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Smitten by NZ, Gurinder wants to make a movie here

ArvINd KumArCelebrated British lmmaker GurinderChadha is keen to make a movie in pictur-sque New Zealand and all she needs is aood script to get her started.

I just loved New Zealand when I visitedast; it is one of the most beautiful countr ieshave visited, the maker of the hit movieBend It Like Beckham told the Indian

Weekender this week.I have heard of some wonderful movies

eing made in New Zealand and would loveo make a movie there. Just give me a goodcript.

Chadha, whose other best k nown movieBride and Prejudice was also a super hit,

was talking to Indian Weekender prior tohe release of her latest movie Its A Won-erful Afterlife, which hits New Zealandinemas on August 26.

On her latest release, Chadha said theyad lots of fun making the romantic killeromedy.

We had lots of fun; Ive always triedo do something different and push theoundaries. I dont think theyve ever mademovie of Punjabi ghosts, laughs Chadha.

Also, the leading ladies ShabanaAzmi and Goldy Notay are mum and

aughter; they carry the movie well.Chadha, who was born in Kenya and

rought up in Britain, said she hadnt nevereally liked Bollywood movies until she

saw Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge di -rected by Aditya Chopra.

She rated Saif Ali Khan, Shahid Kapoorand Ranbir Kapoor as a new breed ofactors who injected a lot of zest into theirmovies.

One of her favourite lms is Kamineydirected by Vishal Bharadwaj, whose workshe has great respect for, although ManiRatnam is her favourite director.

Chadha said her latest offering Its AWonderful Afterlife had been well re-ceived among the Indian and non-Indianaudiences.

I often get stopped by people in thestreets to tell me how much they loved themovie; some didnt like the ghosts but thenno one had been expecting Punjabi ghosts.

Its a movie of a new genre; in yearsto come, people will come back to it andappreciate it as much as they do it today.

At the heart of Chadhas latest movielies a love story of Roopi Sethi, whichactress Goldy Notay brings her to life on

screen. Roopis in a bit of lacklustre stageof her life.

Her father passed away recently and hada relationship that was sabotaged by her ex- boyfriend. And she has a very determinedmum, who wants to nd her a suitablematch, because Roopi thin ks shes not goingto have that happily ever after ending, andno knight in shining armour moment that alot of women want to experience.

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But her mum thinks tha ts not an option andpoor Roopi follows whatever crazy idea hermum has, whether its speed dating, or goingo the Sikh temple to try and meet someone.

To tackle the role, Notay had to pile on theounds. Id seen Goldy on stage, and on TV,nd shes very good at comedy and very empa-hetic explains Chadha. Shes got a chubbyace, but her body is really svelte-like, andhe looked really pretty and svelte when I meter for the movie. In fact, I was really worriedhat it wouldnt work. I had to ask her to lookess presentable. So she put on weight, woread clothes, kept her hair unkempt.

Chadha laughs. Goldys husband loved it.Hes an Italian chef and for the rst time inheir married life she was eating all his pastand food and not moaning. And of course sheot an enormous bust, which he loved. The

writer-director goes on to note that Roopisize is an important factor in the lm. Youust have to look all those magazines, andll these poor girls with eating disorders, toee how unacceptable it is for someone to beverweight. Thats true for all girls. It washerefore important to have a love story with

girl who doesnt necessarily lose weight inhe movie. As the story progresses Roopi justets healthier.

To play Roopis mother, the inimitable M rsethi, Chadha turned to a woman she describess the Meryl Streep of India, Shabana Azmi,

superstar in her own country, and a veteranf more than a hundred lms.

Shabana is in her 50s but is eye-catching -y beautiful. She has played every role imag -nable but shes never played a British Asian

mother, a Punjabi mother, and she was reallyxcited, says Chadha.

She read the script and said, Im goingo put on weight, too. And blimey, I wasntxpecting her to put on that much weight. Sheeally wanted to get that three stomachs syn-rome that a lot of older Indian women have.

And she achieved that she had a glorious

triple stomach and she loved it, becauseshes usually so glamorous. I didnt need togive her any padding.

Bend It Like Beckham was the highestgrossing British-nanced, British-distributedlm, ever in the UK box-ofce. The award-winning lm was a critical and commercialsuccess internationally, topping the box-ofcecharts in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand,

Switzerland and South Africa, and winningaudience favourite lm awards at the Locarno,Sydney and Toronto lm festivals.

Chadhas advice to budding lmmakers inNew Zealand: Go for it. Make sure you havea good story that has legs; something that willsurvive 90 minutes and keep people interest-ed; then youve got it made.

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Gurinder Chadha says her next projectwould focus on a completely differentdirection from her past movies.

This time she is working on an his-torical epic leading to Indias Indepen-dence from British rule.

Her own roots, in Jalandar, Rawalpindi,were the inspiration behind the project,Chadha told the Indian Weekender.

Born in Kenya and brought up in Brit-ain, Chadhas family was from Rawal-pindi (then India) and later moved toKenya.

Chadha said they were working on ascript and an impressive internationalcast was being prepared.

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The Pacic Islands Forum summit is one of themost important annual events in the Oceania po -

tical calendar, where the leaders of 16 Pacicountries including New Zealand and Australiaet together to deliberate issues concerning theegion.

This years venue was Port Vila, Vanuatu.rime Minister John Key headed the New

Zealand delegation with Foreign Affairs MinisterMurray McCully also present during the two-dayeliberations.

Of the many issues that cropped up duringhe summit was the contentious one of Fiji andhe decided that the country would continue toemain suspended from the Forum grouping untildemocratic government would be elected, as re-uired by the principles of the Forum as ag reed toy all signatory member nations. Fiji was absentrom the summit for the second year running.

But an important development from NewZealands side was about letting Fiji ofciallyake part in Pacer Plus regional free trade talks something that had been held in abeyancever two years. Prime Minister Key told Indian

Weekender during a discussion aboard the NewZealand Air Force Boeing during the return ighto Auckland that this development was achievedecause of New Zealands initiative.

Senior ofcial of the European Union, Chris-an Lefel also told Indian Weekender that en-aging with Fiji was important despite the overallan on new aid ows into the country. We needo talk continuously, there is no question ofurning our backs, he said.

Increased global presenceOver the years the Forum summits have seen

steady rise in the level of participation of coun-ries from all parts of the world, reecting therowing geopolitical importance of the Pacic

egion. It is the worlds largest single region cov-ring a third of the earths surface and one thatas been relatively unexplored for its natural re-

ources.Recent changes in the United Nations Law of

he Sea has greatly helped enhance continentalhelf boundaries of island nations bringing vastwathes of the Pacic Ocean into their sovereignerritorial borders, giving them rights for com-

mercial exploitation of the resources in the sea aswell as beneath the sea oor.

As a result a number of island nations haveoined hands with countries and corporationsrom around the world to explore the possibilitiesf extracting these natural resources.

The Pacic is also a region of great strategiceopolitical importance given its size and thereas long been a race to make inroads into therea by many of the worlds superpowers includ-ng China, Japan, France and the United Statesesides long standing relationships between the

slands and New Zealand and Australia.The latest superpower to join the fray is India

nd going by the strong Indian presence at thisears summit, it appears that India has realisedhe importance of engaging in the Pacic.

Though India has had a long relationshipwith the Pacic especially through its ties with

iji where the lin ks go back nearly 150 years, its

engagement in other Pacic Island nations has been lacking. But in Fiji, India has a loomingpresence with the Bank of Baroda and insurance

giants like the Life Insurance Corporation andNew India Assurance besides a number of newerIndian businesses taking root around the country.

India was keen to scale up its engagement inthe Pacic, Preneet Kaur, Minister of State forForeign Affairs of the Government of India, toldIndian Weekender hours before attending bilat-eral meetings with several Pacic Island nations.

The minister also attended the post Forumdialogue with several ministry ofcials includ-ing Arun Kumar Goel (Joint Secretary South),Ministry of External Affairs and K. A. P. Sinha,Private Secretary of the Minister of ExtarnalAffairs. The Indian High Commissioner to Aus-tralia, Mrs Sujata Singh, was also present. Thepost Forum dialogue has in recent years becomean important event because of the sheer depth andscope of the discussions between Pacic Islandnations, funding agencies and far ung countrieswishing to participate with the Pacic region.

India had much to offer the Pacic region,Indian delegation members said. Being a de-veloping nation that has to contend with manychallenges, the problems that India has had todeal with are similar to those faced by many ofthe developing island nations. India had made

signicant progress in small-scale projects insustainability and harnessing renewable energy activities that the island nations were greatly

interested in.India and Indians at Port VilaOther than the ofcial Indian delegation there

were also other high prole Indians present.These included the Commonwealth SecretaryGeneral Kamalesh Sharma who came to attendthe Forum summit all the way from the Com-monwealth headquarters in London.

Mr Sharma said he was happy to see thefelling of brotherhood among Commonwealthnations and the willingness to co-operate totackle common problems that affected the bulkof humanity including climate change.

He was looking forward to the Common-wealth Games in India, he said, which indeedwas another occasion to cement the ties betweenthe Commonwealth league of nations. MrSharma also spent time conversing with the of-cial Indian ministerial delegation.

Another Indian who was at meetings thatwere held on the fringe of the Forum summit wasMinar Pimple, the Regional Director for Asia andPacic for the United Nations Millennium Cam-paign.

Based in Bangkok, Mr Pimple (pronouncedPimpley) oversees the progress in the Asia

Pacic region on developing countries progresson the achievement of the Millennium Develop-ment Goals, which aim to halve poverty in these

nations by 2015. The programmes also aim toeradicate illiteracy, improve maternal and childcare and provide drinking water, sanitation andshelter to all.

Many Pacic Island countries were laggingbehind in their achievement and needed a boost,Mr Pimple said.

By all accounts, India seems set to step upits Pacic initiative in the years to come and it isquite probable that India will send an even biggerdelegation to attend next years Pacic IslandForum summit that will be hosted in Aucklandjust before New Zealands biggest ever event, theRugby World Cup.

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Indian Weekender and editor-in-chief DevNadkarni would like to acknowledge the supportof the Pacic Cooperation Foundation in thedevelopment of this article through its mediaassistance programme in covering the PacicIsland Forum summit in Vanuatu. PCF is a not-for-prot organisation focused on improving theeconomic and social development of the Pacic.For more information please visit www.pcf.org.nz

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At PACIFIC IsLANds Forum summIt: (Top) Second from left Indian High Commissioner in Australia Sujata Singh, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Preneet Kaur, Exter-al Affairs ofcials Arun Kumar Goel and K.A.P. Sinha (Above) Senior UN ofcial Minar Pimple, Preneet Kaur and Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma

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Hundreds of localresidents go missingHundreds of local residents have been lost from the electoral roll, losing their right tovote at the upcoming local council and District Health Board elections at the sametime.

Were concerned about the number of people who we have had to remove from theelectoral rolls in the past month, says Anna Kulkarni, Registrar of Electors.

So far 54,133 people throughout New zealand who were enrolled in the past, arenot enrolled any longer because they failed to update their enrolment details whenthey moved house.

These people are missing and we need to find them in the next two weeks or theywill miss out on getting their voting papers for local elections sent to them in themail, says Anna Kulkarni.

By law when enrolment update packs sent out in the mail are returned as undeliver-able, the people must be deleted from the electoral roll.

We want to ensure as many people as possible have the right to vote, and thatmeans being enrolled.

But every time someone moves house or flat they need to update their address de-tails with us. Its a simple step that guarantees you are ready to vote whenever thereis an election or referendum.

The Registrar of Electors is urging anyone who has moved house to get enrolled to-day, or anyone with family or friends who have moved to make sure they know theyneed to enrol or check their enrolment details.

Enrolling is easy. Enrolment forms are available from the elections website www.elections.org.nz, by free texting your name and address to 3676, from any PostShopor by calling 0800 ENROL NOW (0800 36 76 56). You can also check your detailsand enrol online at the website.

Time is quickly running out to enrol to vote for this years elections. Do it now soyou dont miss out.

Indian Ozzie youngestGreen Globe awardeeSydney: Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, Frank Sartor announcedDeepa Gupta, as the youngest ever recipient of the Green Globe Individual SustainabilityChampion Award at last nights 2010 ceremony at NSW Parliament House.At only 26, Deepa is co-founder of the Indian Youth Climate Network, Mr Sartor said.The Green Globe Premiers Award for Sustainability for the Sydney Theatre Companys

Greening the Wharf project, was accepted by Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton.The Green Globe Awards have been running for 11 years.

To win a Green Globe, you must demonstrate extraordinary environmental achievement.

This year, we have seen that from our youngest ever Sustainability Champion and anmpressive line up of NSW businesses and organisations that are truly leading edge.Ms Guptas work to engage young people on climate change action is having wide- reach-ng impacts both here and overseas.

Her work in the Indian Youth Climate Network has involved her training and speaking tomore than 100,000 young people about climate change over the past year.She has worked on many projects including the Climate Solutions Road Tour, the GlobalSouth Youth to COP15 project and the Global day of fasting for Climate Justice.Currently studying business at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Ms Gupta is

ctive in the UTS Flick my switch campaign to make it Australias first major institution tobe powered 100% by renewable energy.

Sydney Theatre Companys project reflects Cate and Andrews personal commitment tomaking the Company a world leader in the arts for environmental management.The Greening the Wharf project aims to transform the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct into a

reen technology showcase.

Through a range of water, waste, energy and sustainability initiatives, it will save 37.5million litres of water and 5,000MWh of electricity and generate 10,350 MWh of power via

olar PV.

The NSW Governments Green Globe Awards began in 1999. These awards help meet theNSW State Plan to increase waste recycling, save 4,000 GWh of annual electricity con-umption by 2014, increase water recycling to 70 billion litres of water per year and save45 billion litres of water per year by 2015.

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Stumpy is ICC CricWorld Cup mascotColombo: With 200 days to go before therst ball is bowled in the ICC Cricket WorldCup 2011, the event mascots name was un -veiled in a simple but impressive ceremonyat P. Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo onMonday ahead of the third Test between SriLanka and India.

The mascot, an elephant, has beennamed Stumpy after an online selectionprocess that drew proposals from thousandsof cricket fans around the world. The luckywinner will receive a cricket bat signed bythe all-star quartet of Indias MahendraSingh Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar and SriLankas Kumar Sangakkara and MahelaJayawardena, all of whom attended thelaunch to express their excitement about theagship event.

ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat said:This is another milestone in the build-up toour agship event and its great to see thegames best players like Mahendra, Kumar,Sachin and Mahela looking forward to the

ICC Cricket World Cup with such enthusi-asm.

As the excitement builds over thecoming 200 days, we will see Stumpythroughout the cricket world, promotingthe event and generating enthusiasm. Imgrateful to the thousands of cricket fans whoshowed their passion for our Great Sportand took part in the naming competition. Iencourage all fans to start making plans toattend a spectacular event.

With matches to be hosted in Bangla-desh, India and Sri Lanka, I ndia captain Ma-hendra Singh Dhoni is expecting the WorldCup on home soil to be a career highlight.

He said: It cant get any bigger than theICC Cricket World Cup in which the best ofthe best enter with just one objective totake home the Cup that counts.

Its not only my dream to be a CricketWorld Cup winner but its the wish of everymember of team India to put his hand onthe Cricket World Cup trophy. Well workas hard as possible to turn our dreams intoreality.

This trophy has been eluding us for the past 27 years and I think we have a verygood chance at home to break the drought.

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkarasaid winning the Cricket World Cup was hischildhood dream.

The Cricket World Cup is the apex of all

the cricketing competitions. It is the one thatall teams and players want to win. I was veryfortunate to watch Sri Lanka win the tourna-ment in 1996 and it has been my ambitionto win the Cricket World Cup ever since Istarted playing cricket, he said.

The World Cup means everything to us.It is the one point of the cricketing calendareveryone looks forward to and wants to winit. We just have to make sure that we under-stand how privileged we are to be in that po-sition and carry the hopes and aspirations ofso many people.

Indias iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkarcant wait for the action to begin. He said:The Cricket World Cup is the ultimate

limited overs competition for a cricketeras it happens only once in four years. Theentire cricketing fraternity eagerly waits forthis event and when it starts, everyone getsdeeply involved.

Its a completely different feeling to bepart of a Cricket World Cup where the atmo-sphere and the buzz is very special and to bestaged in the sub-continent for the rst timein 15 years is a magnicent feeling.

ICC CWC 2011 Tournament DirectorProf Shetty was in Colombo for the launch.He said that, 200 days out from the openingmatch, plans in all three host countries wereon track: The preparations for the ICCCricket World Cup 2011 are on course andIm happy with the progress we have beenmaking.

Obviously, the readiness of the stadiais one of the key factors. The constructionwork is going ahead at a brisk pace whichmakes me condent that all the stadia willbe ready by the end of this year.

Stumpy was represented by a real life el-ephant at the launch in Colombo.

Vodafone launchessolar-powered phone

Mumbai: Vodafone Essar, one of Indias leadingellular services providers, on Thursday an-ounced the launch of its latest generation eco-riendly solar charging handset in I ndia.

The new handset uses a solar powered solu-on to benet users in areas with adequate sun-ght.

UKs Chancellor of the Exchequer, GeorgeOsborne MP and Marten Pieters, MD and CEO,Vodafone Essar Ltd., launched the VF 247 Solar

owered phone at the Vodafone store in Fort,

Mumbai.The launch of VF 247 solar powered phone

s in keeping with Vodafones aim to increasemobile technology accessibility for millions inndia.

With an extended solar powered battery, theolar powered phone addresses the problem ofnstable electricity supply in many rural areas.

Speaking on the launch, UKs Chancel-or of the Exchequer Rt Hon George Osborne

MP said, Im very pleased to help launch Voda-ones new solar powered handset. Its the new

UK-India economic partnership in action. Theandset will get more people connected, paying

less and doing their bit for the environment.VF 247 solar powered phone charges by

itself, by exposure to ambient light. Sun Boost,the special inbuilt hardware and softwareensures that the phone charges also in a room,under normal daylight.

Marten Pieters, MD and CEO, VodafoneEssar Ltd, said: Vodafones solar powered phone is launched for people residing in areaswhere electric supply is unstable, so that con-sumers can rely on solar charging to remain

connected. This launch is likely to enable morepeople in rural India to go mobile and thus in-crease penetration from the current 20%. Wewill continue to invest to uplift the quality oftelecom services and products in India.

Vodafones rural network coverage of 65%is the second highest in India. It also has thesecond largest rural subscriber base in thecountry.

The VF 247 solar powered phone comeswith essential mobile phone features such asFM radio, color screen and a powerful torchlight and will be commercially available shortly.

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Mumbai: Tata Sons, promoter of the $71billion Tata Group, on Friday announcedhe names of committee members, who

will be selecting a suitable successorf its chairman Ratan Tata. Tata will beetiring in December 2012 at the age of5. The Board of Tata Sons Limited, in

ccordance with its Articles of Associa-on, has formed a Selection Committee,omprising of five members including anxternal Member, for eventually decid-

ng on a suitable successor to Mr. RatanN. Tata. Mr. Tata is due to retire only

t the end of December 2012, said aTata statement. The five members of theelection committee are N A Soonawala,

Shirin Bharucha, R K Krishnakumar,Cyrus Mistry and Lord Bhattacharya. On

Aug 4, the company said the Committeeis in the process of formulating criteriafor identifying the most suitable candi-date taking into account the global na-ture and complexity of the Groups busi-ness at the present time. It is expectedthat the final selection would be made inadequate time to effect a smooth transi-tion and change of leadership before Mr.Ratan N. Tatas retirement at the end ofDecember 2012, the statement added.

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New Delhi: Trial run for provision of In-ternet facility has been conducted onlyin Mumbai-Ahmedabad Shatabdi Ex-press, said Minister of State for RailwaysK.H. Muniyappa in Lok Sabha earlierthis month. A satellite based system with

Wi-Fi distribution in coaches was triedon experimental basis and was found tobe technically feasible, the minister said.A pilot project for internet facility in threerakes of Delhi-Howrah Rajdhani Expresshas been considered and has been in-cluded in the Railway Budget 2010-11.--

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aGuwahati: Three persons were killedin wild elephant attacks in Majuli, ariver island in Assams Jorhat district,on Wednesday night, a day after threemembers of a family were trampled todeath by wild pachyderms. In one inci-dent, a sleeping couple were trampledto death by a herd of wild elephantsafter the pachyderms damaged theirhouse. In the second incident, one manwas killed and her daughter injured inan attack by wild elephants. Later, threemembers of a family were killed in wildelephant attack in Sonitpur district. Thewild elephants generally enter human-

inhabited areas in search of food.More than 80 people and over 15 wildelephants have been killed in human-elephant conflict in the state so far thisyear.

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Kolkata: The U.S. Consulate General ofKolkata has decided to fund two newgalleries to be set up at the RabindraBharati Museum here to mark the 150thbirth anniversary of Bengali Nobel laure-ate Rabindranath Tagore. Amounting toover US$30,000, the Rabindra Bharati

University (RBU) has been granted thefunds to set up two new galleries will in-clude an America Gallery dedicated toTagores visits to the U.S. The RabindraBharati Museum is part of the restoredancestral home of the Tagores, com-monly known as the Jorasanko ThakurBari, which now serves as the campusfor the RBU that was set up in 1961. Themuseum offers details about the historyof the Tagore family along with those ofthe celebrated writer, poet and painter.The entire project is expected to seelight of day by May 7, 2011, falling onthe 150th birthday of the multi-facetedscholar who became the first Asian towin a Nobel Prize for literature.--

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Mumbai: It was an emotional moment for

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchanas he stumbled upon 3 lakh followers onhis Twitter account on Monday. T76-AND !! Tweeter People of the TweetWorld, Thawank Tyou Tfor Tgetting TmeTto 3 Tlakhs Twfollowlers !! Twouched!!, an elated Big B tweeted at hismicro-blogging account Sr Bachchan.Bachchan, a regular on Twitter, has afan-following spread across the globe.Reportedly, both Shah Rukh Khan and

Amitabh Bachchan follow each othersTwitter accounts closely in their zeal todominate the cyber space along withthe on-screen world. Earlier, in May,Big B had congratulated SRK on get-ting 400,000 followers. Congrats!! youcrossed 400,000... meri gaadi thodadheeli chal rahi hai, the 67-year-old hadposted on his Twitter page. Bachchanat that time had 98,228 followers. Cur-rently, Shah Rukh has 551,179 followers,Big B is trailing with 300,594 followers,while 300, 321 people are following hisson Abhishek at juniorbachchan.--

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New York: A United Nations expert onFriday welcomed the General Assem-blys declaration this week that safe andclean drinking water is a human right,calling it a landmark resolution thatsends an important signal to the world.Catarina de Albuquerque, the UN Inde-pendent Expert on human rights, waterand sanitation, issued a statement inwhich she said the declaration auguredwell for the summit at UN Headquar-ters in New York in September, whenworld leaders are set to review progresstowards the social and economic targets

known as the Millennium DevelopmentGoals (MDGs).Studies indicate that an absence ofclean water or sanitation exacts a hugehuman toll. About 1.5 million childrenunder the age of five die each year and443 million school days are lost be-cause of water- and sanitation-relateddiseases.With almost a billion people suffer-ing from lack of access to an improvedwater source, and 2.6 billion withoutaccess to improved sanitation, recog-nition of the human right to water andsanitation is a positive signal from theinternational community and shows itscommitment to tackle these issues, de Albuquerque said.

On Wednesday 122 members of theGeneral Assembly voted in favour of theresolution declaring water and sanita-tion to be a human right. No countriesvoted against the text but 41 MemberStates abstained.

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Only 3-4% of Indiaskilled: Kiran BediNew Delhi: Only 3-4% of the Indian populations skilled, said Kiran Bedi, Founder General Sec-etary, Navjyoti India Foundation.

She was speaking at a lecture on Commu-ity Colleges- the Answer for Present and FutureThe Experience of Navjyoti India Foundation,rganized by Indira Gandhi National Open

University(IGNOU) here.India has very few Universities compared

o the Developed world and only 3-4 percentf Indias population is skilled , leaving a vasthunk unemployable , with no skill sets. Thishortage of skilled manpower has to be mademployable by giving them skills- oriented andeed based education, which can be done by

Community colleges, said Bedi.Elaborating on what other countries are

oing under the Community college scheme,Bedi emphasized that countries like Australia,he US, Malaysia and even Phillipines are wayhead compared to India , in terms of the numberf Community colleges and the courses offered.

Bedi said the movement of Community col-eges has reached 400 and in order for it to grow,

eople need to involve the Panchayati Rajs , theGovernment and the Industry on a pr iority basis.

Let this movement in the making grow,therwise we shall be overwhelmed by unem-loyable youth in the next 3 years, said Bedi.

Speaking about community developmentwork being done by Navjyoti India Foundationnd its march towards becoming an IGNOU

Community college , Bedi remarked Wetarted as a Galli school and have grown into a

Community college.IGNOU has given us four Community Col-

eges and that too in a very short time frame. Thentire process, including the paperwork for es-ablishing the Navjyoti Community College wasompleted in just 3 days. June 17 is a red letteray for us, as this is the date on which Navjyoti

Community college was institutionalized.Talking about her experience of straying

nto education as a crime prevention method,he ex-IPS ofcer commented, Navjyoti wasorn in 1986/87 and today has 10,000 benecia-

ries. But I am pained and disturbed when I seethe deprivation of education at the grassrootslevel. In this context, the Community collegemovement assumes a very important role in theskilling of more than half of Indias population.

Every young person wants a job and thiscan only happen if they are skilled in a trade ,which can only be possible through the Commu-nity colleges.

She reiterated the need for a concerted effort

by the Ministry of Human Resource Develop-ment to spread awareness about this revolution-

ary scheme and remarked that she would be veryhappy to see a industry headed Communitycollege, like the Reliance Community College in the near future.

The next step would be to launch a Com-munity College in Law, or Research, she said.

Calling Navjyotis experience of working inthe education sector as a Herculean task, DrBedi elaborated on how parents shy away fromsending their children to school if the educationis not free.

Parents should be made to pay fees, accord-ing to their nancial status , this would encour-age interest in their childrens education, com-mented Bedi.

Community colleges must take up adult lit-eracy as mandate. We must make this a priorityarea in all IGNOU Community colleges. Thereis also a need to allow tax breaks for Corporateswho support community colleges, said Bedi.

Shamir Tandon composessong for CWG

Mumbai: From making legendary LataMangeshkar sing twice to making cricketerBrett Lee hum to his tunes, music composerShamir Tandon has followed the most unusualpath in music. And now, Shamir has teamed up

with singer Shaan for an anthem for a televi-sion show that will create awareness of various

sports before the Commonwealth Games(CWG) 2010.

This is not a part of the CWG, but is aneffort to arouse attention amongst youngstersto develop a liking for other sports than justcricket. Model/actor Milind Soman was instru-mental in driving this track for the TV show.

This is not the rst time that Shamir will beworking with Shaan.

After having strategized the non-lm musiccareer of Shaan by identifying and marketingglobally his albums like Tanha Dil, Bhool Jaand many more, Shamir was instrumental ingetting the singer to collaborate with boy bandBlue for the song One Love that had AbhishekBachchan and Bipasha Basu grooving.

For a live concert, Shamir also got Shaanto jam with the rock band Michael Learns ToRock.

Shaan and I go a long way. We had alsodone the Deccan Charger anthem in 2009 thatI got Shaan to sing, turned the fortunes of theteam in a way to pushed them up to number onefrom the last position in the previous year, and

now this television show. I found the concept ofthis show very interesting, says Shamir.

And I took it as a challenge. In a countrylike India where cricket is not only a sport butalso a religion, something like this is very en-

couraging for the youth who want to make theircareer in other sports. Indian sportspersonsare doing well in a variety of sporting events.It always feels good to do music for a specialcause. I mean as a music director, I alwayscompose songs for movies.

But this kind of work gives me personalsatisfaction, like I composed for a nationwidePolio campaign, which was spearheaded by MrAmitabh Bachchan, he says.

Shamir adds , The song is called Khel KhelMein and is designed to inspire people towardssports before the commonwealth games hit thenation. Shaan was on his way to the airport fora vacation with family, when he sang this song.It has shaped out really well and I cant wait forthe country to hear it soon.

In todays era when marriages dont lasta couple of years, just kidding, - Shaan wassigned to being managed by me on the non lmalbum music front in a multinational set up formore than a decade.

Shamir has composed for movies like Page3, Corporate, Jail and many more.

Law against honour killings inParliament session: PCNew Delhi: Union Home minister P Chid-

ambaram on Thursday said that the govern-ment will bring a stringent law during thecurrent Monsoon Session of the Parliamentto punish those involved in honour killings.

Whoever is the cause of the crime, anindividual or a collective, must be punished.My duty is to ensure that laws adopted byParliament are obeyed and enforced. Oncethe law is made, it must be enforced. Thoseinvolved must be punished, Chidambaramsaid in the Lok Sabha, in reply to a call at-tention motion moved by Gurudas Dasgupta(Communist Party of India).

Without directly naming the Khap pan-chayats (village councils) that generallyapprove honour killings, the Union ministersaid the proposed law would dene honourkillings and take within its sweep cases offorcing women to strip in public and expel-ling people from villages.

Acts which are humiliating will bepunished with severity.

He added that such cases bring dishon-

our to the families, the community and thecountry.

Mostly village councils in rural India,

particularly in northern states, award deathsentence to couples or even their entirefamilies in they go for same caste or clanmarriages.

A Group of Ministers (GoM0 hasalready been set up by the Cabinet to con-sider a draft bill.

I am condent that the GoM will giveits report shortly and my intention is to in-troduce the bill in this session itself, Chid -ambaram said.

Whether the new law would be a stand-alone one or would the Indian Penal Code orthe Criminal Procedure Code be amendedwould be debated by the Union Cabinet, headded.

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, ex-pressing concern at the growing menace ofhonour killings, said, It is a dehumanising process and we have to take it very seri-ously.

Members of most political parties sup-ported the need for a stringent law to ght

the social evil, which Chidambaram pointedwas rooted in antiquated traditions andsocial va lues.

JuliaRobertsembracesHinduism

Nevada: AHindugroupinUSA has ex-

tendedwarmwelcome toOscarwinning

Hollywoodstar JuliaRobertsintotheir fold

after reportsthatthe PrettyWomanlady

goestotemple topray.

Septemberissueofwomens fashion

magazine Elle, onwhichRoberts,42,is

thecover girl, reportedlysays:Theentire

Roberts-Moder family,shereveals,goes

to templetogethertochant andpray andcelebrate.Imdefinitelyapracticing H

indu.

Roberts grewupwithaCatholicmother

andBaptistfather.

Andsince inHinducosmologysoulscan

bereincarnatedinotherbodies, where

doessheseeherselfinthe next life?Golly,

Ive been so spoiledwith myfriendsand

familyinthislife,she says. NexttimeI

want tobe justsomethingquietand sup-

porting.

RajanZed, President ofUniversalSociety

ofHinduism,inastatementinNe-

vada(USA),heartilywelcomed

RobertsintoHinduism.

Shewouldappreciaterich,

diverseandlongtraditionof

Hinduphilosophy;andits

interpretation ofthenature

ofreality, headded.

Accordingto reports,Roberts has be

en

interestedin yoga forquitesometime. She

wasinHaryana (India)inSeptemberlast

toshootEat, Pray, Lovein anashram

(retreat).

InJanuary2009, she sported abindi(ver-

millionmarkonforehead)duringhertripto

Indiawhen she alsovisitedTajMahalwith

husbandDannyModer.Shehasa produc-

tion company calledRedOmFilms, and

OminHinduismisthemystical syllable

containing theuniverse.

Robertslead Eat,Pray,Love(Ryan

Murphy) isreleasingin USAandCanada

onAugust 13.

JuliaFionaRoberts,oneof themost

successful Hollywood actressesbesides

aproducerandfashionmodel,haswon

best actress Oscarfor ErinBrockovich

andearnedOscarnominations forPretty

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Hinduism,the oldestandthirdlargest

religion oftheworld, has aboutone

billionadherents andmoksh(lib-

eration)isitsultimategoal.

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New Delhi: Playing a double game, Pakistan has nourished theinsurgency in Afghanistan secretly and aggrandized the Tali-bans despite receiving more than a billion dollars every yearfrom USA to ght the militants, according to an explosive leakof some 91,000 classied military documents by the whistle- blower website Wikileaks.org. We bring you reactions fromIndia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and USA

GoverNmeNts

India

We have seen media reports about classied information,supposedly from US government sources, put out in publicdomain, on support to terrorism by ISI-Pakistans military in-telligence agency. Sponsorship of terrorism, as an instrumentof policy, is wholly condemnable and must cease forthwith.The utilization of territory under Pakistans control to providesanctuaries for recruiting and sustaining terrorist groups,

and to direct terrorist activity against neighbors, must stop ifour region is to attain its full potential for peaceful develop -ment. -The Ministry of External Affairs

Pakistan

The leaked reports were far-fetched and skewed and in -consistent with ground realities and betrayed a lack of under-standing of the complexities involved in Pakistans role in thewar against terror. Pakistans constructive and positive rolein Afghanistan cannot be affected by such baseless and self-serving reports.- Abdul Basit, Foreign Ofce spokesman; andHusain Haqqani, Pakistans Ambassador to the US

United States

Even as they make progress, we understand that the statusquo is not acceptable and that we have to continue movingthis relationship in the right direction.- - Robert Biggs, White

House spokesman

These irresponsible leaks will not impact our ongoing com-mitment to deepen our partnerships with Afghanistan andPakistan; to defeat our common enemies; and to support theaspirations of the Afghan and Pakistan i people.- James Jones,National Security Advisor General

Afghanistan

Afghanistan has always emphasised that terrorism should be fought in its place of origin. Having a contradictory and

unclear policy towards those forces which have used terrorismas a tool of interference and destruction against others has haddisastrous consequences.- National Security Council

medIA

The Daily BeastNo amount of rhetorical tap dancing will allow the WhiteHouse to escape the fundamental contradictions that underlieU.S. policy toward Af-Pak.

The United States is giving moderate Pakistanis and thePakistani military billions of dollars yearly in military andeconomic aid, which allows Pakistan i military intelligenceto secretly help the Taliban kill Americans in Afghanistan,which will drive America out of Afghanistan and undermineU.S. help for Pakistan.

The Guardian

The documents fail to provide a convincing smoking gunfor complicity between the Pakistan intelligence services andthe Taliban.

The New York Times

The documents suggest Pakistan allows representatives of itsspy service to meet directly with the Taliban in secret strat-egy sessions to organize networks of militant groups that ghtagainst American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plotsto assassinate Afghan leaders.

The documents - including classied cables and assessments between military ofcers and diplomats - also describe USfears that ally Pakistans intelligence service was actuallyaiding the Afghan insurgency.

Der Spiegel

The German army was clueless and nave when it stumbledinto the conict.

The records show Afghan security ofcers as helpless victimsof Taliban attacks.

The war logs obtained by WikiLeaks depict a situation innorthern Afghanistan that is far worse than it is depicted inthe reports German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives to parlia -ment. They also show even though the German armed forces,the Bundeswehr, have been present since 2002, they have made

little progress in Afghanistan.

otHers

WikiLeaks.org

WikiLeaks has delayed the release of some 15,000 reports aspart of what it called a harm minimisation process demandedby our source,

The Taliban

Look, were at war and would like to get aid from anyoneto ght against the U.S. and its allies who invaded our home -land,- Sirajuddin Haqqani, a senior leader of the Haqqaninetwork to The Daily Beast

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder

We dont see any difference in the White Houses responseto this case to the other groups that we have exposed. We havetried hard to make sure that this material does not put inno-cents at harm. All the material is over seven months old so is ofno current operational consequence, even though it may be ofvery signicant investigative consequence.

Englands Opposition Party

We cannot kill our way out of an insurgency. Instead, thebattle for power is fought in the minds of the local population,insurgents and western publics. The purpose of military effortand civilian improvement is to create the conditions for politi-cal settlement.- David Miliband, Labour Party leadership candidate (TheGuardian)

John Kerry, Chairman of the US Senate foreign relationscommittee, and former Democrat presidential candidate (The

Guardian)

However illegally these documents came to light, they raiseserious questions about the reality of Americas policy towardPakistan and Afghanistan.

Hamid Gul, a former ISI chief who is extensively cited in thedocuments as meeting and aiding the Taliban (The Guardian)

The reports are a pack of lies, a fairly tale-

Wikileaks: What they saya slcton of pots on how th wold hs ctd to th ls

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Th pncpl chtcts ofnds ndpndnc

not th usul suspcts.

A persistent Indian myth gleefully accepted as truthy the countrys liberals and Macaulayites a class

f people western in outlook but Indian in looks ishat freedom came too easy. The British, the mythoes, after ruling India for 190 years, became sored of the responsibilities of running an empire that

hey simply wound up their empire and left.Yeah, right! This myth would be laughable if it

werent so sinister. Though it was clearly inventedy the British to cover their ignominious and hastyetreat from India, millions of Indians have beenbrainwashed into swallowing the myth whole-ale. Many Indians believe M.K. Gandhi used the

weapon of non-violence and shamed the Britisholonialists into leaving India, and since then bothountries have been best friends.

Freedom didnt come overnight. It was obtainedt a great cost the sacrice of millions of Indianves. Contrary to the belief that the British period

was a time of great stability, India was in fact roiledby uprisings and rebellions everywhere, virtually

hroughout colonial rule.The First War of Independence of 1857 was theiggest uprising against the British. The sweep of the

war covered nearly the entire country and for monthsndia was turned into one massive battleeld. Britainame perilously close to losing its most prized pos-ession: India. In War of Civilisations: India AD857, Amaresh Misra, a writer and historian basedn Mumbai, argues that there was an untold holo-aust which caused the deaths of almost 10 million

people over 10 years beginning in 1857. Speakingo The Guardian newspaper, Misra said, It was aolocaust, one where millions disappeared. It was aecessary holocaust in the British view because theyhought the only way to win was to destroy entireopulations in towns and villages. It was simple andrutal. Indians who stood in their way were killed.

But its scale has been kept a secret.After the British re-conquered India, The Guard-

ian itself wrote about the savage retribution that fol -lowed: We sincerely hope that the terrible lessonthus taught will never be forgotten.

Heres what the writer Charles Dickens re-marked: I wish I were commander-in-chief in India I should proclaim to them that I considered myholding that appointment by the leave of God, tomean that I should do my utmost to exterminate the

race.The Vellore Mutiny of 1806 predates even the

war of 1857 by half a century. The revolt, which tookplace in the south Indian town of Vellore, was ratherbrief, lasting only one full day but brutal, as muti-neers broke into the Vellore fort and killed or injured200 British troops, before they were subdued by re-inforcements from nearby Arcot.

Again, in 1824, Rani Chennamma, the queen ofthe kingdom of Kittur in Karnataka, led an armedrebellion against the British. The queen, born 56years before 1857 leader Rani Laxmi Bai, was therst woman to ght against the British.

From 1858 to the beginning of 1900s the Britishenjoyed some semblance of stability. This can wellbe described as the time when they undertook thetask of the destruction of thriving Indian industries,including spinning, weaving and metallurgy, as wellas agriculture and trade. Angered by the havoc beingwreaked by the British, the revolutionary forces nowgathered for a new phase of struggle. They derivedinspiration from the cult of nationalism preached byBankim Chandra Chatterjee, Swami Vivekanandaand others during the last quarter of the nineteenthcentury. Chatterjees soul-stirring cry of VandeMataram or Hail to the Mother, which he penned in1882, became the hymn of nationalism.

The spark for a full-edged struggle came in1905 with the launch of Swadeshi the refusal to buyforeign goods and the promotion of indigenous in-dustry. This massive pan-Indian movement arousedthe spirit of nationalism. It was Veer Savarkar whorst lit the bonre of foreign clothes in Pune on 7thOctober 1905. (Ironically, MK Gandhi, who muchlater became the leader of the freedom struggle,criticised that action from far away South Africa al-though he himself did precisely that 16 years later.)

While the educated classes were ghting the

British through Swadeshi, violent outbreaks werehappening all over India. In Jharkhand, BirsaMunda led a long struggle directed against theBritish. In 1914 Jatra Oraon started what is calledthe Tana Movement, which drew the participa-tion of over 25,000 tribes people. In 1920, the TanaMovement stopped the payment of land taxes to thecolonial government. The re of revolution spread

even to the Indian rulers the Raja of Darbhanga atgreat risk fully supported the resisting farmers. Inthe tribal tracts of Andhra Pradesh a revolt broke outin August 1922. Led by Alluri Ramachandra Raju,the tribes people of the Andhra hills succeeded indrawing the British into a full-scale guerrilla war.

A hugely popular force was the Khaksar Move-ment founded by Allama Mashriqi in Lahore.Mashriqi wanted no compromise with the British.Comprising Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, theKhaksar had four million members and thousandsof ofces all over India. Its activities for mobilisingthe nation included holding parades in public places,staging mock wars, organising training camps andstriving to create a strong brotherhood of Muslimsand non-Muslims in order to jointly overthrowforeign rule. Mashriqi and his young sons were ar-rested and tortured.

Both Hindus and Muslims were more thanwilling to unite against the British, as they dem-onstrated by joining the Indian National Army ofSubhas Chandra Bose. It demonstrated to the Britishthat there was no safety for them in India. The Britishwere feeling the heat at home too. Bhagat Singh ex-ploded a bomb in the British Parliament. The revolu-tionary Uddham Singh went to the UK and assassi-nated Michael O Dwyer, the British Lt Governor ofPunjab, for the murder of over 2000 unarmed men,women and children in Jallianwallah Bagh. WhileGeneral Reginald Dyer, who personally supervisedthe massacre of the peaceful gathering, had boastedin court he would do it again, O Dwyer had calledhis action the right thing.

Meanwhile, the British, addicted to the easy lootfrom India, even as millions of Indians were dyingin manmade famines, were not prepared to leave.As Neville Chamberlain put it clearly: The aston-ishing gold mine that we have discovered in Indias

hordes has put us in clover. Churchill was adamant.I have not become prime minister to preside overthe demise of her majestys empire, he said. Butafter the Second World War, the momentum of thefreedom movement led to growing militant actionsthat weakened British authority in an irreparableway. According to M.G. Agrawal in his four-volumeFreedom Fighters of India, In February 1946 the

Indian Navy declared an unprecedented strike. Itquickly drew support from the Indian crews of all the20 vessels anchored in Bombay port; 20,000 navalratings revolted. The British panicked because thesingle biggest factor that facilitated colonialism wasthe military.

Clement Atlee, the British Prime Minster, whodecided to nally quit India, told chief Justice P.B.Chakrabarty of the Calcutta High Court that theprincipal reasons why Britain decided to quit Indiawas the erosion of loyalty to the British Crownamong the Indian army and navy personnel.

According to Fenner Brockway, political secre-tary of the Independent Labour Party of England,the two major causes of Britains hasty exit fromIndia were: One, the Indian people were deter-mined to gain independence. Two, was the revolt bythe Indian Navy.

Indian soldiers, whose brilliant performance onthe battleelds of Europe had won them grudgingpraise from the British as well as the Germans, hadseen rsthand the collapse of the British in the faceof the German challenge, which exploded the mythof the invincibility of British arms. Indeed, US Armygenerals like Bradley and Eisenhower had expressedcontempt for the British Armys ghting skills.

Britain was also in steep decline. London hadbeen nearly destroyed by the German Luftwaffe andV-2 rockets. The Russians and Americans were thenew superpowers, and both wanted an end to colo-nialism. The British had no stomach for a ght withIndians and were looking for a face-saving exit fromIndia.

Independence came through the indefatigablespirit of our revolutionaries rather than the meretransfer of power at midnight.

- Rakesh Krishnan Simha

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1947: In two distant landsind nd Nw Zlnd jond t th hp by th y 1947

PrImLA KHAr

On that momentous Friday in 1947, New York World Telegram wrote TwoNations Born in India as British End 200years Rule.

Dr. Rajendra Prasad assured minori-ties that they would receive a fair a nd justtreatment, herein reflecting the oceanhearted spirit of the country. Nehrus in -cessant striving to make a nation greatcan be a guiding light to one and all in -dividuals and nations in their journey toattain their goal.

It was perhaps apt that India shouldhave attained Independence on the birth-day of a luminary like Sri Aurobindo.He delivered a message on the eve ofindependence from All India Radio Thi-ruchirappali, touching various facets ofrevolution, liberation, spirituality andevolution. One of his perceptions rele-vant to present day times is about worldunion forming the outer basics of a fairer,

brighter and nobler life for all mankind.He mentioned (very relevant to us KiwiIndians) the need for growth of Inter-national spirit and outlook, forums anddevelopment of dual or multilateral citi-zenship. How foresighted indeed!

After awaking at the stroke of mid-night, the giant nation of India was takin ginfant steps to establish itself as a strongand fair democracy. In the month of No -vember of the same year, in the distantland of Aotearoa a new chapter was un -

folding. It is said that New Zealand at-tained full independence in the sense ofcomplete autonomy over its own con-stitutional arrangement and its foreignaffairs in 1947! New Zealand passed theStatute of Westminster Adoption Actin 1947.

New Zealand was a colony of BritishEmpire. Britain passed the New ZealandConstitution Act in 1852 whereby NewZealand had Independence in respect oflegislative, judicial and executive author-ity over its domestic affairs. But impe-rial interest was not in the power of NewZealand parliament such as matters offoreign relations, external trade and theconstitution of native affairs.

In 1944 the first Labour governmentof Peter Fraser had proposed to adopt theStatue of Westminster but was opposed by National opposition declaring it as adisloyal action. But then in 1947 the actwas prompted for adoption when SidneyHolland (National Party leader and future

prime minister) introduced a privatemembers bill to abolish the New ZealandUpper House-Legislative Council. It wasonly then that New Zealand gained legaland formal independence from Britainin the exercise of its external affairs.There were some suggestions to actu-ally declare Independence Day of NewZealand on November 25, 1947.

!!!Hooray 1947!!! Two f ree Nations!!!India and New Zealand!!!

PAdmINI GAuNder

When I rst came to New Zealand almost twodecades ago, I came across few Indians. Andeven among those few the majority were FijiIndians. I was in Hamilton rst and there was

no Indian temple there then, though there wasa Gurudwara. But then the Punjabis had comea long time ago as vegetable farmers. (We havesome of their descendants on the Bombay Hillsnear Auckland where they still continue withtheir farming activities.) Like the Punjabis, someGujaratis had also come here earlier so there arethese small groups of early migrant communitieswho have been there for more than a century.

The Fiji Indians in Hamilton had theirRamayan Mandalis which were well attendedespecially during the time of Rama Navami. Iremember going to one when Swami Adibha-vananda from the Ramakrishna Mission in Fiji,who was visiting New Zealand, was the guestspeaker. Later, ISKCON (International Societyfor Krishna Consciousness) established a HareKrishna temple in Hamilton. Now a Sri Ven -kateswara temple is being built.

When I moved to Auckland there also werefew things Indian. There was one major Indianshop in the city, where all Indians shopped fortheir requirements. Then another opened inMount Roskill. Now most suburbs seem to havean Indian shop and even an Indian restaurant.The Bharatiya Mandir in Balmoral was the majorHindu temple in those days. When the RadhaKrishna temple was opened in the city many feltit was unnecessary as it was seen as a divisivemove.

Now there are so many temples, the Sri GaneshTemple in Papakura, where there a re priests fromIndia, being one of the most popular. Though itis a little far from Auckland devotees seem toock to it. There are also Subrahmania templesin Auckland where they have priests from India.You also nd the various Indian spiritual groupsall having their presence in Auckland.

The Satya Sai Baba groups have the majority

devotees from Fiji but the Shirdi Sai group is pa-

tronised mainly by Indians from India. The Ra-makrishna Mission also has majority Fiji peopleas it was started by Swami Damodarananda whoused to come from Fiji and have programmes; butslowly it is attracting others as well now.

Then there is the Chinmaya Mission; the Artof Living organisation; the Mata Amrithana-nda Mayi Group; the Om Sakthi group etc. Youalso nd all states and linguistic groups havingtheir own associations and celebrating the festi-

vals that are important to them, like Onam thismonth by the Malayali community from Kerala.

I am told that the Indians interest in NewZealand in the last two decades was generatedby the Indian movies, which had in recent yearsbeen shooting in this country. I believe when the

moviegoers saw those scenes they realized howbeautiful the country is and became interested. Idont know how far this is tr ue but another reasonfor the surge in Indian population here was theshortage of nurses here which led to recruitingnurses from India (mainly Malayali Christians).With the nurses came their husbands some ofwhom started Indian shops. I know Indian nursesare recru ited also in Australia but it seems to be atrend in most western countries.

Because of this increase in the Malayali popu-lation they have also started Malayalam newspa-pers and Malayalam classes for their children. Aprominent Malayali Christian (who is not a newmigrant; I believe his parents migrated when hewas young) is the well-known playwright, JosephRajan. In his plays (eg. Krishnans Dairy) the dia-logue is interspersed with Malayalam.

There are also many Sri Lankan (and Malay-sian) Tamils and together with the people fromTamil Nadu they form a large group in NewZealand. Apart from Tamil classes they also con-centrate on other cultural activities like danceand music. Bharata Natyam in particular is very popular and apart from performances there arealso classes for children. Similarly there are mi-grants from most (I would say all) Indian statesand most of them have their own associations.There are also some theatres which show Indianmovies.

Another sign of the growing population is thatthere are several Indian community papers today,which is good as they cater to the different tasteswithin the community. There is, for instance,one paper, which concentrates mainly on Indianlms. Some of these focus more on the issuesthat affect the Fiji Indians. In recent years thereare also several students coming here to study asfee-paying students. Most of them hope to settle

down here after nishing their studies.The one occasion that brings together all

these different groups in the Indian communityis the Indian Independence Day, which falls thisyear on this Sunday. But with the increase in theIndian population it is unrealistic to expect themall to attend just one celebration. It is inevitablethat there will be several celebrations of thisevent. I wish the whole community a happy andenjoyable Independence Day. Jai Hind!

Indian Independence Day MessagesOn behalf of the NewZealand Labour PartyI congratulate India inmarking its 63rd year of

nationhood since indepen-dence.

While India measuresits age as a modern independent state as 63 years,Indian civilisation of

course is one of the worlds oldest going backover 5 thousand years.

The strength and warmth of the New Zea -land-India relationship is built very much uponstrong people to people links.

Over the last half century, Indian migrantshave added richly to the cultural tapestry ofNew Zealand. To migrants of Indian origin, wethank you for bringing to this country the gift ofyour rich and diverse culture and history, yourhard work, and strong family values.

While India and New Zealand differ vastlyin size, 1 billion people to 4 million, we share

a common commitment to democracy and do-

mestic values, a common history, membershipof the commonwealth and love of cricket!

New Zealand is today enjoying an ever closerrelationship with India with more migrants,more international students and more touriststhan ever before. We are also negotiating a free

trade agreement to develop a much strongertrading relationship, which began while I wasMinister of Trade.

India has many challenges ahead of it, but

much to celebrate as the most populous and oneof the most diverse nations in the world whichhas preserved its democracy, its unity and itsculture, and which is fast emerging as one of theworlds leading and inuential nations.

On this day of celebration for India, I con -gratulate it for its past achievements and wish itwell for future success.

- Hon Phil GoffLeader of the New Zealand Labour Party

Namaste,I would like to join

with other members ofthe greater Aucklandcommunity in congratu-lating the readers of theIndian Weekender on

the 63rd anniversary ofIndian Independence.Jai hind!

- Hon David CunliffeMP for New Lynn

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I have come to believe that most educated middle-class Indians lack a well-developed politicalantenna and naively believe that a country as large and diverse as India can be inuenced or evenactually run by apolitical technocrats.

Consider this declaring oneself to be apolitical is also a political choice (just like they say thatindecision is a decision, t oo); therefore, I have never believed that it is possible to take an apoliti-cal stance on most issues. Agreed that it is perfectly valid to say that one will decide ones stanceon an issue on its merit rather than on the pull of any emotion; but having nalised ones stance, theonly channel for articulating it in a multi-party one-man-one-vote system is the political process.

What persons individually declaring themselves to be apolitical are doing is condemning them-

selves to political irrelevance in a system that is completely dominated by well-organised politicalgroups. Later, if these apolitical persons realise that there is strength in numbers and, therefore, jointogether to form a pressure group, that itself would be a political act, no matter what they choose tocall their group.

The crux of the matter is that even if we steer away from overtly political issues and limit our-selves to neutral issues like infrastructure and bijli-sadak-paani, the ultimate implementation willbe done by elected representatives, who get into positions of power through a process of elections,which, by its very nature, is thoroughly and ercely political. These men/women will only pay at-tention to those who can help them win elections, so if the apolitical group wants to get any workout of them, it will be forced to either support them or refuse to support them (electorally, or at leastmonetarily), which again amounts to taking a political stance.

The people I hold responsible for such confusion are the leaders of the edgling modern nationof India (mainly Nehru and Gandhi) who used to avoid confronting tough issues and would alwayswrap harsh truths inside pious platitudes. This served them well in terms of avoiding tough deci-sions/choices and in terms of keeping up their holier-than-thou image, but the result was that overa period of time, we Indians have lost the ability to distinguish between harsh truths and pious

platitudes.

The most pious of these platitudes is the abovementioned widespread middle-class Indian beliefin the apolitical approach to nation-building. The other extreme, of course, is the utter politicisa -tion of every big and small matter by morons masquerading as politicians. Both of these co-exist.The upshot is that as usual, India ends up getting the worst of both worlds on the one hand, theresa naive idealism that denies us a host of strategic options because the chattering classes whichconsider themselves apolitical are disengaged from the political process, and therefore cant bemobilised to support these options; and, then, on the other hand, we have rank cynical politicisationof every big or small issue by full-time politicians.

These politicians have been elected not by the apolitical, middle class Indians but by the il -literate unwashed masses who actively participate in the electoral process because they know theywield power only on the day they vote. The politician then cares far more about these voters, thusfurther accentuating the alienation of the middle class.

To conclude, then, I believe that unless educated middle-class Indians the ones who want tomake a difference sort out this basic contradiction in their minds, all their well-meaning apoliti -cal efforts will ounder, as they have been doing for ages.

Manish Maheshwari, Singapore

Chris CarterLets get real and admit how many of us wouldnt have done the same. Give the man a break and

look at his point not him. Life goes on, lets make sure that we look at other peoples mistakes and better ourselves.

- Gurmeeta Singh

Shoes hurled at Pak president ZardariForcibly ruling over bodies is possible but rule on hearts is thorny. Nasty Zia ruled on the people

of Pakistan for more than a decade but he couldnt create a place in hearts of the people. Today Ziais remembered for spitefulness while Bhutto is ruling over hearts and minds. The way conspiratorsare busier in inciting plots against presidency is perilous not only to the evolution of nascent de-mocracy as well as will take the politics in 80s. President Zardari yet believes strongly on his policyof reconciliation and doesnt want PPP be part of this negative game. Some of our politicians andmedia persons (anchorpersons included) rstly raised a storm in the form of shaping new ideasand judgments by criticising President Zardari for his UK visit. When they came to know thatPresidents visit to France and UK proved of marker developments, they then went for a very shock-

ing act of shaping the drama of shoe throwing.... Arifa Qadier

Shoes hurled at Pak president Zardari in UK

Hundreds at Guru Poornima

Fiji lass is Miss Congeniality

Festival of Indian independence

Indian community disappointed with Carter

List of registered Fiji media announced

Gymnasiums for the mind

Twitter abuzz with Sachins feat

Young leader going places

NZ says Aiyar misinformed on CWG bribe

Tackling the Kiwi-Indian perceptional problem

In the run up to Indias sixty third anniversary of independence, a new round of talks

between New Zealand and India are under way. Ofcials of both countries are meeting

this week in New Delhi to take forward the preliminary talks leading up to a possiblefree trade agreement in the next few years.

Simultaneously, an Indian Business Leaders conference was held in Auckland yes -

terday. These are indeed encouraging developments cementing ties between countrieswhose friendly relations go back several decades. The two countries are even joined

at the hip, so to speak, by the year 1947, more about which you can read in our special

India Independence Day section in this issue.However, a free trade agreement between the two countries is not going to be easy.

New Zealands Minister of Trade Tim Groser and his negotiating team are under no il-

lusion about this fact. There are a number of matters that will need to be ironed out inthe course of the long haul toward a workable agreement.

These will both be technical and perceptional. The technical matters will eventuallybe reasoned out across the negotiation tables and the usual give and take of tariffs and

concessions that goes with such negotiations. It is the perceptional matters that New

Zealand will have to pay particular attention to as regards their dealing with India.Unlike in the case of the FTA with China, which was actually driven by Chinas

burning desire to sign an FTA with a developed rst world country primarily as a trophy

agreement, India will be vastly different. There is a great difference in the way thegovernment works in China and India. While China can ram through the governments

agenda with almost no opposition, the Indian polity simply does not allow that.

And there in lies the rub. Both the trade minister and New Zealands High Com -missioner to India Rupert Holborow, who is due to nish his New Delhi stint at the

end of the year, have told me that New Zealand would have to put in massive efforts at

managing perceptions within the numerous and diverse stakeholders of Indias bustlingdemocracy.

The biggest though hardly justiable fear of an FTA for the Indian agricultural

and dairy sectors is that New Zealand, an established and highly advanced agriculturaland dairy player in the global marketplace will cause problems for domestic industry.

Especially so when the agricultural sector is facing a slew of long standing problem

typied by the rash of suicides of poor farmers in several parts of the country.It is such irrational fears that led to the action by a rightist political party in which

tankers carrying Fonterras milk and milk products were spilt over the streets of Mumbaia couple of weeks ago. In fact, Mr Groser was speaking to me as the drama was unfold-

ing in Mumbai. Clearly, his team has its work cut out in bringing about a whole new

perspective among Indian dairy and agriculture players that a deal with New Zealand

can actually be benecial.And no one better than Kiwi Indian and enlightened local businesspeople from India

can help the new Zealand team in this task. New Zealands role in Indias dairy sectorgoes back nearly fty years.

What many do not know is that one of the greatest co-operative dairy successes in

the world Indias Amul had considerable inspiration from Fonterra in its formativeyears. Amul founder Dr Varghese Kurien had spent time here in New Zealand as he

went about forming Amul.

Not only was the well known Aarey Milk Colony in Mumbai, a sprawling facilitydedicated to dairy research, built with help from New Zealand but there is a hostel

building donated by the New Zealand government as well as hundreds of milk container

rail cars for milk transportation.Such long term relations need to be talked about in the Indian media. Also, New

Zealand needs to focus its attention in highlighting how it can help with the greatest

problem that Indian agriculture faces: post harvest preservation, transportation andprocessing.

A combination of emotional appeal and practical advantage as value propositionwould work well as a backdrop to the pursuit of the free trade agreement between the

two countries, which has obvious advantages to the peoples of both nations.Happy Indian Independence Day

- Dev Nadkarni

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t has been contended here that in the initialpost-1970 scheme of governance (and poli-cs) in Fiji, the Royal Fiji Military Forces

RFMF) was supposed to play the usual rolef any military in a democracy protect theonstitution and everything it stood for. Theroblem arose in understanding what democ -acy entailed and what the constitution wasupposed to stand for within a functioningemocratic framework.

It is no secret that the architects of the970 constitution, apart from the Indian del-

gation, envisaged power in perpetuity forhe Fijian Establishment-backed Alliancearty of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. In fact

many have argued (even in this newspaper)hat this would have served Fiji best. I bego differ - a be nevolent dictatorship with pe-iodic elections to perpetuate the carefullyrafted faade of democracy based on eth -icity would have had limited life at best inchanging traditional context with a large

mmigrant community.But that is not the point of this ar ticle; we

want to see how the militarys role was keptazy for those who could not see throughhe delirium and euphoria of independence.irstly there was a direct link between the

military hierarchy and national governmentboth had Fijian chiefs amongst a sprin klingf white key personnel. The chiefs at thepex of the chiefly system, and the military

nd government had very close blood ties.Secondly, the electorate was expected to

emain divided along ethnic lines forever.his, coupled with the expectation of anited Fijian government (with a multi-racialue), and a bickering Indian opposition, wasupposed to characterize democracy Fiji-

style. In the event of any disruptions to theseexpectations, the disproportionate number ofOthers in parliament was expected to holdthe balance of power a powerful tru mp cardfor government.

Democracy in Fiji was thus meant toensure power in perpetuity to the AllianceParty and no one could really expect a ny dif-ferent for the country. The role of the mili -tary as a protector of this shakily establishedfaade of democracy was therefore, alwaysopen to revolutionary introspection Ra-

bukas coup should not have been such a bigsurprise. The first jolt had already come inApril 1977 when the NFP won against allexpectations. Adroit constitutional and po-litical manoeuvring prevented any unwantedfall-out at that stage.

After 1982, the writing was on the walland talks began to emerge of a government ofnational unity. Political immaturity prevent-ed this from materializing. In the meantime,a common political platform began to emergeamong the working-classes as the Mara gov-ernment started implementing necessary, butunpopular economic policies. One of these,the 1985 wage freeze, led to the formationof the Fiji Labour Party by Fijis main labourunions on 6th July 1985.

This heralded the arrival of a non-ethnicpolitical platform in the country that up tillthen could only envisage politics through the

ethnic lens. There was an expectation withinthe Fijian Establishment that democracy wasonly acceptable so long as it assured powerand victory to the Establishment-back partyat any and every election. This was the Fijian position on government. And it stemmedfrom an omission to prepare them for real

democracy and a commission to keep themdistrustfu l of Indians, the main perceived po-litical threat.

I recall an indicative incident in 1977.The NFP had won and was poised to formgovernment as Fiji waited on edge. A pallof despondency and darkness descended onmy village, Vuna in Taveuni. Life came to astandstill and there was much consternation,then confusion, then complaining amongkava drinking. In a trip to the local liquoroutlet, the Wainiyaku Butchery, an inebri -

ated and unhappy chief lamented loudly, saoti - all is lost to Adrian Tarte of the promi -nent Tarte family.

Adrians response, no, nothing has gonewrong, thats the way it is. After that, therewere mutterings as the group moved acrossthe road from the butchery with boxes of FijiBitter. I was only a child then, but distinct-ly remember the frills-free emotional out-bursts that followed. One point kept comi ngthrough, how could this happen to us! Ourcountry cannot be ruled by outsiders, this isnot right! That was the level of understand-ing of democracy that persisted into 1987 asFiji geared for its most cr ucial elections yet.

And as mentioned earlier, a new phenom-enon had entered the political scene in theform of the multi-racial Fiji Labour Partythat espoused a non-ethnic, issues-focused political platform. Its victory-focused co-

alition with the Indian-dominated NationalFederation Party diluted this somewhat, butthe writing was on the wall. On the otherhand, Fijian unity had begun to fray withinan outdating chiefly system as Butadrokapranced on his anti-Mara platform.

When Maras Alliance Party finally did

lose in April 1987, an unsuspecting Fijianelectorate was apparently caught absolutelyunawares. What was not meant to be hadhappened! The Indians had tricked Fijiansinto joining the FLP! Little India in Fiji!How dare they disrespect chiefs! The Fijiansthus were not willing to accept t he verdict ofthe ballot box. And more importantly, eventhough Ratu Mara made his famous speechon democracy is alive and well in Fiji, hisdefeated colleagues rejected the outcome.

In that silently crackling cauldron all that

was needed was an outlet for Fijian reaction.Thats where Apisai Tora and the TaukeiMovement emerged. The first roadblockswere mounted in Tavua as Emperor GoldMines decided its business interests wereunder threat from a socialist-leaning gov-ernment. Fiery ethno-nationalist speeches,hymns, sermons, nationalistic songs, food,transport and an underlying threat of unmiti-gated violence became part of an orchestratedmovement against the Bavadra government.

While this was happening, others hadbegun to explore the military option to rightthe wrong that democracy and an ungrateful,conniving Indian community had droppedon Fiji. The RFMFs 3rd-ranking officer wassuddenly playing golf on the same PacificHarbour course a s the defeated PM. More Al-liance politicians had begun to appear ope nlyat Taukei rallies. A drastic solution had to be

found for Fiji. Coup was in the air.- Subhash Appana is an acade mic and

political commentator. The opinions con-tained in this article are entirely his and

not necessarily shared by any organizationshe may be a ssociated with both in Fiji and

abroad. Email: [email protected]

Power in Perpetuity or CoupGovernment by Greed

How Vedic mathematics adds up so well

hated maths all my life. My hate affair withumbers started from Class II and continued till Iqueaked through the nationwide Class X exam.

During those 10 torturous years I went throughrustration, anger and depression. Two expensiveaily tuitions, one at 7am and another at 1pm, des-erate prayers to Lord Shiva, and offerings at the

Hanuman temple helped me pass that wretchedubject. Maths wasnt my only worry. Indias schoolurriculum is several orders of magnitude tougherhan most countries. At the age of 14, I had to joust

with 11 different subjects, including two mathemat-cs papers.

So imagine my surprise when last month Iound myself enjoying maths, with the exuberancef a child who has been given a new toy. After yearsf estrangement with numbers, I was doing longalculations in a jiffy and handling huge sums withbig grin. No, I wasnt on mind-altering drugs. Iad discovered the ancient Indian system of math-matics called Vedic maths.

As the name suggests, Vedic maths is as old as

he Vedas, the four ancient Hindu books on reli-ion, science, mathematics, logic, philosophy and a

whole lot more. In terms of date, its safe to assumehey are at least 7,000 years old.

Vedic maths was rediscovered from the ancientndian scriptures between 1911 and 1918 by Sri

Bharati Krishna Tirthaji (1884-1960), a scholar ofanskrit, mathematics, history and philosophy.

He studied these ancient texts for years, and afterareful investigation was able to reconstruct a seriesf mathematical formulae called sutras.

Tirthaji, who was also the ShankaracharyaPontiff) of the holy eastern Indian city of Puri,elved into the ancient Vedic texts and establishedhe techniques of this system in his pioneering workVedic Mathematics (Motilal Banarasidas, 1965).

The Shankaracharya has acknowledged the contri-butions of the Vedas as the source Vedic math, espe-cially the Atharva Veda - the last of the four Vedasthat deal with the existential issues of architecture,mathematics, engineering and medicine.

In his seminal book, the Shankaracharya says:Even as regards complex problems involving agood number of mathematical operations, the timetaken by the Vedic method will be a third, a fourth,a tenth, or even a much smaller fraction of the timerequired according to modern methods.

And in some very important and striking cases,sums requiring 30, 50, 100 or even more numerousand cumbrous steps of working can be answeredin a single and simple step of work by the Vedicmethod! And little children (of only 10 or 12 yearsof age) merely look at the sums written on the black-board and immediately shout out and dictate theanswers. And this is because, as a matter of fact,each digit automatically yields its predecessor andits successor! And the children have merely to goon tossing off (or reeling off) the digits one after

another (forwards or backwards) by mere mentalarithmetic (without needing pen or pencil, paper,slate etc.).

On seeing this kind of work actually being per-formed by the little children, the doctors, professorsand other big-guns of mathematics are wonder-struck and exclaim: Is this mathematics or magic?And we invariably answer and say: It is both. It ismagic until you understand it; and it is mathematicsthereafter. And then we proceed to substantiate andprove the correctness of this reply of ours!

I bumped into Vedic maths quite by accidentafter reading about the Indian learning portal e-Gurukul.nets live webcast on the subject. Wantingto show my son, who incidentally is good at thesubject, the beauty of Vedic maths, I got hooked

myself. To be sure, I was more enthusiastic thanknowledgeable about the subject; I knew Vedicmaths was interesting but little else.

My expectations were exceeded and a monthlater, my post-webcast elation hasnt ebbed. Vedicmaths is totally amazing. Its like a book youstopped reading after a couple of pages many yearsago, chanced upon it a decade later while cleaningthe attic, and found it hard to put down. You cando calculations such as 5989 x 1111 in about veseconds a lot faster than it takes you to punch outthose numbers on a calculator.

Its not about shortcuts though. Vedic maths de-mysties numbers and lifts the veil of secrecy fromthe world of maths. James T. Glover, a Welshman,who has written the three-volume Vedic Mathemat-ics for Schools, illustrates the brilliant simplicity ofVedic maths:

Can you nd out how many matches are playedduring the Wimbledon mens singles tennis cham- pionship, based on the information that the rstround has 64 games, the next 32 until you reach the

quarter-nals, semi-nals and the nal?The conventional approach is to add the number

of games: 64+ 32+16+8+4+2+1 to get to the answer,127.

Try the Vedic approach: Since there are 128players (2 x 64) and only one person wins the com-petition, there must be 127 losers and for each loserth

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