with religious beliefs or philosophy of rebirth. If death is facing you, challenging you to fight it, or accept it with grace and in good humour so be it.

Death through these films re-inforces what noted author Arthur Koestler wrote many years ago before he took his own life: “If the word death was absent from our vo-cabulary, our great works of litera-ture would have remained unwrit-ten, pyramids and cathedrals would not exist, nor works of religious art-and all art of religious or magic origin.”

The living spiriT: portrayal of death in Hindi c inemaWhat drives people

to struggle with the most inevitable reality of life – death? What makes others accept death happily and cheerfully as a passing phase in the cycle of life? How has mainstream cinema treated these parallel tracks to focus on this issue? Shoma A. Chatterji probes

Rajesh Khanna in Anand

Shahrukh Khan in Kal Ho Na Ho

A still from Will to Live

Mumbai: Social activist Anna Hazare, who broke his anti-corrup-tion fast on Sunday, is now having strange supporters to join his war against corruption- these are ready to strip showbiz people who bares to conquer corruption.

One such follower is Marathi actress Yogita Dandekar, who posed topless by painting herself in tri color to support the cause.

The Marathi actress who has done commercial Marathi films was seen posing infront of the camera by wearing an Anna cap and with her body painted in tri colors.

She has written ‘I Support Anna’ on her body to show that she is there to support the old man who has at-

tracted thousands of supporters in the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi to fight for the passage of Jan Lokpal Bill in the Indian parliament.

But Yogita is not alone in this strange ways of displaying support, as Delhi based model Salina Wali Khan has said that she is ready to dance naked for Anna Hazare if the Central government do not pass the Jan Lokpal Bill.

Strangely, both are supporting the same cause but their issues of revealing themselves in the process are bit different.

When the ladies can be so sup-portive to the cause in their unique fashion, how can the males be far behind, as model turned actor

Yuvraaj Parashar has planned to bare his body to support Anna and his cause.

These strange claims and acts are not new to India as they had seen model Poonam Pandey promising to reveal herself if India win the cricket World Cup.

But she could not ultimately perform the act due to legal issues. But she did manage to draw a few eyeballs.

Now Anna gets some dare bare followers

Mumbai: Actor Hrithik Ro-shan’s first look from his upcom-ing Dharma Productions’ remake Agneepath, created quite a stir amongst fans online, on the eve of Gokulashtami, when people all over India participated and celebrated the enigmatic festival.

The picture, which was posted in the morning on the official Dharma Productions fan page, shows Hrithik in a red vest, as a part of the dahi handi ritual. Ladies all over the world have been swooning over his Greek God looks, and he proves that he definitely is the hottest Govinda in town.

Hrithik a.k.a Vijay Dinanath Chauhan’s pose is striking as the actor looks muscular and stunning and looks like he has indeed put in extra hours at the gym. Fans can’t stop raving about the look, and have been craving to see a few more looks of the film.

Agneepath is releasing on the 13th of January 2012, and audi-ences are waiting to watch how well Hrithik Roshan will portray the iconic character of Vijay Dinanath Chauhan, previously played by Amitabh Bachchan in the original movie.

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Mumbai: Donning six different get-ups in a matter of two hours is no mean feat but actor Saif Ali Khan, brand ambas-sador for Metro Shoes made it look like a ‘cakewalk’ as he transformed into several styles while shooting for a print campaign for the brand.

The autumn-winter (A/W) collec-tion for the brand comprised of loafers, patent leather formals, suedes, driving shoes and chappals with the colour palette ranging from molten chocolate browns to cherry reds, blacks and slate grey’s.

The entire set-up was done up in mirrors and Saif posed effortlessly for lens-man Amitabh Kame.

Styled by Tanya Fraser, Saif is seen exuding attitude in all his looks--be it the Formal Red Carpet Ensemble with patent lace–ups, the breezy linen casuals with black studded chappals or the biker jacket look with leather slip ons.

Leaning against his own reflection and also posing with utmost dexterity, Saif finished the shoot in record time.

Saif also shared some interesting tid-bits while shooting: “I own over 60 pairs of shoes from boots to formals. I had a great time doing this shoot as the team was superb, Metro Shoes had a brilliant concept and they made me look good…”

On being asked whether he has any indulgences, the Chotte navab replied, “I go through phases…I have an indul-gence from shades, to shoes to clothes to sun glasses. I dress more for comfort and of-course style is important. I also keep in mind the weather!”

On a signing off note, he did wish everyone a hearty ‘Eid Mubarak’.

Saif Ali Khan shoots for A/W shoes

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Mumbai: This year, the Ganesh Utsav on Zee TV's popular soap Pavitra Rishta is the grandest cel-ebration the Deshmukhs have ever had! ‘Coz their guest list for the aarti has the most exciting name in tinsel town..the gorgeous Kareena Kapoor who will be seen knocking on their door this year.

Bebo will join Manav and Archana in their prayers to Lord Ganesha – the world’s greatest ‘Bodyguard’.

And as if this isn’t hot enough, the television fraternity’s hottest actors will be seen shaking a leg on this Ganesh Utsav Maha Episode of Pavitra Rishta!

The bad boys on the tube Karan Grover, Nandish Sandhu and Him-manshoo Malhotra will set the stage ablaze to Dhinka chika & Taay Taay Phiss while Zee TV’s divas Ankita Lokhande, Sara Khan and Suhasi Dhami will be seen dancing to Disla Ga Bai Disla and Hichki … of course, it’ll be another joy altogether to see your favorite jodi Manav-Archana dance away to Deva O Deva while Karan and Suhasi do the bhangra to Saddi Galli Pulikewi.

Sara Khan will show her Ram Milaayi Jodi hero Sujay Reu her jalwa as they boogey to Tera Hi Jalwa on Aug 28 (Sunday).

Kareena Kapoor on Zee TV soap

Mumbai: Sanjay Dutt starrer ‘Chatur Singh Two Star’ screened in 449 UFO digital theatres across India for the week of August 19-25.

Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Not a Love Story’ screened in 275 UFO Digital Theatres for the week of August 19-25.

‘Aarakshan’ continues to screen in 246 UFO Digital theatres in its second week. ‘Sahi Dhandhe Galat Bande’ releases in its first week in 155 UFO Digital Theatres. ‘Singham’, which released on July 22, 2011, continues to screen in 151 UFO Digital Theatres.

Actor turned producer Sanjay Dutt says, “I am very happy now that films can now release simulta-neously in digital theatres across the length and breadth of the country on a first-day first-show basis. I re-member that when I used to watch Friday releases at Gaiety theatre in Bandra, Mumbai, we used to see a small poster of a forthcoming film but now even trailors are shown in digital theatres.

"Recent films like ‘Double Dhamaal’, ‘Ready’, ‘Aarakashan’ and ‘Singham’ have done well in single screens as well as in multi-plexes thanks to digital theatres. As an actor and a producer, it makes me very happy and it is good for the industry if digital cinema can increase the box office size while offering quality experience at af-fordable ticket prices.”

In terms of non-Hindi films, Marathi film ‘Morya’ releases today in 105 UFO Digital Theatres. Popular Singer and Music director Avadhoot Gupte’s new film ‘Morya’ screens in 105 UFO Digital The-atres for the week of August 19-25, 2011, creating some kind of a record as Gupte’s earlier film, ‘Zenda’ re-leased on January 22, 2010, in 56 UFO Digital Theatres but went on to screen in 146 UFO Digital The-atres as of August 5, 2011.

In 2011, Mahesh Manjrekar-produced Marathi film ‘Faqta Ladh Mhana’ screened on 100 UFO Digital Theatres during the first

week of release; viz., August 5-11. Only 2 other Marathi films last year– Paaaradh (in August 2010), ‘Ideachi Kalpana’ (in December 2010) – in 2009 and 2010 screened on 100 plus UFO Digital Cinema.

Superstar Shivarajakumar’s 100th Kannada film and magnum opus ‘Jogaiah’ releases today in 83 UFO Digital Theatres creating some kind of a record within the network of UFO Moviez, the world’s single largest networked digital cinema platform, which has revolutionized the way films are distributed and exhibited throughout India.

‘Jogaiah’ is expected to create a new wave in the action film category. Telugu film ‘Kandireega’, which released on August 12, 2011, screens in 79 UFO Digital Theatres.

Telugu film ‘Dhada’, which re-leased on August 11, screens on 68 UFO Digital Theatres. Tamil film ‘Kanchana’, which released on July 22, continues to screen on 62 UFO Digital Theatres.

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Sujay Reu replaces Nishant Malkani in Ram Milaayi Jodi

He's got to be cute, shy, simple and with a distinctively decent vibe to him! Speculaions have been rife as to who will bag the hero Anu-kalp's role in Zee TV's Ram Milaayi Jodi after chocolate boy Nishant Malkani called it quits.

And the cat is out of the bag ... the new Anukalp is a fresh face Sujay Reu, a good looking Kashmiri model-turned-actor who completely fits the bill and should find it easy

slipping into. Reu, who holds a diploma in

acting from Anupam Kher's "Actor Prepares" Institute, has just shot for an ad with heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor. But don't mistake him to be all brawn and no brain as he's ... hold your breath ... an aeronautical engineer.

It seems the reality of playing the hero in a popular primetime show on national television has not sunk in for this extremely grounded, humble chap. The boy, apparently

stays in 7 bungalows, Andheri and lands up each for the shoot of Ram Milaayi Jodi in Naigaon after sur-viving 1 hour of Mumbai's crazy local train commute.

The actor looked confused when the creative team behind the show told him that he may not be able to take the train in a few days! He said, "Why not? Ofcourse, I'll take the train.

It's the most convenient option" Little does he seem to realise that he is on the brink of becoming a

INTRODUCING THE NEW ANUKALP ... household name in India and a face that could easly be mobbed and gheraoed for pictures and autographs in public places.

On the first day of shoot, Sujay seemed rather shy at the prospect of hugging and posing with his hot co-star Sara Khan ... he blushed profusely in the middle of the shot, making him even more suitable for the role of the soft-spoken, sweet Anukalp.

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a ‘different’ film for you?For the first time I have done a film in this style and pace. Mere Brother ki Dulhan has a lot of songs…all of them choreographed…so lots of dancing for me. Style of the humour in the film is very loud…treatment is on a higher volume. I had a great time working on it and Ali (director Ali Abbas Zafar) brought out that (comic) side of me that I didn’t know I had. Now I am excited to know how people respond to the film.

Tell us about your character in the film?I play Kush, a boy from Dehradun. The char-acter is heavily inspired by Ali. He has put his real-life character into the story. The idea was to create a guy who people can look at and relate to. My character (Kush Agni-hotri) is a simple, middle-class, small town boy, who has moved to Bombay to work and someone relatable.

That’s what appealed to me the most. He is not a heroic guy; he is funny, intelligent person who believes in doing the right things. But he is not quintessentially a hero.

Did you face any challenge in playing your character?The challenge for me was to open myself. I am generally a quieter person, a reserved one. To play this (Kush), I had to rely heavily on my director.

Pick one song from the film that you like the most.It’s a spectacular album and Sohail Sen (music composer) has done a brilliant job. Every song has so much life and energy, the lyrics are also very good. So I am very happy with the album as a whole. But if you ask me to pick one song, it has to be the title track. It’s so funny.

You imitated all top stars, including Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and your uncle Aamir Khan, in the title song. Comment.We wanted to pay some respect to all the suc-cessful stars of our film industry. The idea was to have some fun. Anyone who watches his/her favourite heroes or heroines, copies their dance steps. We are paying a tribute to them on a bigger scale.

Katrina (Kaif) slapped you 16 times before okaying a shot. What was it like?Katrina takes a while to get into the feel of the mood and the scene, but I got the feel very early. The intense happiness that one feels after slapping someone tightly, Katrina was not getting that after the first shot. So we did 16 takes and then it was pack up for the day. The next day we were to shoot a different scene. I had arrived on the set in the evening and I was told Katrina was not happy with her performance yesterday and so we had to redo only that one scene…the slapping one…she is very happy with the rest of the scenes, except that one which she feels she can do better. I guess she is a method actor. So the next day we did more takes. Now you can actually see that my face is no more symmetrical.

Ali Zafar is playing your brother Luv in the film. How was it working with him?I spoke to our director Ali Abbas Zafar and said: ‘Yaar, we have to get a really good actor for Bhaisaab’s role in the film.’ Luv is an in-teresting character and the person who plays his role must be a very talented actor. We just could not take anyone. And when Ali Zafar (the actor of Tere Bin Laden fame) finally came on board and we started doing readings and shootings, I realized what a fantastic job he has done. He has given a new height to the character. He is hilarious in the film.

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mETHODPreheat oven to 180c, Gas mark 4.Line a 20cm round cake pan with the baking paper. Grease with butter and then dust it with the flour.Sift together the Flour, Baking powder & salt.Add Sugar to the above flour mixture and mix it well.In a bowl with an electric mixer at slow speed mix eggs, oil, milk and vanilla essence then add the Flour mixture to it, mix everything together until smooth.If the batter is too runny you may add slightly more Flour.Pour the mixture into the baking pan and bake for approximately 40 to 45 minutes or until the skewer comes out clean.

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Don’t open the oven door too often during cooking. The temperature will drop and may prevent the cake rising properly.

INGREDIENTS175g- flour

3tbsp- cocoa powder

2tsp- baking powder

1 pinch of Salt

220g-caster Sugar

¾-cup- Milk

¾-cup- Oil

2- eggs

2tsp- vanilla essence

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We can't change the fact we're going to get aged and with age will come health complexi-ties. Every time we jump on the weighing scale it seems that the needle does not shift and if it does its towards the non-desired end. From cutting back the portion size to refusing the favourite dessert and / or even signing up with the gym or the local Zumba class does not help : so what’s going on?

It’s a fact of nature: as we age, our body-fat levels increase while our muscle mass de-

creases. Creeping in our early 40s, our bodies - be it men or women go through a series of changes that affect the very core of our health.

Hormonal and cell changes, mid life crisis all have an impact on our physical and mental health – As much as it would be hard to believe, but the fact remains that this is a result of the natural ageing process. As we grow older, our bodies begin to change at times causing an impact to ones confidence and morale.

All these years being carefree about leading a healthy life, self-realisation some-

times act as a trigger. It is imperative that we lead the change and focus on maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Leading the change toward a fitter you, is not difficult, to make sure you stay healthy after 40, there are some easy changes.

Self realisation is a good start - Make a list of what works for you, and what throws you off. Your own healthy habits in the past are the ones most likely to work for you now.

Resistance and weight training is some-thing you need to get involved in, as you get older you are going to lose some of the muscle

mass you have accumulated, it is important to do some resistance training at least three times a week. Building your muscle strength will help decrease the chances of breaks and frac-tures due to weak bones and will make your body look lean and tight.

Increase your calcium and vitamins intake to stay fit and healthy, please consult a health professional or a GP before you start taking these supplements. Fresh fruits and vegetables are something you should be consuming daily to maintain good health.

With our modern day lifestyle - we tend to skip breakfast or lunch which is not ideal,

we make up for it by gorging it up at dinner, however once you hit 40, you need to focus on a six small meals pattern throughout the day. Eating smaller and more frequent meals will help you keep your energy levels and your me-tabolism high which in turn will help maintain your weight.

Walking is a great form of physical activ-ity and a helps to stay fit. Make a routine of walking for 45 minutes to an hour every day after you wake up or in the evening after dinner. Walking daily will keep your bones healthy and will also do a lot for your heart, it

also helps relieve stress and has varied health benefits.

Overall, once you hit 40 – the key is to lead a healthy lifestyle, relax, enjoy and have fun. Till next time stay fit and eat healthy.

This article is a general guideline ONLY, if you have any medical condition and for individual needs you should consult a health professional or your medical practitioner im-mediately.Varsha Asrani is a New Zealand registered clinical dietitian, for personal consultations, queries, suggestions and feedback she can be contacted on [email protected]

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With our modern day lifestyle - we tend to skip break-fast or lunch which is not ideal, we make up for it by gorging it up at dinner, however once you hit 40, you need to focus on a six small meals pattern throughout the day. Eating smaller and more frequent meals will help you keep your energy levels and your metabolism high which in turn will help maintain your weight.

CHOCOLATE BuTTEr ICING3tbsp- butter3cups- powder Sugar½-cup- cocoa powder1tsp- vanilla essence

mETHODUsing an electric mixer, cream the butter with powdered sugar in a bowl. Add cocoa powder, vanilla essence and mix until smooth. Do not over mix. Cover the baked cake top and the sides with the icing.


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