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The pulse of Kiwi-Indians

27 May, 2016 • Vol. 8 Issue 10 • www.iwk.co.nz

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New ZealandBarrister Sanjay Patelappointed ActingDistrict Court Judge

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Investing in our thriving tourism industry

Our tourism industry is thriving.

With more visitors coming, staying

longer and spending more, tourism

is becoming an increasingly signicant partof our economy.

It’s now our second biggest export

earner and a major employer of New

Zealanders. That’s why the National-led

government is committed to supporting

this industry and ensuring all our regions

benet from it.Later this week, Finance Minister Bill

English will be delivering our eighth Budget.

In the lead-up to Budget 2016, I recently

announced a $45 million investment into

two initiatives to support tourism across

New Zealand.

The rst is a $20 million fund to supportcommunities to build small infrastructure

projects to help them cope with the inux ofvisitors, and to promote New Zealand in key

growth markets.

The second is a $25 million investment

into the New Zealand Cycle Trail to ensure

it continues to oer a world-class visitorexperience. Both these investments will

further support tourism’s contribution to

economic and job growth in regions across

New Zealand.

This extra $45 million in Budget 2016

is in addition to the more than $130

million a year the government already

spends on tourism.

We also support tourism in other ways

such as funding major events, which help to

attract high-value visitors.

Since 2013, the government has

invested $46 million in 58 events,

including the FIFA under 20 World Cup,

the Cricket World Cup and the World of

Wearable Arts.

The FIFA tournament alone boosted

our economy by $30 million and attracted

3,600 international visitors.

As well as investing in the sector directly, we are helping the industry attract the

money needed to fund infrastructure.

A group involving government and

people from the tourism sector has been

established to help accelerate investment.

The group is working to identify

opportunities to develop high-quality

accommodation and to promote those to

overseas investors.

There have been some positive

developments in this space in

recent months.

Work is underway on a $200 million

ve-star hotel at a landmark sitein downtown Auckland, one of the

largest-ever foreign investments in New

Zealand’s tourism infrastructure.Budget 2016, which was delivered on

Thursday, May 26, focussed on investing in

a growing economy while still ensuring we

continue to support families and our most

vulnerable people.

New Zealand’s economy is performing

well; we’re on track for annual growth of

around three per cent for the next few years,

which is helping to deliver more jobs and

higher wages for New Zealanders.

I look forward to letting you know about

some more of the initiatives in Budget 2016

over coming weeks.

Rt Hon John KeyPrime Minister

Budget 2016, whichwas delivered onThursday, May 26,focussed on investingin a growing economywhile still ensuring wecontinue to supportfamilies and our mostvulnerable people.

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Barrister Sanjay Patelappointed Acting DistrictCourt JudgeIWK BUREAU

A uckland barrister Sanjay Patel

is one of the two Acting District

Court Judges appointed recently.

Attorney-General Christopher Finlayson

QC announced the appointment on May 17.

Both will hold jury warrants.

Mr Sanjay Patel, who has been

appointed an Acting District Court Judge

in Manukau, began his career in a generalpractice in 1992.

After 12 months, he moved to Davenports

in Henderson carrying out general civil

litigation, criminal and employment work.

In 1996 he moved to Corban Revell

where he remained until 1999 when he

became a barrister sole specialising in

criminal defence litigation in the District

Court, High Court and Court of Appeal.

Judge Patel will be sworn in on June 22

in Manukau.

Hamilton barrister and solicitor Philip

Crayton has been also appointed an Acting

District Court Judge in Whanganui. He

was previously a barrister in the United

Kingdom and has practised in New Zealand

for more than 14 years. Prior to becoming a

partner at Almao Douch in 2004, he was a

senior sta solicitor with Almao KellawayBarristers & Solicitors. He has practised

in the criminal jurisdiction at all levels

up to the Court of Appeal with occasional

appearances in the Family Court and

Youth Court.

Judge Crayton will be sworn in on June

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CAB helps migrants to settle down Moving to a new country is often an overwhelming experience for many. o help you get accustomed to anew surrounding, Citizens Advice Bureau helps newcomers find the right information they need.ESHA CHANDA

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ew migrants tackle a

number of hurdles as

they inch closer to their

dreams. Borders are crossed tostep into an unknown land and

settle among unknown people.

New Zealand has been seeing a

rise in the number of immigrants

in recent years. For them, the

laws, rules and regulations of

the country, and their rights and

obligations as a resident of their

adopted homeland are dierentfrom the one they have left behind.

That’s where Citizens Advice

Bureau (CAB) steps in. The not-

for-prot organisation providesfree and condential adviceto individuals and helps solve

their queries.

CAB was rst started in NewZealand in 1970, and since then,

has opened numerous branches

across the country. Adding to the

growing number of bureaux is the

recently opened branch in Botany

Town Centre, Auckland.

With many new migrants

settling in Botany, Dannemora,

Ormiston and Flatbush, the

reopened bureau (it closed

in December 2014 due to a

lease expiry) has recently

seen a surge in the number of

Indian clients.

The community link

C AB’s involvement in the

community can be seen

in their dual role of helping

individuals settle in a new place,and working for a change within

the society. Through their social

policy work, the organisation

aims to bring about a positive

social change.

By working alongside their

clientele, CAB increases awareness

about the rights and obligations

of new migrants. Their seamless

service assists in overcoming the

challenges faced by new migrants.

“If you have recently moved to

New Zealand you probably have

lots of questions about how things

work here, and we’re here to help,”

says Louise Boswell, Manager of

CAB Pakuranga and Botany.“We can make settling into

your new home easier by helping

you nd out what you need toknow, whether it is how the school

system works here, how to sign up

with a GP or who provides English

language courses. We can help you

to understand your employment

rights, assist you in resolving

tenancy issue or help you to sort

out a problem with goods or

services you have bought. If you’re

looking for a social or sports club

to join, we can help you with that,

too,” she adds.

Each branch of CAB is operated by local community volunteers who are trained to provide anindependent, condential andfree service. “The people who

volunteer as bureau interviewers(and members of our board) arethe drivers of our organisationand provide the “listening ear”to our multi-cultural clients whoseek answers to their problemsand issues,” says Boswell.

For migrants who nd it dicultto communicate in English, CABprovides help through LanguageLink—a service available in morethan 20 languages that can beaccessed by anyone. Their teamof interviewers also include

volunteers who can uentlyspeak in Mandarin, Cantoneseand Hindi.

Tracing back itsorigins

The rst Citizens AdviceBureau opened its door in

Ponsonby Terrace in October

1970 and today, there are more

than 80 CAB branches around

the country. With more than

four decades of experience, CAB

has become a trusted source for

information for new migrants. But

its history goes further. Its origin

lies in war-time England when the

bureau was established during the

Second World War to help people,

who were dislocated to cope with

the trauma.

The CAB edgeBoswell says that their face-to-

face interview information

service provides the “human

touch” to their clients, and this is

what makes them dierent fromother organisations that provide

migrant services in the country.

CAB regularly organises

workshops and seminars on

topics such as employment,

education and health, which

helps newcomers familiarise

themselves with their rights and

responsibilities in the country;

they have one on June 18 on

employment, which will cover

CVs, job searching, New Zealand

employers, interview skillsand coaching.

Like the Pakuranga branch, the

one opened in Botany provides

immigration services and has a

weekly visiting Justice of Peace.

Legal Clinics—a 15-minute free

session with a lawyer that oerslegal guidance on issues such

as court proceedings, power

of attorney, wills, tenancy and

dispute matters, family law and

legal aid—are held every Thursday

from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and

are voluntarily run by lawyers.

“At the bureau, we haveresources that cover a wide rangeof topics. You can also read theinformation our website www.cab.org.nz, which includes a

community directory of local andnationwide service providers,”says Boswell.

Services offeredby CAB:• Healthcare• Education and schooling• Working in New Zealand that

covers CVs, job searching,interview skills, etc.

• Clinics—Justice of Peace,Immigration, Legal, +65Counselling

• Taxes• Tenancy Tribunals and

Disputes Tribunals• Consumer rights• Income support and benets• Immigration• Housing and tenancy• General matters such as

contacts for local recreationalactivities, and publictransport timetables

Auckland barrister Sanjay Patel, who will be appointed asActing District Court Judge on June 22

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More than 300 global business

leaders and stakeholders will

come together on June 13 for a

rst-of-its kind summit on agritech, beingheld by INZBC. The summit will witnessbusiness leadership from across NewZealand and India to discuss the scope ofagribusiness in both the countries. Thesummit is being held in partnership withNew Zealand National Fieldays.

“INZBC has always endeavoured tobring together a range of organisations,

think-tanks, academicians under oneroof through our agship event—INZBCSummit. This year, for our third annualsummit, the Agritech theme is very relevantand timely given the importance of theagriculture sector for both the countries”,said Wenceslaus Anthony, Head of GovtRelations, INZBC.

The summit has an interesting line-upof speakers from both countries includingrepresentatives from National Bank forAgriculture and Rural Development,Kwality Dairy India Ltd, Agriculture SkillCouncil of India, Binsar Farms, QualitatProducts (India), Pipfruit, WaikatoInnovation Park, Fieldays, New Zealand

Trade and Enterprise, ATEED andCallaghan Innovation. The summit willtouch upon areas such as major trendsand future market opportunities in thesector, technology advancements, animalhusbandry for increased productivity andscope of growth in dairy farming.

For the past few years, INZBC has beensuccessful in bringing together networksof business and organisations includingkey companies and policymakers who areinterested in developing trade betweenIndia and New Zealand. Attending this

summit will not only equip attendees withknowledge on opportunities in agritechsector but also help to get connected withexcellent speakers and business communityin the sphere. As India looks to increase itsagricultural output, there is great need—and a growing market—for sophisticatedmechanized tools and equipment. There is asignicant opportunity for Kiwi businessesto get access to networks of businessfrom India.

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MP Parmar to host aPink Ribbon BreakfastIWK BUREAU

E very year, many women battle breast cancer.

To increase awareness,

The New Zealand Breast CancerFoundation (NZBCF) encourages

women around the country to

host a Pink Ribbon Breakfast, which can help raise money to

fund breast cancer research inthe country.

Early next month, National list

MP Dr Parmjeet Parmar will behosting a Pink Ribbon Breakfast—

an opportunity to not only have

fun with friends and family butalso help in raising donations. A

Pink Ribbon Breakfast can be held

at home, work, school, your coeegroup or a local participating café

or restaurant.Even a small contribution

towards the cause can make a

big dierence. All the donationsraised at the breakfast go to

NZBCF to fund a potentially life-

saving research. A $40 donation could help

fund a tumour sample from thetissue bank used for genetic

testing while a $75 donation

could fund a box of 100 tissue

culture asks, to test response tonew drugs.

By raising $400 from your breakfast, you could be funding

an antibody detection kit(allowing 50 antibody reactions).

Collectively raising $1.5 million

can help investigate newtreatment options for women

with advanced breast cancer,and help women have access

to leading-edge research. In

2015, more than 2,600 Kiwishosted a Pink Ribbon Breakfast

and collectively raised more

than a million dollars for breastcancer research.

MP Parmar is inviting everyone

to join her in this noble cause tomake a dierence. The details ofthe breakfast are as follows:

Date: Friday, June 3Time: 7:30 a.m.Place: Sierra Café, 563 Mt AlbertRoad, Royal Oak (corner ofHillsborough Road)Cost: $20 per ticket proceedsgo to NZBCF (payment may bemade on the day)RSVP: MP Parmar’s Mt Roskillofce phone (09) 620 6707 or

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Escalating crime rate worriesbusinesses in South AucklandRIZWAN MOHAMMAD

Ahuge number of

aggrieved victims

turned up at theIndian community meetinglast weekend to discussand deliberate on theissue of rising in crime inSouth Auckland.

Hosted on Saturday, May21, at the Indian CommunityCentre in Papatoetoe, theafternoon witnessed a

wistful narration of the horrorsof growing crime in the areaincluding burglaries and assaults.The crime rate in South Aucklandhas recently increased with the

victims being robbed of theirmoney, dignity and security.

To answer the queries of the victims at the meeting wereNational List MP KanwaljitBakshi, Labour MP Phil Go,

NZ First List MP Mahesh Bindraand community leader MsPratima Nand.

The growing concern on howto alleviate crime in Aucklandis being scrutinised for a reallylong time. Regions in East andSouth Auckland such as Otara,Pakuranga, Botany, Papatoetoe,Manukau, Manurewa, andTakanini have become a centrefor the oenders to commit thecrime. MP Go, who has been a

victim of burglary, blamed thelaw enforcement authorities fornot taking stern actions againstcriminals on priority.

The victims were from allages and walks of life especiallyself-employed people such astaxi drivers, dairy and liquorshop owners along with pizzadelivery boys and pedestrians ondeserted streets.

“I was punched and pushedto the ground and stabbedamid aggravated robbery atmy liquor store last month,”

exclaimed traumatised SarabjitSingh. The CCTV footage of therobbery went viral on Facebookafter the vicious attack andthe police were able to nabthe criminals. The same criminals

were reported to have robbed aliquor store in Takanini the nightthey stabbed Sarabjit. An enraged

victim added, “If the police areunable to act on time, we may takethe law into our own hands andthen the police should not blameus for being defensive.”

Speakers at the event calmedthe claims of the victims and

assured to convey messagesto the higher authorities andgovernment so that stringentactions can be taken againstthe oenders.

The meeting also showedsome positive solutionssuggested from the audience.

“Why don’t we invite theoenders and the youngindividuals who wanderthrough the streets to the

Gurudwaras and serve themlangar? We serve free food

three times a day, these teenagersdo not have access to good foodand clothing, and many dwell on

benets and turn towards crimefor their needs. This positive movecould reduce some opportunisticcrime at the least,” added anattendee.

Ms Nand listed precautionarymoves that should be taken by

business owners and associations.

The associations can pool funds toincrease surveillance by installingnew cameras outside shops andcomplexes, install loud sirens toalert distress, report suspectingindividuals and groups throughconstant monitoring, increaselighting and presence of morepeople during late evenings.

Reducing the number of liquorstores, closing stores early indeserted areas, rehabilitation ofthe broken families, monitoringschool activities of teenagers weresome of the other suggestionsoated at the meeting.

MP Dr Parmjeet Parmar will host a Pink RibbonBreakfast on June 3

From left to right: Labour MP Phil Goff (addressing the attendees),National MP Kanwaljit Bakshi and NZ F irst MP Mahesh Bindra




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Tashi and Nungshi Malik hope to scale

Mount Cook this summer Te Everest wins are hoping to raise money to fulfil their dream of hoistingthe tricolour atop Aotearoa’s highest peak GAURAV SHARMA

India is a land ofcontradictions. We worshipour rivers, calling them

Mother Ganga and MotherNarmada. Almost the entirecountry bows down to a femalegoddess nine days in a row, twiceevery year, all of this seen in adeep-rooted patriarchal society,with strong male-child preferencesand an unfavourable female-male sex ratio due to widespreadfemale foeticide.

That’s why instances suchas when an Indian Army ocerspends his entire life savings tofund his twin daughters dream ofcompleting an Explorers GrandSlam—scaling the seven highestpeaks in all the seven continentsalong with skiing to the Northand South Poles—its a story worthtelling again and again. Especiallywhen those twins are Tashiand Nungshi Malik—modern,progressive and high-achievingIndian women!

While their mountaineering

exploits are well-documented—Indian Weekender ( IWK ) toocovered those at length when thegirls were special guests at our lastyear’s Hall of Fame event—theirexperiences of living in a countryfor more than a year now, withdierent male-female societaldynamics, is not. (read NewZealand’s peculiar “male drought”issue) That’s why IWK decided tocatch up with the girls again andlearn how the land of the longwhite cloud has treated them overthe past year-and-a-half.

IWK: Please start by tellingus your reasons for comingto New Zealand.

Tashi and Nungshi: SirEdmund Hillary!

To elaborate, the New ZealandHigh Commission in Delhi hadorganised an event in 2013 tocommemorate the 60 years ofSir Edmund Hillary’s historicfeat, which we were fortunateenough to attend. That, we wouldsay, sparked our interest in NewZealand. We thought it wouldbe great to experience a countrywhere the legend of our tradelearnt his lessons.

Moreover, our love foroutdoors, and this being “heavenon Earth for people who love thegreat outdoors”, it was the obvious

choice. That’s why when we wereoered the NZISS, we jumped atthe opportunity.

IWK: So now that you haveexperienced New Zealand abit, what have you learnt?

Tashi and Nungshi: A lot!

Especially in the context of genderinequality and societal attitude.Over centuries, women havefaced, and continue to face, hugesocietal obstacles when it comesto succeeding in life. And forthat to change, societal attitude,

especially among men, needs tochange. Men need to understandthat women play an equal role inevery sphere of human life.

And sadly, the situation isthe same everywhere, though atdierent degrees. In New Zealand,

which is a far more gender-equal society, rugby, played bymen, gets all the funding andsupport, while netball, played by

women, struggles.

IWK: So that’s why yourFoundation emphasis somuch on changing attitudes?

Tashi and Nungshi: Precisely!That’s why through the

NungshiTashi Foundation, weaim to empower the girl child by promoting outdoors. We want to break the stereotypesand emphasise that outdooradventures and mountaineeringare for all. Girls love it, can excelin it, and can be leaders in thesesports. We hope to have regularhiking and outdoor leadershipprogrammes by the later half ofthis year.

We believe if we can do our bitin helping change attitudes, therest will follow.

Even the Government of India’s Beti Bachao Beti Padao Yojana (save the daughter, educate the

daughter) aimed at saving andempowering the girl child, which we wholeheartedly support, is alsoabout changing societal attitudesamong other things.

IWK: Now that both of youare in New Zealand, do youhave plans to initiate the

Foundation’s work here?

Tashi and Nungshi: Certainly. We are looking to start our work inNew Zealand as well, for which weare looking to partner some like-minded organisations. We mightstart with a few student exchange

programmes and later take on women empowerment and genderissues such as tackling domestic

violence, which is alarmingly highin New Zealand.

IWK: Coming to the life inNew Zealand, what has been your experience?

Tashi and Nungshi: Wonderful,to say the least. Everyone has

welcomed us with open arms.People here love their outdoorsand keep up-to-date withother people’s achievements as

well. That’s why we got morerecognition here as compared to

back home.

Whether it is the sta orstudents at SIT, the widercommunity of Invercargill, the

Alpine Club in Auckland, theRotary Club, the CanterburyMountaineering Club, or morerecently TEDx Queenstown, ourexperience has been extraordinary.Meeting Prime Minister John Key

was a highlight too!

IWK: There have beensome reports in the pastthat Indians nd it difcult

to settle in places such asInvercargill, which are notso diverse. What are yourthoughts on it?

Tashi and Nungshi: Ourexperience wasn’t like that at all.Maybe because we are girls, weare pampered a lot. And everyonesmiles at us. [laughs]

But, on a serious note, one doeskeep hearing stories of Indiansnding it dicult in the jobmarket here.

That’s why we keep doing whatever little we can do toencourage people. Even inour talks, we focus a lot aboutdeveloping life skills, notlosing hope and keep ghting.Metaphorically, ‘climb higher’ and‘climb better’ is the only way out.

Also, due to our networks andcontacts, if we nd that somepeople can help each other out, weput them in touch.

It’s not about diversity, orInvercargill, or being a Kiwi, or anIndian. From what we have seen,

we have realised that all majorproblems of the world are caused

by a ght over identities. Evengender inequality stems fromgender identities.

The challenge for all of us is toembrace each other and tide overour separate identities.

IWK: That’s a very mature

take on our world, especially

coming from two 23-year-

olds. How long do you plan to

stay in New Zealand?

Tashi and Nungshi: At least

for the next three years, till

we complete our masters and

doctorate programmes.

IWK: That’s the long-term

plan. Any short-term goals?

Tashi and Nungshi: Yes,

we want to climb and hoist the

tricolour atop New Zealand’s

highest mountain, Aoraki/ Mount

Cook, in the coming summer. We

are actively seeking sponsors for

this endeavour as mountaineering

is an expensive sport.

Their claim to fame

In just under two years and one month, Tashi and Nungshi Malik

have climbed the seven summits (highest ones in all the seven

continents), skied to North and South Poles, and scaled an unnamed

virgin peak alpine-style in Bara Shigri Glacier at 21,000 ft. With

this, they became the world’s youngest persons, rst twins, andrst siblings to complete the Explorers Grand Slam and three-polechallenge.

But what is even more appreciative is the motivation behind their

#mission2for7 (climbing the seven peaks together). Armed with

the motto “Gender equality now—ght against female foeticide”,the girls use mountaineering as a metaphor for life’s climbs and

breaking gender stereotypes. Recognising this, their home state

of Uttarakhand has made them the brand ambassador for the Beti

Bachao (save the girl child) campaign.

Notably, the world’s second most populous nation has an abysmal

record with regards to reining in female foeticide. So much so that

as per the last census held in 2011, the child sex ratio (914 girls per

1000 boys) is at an all-time low since independence.

To put it simply in Malik sisters’ words, “India cannot realise its

full potential as long as its girls and women cannot realise theirs!”

What they have been doing in NZ• Completed the Explorers Grand Slam by skiing to the North Pole

on April 21, 2015

• Completed Graduate Diploma in Sport and Exercise at the

Southern Institute of Technology (SIT), Invercargill on New

Zealand India Sports Scholarship (NZISS)

• Pursuing their Masters at SIT now and aiming to complete their

doctorate eventually

• Started the NungshiTashi Foundation in Dehradun, India in

February 2016 to promote girl empowerment through outdoors

• Attended US Department of State and Global Sports Mentoring

Program (run in cooperation with University of Tennessee) in

September 2015

• Talks at Canterbury Mountaineering Club in Christchurch, NewZealand Alpine Club in Auckland, and Rotary Clubs in Invercargill

and Auckland, where the girls shared their journey of the Explorers

Grand Slam for the cause of the Indian Girl Child

• Most recently, the Malik sisters spoke at TEDx Queenstown in April

2016 about the plight of “millions of girls in much of the developed

world who have to climb their daily invisible ‘mountains’ merely

to survive”

Nungshi (left) and Tashi (right) in a national park in US during their participation in the Global SportsMentoring Programme in 2015




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Tie a turban on AucklandTurban Day this weekendSWATI SHARMA

W ith an aim to educate people

of dierent cultures aboutSikhism and Punjabi culture,

a group of Sikh youth is organising

Auckland Turban Day on May 28.

Events such as this are quite popular

in many parts of the world, where non-

Indians also participate to learn about the

Sikh culture.

One of the members of the Sikh Youth

New Zealand (SYNZ), Amrita Kaur

explained the reason behind carrying out

such exercises in public.

“In an attempt to reduce the chances

of discrimination and bullying in schools,

workplaces and public places due to the

turban, we have conceptualised this idea

as a fun, colourful (with all the dierentturban colours) and interesting way

to achieve our goal of education and

awareness. We believe that such an event

would contribute greatly to the rich culture

and varying faiths of Auckland and New

Zealand,” said Amrita.

The event is supported by community

members where SYNZ is receiving

donations from public to buy turbans. Some

turban retailers have also come forward to

help. As a part of the event, a yer will bedistributed in order to answer some basic

questions about Sikhism such as who Sikhs

are, what turbans are and why Sikhs wear

them and also the 10 Sikh Gurus’ teachings

regarding equality, love and unity of people.

The Auckland Turban Day will be held

at Aotea Square in Auckland CBD on

Saturday, May 28 from noon to 3 p.m.

Anyone can join the event to have fun and

learn about Sikh faith and also to get a taste

of Punjab with masala chai (tea) that will be

served free of cost to the public.

Social networking forbusiness and real estateRIZWAN MOHAMMAD

Don Ha Real Estate hosted an

evening of networking last week

bringing together businessmen,

professionals, and individuals enthusiastic

to amplify their trades, services and

businesses.

The invite-only event provided a platform

to introduce oneself and one’s business, to

reach out to a greater set of audience. The

attendees gathered at Lakewood Court (Old

Valentine building) at 7 p.m. on Wednesday,

May 18, sharing their business cards over

drinks and nibbles.

Don Ha Real Estate licensed salesperson

Steve Starke emceed the event briengabout the company and its exponential

growth over the last few years. Don Ha

took over the stage and shared some light

moments from his experience, and his story

of establishing one of the most successful

real estate companies in Auckland.

Don Ha invited attendees to come to

the dais and brief about their businesses

and services, which was the crux of the

networking event. Individuals present

at the venue grabbed the opportunity to

introduce and showcase their businesses to

other businessmen present.The venue also exhibited a life-size

replica of the Manukau Lakewood Plaza

apartments, the exotic lounge, rooms, and

kitchen area with attached balcony. There

was also a tiny model of the Plaza that

received some attention from the people at

the venue.

Don Ha Real Estate (Top One Real Estate

Limited, Licensed Real Estate Agents REAA

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BUDGET2016Budget 2016: at a glanceIWK BUREAU

Finance Minister BillEnglish deliveredthe National-ledgovernment’s eighthBudget in Wellingtonon Tursday, May 26.

The Budget talks about

investing in a growingeconomy, while ensuring

continuing support to families and

the most vulnerable people who

need it the most.

“New Zealand’s economy is

performing well and we’re on track

for annual growth of around three

per cent over the next few years.We’re also on track for growing

surpluses and falling debt,” said

Mr English.

“That’s thanks to the National-

led government’s clear economic

plan and responsible management

of the books. Budget 2016 is about

building on that good progress.”

The main highlights of

budget 2016 are as follows:

Health

A n additional $2.2 billion

for health to help pay for

more lifesaving drugs, more

elective surgeries, more disability

support services, and to start

the roll-out of a national bowelscreening programme

Infrastructure

A$2.1 billion publicinfrastructure package to

invest in building new roads,schools and classrooms, and tosupport our thriving tourismsector. School infrastructure is akey part of the package. The $882.5million investment will deliver480 new classrooms, nine newschools, two school expansionsas well as the relocation andrebuilding of three schools and aKura. This includes $168.5 million

for the Christchurch schoolsrebuild programme, which is nowin its third year and has completed

six schools, with a further eightunder construction. A core partof the package focuses on growthand provides $270.6 million ofnew capital funding and $80.3million of new operating funding

over the next four years.

Science andinnovation

$761 million for an InnovativeNew Zealand package, which

invests in science, skills, and

regional economic development

initiatives to help grow and

diversify the economy.

Social Investment

$652 million for a Social

Investment package to help

drive changes to help improve

the lives of the most vulnerable

New Zealanders. The package,

which provides $641.6 million

of operating funding over the

next four years and $10.5 million

of capital, includes additional

support for vulnerable children as

well as initiatives in corrections,

education and health.

Social housing

Budget 2016 invests $258

million to ensure people most

in need of social housing have

access to this essential service.

Over the four years, the package

will include $200 million for more

social housing places in Auckland,

costs related to redevelopingsocial houses in Tamaki and for

increased Income Related Rent

Subsidy payments because of

higher rents; $41.1 million for

emergency housing and a new

Special Needs Grant; $7.5 million

in new operating funding to

manage social housing transfers to

community housing providers and

$3.7 million in 2016–17 for the

Ministry of Social Development’s

housing unit and the Auckland

social housing team.

Housing

$

36 million to ensure more

New Zealand families live

in warmer, drier and healthier

homes. The investment includes

$18 million of operating funding

over two years to extend the Warm

Up New Zealand programme to

insulate rental houses occupied by

low-income tenants, particularly

those with high health needs,

and $18 million over four years

to expand the Healthy Homes

Initiative to reduce preventable

illnesses among young children

(newborns to ve-year olds) who are living in cold, damp and

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A dditional investment in early

childhood education, children

with special needs, and new schools

and classrooms takes annual education

spending above $11 billion for the rst time.This includes $640.5 million of operating

funding over the next four years, plus $75.1

million in 2015–16 and $727.3 million in

capital. Key spending includes an extra

$396.9 million over the next four years,

plus $39.2 million in 2015–16 for ECE. By

2019–20, this will provide funding for afurther 14,000 children. $43.2 million over

the next four years for schools educating

students most at risk of educational under-

achievement and $42.1 million over the

next four years for students with high and

special educational needs.

Civil defence

Extra $6.2m to increase Civil Defence

capability to ensure New Zealanders

are better prepared for natural disasters

by providing an extra $6.1 million of

operating funding over the next four years

and $63,000 of new capital funding for the

Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency

Management (MCDEM).

Police

$299.2 million in additional funding

for police over four years, which

includes $49.2 million from a Budget

2015 contingency, will fund $279.9 million

for police pay increases, $8.2 million for

the child protection oenders registerdevelopment and operating costs, $6.4

million to ensure police comply with theprovisions of the Anti-Money Laundering

and Countering Financing of Terrorism

Act 2009 and $4.7 million to cover the

rst two years of the new operating costsof Christchurch’s Justice and Emergency

Services Precinct.

Justice

Budget 2016 invests heavily in core

justice services, with $208.4 million

in additional funding over the next four

years—the largest increase to Justice and

Courts in almost a decade.

For a detailed analysis of the Budget

2016, read our next issue (June 3).

People’s safety not about‘bottom lines’ or dollarsMAHESH BINDRA

New Zealand First has long heldthe view that we should all besafe in our homes, businesses

and communities. We share the concerns of those at

the public meeting in Auckland, whichdiscussed safety for business owners and

their sta, particularly smaller businesses

such as dairies and liquor stores. We have been raising the issue of the

increased number of attacks and share theconcerns of those at the Indian communitymeeting held last week.

This violence is unacceptable, and it is asad reection on the deterioration of societyunder this National government that somany youths are the perpetrators; they arejobless, without direction.

The reality is that a large number ofthese frontline, high-risk businesses are

owned by Kiwis of Indian origin. We believein hard work and enterprise and haveachieved success in business all over theworld because of our work ethics and pridein running a business.

The government constantly tells New

Zealand that crime is down but this is notevident, as the community well knows.

Then there are the statistics. Of coursethe government is fudging the guresespecially when it comes to Auckland.There are not enough police to keep our

communities safe.The senior police authorities have gone

on record, on questioning by us, that they

have closed down 30 police stations but

opened 15 new ones resulting in a net loss

of 15 police stations to New Zealanders.

This is not good enough and our role as an

opposition party is to hold the government

to account on this and we continue to do so.

The other trend that was evident in this

meeting was that an increasing number

of business owners are so frustrated they

won’t mind taking law into their own hands

if they have to. We are peace-loving, law-

abiding people and this is not what we

should be forced into.

This government needs to realise that

it is not about “bottom lines” and dollars

when it comes to the safety of our people,

our homes and our businesses. We need

more policemen and women in our streets

so they can prevent crime and respond to

incidents in acceptable time frames.

NZ First MP Mahesh Bindra addressing the attendees at theIndian community meeting




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Creative Communities bringsthe magic of the arts to all

V isually-impaired children will be

able to experience the wonder of

the theatre, thanks to a grant from

the Creative Communities Scheme.

Tim Bray Productions will provide audio

described performances

included in the company’s

July and September shows

at The Pumphouse Theatre

that feature touch tours of

the set.

“Creative Communities

has been stunning in supporting

these performances which allow

blind and visually impaired

children to enjoy our shows. They

sit alongside our New Zealand

Sign Language interpreted shows,

which we have been oering for12 years now as we try and create

productions that are accessible to

all children,” says Tim Bray, whose

company is celebrating its 25th

anniversary this year.

Each year, Creative New Zealand

provides Creative Communities Scheme

funding to city and district councils to

distribute in their area.

A showcase event was held on

Thursday, May 26, to celebrate the

success of Auckland community arts

projects funded under the contestable

grants scheme.This allocation round, Auckland

Council has distributed $488,866 to 152

local projects that will reach an estimated

audience of more than 263,000 people.

“Through supporting grassroots

organisations, the fund helps bring art into

the everyday lives of Aucklanders from

all our dierent communities telling our

stories in many languages,” says Barbara

Procter, Sector Investment Leader at

Auckland Council’s arts and culture unit.

Other projects awarded grants in the

latest round include creative wānanga

by Te Waka Huia to develop a play based

on the Brynderwyn Bus Disaster, the

country’s worst road accident, and the

Battlecry breakdance competition staged

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Call fornominationsin ManukauHarbour awards

The Manukau Harbour Forum

is inviting nominations from

respective mana whenua, iwi,

individual contributors and community

group representatives for the Mauri o te

Moana Award.

The award will be presented at the 2016

Manukau Harbour Forum Symposium,

and recognises the work of those who have

helped to protect and restore the mauri

of the Manukau Harbour over the last

three years.

Mauri is the life energy force, or unique

life essence, that gives being and form to allthings in the universe.

“We know there are many organisations,

large and small, that have contributed to

the harbour’s wellbeing,” says Manukau

Harbour Forum Chair Jill Naysmith. “This

is an opportunity to celebrate and highlight

their eorts so we can learn from them inthe future.”

Each of the recipients will receive a copy

of an original artwork by mana whenua

artist Charlotte Graham, to be presented at

the Manukau Harbour Forum Symposium,

which will be held 10 June at Ngā Tohu oUenuku (Māngere Arts Centre) and is freeto attend.

Instigated by the Manukau HarbourForum, the Manukau Harbour Forum

Symposium is focused on the harbour’s

future, and on real actions that can

contribute to the restoration of its mauri. It

will consider proposed and current projects,

innovative approaches and smart ways of

acting to create a new reality.

Nomination forms close on June 1 and are

available at www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/

manukauharbourforum, or can be requested

via email at manukauharbourforum@

aucklandcouncil.govt.nz.

Booking to attend the symposium is

essential. You can nd out more, reserve aseat, and nominate someone for an award,

by visiting www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/manukauharbourforum.

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SuperGold cardholders this month will

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See AT.govt.nz/supergold to identify the

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Kanwaljit BakshiNational List MP

NEW ZEALAND

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More families to receive

intensive home support

This National-led government is

reprioritising $7.3 million a year

for Family Start, an intensive

home visitation support programme for

vulnerable children. The funding is being

redirected from October 1 from another

programme that hasn’t shown itself to be

eective at reducing child maltreatment.Our aim is about investing in those

children and families who are the most

vulnerable and ensuring services are

evidence-based and eective.

$7.3 million a year will be reprioritised

to support more vulnerable children and

their families through Family Start, an

intensive, home visitation service.

Family Start has shown positive results

in reducing post-neonatal mortality,

increasing the reporting of child abuse

and neglect and has been shown to

increase mothers’ use of community-

based mental health services, child

immunisation rates and participation in

early childhood education. The funding is

being reprioritised from the low-intensity

home visitation programme called Parents

As First Teachers (PAFT), which has

shown no evidence of eectively reducing

child maltreatment.

Family Start currently works with 5,000

at-risk families at any one time, and this

funding will support an additional 1,250

families nationwide. Eligible families

currently receiving PAFT will be referred

to Family Start and others will be able toaccess resources such as Strategies for

Kids, Information for Parents (SKIP) and

targeted parenting programmes such as

Incredible Years. Ocials will work with

existing Family Start sites to expand their

boundaries and new sites will be established

in Tauranga, Palmerston North, New

Plymouth and Timaru/Ashburton.

More information about Family Start is

available on https://www.familyservices.

govt.nz/working-with-us/programmes-

s e r v i c e s / e a r l y - i n t e r v e n t i o n / n e w -

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Source: Fiji Sun

FIJI

Govt keen to work with Asia-Pacic body

The Fijian Government

has extended aninvitation to the Asia-

Pacic Broadcasting Union(ABU) to collaborate on climatechange issues.

Attorney-General, and Ministerfor Finance, Civil Service, Public

Enterprise and Communications

Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum made thoseremarks during the opening of

the ABU Administrative Council

Meeting at the Sheraton FijiResort, Denarau Island yesterday.

“The Fijian Governmentis very keen to work withOrganisations such as ABU,”

Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said.The A-G said the Government

would be very keen to have

some specic gathering or

conference in the country through

the broadcasters regarding

climate change.“We are also quite keen and

would like to inform you next

year, we are hosting one of thelargest conferences on the Oceans

that are also key feature for us,”

he said. “These are the hardcore

realities that are faced by the

Pacic island countries. I supposeto highlight these issues to you so

we have an understanding and ofcourse can collaborate with.”

Attorney-General, and Minister for Finance, Civil S ervice, Public Enterprise, Communications AiyazSayed-Khaiyum with participants during the op ening of the ABU Administrative Council Meeting at the

Sheraton Fiji Resort, Denarau Island

Fiji appointed advisorymember to PIANZEA

Fiji has been appointed

as an Advisory Group

Member representing the

Melanesia region to the PacicIslands, Australia, and New

Zealand Electoral Administrator’s

(PIANZEA) Network following

a nomination by the Melanesian

grouping at the PIANZEA meetingin Nadi. The Supervisor of

Elections, Mohammed Saneem,

accepted the nomination.

“Since the re-admittance into

the network, the Fijian Elections

Oce has benetted from severaltraining and capacity building

initiatives organized by PIANZEA,

including this week’s meeting,” Mr

Saneem said. “Fiji’s appointment

as a PIANZEA Advisory Group

Member will give us even greater

access to networking opportunities

and electoral assistance.”

The PIANZEA member countries

manage and direct PIANZEA

activities through a PIANZEA

Advisory Group and the Advisory

Group members are rotated

through nomination by membercountries. PIANZEA, a semi-formal

association of Pacic ElectionManagement Bodies (EMBs), is a

platform for networking, sharing

capacity-building opportunities

and provides mutual electoral

assistances to member from the

region funded by Department

of Foreign Aairs and Trade, Australia and currently hosts the

PIANZEA Secretariat.

Unforgettable moment withthe Queen

Unforgettable! That

was how Joji Marau

described his visit

to Windsor Castle on the

invitation of Her Majesty, Queen

Elizabeth II.

Mr Marau is the head of School

of Mechanical Engineering at

the Fiji National University. Heis also the designer and one of

the builders of the authentic

traditional iTaukei drua, Adi Eta,

which featured during the Queen’s

90th birthday celebrations.

“I will never forget this day

for the whole of my life when I

and ve other members of theFiji delegation was part of the tea

party with the Royal Family in the

Castle…what an opportunity.”

Mr Marau posted the comment

and photos from Windsor Castle

on his Facebook account.

He was also thrilled about the

Queen’s acknowledgement after

their performance. “I am glad the

Fijian delegation performance

in the nal and main event lastnight at the main arena and

in Windsor Castle was well

acknowledged by Her Majesty

the Queen.”

As the members of the Republic

of Fiji Military Forces Brass Band

make their way home, Adi Eta

will be on her way to Norwich.

The drua will be shown in the

exhibition Fiji: Art & Life in the

Pacifc at the Sainsbury Centre for

Visual Arts from October 15, 2016

to February 12, 2017.

Adi Eta will then move to

her new home at the National

Maritime Museum in Greenwich,

in its new Voyagers exhibition

gallery, which will open in 2018.

The double hull canoe stands

at eight metres in length and 2.15

meters in width and is made from

damanu tree from the interior of

Viti Levu in Nakorosule, Naitasiri.

PM in “warm and cordial” talks with

Prime Minister Modi in New DelhiCo-operation between

India and Fiji on a

broad range of issues

has been discussed during talks

in New Delhi between Prime

Minister Voreqe Bainimarama

and his Indian counterpart,

Narendra Modi. The two leaders

met during the PM’s stopover

in the Indian capital on his way

to the United Nations World

Humanitarian Summit in Turkey

next week. Prime Minister

Bainimarama, who described

the talks as “warm and cordial”,

stressed the importance of Fijibeing able to access funds to

strengthen its ability to withstand

future events such as Tropical

Cyclone Winston.

“We ask for India’s support

to gain access to the nance weneed to build our resilience to

the extreme weather events and

rising sea levels caused by climate

change. We urgently need funding

to rebuild or reinforce our homes

and infrastructure to prepare for

the more frequent and intense

cyclones that the scientists say

are coming.” The Prime Minister

warmly thanked Mr Modi for

India’s immediate support to Fiji

in the wake of Cyclone Winston.“We are deeply grateful for

India’s generous response—the

45 tonnes of relief supplies that

were own to Fiji so quickly andthe one million US dollars in cash

for the relief eort. We especiallyappreciate India entrusting us to

direct the cash where we saw t to

meet our own priorities. Because

of your generosity and the speed

of your response, the goodwill

towards India among ordinary

Fijians has never been greater”,

the PM said.

The Indian leader expressed

his condolences for the loss of

life in Fiji and said India stood

ready to provide all possible

assistance in the rehabilitation

and reconstruction eorts. Healso rearmed his commitmentto strengthen cooperation in

disaster management with all

Pacic Island countries, includingthrough the establishment of a

Space Technology Applications

Centre for the region. Prime

Minister Bainimarama also asked

India for assistance to boost

Fiji’s solar energy programme to

enable it to meet its international

commitment to reduce its carbon

emissions by 30 per cent by 2030.

India is an acknowledged leader in

solar technology.

The PM is holding a series

of high level meetings in India

before he moves on to Turkey

to lead Fiji’s delegation to the

World Humanitarian Summit.

The subjects include new

avenues of cooperation betweenIndia and Fiji in the energy and

medical sectors.

PM leads Fijian delegation to world humanitarian summit

Prime Minister VoreqeBainimarama is leadinga Fijian delegation

to the United Nations World

Humanitarian Summit, which

opens in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Summit is being attended

by representatives of 175

countries, including 53 heads of

state and government, who will

discuss a range of humanitarian

challenges such as the mass

displacement of refugees due to

conict and natural disasters.In a series of statements at the

Summit, the Prime Minister will

call on the global community to

assist countries such as Fiji withthe funds they need to build their

resilience to climate change and

brief other nations on the relief

and rehabilitation eort in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Winston.

He will also be speaking

about the need for international

assistance to enable Fiji to givepermanent refuge to the people of

Kiribati and Tuvalu in the event

that both nations are submerged

by the rising seas caused by

global warming.

In other sessions, the Prime

Minister will speak about the

government’s programme to

improve the position of women

and girls in Fiji and the steps being

taken to integrate the private

sector into decision making and

improve the ability of the business

community to deal with disaster.

Among the Fijian delegation are

the Minister for Agriculture, Rural

and Maritime Development andNational Disaster Management,

Inia Seruiratu, Fiji’s Permanent

Representative to the United

Nations in Geneva, Nazhat

Shameem and the Permanent

Secretary in the Prime Minister’s

Oce, Yogesh Karan.

Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama (right)with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left)

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Extra million touristspredicted for Pacic:World Bank

The Pacic region could attract anextra million tourists per year by2040, according to a new report by

the World Bank.

That would translate to an additionalyearly revenue of around $1.8 billion,

signicantly helping the economies ofisland nations. The World Bank says forthat to happen, the region needs to focus

on improved international transport linksand aggressively target higher-spending

tourists from markets such as China.

Author of the Pacic Possible tourismreport John Perrottet says tourism is one

of the Pacic region’s most economicallyviable sectors, with signicant opportunitiesfor sustainable growth in the Chinese

tourist, cruise ship, luxury travel andretiree markets.

Perrottet believes the United States,

China and Japan could be the next boommarkets. In 2014, the region hosted 1.37

million overnight visitors with most coming

from Australia and New Zealand.

Fiji offers help

Fiji will provide a permanent refuge

for the people of Kiribati and Tuvalushould they be displaced in the face

of rising seas and global warming, says

Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama.Mr Bainimarama revealed this while

addressing the World Humanitarian

Summit on the implementation of theNansen Initiative, a proposed international

mechanism to protect people displacedacross borders because of natural disasters

and climate change in Istanbul, Turkey.

Mr Bainimarama said Fiji was ready tosupport its island neighbours in the event

that the current scientic projections wererealised and the islands were submerged.

"One of Fiji's formal commitments at this

summit is to support the Nansen process.

Fiji has oered to give a permanent hometo the populations of two of our closest

neighbours—Kiribati and Tuvalu—and wewill naturally need the assistance of the

global community to carry out that mass

movement of people when the time comes."It is understood the leaders have yet to

establish an international legal framework

to address the issue of displacement ofpeople who are vulnerable to climate

change." Mr Bainimarama said Fiji hadallocated funding to explore the researched

legal areas of climate change, including

giving refuge to the citizens of Kiribati

and Tuvalu."In the meantime, we have facilitated

the purchase by Kiribati of a large area ofland on our second biggest island, Vanua

Levu, to ensure its food security. Our ownchallenge as mainly volcanic mountainous

islands pales into insignicance beside thechallenge to our atoll neighbours."

NZ PM John Key plans an ofcial visit to Fiji next month

Mr Key will be in the country for a

two-day visit from June 9 to 10,an informed government source

said. A planning committee is understood

to be working on the visit. Mr Key is due to

meet Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama.

This will be a signicant step forward inthe relations between the countries. No NZ

Prime Minister has made an ocial visit toFiji since 2006.

Mr Key’s visit will be a follow-up to his

Foreign Minister Murray McCully who

visited Fiji in February in the wake of

Tropical Cyclone Winston. In NZ, Mr Key

had signalled more aid may be in the pipeline

for Fiji after pledging NZ$3.2million

(F$4.58m) including defence force assets

and personnel.

Diplomatic relations between New

Zealand and Fiji soured after the 2006

takeover. Australia and NZ deserted Fiji and

were instrumental in Fiji being suspended

from Pacic Islands Forum.But the relations were restored after Mr

Bainimarama’s FijiFirst party won the 2014

general election. However, the situation was

complicated when Mr Bainimarama did not

attend the Pacic Islands Forum meeting in

Port Moresby early September last year.

Mr Bainimarama objected to Australia

and New Zealand’s “undue inuence”and said he would not attend the PacicIslands Forum until the two countries

became development partners rather than

full members. He said he believed PacicIslands Forum no longer served the best

interests of Pacic islands. A few weeks later, on September 30, Mr

Key and Mr Bainimarama posed together

for a photo in New York. After a quick chat

about rugby, the two leaders withdrew to

a private room to continue their meeting.

Their talks focused on Fiji’s role in the

Pacic and a likelihood of a top-level visit

by Mr Key. Next month’s visit would be the

icing on the cake for the restored relations.

Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama with New Zealand Prime

Minister John Key at a meeting in the UN last year



NEW ZEALANDINDIA

Editorial

— Tim Burton

Thought of the week

One person’s craziness is anotherperson’s realit y

From the desk of theManaging Editor

“The most self-defeating thing you can do is to take action with divided intention.

If you are doing something while resisting, resenting, or complaining about it,

you are ripping yourself o, along with everyone else involved. Nothing is more

annoying than someone doing something and kvetching and whining as they do it.

Either do something with a whole heart or don’t do it. If you agree to do something,

then really do it. If you don’t agree to do it, then really don’t do it. Be total.”

~Alan Cohen from Enough Already

I really like these words. These also remind me of the words of Walter Russell,

who gives his bri lliant insight saying: “There should be no distasteful tasks in one’s

life. If you just hate to do a thing that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins

and you become fatigued very soon. You must love anything you must do. Do it notonly cheerfully but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love of the

work which you must do anyhow will vitalize your body and keep you from fatigue.”

There are many others who have spoken about the importance of pursuing what

you really enjoy or love to do. Often times, this takes a lot of eort to break through

your comfort zones and chase after a dream. Sometimes it may even involve taking a

leap of faith in the direction of your dreams, sometimes the risk may actually be quite

signicant, but eventually the pros far outweigh the cons.

Just as we are putting this issue together, the Hon. Bill English is announcing the

Budget 2016. We bring you some instant snapshots of what’s coming. The analysis

and further details of the budget and how it will aect the community, in general, will

be covered in the next issue.

At a glance, health, education and social services seem to be the big winners in a

Budget, which contains some surprises but also a few contentious moves.

Auckland housing along with Justice and Defence also feature prominently in the

National-led government’s eighth Budget. There, however, seems to be no respite

for rst-home buyers but at a glance, it seems that funding will help free up land for

housing developments in Auckland and open up more social housing places for the

most desperate families.

The Kiwi-Indian Hall of Fame is drawing closer, and we are bracing ourselves for

the biggest celebration for the Kiwi-Indian community. The nominations have now

been handed over to the jury to deliberate and make their decision regarding who the

winners will be this year. As developments keep happening, we will keep bringing

you the updates.

Winter is slowly setting in, and I hope that all our readers are looking after their

health. Until next time.

Until next time.

Giri Gupta

Pick of the week

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• Unplug unused chargers and

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White House contenders: bend it like them!ARUN KUMAR

Gandhi did not quite say it. But thathas not come in the way of any of

the three remaining White House

warriors from Republican Donald Trump

to Democrats Bernie Sanders and Hillary

Clinton to purpose it in their cause.

Capitalist Donald has done it to plug“Make America Great Again,” Socialist

Bernie to show “A Future to Believe in” and

sophist “Hillary for America” “Fighting for

Us” to simply suggest “Love trumps hate.”

But Trump trumps them all. The pearl

of wisdom misattributed to the Mahatma

by many, according to fact checking site

Snopes.com—“First they ignore you, then

they laugh at you, then they ght you, thenyou win”—ts the Manhattan mogul to a T.

For the apostle of peace and non-violence

there was “no god higher than truth”. But

they have no such qualms. No one can bend

it like them.

After demolishing “Low Energy” Jeb

Bush, “Little Marco” Rubio and “Lyin’ Ted”

Cruz, the master of monikers Trump hasnow turned full blast on “Crooked Hillary”.

First, he called Bill Clinton “the worst

abuser of women in the history of politics”

and Hillary an “enabler” of her husband’s

peccadilloes. Now Trump aided and

abetted by a Fox News host has branded

an allegation of sexual assault against the

former president as “rape”.

Clinton, in turn, has called Trump

“divisive and dangerous”, “unmoored”, and

“a loose cannon”.

And from her opponent’s hurry to call

EgyptAir plane crash a likely “terrorist

attack” she “has concluded he’s not

qualied to be president”. She called his“suggestion” to temporarily bar all Muslims

from entering the US “until we gure out what’s going on” a total ban on Muslims.

It would keep even Nobel Prize winners

out and send a “message of disrespect” to

Muslim nations and a message to terrorists.

Trump’s willingness to meet North

Korean leader Kim Jong Un became praise

for a repressive regime and his criticism of

British Prime Minister David Cameron as

an attack on US allies.

Trump hit back Friday, calling her

“absolutely dumb” and suggesting the

former secretary of state is “ill-equipped”

for the presidency.

He has also egged “Crazy Bernie” to

take on Hillary as an independent, saying

the Democratic system of picking their

nominee is as “rigged as the Republicans”.

Trump and Bernie may have a lot

to disagree, but they agree on at least

one thing: Hillary is “unqualied” to bepresident. She has shown poor judgement

in voting for the “disastrous” Iraq war (ditto

Trump), refused to release transcripts of

her speeches to big banks for $225,000

dollars a pop and raised millions from

Wall Street.

Clinton, who thinks her being the

Democratic nominee is a done deal in eect with her “insurmountable” lead in pledged

delegates, has returned the compliment

questioning Sanders’ qualications for notdoing his “homework” on his big promises.

She has also accused him of backing gun

manufacturers despite his D minus grade

from the powerful gun lobby and criticised

him for not releasing his tax returns.

Sanders’ take on that is: “My wife does the

taxes and she is busy campaigning.”

But maths-defying Sanders dogged

persistence to ght till the very end, even asnew polls show an overwhelming majority

of Republican voters pushing their party

leaders to get behind Trump, has the

Democrats worried. Unlike India, there are

literally no writings on the walls, but with

more and more Trump lawn signs popping

up in “suburbs that had been trending blue”

Democratic, as the Washington Post put itin a report from Philadelphia, is adding to

their headache.

With choice limited to “widely disliked”

Trump and Clinton, as a new NYT/CBS poll

revealed, a Virginia woman took the matter

in her own hands, or at least one of her sons

did after she died of lung cancer at 68.

“Faced with the prospect of voting for

either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton,

Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose

instead to pass into the eternal love of God,”

the dutiful son wrote in her obit to “carry on

her sense of humour.”

Unfortunately that choice is not

widely available!

With Assam in bag, time to move forward with reformsAMULYA GANGULI

A ssam has given Narendra Modi a

breather. It is now up to him to

make full use of the time he has

got to recover from last year’s drubbings

in Delhi and Bihar, and brace for the

battles in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat

and Goa next year.

Assam was a low-hanging fruit for

the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by

an octogenarian who couldn’t keep his

house in order as the politically damaging

departure of an able lieutenant, Himanta

Biswa Sarma, from the Congress showed.

Uttar Pradesh will be dierent asthe BJP will come up against the feisty

Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party

(BSP), who expects to cash in on the anti-

incumbency sentiments against the ruling

Samajwadi Party (SP).

In Punjab and possibly in Goa, the Aam

Admi Party (AAP) will make its debut

outside of Delhi with its usual hyperbole.

Again, the task will not be easy for

the BJP, which tends to be thrown o balance by Arvind Kejriwal’s rhetoric

skirting the thin line between insult—the

prime minister is a psychopath, he once

said—and defamation.Only in Gujarat can the BJP expect to

hold its own because, for one, its opponent

will be a Congress licking its wounds from a

series of defeats.

For another, Modi’s home state can

be expected to stand by him even if his

successor as chief minister, Anandiben

Patel, hasn’t been a roaring success. What

the battles against the BSP, SP and AAP

underline is the Congress’s absence as the

BJP’s main adversary.

It is not a Congress-mukt Bharat yet, as

the BJP’s provocative slogan about ridding

India of the Congress proclaims.

But the political scene appears to

be evolving in that direction as the

mother-and-son duo of Sonia and Rahul

Gandhi appears clueless about ways to

revive the party.

But there’s many a slip between the

cup and the lip. The BJP will need at

least the victories in Gujarat and Goa to

justify its slogan since U.P. and Punjab

are tough nuts to crack, the latter being

hobbled by the misrule of the father-and-

son combine of Prakash Singh Badal and

Sukhbir Singh Badal.

To advance towards the objective of

decimating the Congress, therefore, the BJP

has to be far more politically savvy than it

has been till now.

Since Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

has said that the BJP’s victory in Assam

underlines a popular rejection of the

politics of obstructionism practised by the

Congress, Modi will have to reach out to

possible allies in order to push through the

partially stalled economic reforms.

The two victorious ladies will have to be

on the top of the BJP’s list in this regard.

Modi is fortunate that both Mamata

Banerjee and Jayalalithaa are expected to

be more condent at the beginning of theirsecond terms and are unlikely to hesitate in

the matter of striking deals with the centre.

Of the two, Mamata Banerjee’sextraordinary success can enable her

to enlist the support of the BJP MLAs

in West Bengal as she helps Modi to

implement reforms.

The death blows she has inicted onthe Congress and the Left are expected to

neutralise their carping exercise in nay-

saying on the pro-market initiatives.

Jayalalithaa, too, will be an able ally

since she has no ideological hang-ups about

a neo-liberal economy.

It is possible that the reverses suered by the Congress from the time of its defeats

in four assembly elections in 2013 followed

by the general election drubbing in 2014

and the latest losses in Assam, Kerala and

West Bengal will take the wind out of the

sails of the “socialists” in the party led by

Sonia Gandhi.

However, it is not only the Congress,

which advocates this outdated thesis

but also parties such as the Janata Dal

(United), the SP and others in the so-called

Janata parivar.

Modi has to take the present opportunity,

therefore, to push ahead energetically

with reforms in parliament and outside

so that the roadblocks on the path of

economic growth are quickly removed as

well as discredited.

At the same time, a palpable sign of

employment-generating development will

silence the “socialists” and weaken them in

electoral terms since the modern generation

looks for jobs and not dead dogmas.

Apart from the focus on the economy,

the prime minister will have to cut theloudmouths in the saron brotherhood tosize lest their comments on the removal

of the Reserve Bank governor and the

building of the Ram temple are interpreted

as those of Modi.

He will also have to pay greater heed to

the views of industrialist Adi Godrej about

the baneful eects of measures such as the beef ban and prohibition on the economy.

The almost constant round of elections

has its value in telling the politicians what

needs to be done to keep the system on

the move.

For instance, the results show, as in

West Bengal, that opportunistic alliances

like the one between the Left and the

Congress have no future.

And Jayalalithaa’s success has shown

that in choosing between two sets of

tainted parties, the voter rejects the one

by a nonagenarian.

In traditionally Left-leaning Kerala, the

comrades will feel that it is not the end of

the road for them as their critics believe.

Amguri Voters wait in queues to cast their vote during the rstphase of Assam Assembly election in Amguri in Sivasagardistrict of Assam

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Cook, Modi discuss plans to

manufacture in IndiaIn a fresh insight into Apple’s futureplans for India, CEO Tim Cook

discussed with Prime Minister

Narendra Modi the possibilities of

manufacturing and retailing in the country

as the two met on Saturday, May 21.

On his part, Modi explained his Digital

India initiative and identied its threekey objectives as e-education, health and

increasing farmers’ incomes.

“Modi sought support from Apple in

these objectives,” a statement from the

Prime Minister’s Oce said.During the meeting, Cook, 55,

appreciated the breadth of young talent in

India, saying the “youth have signicantskills, which Apple would like to tap”.

He mentioned the immense potential

for “app-development” that exists in

the country and elaborated on the Map

Development Centre that Apple is setting

up in Hyderabad.

Hailing Modi’s initiatives in “ease of

doing business”, Cook also launched an

updated version of the Narendra Modi

Mobile App. In an exchange of tweets later,

the two praised each other.

“Thank you @tim_cook! Friends,

welcome and happy volunteering. Your

views and eorts are always enriching,”

Modi tweeted. Cook replied: “Thanks @

narendramodi for a great meeting. Already

looking forward to next visit to India. Best wishes on the app!”

“I am delighted to share that Tim

Cook launched an updated version of the

‘Narendra Modi Mobile App’. Thank you,

Cook,” said Modi in his tweet.

“I urge you to have a look at the new

feature My Network that empowers you

to contribute on lively and enriching

forums where you can share your ideas

and deliberate with others. You will also

enjoy the daily tasks on the app,” the prime

minister added.

They also deliberated on issues regarding

cyber security and data encryption.

Modi encouraged Cook to help the global

community to cope with the challenges of

cyber crime. In an interview with an IndianTV channel on Friday, Cook asserted that

he was looking at India holistically and

Apple was “here for the next thousand

years”—a comment that was hailed by

Communications Minister Ravi Shankar

Prasad at an event later.

“I complement Apple chief executive for

a public commitment of one thousand years

in India. We are ready to work together,”

Prasad said. Cook also met Sunil Mittal,

chairman of Bharti Airtel, one of India’s

leading telecommunication companies

which was the rst to launch 4G in Indiaand set to oer the service countrywide.

Modi calls for countryto move towardscashless society

R enewing calls for India to move

towards a “cashless society”,Prime Minister Narendra Modi on

Sunday, May 22, said this was essential to

curb black money in the country.

Exhorting citizens to begin using the

“electronic technological” payments

systems put in place, Modi in his Mann

ki Baat address over All India Radio said,

“I urge fellow citizens to begin using the

electronic modes of cashless transaction

and illegal businesses will close down, black

money will disappear. Through electronic-

technological means we can now both pay

and receive money. The world is moving

towards a cashless society.”

The prime minister also said the move

towards such a society was being enabled by

the government’s JAM initiative—Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhar and Mobile—to implement

direct transfer of benets.“Through the JAM trinity, we can move

towards a cashless society,” Modi said.

“RuPAY cards have been given with Jan

Dhan accounts and in the coming days these

will have credit and debit card facilities, to

disincentivise cash transactions,” he added.

RuPAY cards were launched by the

National Payments Corporation of India

to address the needs of Indian consumers,

merchants and banks. The benets of RuPaydebit card are exibility of the productplatform and high levels of acceptance.

Apple CEO Tim Cook calls on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on May 21




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India appreciatesCanadian PM’s gesture

India on Saturday, May 21,appreciated Canadian Prime

Minister Justin Trudeau’s

gesture of apologising in the

House of Commons in Ottawa

for the infamous Komagata Maru

incident of 1914.“We welcome and deeply

appreciate the gesture of Prime

Minister of Canada to deliver a

formal apology in the House of

Commons for the Komagata Maru

incident,” external aairs ministryspokesperson Vikas Swarup said

in a statement.

“The Indian diaspora in Canada

has contributed immensely to

Canada’s growth and development

and acts as a bond between our

two nations. Prime Minister

Trudeau’s gesture constitutes an

acknowledgment of the positive

role of the Indian diaspora,” he

said. The Komagata Maru was

a Japanese ship that was hired

by a rich Malaysia-based Sikh,

Baba Gurdit Singh, to bring 376

Indians, mostly Sikhs, to Canada

to challenge the racist laws of the

time in 1914. Since both India and

Canada were British dominions at

that time, the Indians should have

had the right to enter Canada. But

the Canadian government of that

time put in place various clauses in

laws to bar Indians from entering

Canada. The Komagata Maru,

which entered Vancouver harbour

on May 23, 1914, was forcibly sent

back to India after two months. On

reaching Budge Budge in Calcutta

in September 1914, the passengers

were subjected to ring by BritishIndian police in which 19 of them

were killed.

In his apology in the House

of Commons on Wednesday,

May 19, Trudeau said, “Canada’s

government was, without

question, responsible for the laws

that prevented these passengers

from immigrating peacefully and

securely. For that, and for every

regrettable consequence that

followed, we are sorry.” In his

statement on Saturday, Swarup

said that Trudeau’s gesture

reected “Canada’s commitmentto the values of pluralism and

multiculturalism, which India

fully shares”.

India, Iran commit to build strongrelationship based on civilisational ties

On Monday, May 23,India and Iran pledged

to build a strong and

cooperative bilateral relationship

based on the strength of their

historical and civilisational ties.

The two sides also saw “potential

for cooperation” in the sphereof mines and mining besides

other sectors and also “noted

their shared desire to develop an

Information and Communication

Technology Zone in Chabahar”.

“The leaders (Iranian

President Hassan Rouhani and

Indian Prime Minister Narendra

Modi) were united in their

determination to build a strong,

contemporary and cooperative

relationship that draws upon

the strength of the historical and

civilisational ties between the

two countries,” a joint statement

issued said.

Both countries “were also of the

view that their governments must

enable and encourage utilisation

of the emerging opportunities

to the maximum possible extent

in all areas of bilateral economic

and commercial cooperation,

in particular connectivity and

infrastructure, energy, and trade

and investment”.

The statement further said,

“The Iranian side welcomed the

investment of Indian side in

setting up plants in sectors such

as fertilisers, petrochemicals and

metallurgy in Chabahar FTZ on

terms mutually benecial to theconcerned parties.”

Rouhani and Modi also welcomed prospects forparticipation of India’s railwaysin various ongoing and futureprojects. In this regard, they notedthe steps for cooperation taken

by IRCON and CDTIC of IslamicRepublic of Iran, the statementsaid. The Indian side thanked

the Iranian government forIndia’s ongoing participation andinvestment in the developmentof the oil and gas sector in Iran.In this regard, they expressedthe hope that a Heads of

Agreement will be concluded by the third quarter of 2016,it said. The leaders noted withsatisfaction the decision toconvene a bilateral ‘EnergyDialogue’ with participationof important stakeholdersalternately in India and Iran, tofocus on all aspects of mutualconcern in the energy sector.

“President Rouhani andPrime Minister Modi agreedto strengthen the longstandingtrade ties between the twocountries by, inter alia, steppingup the momentum of economicengagement through earlyconclusion of a PreferentialTrade Agreement, preferably

within a year. The two leadersalso directed that Double

Taxation Avoidance Agreementand Bilateral InvestmentTreaty should be concluded

before the end of the year,”it said.

According to the jointstatement, “India fully supportsthe accession of the IslamicRepublic of Iran to the WorldTrade Organisation and theongoing consensus building

eorts among W TO members to

reactivate the accession process,

consistent with the objective of

making the organisation universaland inclusive.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaksat the Secretariat Lobby at the UN headquarters

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the President of Iran Hassan Rouhani, during the Joint Press State-ment, in Tehran, Iran on May 23




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INDIA

India successfully tests winged reusablelaunch vehicleFAKIR BALAJI

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n Monday, May 23,

India successfullytested its home-grown

winged reusable launch vehicle

(RLV), demonstrating its space

technology prowess and joining an

elite club of space-faring nations

such as the US, Russia and France.

“We have successfully tested the

rst delta-winged-body aerospacevehicle operating in hypersonic

ight regime,” the IndianSpace Research Organisation

(ISRO) said in a statement after

accomplishing the mission as

a technology demonstrator

(RLV-TD).

“We have successfully

accomplished the RLV-TD

mission. The lift-o was at 7 a.m.

from the rst launch pad,” ISROdirector Devi Prasad Karnik said

after the shuttle returned to Earth.

President Pranab Mukherjee

and Prime Minister Narendra

Modi congratulated the

Indian scientists.

Mukherjee, in a message, said,

“Heartiest congratulations to

ISRO Team on successful launch

of India’s rst indigenous spaceshuttle RLV-T.”

Modi said in a tweet: “The

dynamism and dedication

with which our scientists and

ISRO (Indian Space Research

Organisation) have worked over

the years is exceptional andvery inspiring.”

The sleek 1.7-tonne RLV was

latched on top of a 15-tonne rocket

with a booster for lift-o from thespaceport here in Andhra Pradesh,

about 80km north of Chennai,

o the Bay of Bengal coast. “Westarted the countdown for lift-

o at 11 p.m. on Sunday and the

rocket blasted o at 7 a.m., as the wind and weather conditions were

good for launching the vehicle,”

ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space

Centre (VSS) director K. Sivansaid later.

After 91.1 seconds into the

ight, the burn out occurred while the rocket along its vehicle

coasted to an altitude of 56

km and separated to ascend

to 65 km above the Earth in

sub-orbital space.

From 65 km height, the vehicle

began its descent followed by

atmospheric re-entry at Mach

5 (ve times speed of sound).“Navigation, guidance and control

system steered the vehicle for safe

descent to the dened landingspot over the Bay of Bengal, about

450 km from Sriharikota on theeast coast,” the statement said.

The entire ight duration fromlaunch to landing in the sea was

13.3 minutes. Critical technologies

such as autonomous navigation,

guidance and control, reusable

thermal protection system and

re-entry mission management

have been validated. The vehicle

was tracked during its ight fromground stations at Sriharikota and

a ship-borne terminal.

“We have located the place

where the vehicle is oating. Thelanding was soft as the vehicle was

intact and did not break up on

impact,” Sivan claimed.The Indian Coast Guard and

National Institute of Ocean

Technology extended support for

the mid-sea wind measurement

and ship-borne telemetry in

the mission.

The space agency’s telemetry,

tracking and command network

(Istrac) centre in Bengaluru

recorded the data of the vehicle’s

hypersonic speed, autonomous

landing and powered cruise ightusing air-breathing propulsion.

The maiden mission has

qualied India to enter the eliteclub of space-faring nations

such as the US (NASA), Russia

(Roscosmos), France (European

Space Agency) and Japan (Jaxa), which developed and used RLVs

for their space missions over

the years.

The seven-metre RLV

prototype was used as a ying test bed to evaluate technologies the

state-run space agency developed

to reduce the cost of launching

satellites into the Earth’s polar and

geo-stationary orbits in the next

decade. “The long-term objective

of this mission is to reduce the

launch cost by 80 per cent of the

present cost by using a reusable

vehicle,” Sivan said, ahead of

the test.

Rockets and support systems

for launching satellites and

space exploration missionsare made at the space agency’s

VSSC at Thiruvananthapuram in

southern Kerala.

Space agencies around the

world spend, on an average,

$20,000 per kg to build and use

medium-to-heavy weight rockets

to launch satellites into the

Earth’s polar and geo-stationary

orbits, about 36,000 km above

planet Earth. “In subsequent

test ights, we will attempt toland the reusable vehicle at a

specic location on land like anaircraft does on a runway so that

we can again use it for launching

satellites,” Sivan pointed out.

The space agency is developing

the RLV and its support systems

from the budget earmarked

annually for technology

development and research and

development activities.

The cost of developing the

RLV technology is estimated to be

about Rs.100 crore ($14 million).

“Developing the complex

technology and using a reusable

vehicle will take over a decade as

we have to build them with our

own resources,” Sivan added.

The space agency will make

two more RLV prototypes with

additional features for other tests

before the nal version, which will be six times bigger than

its demonstrators.

US-based billionaire Elon

Musk’s SpaceX and Amazon

owner Je Bezos’s Blue Originhave recently conducted similar

test launches.

SpaceX tested its Falcon 9

rocket in December while Blue

Origin’s New Shepard completed

a third launch and vertical landing

in April.

NASA, however, grounded its

space shuttle programme in 2011after using its reusable vehicles

such as Discovery, Endeavor,

Columbia and Challenger as a

space transportation system for

over three decades since 1981 to

launch various missions, including

International Space Station (ISS)

and Hubble telescope.

Special visa for foreignlm-makers in ofng

I

n a major move to make India a global

lm shooting hub, the information and broadcasting ministry has urged the

home and external aairs ministries that aspecial category visa be created for foreign

lm-makers who want to visit India andscout for shooting locales in the country.

While the suggestions were made to

the ministries of external aairs and homeseparately to facilitate travel within India of

foreign lm-makers, ocial sources said thematter may be initially referred to a panel

of ocials from the concerned ministriesand departments.

“There are various issues involved.

Foreign nationals visiting north-eastern

India require another permit called

Restricted Area Permit (RAP) besides the

necessary passport-visa. All these need to

be examined,” an ocial said. Meanwhile,ocial sources said that a proposal has

been prepared under which the central

government may provide assistance to an

Indian lm competing for the Oscars. An assistance of Rs.1 crore may be given

to lms in contention for an award at Cannesor Rs.50 lakh for lms at Venice.

ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carrying Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System-IRNSS-1F blasts off from Sriharikota rocket port in Andhra Pradesh on March 10




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Indian students win six awards

at Intel competition in USI

ndian students have won six awards

at the Intel International Science

and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in the

US where New Delhi’s Shreyas Kapur was

declared the grand winner of the “Google

Thinking Big Award.”

Organised by Intel Corporation and the

Society for Science and the Public in Arizona

this month, the Indian team comprising

16 students won a total of $9,500 in three

grand awards and three special awards

in the elds of biotechnology, medicine,biomedical engineering and mathematics,

Intel declared in a statement on

Tuesday, May 24.

Kapur from Modern School at

Barakhamba Road won the award for

the “project that addresses a large and

seemingly-impossible problem, by nding

an elegant solution with broad impact.”

His project titled ‘Cellphone-based

Optometry using Hybrid Images’ also won

him third position in both the National

Aeronautics and Space Administration

(NASA) and Biomedical Engineering award.

Arvind Krishna Ranganathan

from Ecole Mondiale World School in

Mumbai won the second place for his

project titled ‘Deterministic Approach

to the Position, Trajectory, and Collision

Prediction of Particles within Bounded

Two-Dimensional Environments’.

Suhani Sachin Jain and Divya Kranthi

of Centre Point School in Nagpur won the

third award in plant sciences for developing

an ‘Innovative Strategy using Endophytes

for Eective Biocontrol of InsectPests in Cotton’.

Vasudev Malyan of Maharaja Agarsain

Public School in Delhi won fourth spot

in translational medical science for the

development of a ‘Novel Paper Sensor as a

Diagnostic Test for Multiple Sclerosis’.

The 16 Indian students were selected to

attend ISEF as nalists of the Initiative forResearch and Innovation in Science (IRIS)

2016 that featured more than 1,700 young

scientists selected from 419 aliate fairs in77 countries.

The Intel Foundation also awarded

$1,000 grant to each winner’s school and to

the aliated fair they represented.

Organised by Intel Corporation and the Society for Science and the Public in Arizona this month, the Indian team comprising 16students won a total of $9,500 in three grand awards

Indian-Americanstudent wins

NationalGeographic Beenals

Out of the 10 nalists for this

year’s National Geographic Bee,

three Indian-American students

secured the rst three positions.Rishi Nair, 12, from Florida was declared

the winner of the 28th annual National

Geographic Bee title. He received a $50,000

college scholarship and will travel on an all-

expenses paid trip to Lindbald expedition to

southeast Alaska, including a stop at Glacier

Bay National Park. Fourteen-year-old

Saketh Jonnalagadda from Massachusetts

secured the second place and received

a $25,000 college scholarship while the

third place was secured by Kapil Nathan, a

12-year-old from Alabama, who received a

$10,000 college scholarship.

Indian Americans students hold

the record of winning the last four

championships with Rahul Nagvekar

winning in 2012, Sathwik Karnik in 2013,

Akhil Rekulapelli in 2014 and Karan Menon

in 2015.

The remaining seven nalists won$500 each.




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IPL: De Kock’s60 pulls Delhi to

138/8

South African opener Quinton de

Kock’s matured 60-run knock

helped Delhi Dardevils post 138/8

against Royal Challengers Bangalore in a

must-win encounter for both sides in the

Indian Premier League (IPL) match on

Sunday, May 22.

Fellow South African Chris Morris (27

not out) was the next most successful

batsman for Delhi. Leg spinner Yuzvendra

Chahal claimed 3/32 o his four overs. West Indian Chris Gayle chipped in with

2/11 in two overs.

RCB captain Virat Kohli won the toss and

opted to chase at the Shaheed Veer Narayan

Singh International Stadium.Sent in, Delhi lost Rishabh Pant (1) in the

second over with the score at 11.

Pant tried to punch on the up a delivery

from pacer Sreenath Aravind, but the ball

held its line and icked the outside edge ofPant’s bat to be caught behind.

De Kock together with No.3 batsman

Karun Nair then put up a brief partnership.

But Nair (11) was dismissed after getting

a promising start, superbly caught by

Kohli o leg spinner Yuzvendra Chahal.Nair played a booming drive to a ighteddelivery. But Kohli completed a catch after

sprinting a fair distance to reduce Delhi to

42/2 in the sixth over.

Sanju Samson (17) was the next man in

and he too promised a lot. Hitting a six and

a four to get settled only to lose his wicket in

the 10th over with his team at 71/3.

They were in more trouble when Sam

Billings (4) went cheaply. Chris Gayle

took a sharp catch of the bowling of pacer

Chris Jordan.

Losing wickets after building small

partnerships was hurting Delhi’s cause

though de Kock held rm. But at 81/4 in11.2 overs, Delhi needed someone beside de

Kock who brought up his 50 in the 14 th over

with a single. That didn’t happen. Instead,

Delhi slipped further losing Pawan Negi (6)

and Carlos Brathwaite (1) in the 15th over by

Chris Gayle.

To make matters worse, de Kock went back in the next over, bowled by Jordan

after hitting ve fours and a six during his52-ball knock. That deprived Delhi of a

strong nish to their innings, though Morrisprovided some lusty blows. RCB replaced

left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdullah with pacer

Varun Aaron.

Delhi made two changes, bringing in

batsman Sam Billings and all-rounder Chris

Morris in place of Jean-Paul Duminy and

Nathan Coulter-Nile, respectively.

Man United salvages season with 12th FA Cup title

Aremarkable goal by Jesse Lingard

in the second half of extra timegave Manchester United a 2-1

victory over Crystal Palace in the Football

Assoiation (FA) Cup nal. It was United’srecord-tying 12th title in football’s oldest

tournament, reports Efe.

Marouane Fellaini and Anthony Martial

both red shots early in the second that

ricocheted o the woodwork as United

seemed to be closing in on the opening goal.Instead it was Palace that struck rst in the78th minute, with Jason Puncheon receiving

the ball unmarked after United failed to

clear a ball out of its area and powering

a left-footed blast past David De Gea at

close range. United struck back just two

minutes later when Wayne Rooney made an

outstanding run down the right side before

executing a cross that Fellaini chested toSpanish midelder Juan Mata, who nishedo the play with a left-footed volley that hito defender Joel Ward’s ankle and into thenet past net minder Wayne Hennessey.

The match came down to the extra

period when defender Chris Smalling was

sent o for a second yellow card in the

105th minute. But ve minutes later,

Lingard nished o the game in style with apowerful volley o an attempted clear thatgave Hennessey no chance to react.

Manchester United saved the best for

last in a disappointing season in which it

was bounced from both the Champions

League and Europa League and nishedfth in the Premier League.

IPL: AB patiently hunts victory for RCBfrom Gujarat Lions

R oyal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)

batsmen AB De Villiers and Iqbal Abdullah guided the team to a four-

wicket win against Gujarat Lions in the rstqualier of IPL match on Tuesday, May 24at the Chinnaswami stadium in Bengaluru.

RCB scored 159/6 to snatch the victoryfrom the Lions with 10 balls to spare.

With an asking rate of 7.5 runs in 20

overs, Royal Challengers started o shakily,losing wickets early. Gujarat Lions bowler

Dhawal Kulkarni ripped apart RCB top

order, castling both the openers Virat Kohli

for duck and Chris Gayle for nine.

Three Royal Challengers batsmen

suered duck-out fate, Kohli, Rahul andBaby. RCB was 65/5 midway through the

sixth over and lost another wicket before

the end of 10 overs.

It was at this dicult juncture that starSouth African batsman De Villiers took theonus of steering the team to victory aided

by Stuart Binny (21) and Abdulla (33) later.

De Villiers remained unbeaten at 79

in 47 balls with ve fours and ve sixes,playing slowly and responsibly initially but

breaking free later after the 15th over toensure the match was safe in the hands of

Royal Challengers. Abdullah and De Villiers

managed to grab 16 and 15 runs respectively

in the 15th and 16th overs to lower the asking

rate to 32 runs in 23 balls by the 17 th over.

The batsmen constructed an unbroken

partnership of 91 runs in 52 balls. Kulkarni

came out with the best bowling gures forGujarat Lions with 4/14 with a splendid

economy of just 3.50 while Jadeja was the

only other bowler to claim wickets for the

Lions with bowling gures of 2/21. Earlier,Gujarat Lions set RCB a target of 159 runs

after Dwayne Smith (73) saved the day for

the visitors, enabling them to cross 150

runs. After openers Brendon McCullum

(1) and Aaron Finch (4) departed in the

second over o left-arm spinner Abdullah,Smith rose to the rescue of his team with

73 runs in 41 balls, smashing ve fours andsix sixes. With just nine runs on the score

board and two wickets down, Gujarat lost

another crucial wicket, Suresh Raina (1)

was caught by Sreenath Aravind o Shane Watson’s bowling in the fourth over.

With the top order crumbling, no

boundaries were hit even after four overs,

until Smith hit two in the fth over.Only Dinesh Karthik (26) and Eklavya

Dwivedi (19) made some contribution with

the bat to put a respectable total, while

other batsmen zzled—Ravindra Jadeja(3), Dwayne Bravo (8), Praveen Kumar (5)

and Dhawal Kulkarni (6). After 15 overs,

the Lions managed to score 104/4 but

Smith and Dwivedi powered it ahead until

Royal Challengers captain Virat Kohli heldtwo excellent catches in the long on area to

send back Smith and Dwivedi, who had hit

two sixes in the 19 th. Electing to eld rstafter winning the toss helped Kohli in not

allowing a big total to the Lions. Watson

4/29 produced the best bowling gures,followed by Chris Jordan with 2/26 and

Abdulla with 2/38, while bowling mainstay

Yuzvendra Chahal managed only a wicket.

De Villiers was adjudged the man of the

match for his winning knock.

Liverpool to face Barcelona in

International Champions CupEnglish football club Liverpool will take on Spanish

champions FC Barcelona in the International

Champions Cup clash at the Wembley Stadium in

London on August 6.

Liverpool ambassador Gary McAllister and Ronald de

Boer, representing Barcelona, were at Wembley on May 24

to launch the news of the clash.

“What an incredible game to round o such a high-proletournament, and all set under the iconic Wembley arch.

“I’m sure this game will be a great spectacle for Reds fans

and football fans in general.

“I can’t wait,” McAllister was quoted as saying by

Liverpool’s ocial website on Tuesday, May 24.The Jurgen Klopp-coached side are one of 10 teams

competing in the International Champions Cup and will play

two matches in California in July before heading back to the

United Kingdom to face Barcelona.

Liverpool will take on Chelsea at the Rose Bowl in

Pasadena, California on July 27, followed by AC Milan three

days later at the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Barcelona last played Liverpool in the l ast-16 stage of the Champions League nine years ago

AB de Villiers of Royal Challengers Bangalore in action duringqualier 1 of IPL 2016 between Gujarat Lions and RoyalChallengers Bangalore at M Chinnaswamy Stadium




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KIDS ZONE

Help the bum ble bee f ind h is way to the

flo wers in th is lo vely hand-dra wn maze

Send us st ories, draw ings, poems and ot her cont ribut ions by y our lit t le ones along w it h t heir phot ographs for t his page. E -mail us at edit or@indianw eekender.co.nz

Solution to last week's ChangeTwelve Letters Puzzles

F un wit h kno w ledge

A story about generosity

Mahatma Gandhi was on an expedition to collect funds from various cities andvillages for Charkha Sangh. He went to several palaces and reached Orissa. Hehad organised a meeting in Orissa. He requested to offer

funds for the Sangh and gave a speech. After the speech, a very oldwoman with bent back, faltered clothing, white hair, dry and shrunk skin

got up. She was trying to reach the stage and requested the volunteers

to allow her to reach Gandhi Ji. However, the volunteers stopped her,yet she fought with them and reached Gandhi Ji. She touched the feet of

Gandhi Ji. Then she took out a copper coin kept in her folds of saree andplaced the copper coin at his feet. The old lady left the stage.

Gandhi Ji very carefully took the coin and placed it safely. The in-chargeof the Sangh asked Gandhi Ji for the copper coins, but he refused to give it. Ikeep cheques worth thousands of rupees for the Charkha Sangh, the in-chargesaid laughingly yet you won't trust me with a copper coin. Gandhi Ji said, This

copper coin is worth much more than those thousands Gandhi Ji said. If a manhas several lakhs and he gives away a thousand or two, it doesn't mean much.

Yes, the coin was just the only thing that the poor old woman possessed. Shedid not even have proper clothes and seemed that she could not afford forgood food, still gave everything she had. It was the greatest offer ever made. That is why Mahatma

held the coin very preciously. We may have tons of wealth, but that doesn't make us generous.Offering helping hand when we have nothing or very little wealth makes it more

valuable.

Soduko

I run a thousand miles

But still can’t see youYou used to stand right next to meBut now I can’t even see your foot stepsIs this the only way for you to punish meI know I haven’t kept my promiseBeen busy but I guess the timeI should have spend with youHas taken us apart




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Kiwis encouraged to shave for a causeESHA CHANDA

In a bold yet simple move, thousands of

Kiwis across the country participated

in a hair-razing event held from April

4 to 10 to raise money to help 10,000 New

Zealanders battling with blood cancer.

For the past 12 years, Kiwis have been

showing solidarity with blood cancer

patients by chopping o their locks.The funds raised at the event go towards

Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand

(LBC)—a national charity dedicated to

supporting patients and their familiesliving with blood cancers.

LBC not only provides patient support

but also uses the funds for research,

information and awareness programmes.

“Shave for a Cure is such an exciting

fundraiser for LBC and every year we are

so blown away by the amount of selesspeople who decide to shave,” says Pru

Etcheverry, LCB’s CEO.

Although Kiwis are encouraged to

shave during the Shave Week, individuals

interested in participating in the movement

can shave anytime during the year. They can

sign up for the cause or support someone

by sponsoring a fundraising page on LCB’s

website (www.shaveforacure.co.nz).

One such individual who chopped her

locks is Stephanie Sequeira. She shaved

her head on May 1 and has raised $2,141 so

far through her fundraising page. Sequeira

says, “In the past, my godfather (father’s

brother), a strong businessman became

weak when he lost his battle to cancer. It

was dicult to go through that experience.To show solidarity, all the men, including

my dad,s h a v e dtheir head.I thoughtthat it wasa commendablegesture. In recent

times, two family friends, both women in their 50s, had to gothrough chemotherapy.

“At a recent event, seeing someone bald, one of them said, ‘Now I will havesome company, too!’ This is what mademe look for things to do to create the samepositive vibe.”

Like Sequeira, many Kiwis of all

ages have pulled out their clippers to

shave. The website’s leaderboard displays

names of individuals, schools, businesses,community groups and farmers. As of

May 25, LCB had crossed the one million

mark. “It was a tough decision, as I have

never cut my hair short, let alone shaved

my head,” says Sequeira. “I decided to do

it anyway because I act rather than just

be sympathetic.”

When young Sequeria informed heremployer ICNZ about her idea, theysupported her by oering to host the event.“It was a small event with some close family

and friends.The family friend who inspired me to do

it was also there. I have raised $2,141 so farand hope to raise much more. Any supportsmall or large will be greatly appreciated.”

Her goal is to reach $2,500.

Sequeira’s fundraising page can be found

on my.leukaemia.net.nz/stephanieforsave

FEATURES

It was a toughdecision, as Ihave never cutmy hair short, letalone shavingmy head,” saysSequeira.

UNDERSTANDING EXPOSURE— PART 2/3JEFFERY CHAN

This week, we shall explore in moredetail in the second part of understanding

exposure and the concept of depth of eld.

Aperture

The Aperture is the opening in the lens

that allows light to pass through. Think

of it as a pupil of your eye. The amount of

light is controlled by “f/stops”. As you can

see in the diagram below, a shallow f/stop,

usually f1.4, will allow plenty of light to

pass through your lens. This has an eect

of shallow depth of eld, which simplymeans that if the focus is in the front, the

background will become blurry. This is

ideal for portrait photography.

On the opposite end, f22 restricts light

and makes the foreground and background

sharp. This is great for landscape shots

where you want a sharp foreground

and background.

TryThe best way to learn this is to try

photographing using all the f/stop. Place

two objects front and back on a table,

separated by 10 inches. Make sure you can

see both objects when you photograph.

Set your camera to Aperture mode and

the camera will adjust the other elements

(Shutter and ISO) automatically. Focus on

the front object and photograph using the

widest Aperture of your lens. Change to the

next f/stop and take another photo. Keep

doing this till you reach f/11. You should

see that the background object starts out

blurry and keeps getting more in focus as

you change your aperture.

TipUse the Aperture setting if you want

to blur out either the background or

foreground. This helps to draw the viewer’s

attention to the point of focus. This is great

for portrait, macro or food photography.

The image to the

left was shot with

a wide aperture atf/1.4 making the

background blurry

so that attention is

on the ring.

For a landscape

image, where the

aperture is f/11 in

the image below,

almost everything is

in focus and visible.

ISOISO is a level

of sensitivity of your camera to available

light. The lower the ISO, usually 100 or

200, the less sensitive it is to light while a

higher ISO is more sensitive. The sensoron your camera is responsible for your

ISO sensitivity and cost a big part of the

camera. Think of it as the brains of your

camera. Most modern digital cameras have

advanced sensors that can capture low-light

images without a ash. The result of highISO is grainy images, or in the photographic

term, noise. Generally, noise is not atteringin an image, but you can use it to produce

an image that looks vintage..

How Aperture, Shutter and ISO aecteach other can be seen from this Exposure

Trinity diagram. I shall continue with

Shutter in my next article.

Photo critiqueFeel free to send in your photos for a

constructive critique and I will publish

them in the following articles. There areno right or wrong answers; just suggestive

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Applications sought from Kiwi youngsters

R otary is currently

accepting applicationsfrom New Zealand

students who want to experiencea “true” exchange with a familyon the other side of the Tasman,including a week-long safari.

Celebrating 50 years ofexchanges in 2017, the RotaryAustralia & New Zealand StudentExchange (RANZSE) programmeis regarded as one of the mostrespected and safest studentexchanges in the world.

Often referred to as a “matchedtwin exchange”, RANZE isprimarily aimed at studentsbetween the ages of 13½ and16, who will be in Year 10 or

Year 11 in the year of travel. The

exchange covers two school terms.Direction of travel alternates each year, but in 2017 New Zealandstudents will travel to Australiafor one term, before they hosttheir Australian “match” in thesecond term.

Chair of RANZE in NewZealand, Max Patmoy, from theRotary Club of Ahuriri in Napier,said by becoming part of anotherfamily and attending school inanother country, the Kiwi studentsexperienced personal growth anddevelopment, enjoyed improvedcondence and maturity, andlearnt responsibility. “RANZSEdiers from most youth exchanges

in that the student stays with

the matched family in the othercountry with the support of theRANZSE committee and the localRotary club in each country. Itis for a shorter time away fromhome, the student participantsare younger, and they reciprocatethe hosting experience with theirmatch family,” Mr Patmoy said.

There was an approximatecost of $4,500 to parents, Patmoysaid, but that included airfares,spending money, a supervised

bonding weekend and a supervised week-long ‘safari’, among otherthings. A contribution from thestudent’s sponsoring Rotary Club

would go towards the cost of their

RANZSE gear, including polo and

rugby shirts, jacket, backpackand due bag, passport holderand nametag. Any excess money

would be used to oset the cost ofthe exchange, he said.

On her RANZSE trip to NewZealand this year, Australianstudent Lily Collins fromMuswellbrook in New South

Wales, was “matched” with AnaRathbone, from Havelock Northin Hawke’s Bay.

Together they attended AnzacDay commemorations andtravelled to the South Island,

where they rode on the luge inQueenstown, visited Te AnauGlowworm Caves and cruised

Milford Sound.

“I [had] the pleasure ofattending the ANZAC Dayservices; I was the only one whoknew the Australian anthem. Igot a couple of weird glances. Iam so grateful to everyone whomade the student exchangehappen… I will never forget howamazing that trip was!” Collinssaid. Expressions of Interestforms can be found at rotary9930.org/Page/youth-ranzse whichneed to be returned by June 30.Students may also apply onlineat http://rotary9930.org/Page/

youth-ranzse

New scholarshipsto support morestudents

Hundreds of new

u n d e r g r a d u a t e

scholarships will

be provided by the University

of Auckland to help entry-

level students transition into

university life.

The University of Auckland

opened applications for four

brand-new scholarship types that

will be awarded to more than 400

students starting undergraduate

studies in 2017:

• University of Auckland Top

Achiever Scholarships—value

$20,000• University of Auckland

Māori Academic ExcellenceScholarships—value $20,000

• University of Auckland

Pacic Academic ExcellenceScholarships—value $20,000

• University of Auckland

Academic Potential

Scholarships—value up

to $20,000

The University of Auckland

will have many more scholarships

available for students to

apply for than any other New

Zealand university.

“Our focus in designing the

new schemes and increasing thenumber of scholarships available

has been on empowering students

from schools across New Zealand

to successfully transition into

their rst year at the university,”says University of Auckland

Vice-Chancellor Professor

Stuart McCutcheon. Guaranteed

accommodation in a university hall

of residence is a major component

of the new scholarships. The

accommodation package includes

pastoral care, social activities, and

membership of the University

Recreation Centre and, for rst year students, three meals per day.

Auckland-based students wishing

to live away from the family home,

as well as students from elsewhere

in New Zealand, will now be able

to experience living in the central

city, in a safe environment, with

student services on hand and theopportunity to build lasting and

supportive peer-group networks.

Living close to the university

will ease the burden of travel

time and costs for those who

would otherwise be commuting

and help incoming students get

the most out of University life

and opportunities.

The assessment criteria include

whether an individual is the rst intheir family to attend university,

is from a refugee background,

has a disability, is living in a

rural area, or is experiencing

nancial hardship.Students currently enrolled in

University pathway programmes

will also be eligible to apply for

the new University of Auckland

Academic Potential Scholarship.

Applications for these

scholarships close on August 23.

World-class creative learningcentre launched in Wellington

W ellington’s creative

community is set

to benet fromthe build of a new $22.5 million

campus, which will produce morethan 1,000 graduates each year tosupport New Zealand’s ourishinglm, creative technology andapplied arts industries.

Te Auaha New ZealandInstitute of Applied Creativity

has been established to providea world-class learning facilityin Wellington, New Zealand’screative capital. The name TeAuaha means ‘to shape, create,form, fashion, create and innovate’and reects the exciting mix ofprogrammes to be delivered inthe campus.

Te Kāhui Auaha, which means‘the cluster of creativity’, is thename provided by Te Ātiawa forthe campus building. Establishedby Whitireia New Zealand andthe Wellington Institute ofTechnology (WelTec), Te Auahabrings together programmes fromWhitireia’s and WelTec’s visual

and performing arts, design,media and creative technologies.The new campus will provide adynamic learning environmentfor students with world-classfacilities, including a performancetheatre, in-house cinema, musicstudios, photograph studies,workshops, hair and make-up studios, digital labs, andprogrammes that reect industryrequirements.

The campus build is part ofa wider development of the oldDEKA building by Willis Bond& Co. “Te Auaha New ZealandInstitute of Applied Creativitywill be unique in New Zealandbringing together an incrediblerange of tertiary educationoptions for aspiring lm directors,producers, musicians, artists andartisans, jewellers, photographers,graphic designers, animators,broadcasters and stage andscreen performers,” says RogerSowry, Council Chair of Whitireia

and WelTec. The launch includedan array of live performancesshowcasing the best from thenew institute’s programmes,alongside speeches from Ministerfor Tertiary Education Skills andEmployment Hon Steven Joyce

and Minister for Arts, Culture andHeritage Hon Maggie Barry.High prole creative sector

ambassadors were announced atthe event to represent Te Auaha.The inaugural ambassadors drawnfrom a number of the areas in

which Whitireia and WelTec teachare: renowned writer Dame Fiona

Kidman, creative performancedirector and entrepreneur DameSuzie Moncrie, musician andcomposer Barnaby Weir, digitaltechnologist Scott Houston,make-up artist Gino Acevedo,and internationally acclaimedchoreographer Malia Johnston.

“We are very excited to have

these ambassadors on boardsupporting this importantdevelopment in Wellington,”says Whitireia and WelTec ChiefExecutive Chris Gosling.

“The ambassadors are allincredibly well known in theireld of expertise and it is animmense privilege to havethem supporting Te Auaha andhelping us tell the Te Auaha

story to the rest of the country andthe world.”

Construction of Te Kāhui Auahais well underway and will includean impressive array of learningspaces including 9,000m2 ofdance studios, rehearsal and

performance spaces, recordingstudios, mixing rooms and anin-house radio station, studiosand salons for hair, beauty andmake-up artistry, workshopsfor woodwork, jewellery makingand sculpture, lm photographystudio and dark rooms, a 250 seattheatre and a 60 seat cinema.

Whitiereia performing arts student Orama Fisher with Te Auaha ambassador Gino Acevedo

Launched to around200 industry leaders,business people, centraland local governmentrepresentatives andmedia, Te Auaha NewZealand Institute ofApplied Creativity,located in Wellington’screative precinct onCuba Street will openfor learning in early2018.




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A metal musician’s quest to revivephysical formats in IndiaANKIT SINHA

One of the fondest

memories of my early

teenage days was

scrounging for music CDs at stores.

At that time, I was completely

oblivious about the Internet and

didn’t even own a computer. The

notion of high-speed online music

streaming and searching for music

on smartphone apps was like a

dystopian dream.

I may have been 16 when I

unknowingly stumbled upona bootlegged CD compilationfeaturing hard rock and thrashmetal acts such as Guns N’ Rosesand Metallica. When I slippedthe disc in my old stereo system,I had no inkling that the music I

was about to hear would changemy life forever. Almost a decadelater, I am still a proud metal headand, yes, I am still attached to thephysical format of CDs and evenvinyl more than ever.

Although in today’s Internetera, where everything is just aclick away, devout fanatics of hardrock and heavy metal like me havea hard time sourcing physicalcopies of albums. A look at theonce-popular music store PlanetM’s website—where 32 pagesworth of listed music items arelabelled “out of stock”—is enoughto understand the abysmal state ofthe physical format in the country.

However, defying all odds, andeven somewhat succeeding inhis eort to keep the scene alive,Bengaluru-based musician andentrepreneur Vikram Bhat is stillensuring that in these dark times,the country’s select few metalfans and rock lovers continue

to get their regular supply ofmusic titles through his storeMahatobar Distribution.

Bhat, who is also the frontmanof long-running death metal bandDying Embrace, says the ideato create a physical store camethrough his quest to “get goodmusic out to fellow fans”. A coupleof years ago, he took a leap of faithand established a small shop atM.G. Road, Bengaluru, to relivethe old memories he grew up

with and “also for younger fansto experience how it is to be in astore with physical copies of musicon display”.

People thought he was crazy, but the store recently completedits second anniversary, thusdispelling the notion thatpeople don’t want to buy CDs or

vinyl anymore. While most youngsters today

spend their time streaming musiconline, checking a song or two

before moving on to the nextartiste, Bhat proudly importstitles from music giants suchas Sony Music, EMI, Warner,Universal along with a plethoraof underground heavy metalrecord labels.

“Sourcing stocks is not muchof a problem, the companies aresurprised that there is a marketstill and there is a physical storestill standing. I am pretty muchthe only one they are importingrock and metal titles for in the

country exclusively. Most biggerstores have given up,” Bhat said.

“There was a booming bootlegand tape trading scene back then...Friends would get an album froma friend who had a friend, who gotthe album from a friend’s friend,”

he reminisced.

To one’s surprise, even in the

late 80s and 90s, Bengaluru (then

Bangalore) had plenty of little

music shops that peddled hard

rock and heavy metal albums.

“Major labels [such as] HMV,

Magnasound [and] Universal all

put out metal albums on cassette

tapes adding to the madness.

Actually, we were spoilt for

choice without the Internet; only

dierence, we had to pay for themusic, which kept the industry

rolling, the shops running and our

passions fuelled,” he said.

“The 80s and 90s had so many

fans, shows would have nothing

less than 200 to 400 fans turning

up and everything was spread via

word of mouth. The underground

music network worked better that

way,” Bhat added.

It was during the 1990s when

Bhat took his undying passion

for heavy metal to newer heights

by stepping in as the vocalist of

Misanthrope—touted as the rst-ever death metal band to emerge

in the country—in 1996. The band

was later re-christened Dying

Embrace, and it celebrated its

25th anniversary at a gig called

High Voltage in Bengaluru just

earlier this month.

However, unlike today,

sourcing good equipment to play

and record music was a herculean

task in the 90s, reveals Bhat.

“Dud ampliers, sub-standardguitars, tin can drums, we went

through it all,” he said, while

lamenting that the younger

generation is “not appreciating

music as much”.

A bunch of self-taughtmusicians, Dying Embrace went onto release a string of EPs between1998 to 2002, before going on adecade-long hiatus, only to riselike the triumphant phoenix in2011. The reformed band went onto release a compilation album, anew EP, a single and a split withPakistani metal band Dusk.

“I think it was a case of us beingthere at the right place at the righttime! Extreme metal from India

was put on the global undergroundmusic map unknowingly by us,”says Bhat. And rightly so.

He believes that extreme musicis an experience and it’s for achosen few.

“It’s these fans who have keptthe faith alive and helped smallstores and distros [such as] minearound the world survive and keepthe ag ying high!”

Indian Samurai reveals whyBritish feared BoseSHUDIP TALUKDAR

A s an iconic gure, NetajiBose has a few parallels

or peers anywhere.

He continues to exercise such a

mesmeric hold on the collective

psyche of the nation that the air

crash which allegedly killed him

might have never happened.

But the latest take on the

popular leader, Bose: An Indian

Samurai , authored by Maj Gen

G.D. Bakshi, debunks the theory

and assesses his role as a military

leader, based on 10 years of

exhaustive research.

Enough has been said and

written about Bose as a politicalstalwart and as a radical. But it is

only in the tness of things that anexperienced military commander

such as Gen Bakshi undertakes the

task of highlighting the strategic

role played by the Indian National

Army (INA) in our independence.

In bitterly fought campaigns

across Burma, Imphal and Kohima,

the INA performed creditably and

under tremendous odds with their

Japanese counterparts. These two

theatres have been described as

the most signicant of the historic World War II battles fought by the

British, matching Stalingrad in

sheer scale and ferocity.

Gen Bakshi attributes Bose’s

exemplary leadership with

inspiring a erce loyalty andpatriotic fervour among his

military cadres; so much so that

they rose above their religious

and linguistic identities to act

as a single entity, motivated

by national pride and a spiritof sacrice.

A contention seconded by none

other than one of Bose’s closest

military aides and later envoy to

Canada, the late Colonel Mahoob

Ahmed, in an interview with

The Illustrated Weekly of India.

He emphatically

declared that had he had 100 lives,

he would have willingly sacriced

each of them for the sake of his

beloved leader.

An Indian Samurai makes a

number of startling revelations.

Even with the stakes

heavily loaded against

the Japanese-INA

forces in terms of

numbers, repower,logistics and supplies,

they mounted attack

after attack on the

British, which unnerved

them. These formations

displayed extraordinary

levels of battleeldresilience and morale.

Though virtually decimated,

these units suered “no masssurrenders... no crumbling of

morale,” the author observes.

What is more, they

retained their combatcohesion and managed to

retreat to the Chindwin, only

to undergo a twin assault from

disease and starvation, which took

a heavy toll.

In the viciously fought

campaigns with the British, the

INA lost 26,000 men out of its

strength of 60,000. These martyrs

became the role models for more

than two million conscripts, who

practically hailed from the same

villages and formed the backbone

of the British Army. Their loyalty

could now no longer be taken for

granted and became a decisive

factor in the British quitting India.

Even though the Japanese

reported that Bose had died in

an air crash on August 18, 1945,

the latest lot of declassied lesreleased in March 2016 indicate

that he had indeed made three

radio broadcasts long after the

date of his alleged crash, namely,

on December 26, 1945, January 1,1946 and in February 1946.

“The air crash theory is full of

gaping holes, yet the Nehruvian

government went to inordinate

lengths to prove that Bose had

indeed died in that air crash,”

writes Gen Bakshi.

Back in the 1980s and1990s, Vikram Bhatwas a part of the city’stape trading scene—theprimary way for rock andmetal lovers to sourcethe music in the countryduring those days.




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Film industry is male dominated: Kajol

Sonu Nigam sang morethan 25 songs over threehours on the streets

Singer Sonu Nigam, whose

recent six-minute video The

Roadside Ustaad has gone

viral, says that he sang almost 25

songs over the three hours at various

locations in Mumbai for it.

In the video, Sonu, dressed as an

old man and in shoddy clothes, sings

with a harmonium, on the streets of

Mumbai. About people’s reactions,

Sonu said in a media interaction,“They didn’t recognise my voice.

They liked my voice; that was the

good part that I could actually, out

of nowhere, attract them through my voice.

I was dreading the fact that these people

shouldn’t recognise me; that would be

an embarrassment for me. There was no

one around me, no bodyguards, no team,

no managers.

“What you guys saw, was a very short clip.

At every spot, I sang for one hour each. One

hour behind Chandan (theatre in Mumbai),

then one hour in front of Chandan, one

hour at Four Bungalows (area in Mumbai).

So it wasn’t easy, sitting in the sun, in the

dust, and I sang a varied range of songs; you just heard two. I might have sung at least

25 songs. I worked that hard; that’s why so

many people joined in.”

The video has gone viral on social media,

collecting more than 3.5 million views

already on Youtube within a week’s time.

Along with sending a message across of

nding happiness with the present, the

video was also a marketing feature for

Sonu’s latest single, Crazy Dil , which was

launched on Tuesday, May 24.

“We had no idea that people would like it

so much and make it so huge. From where

all I’ve received calls, they gave me good

vibrations, they told me that they were

crying, they couldn’t believe that I did this,”

Sonu said.

About what people can learn from the

video, he said, “What learning can we giveothers; we, ourselves, learned a lot. For me,

it was my own learning. It’s the same me,

it’s the same voice, the only dierence is of

the clothes, where I’m singing, and how I’m

looking. A man sitting alone and without

inviting anyone, we wanted to know how

would that experience be.”

Nana Patekar should havewon National Award forNatsamrat : Irrfan

A ctor Irrfan Khan says that veteran

actor Nana Patekar should have won the National Award for his

performance in the much-appreciated

Marathi lm Natsamrat .

At a screening of the recent Marathi

blockbuster Sairat he organised, Irrfan,asked about Natsamrat , said, “Outstanding

lm. I think it should’ve won the NationalAward for Nanaj i. Anyway, I wasn’t in thejury.” The Mahesh Manjrekar-directed

Natsamrat , starring Nana as a veteranstage actor, was a highly critically acclaimed

lm, which also did brilliant business at thebox-oce. Incidentally, it was megastarAmitabh Bachchan, who won the Best Actor

National Award for Piku in which Irrfan

also played a crucial role.Considering the fact that most of the

National Awards winners this year have

been lms which released in 2015 such asPiku, Bajirao Mastani , Bajrangi Bhaijaan,

it is not clear if Natsamrat , which releasedon January 1, 2016, still has a chance

next year.

Films such as Tharai Thappattai andSairat , which released in 2016, have

however been considered this year.

Apparently there is a particular rule, which

state that the lm has to be certied by theCBFC between January 1 and December 31to be considered for National Awards.

About Marathi cinema in general, Irrfan

added, “Marathi lm industry is hitting asixer every year. And this is great for Indian

lm industry... In Marathi cinema, whenUmesh Kulkarni had started making his

lms, Vihir, Deool , that’s when I came to

know that some interesting work happens

there. And since then I have been intouch with Marathi cinema and have been

watching it.”

About the importance of regionalcinema, he added, “Regional cinema is

what is creating a new kind of cinema. The

way Hollywood and Hindi cinema has gotpopular, similarly regional cinema has

also got popular, and Marathi cinema is

the prime example of it. Every year somegood lm is coming from there. I feel thatin some other place as well regional cinema

will evolve with fresh cinema.”

Is Irrfan open

to acting inMarathi lms?“Yes, whynot? If I get

a good role

and a goodd i r e c t o r ,

t h e n

definitelyI’ll run to

do it.” Irrfan

has acted in a

Bengali and a

Telugu lm before.

NATALIA NINGTHOUJAM

A t 41, award-winning actress Kajol still stands

strong and bold in the lm industry. But thePadma Shri awardee, who has a lm career

spanning over two decades, believes that showbiz is

“simply just another business” and is a man’s world.

Wage inequality recently became a hot topic in

Hollywood and Bollywood. Asked about gender inequalityin the lm industry, Kajol said in an interview, “It ismale dominated. There is no getting away from that fact.

Whether it is Hollywood or Bollywood, that will be there

because currently our world is like that.

“Hollywood or Bollywood, it is simply another

business where it is male dominated. But again it has to

be monetarily feasible and economically viable. That’s

something that has everything to do with the pay scale as

far as this particular business is concerned.”

But neither age nor her marital status has ever come in

the way of her career.

Married to actor-producer Ajay Devgn, the mother

of two, was last seen on the big screen in the 2015 lm Dilwale. And no, she isn’t taking a break from movies as

of now. She will soon start shooting for a lm under their

home banner production.“I can’t talk about it right now. It is still in the scripting

stage. I hope it goes on oors in the next three months orso. The director is yet to be nalised,” said the Gupt star.

Apart from doing movies, she is also Lifebuoy’s Help

a Child Reach 5 handwashing ambassador. Help a Child

Reach 5 has been advocating hand washing with soap as

one of the most cost-eective means of preventing childdeaths on platforms.

“It’s (the campaign) very close to my heart. As a star and

as a person, you have a responsibility... you need to stand

up and be a part of society and help out in whichever way

you can. For somebody like me...I am famous and people

recognise me.

“Hopefully, they will believe in the things that I

have to say, so I can use that to the advantage of my

society and work for it,” she said about the cause

for which she visited New Delhi and also met

Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

She shared that they talked about how

hand wash should be mandatory in

schools. “It is necessary to put in not only

toilet but wash basins as well. So that

facility should be available and then

only the habit will be available.”

Has he shown any support to

the cause?

“Ocially, no. I can’t say that wehave tied up. But I think the way

we are going, what we are talking

about, it coincides well with his

own campaign ( Swachh Bharat

Abhiyan). We are denitelyon the same page,” said the

Dilwale star.

Kajol also wants to make a

dierence as a part-time memberof the Prasar Bharati Board that runs public

broadcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio. “My opinion is one of many. Since I am on

board, hopefully my suggestions will be taken. I

am there to give suggestions and make a dierenceif I can,” she said.

With so many projects in hand, don’t her

children—daughter Nysa and son Yug—complain?

“They always complain. If they had their way,

I would be sitting at home 24/7. My son tells me

‘Mama I like it when I enter the house and see

you waiting for me’. I think every child wants their

mother to be their bai (maid),” she signed o.




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Pooja Batra’sHollywood debutlm’s trailer shownat Cannes

Pooja Batra’s Hollywood debut lm’strailer was shown at Cannes

The world premiere and the

trailer launch of One Under the Sun,starring Bollywood actress Pooja Batra,

took place at the Cannes Film Festival.

The former beauty queen, who set her

Bollywood aspirations aside to marry Los

Angeles-based orthopaedic surgeon Dr

Sonu Ahluwalia, was spotted having her

moment under the sun.

The Virasat actress, dressed in a white

sari at the gala, looked excited about her

Hollywood debut in which she essays the

role of an astronaut.

“It is a proud moment for me to play the

lead in my rst Hollywood lm. It is a greatrole. In order to prepare for it, I needed to

really dig deep into myself and my feelings

to nd honest inspiration. For my physical

appearance, I took hints from Indian-born

astronaut Kalpana Chawla and American

astronaut Sunita Williams,” Pooja Batra

said in a statement.

Executive producer Sunny Vachher, who“always believed” in Pooja, said “she has

what it takes, a true go-getter”.

One Under the Sun is the story

of astronaut Kathryn Voss (Pooja),

a sole survivor of a disastrous space

shuttle mission. As a distraught mother

desperate to reunite with her terminally

ill daughter, she becomes a wanted

fugitive after discovering she possesses an

extraordinary gift.

Co-director Vincent Tran has praised

Pooja for her hard work and dedication

towards the project.

He said, “Pooja’s acting in One

Under the Sun brings audiences on an

emotional journey and challenges their

notions of war.”The trailer launch took place recently at

the Indian Pavilion of Cannes Film Festival

where Sunny Vachher, Isha Vachher,

Thomas Pierce, co-director Riyanna

Hartley, managing director of World News

Network Satish Reddy, co-director Vincent

Tran, Pooja, actor Rich Paul, executive

producer Mike LeBlanc were present

along with many delegates from India

and the international lm fraternity.

John Abraham holdstness masterclass

A

ctor John Abraham gave a

tness masterclass, organised bysportswear brand Reebok India

and online portal Jabong. Giving fans a

holistic tness experience, John madea grand entry amid resounding cheers

and enthralled the audience on Friday.

Consumers were thrilled as they received

tness tips from the actor.“I had a great time working out with

the enthusiastic audience and sharing my

tness mantra for a healthier body and

mind,” John said in a statement.Silvia Tallon, senior marketing director,

Reebok India, thanked the star “for

supporting this initiative and inspiring our

consumers to be fashionably t”. Apart from the star, Reebok trainers

gave CrossFit sessions, thereby engaging

consumers with high intensity and

fun workouts.

“Our aim has always been to make

shopping an experience for our customers

and I am happy that this will be a memorable

one for some of them,” Sanjeev Mohanty,

CEO and managing director, Jabong said.

Ayushmann tries

Chaplin-inspiredlook for MeriPyaari Bindu

Getting rid of his thick beard, actor

Ayushmann Khurrana tried out a

moustache which was inspired by

Charlie Chaplin, Adolf Hitler and Indian

comedian Mehmood for his upcoming

project Meri Pyaari Bindu.

The actor was seen sporting a scruylook for the lm, which also stars ParineetiChopra, and took to Twitter to share the

new look.

While posting a black and white image

of himself with the moustache, he shared:

“Going for the clean shaven look. Itried this.

Hitler/Chaplin meets Mehmood. Got rid

of my beard. Meri Pyaari Bindu.”

In the image, with a dressing table in the

background, the Dum Laga Ke Haisha star

has kept a dead pan face.

He gives an impression of the late

English comic actor, lm-maker, CharlesSpencer “Charlie” Chaplin, who was known

for his small moustache.

The 31-year-old appears to have posted

the photograph on the micro-blogging

website in the midst of the shaving process.

Ayushmann will be seen essaying the

character of an author named Abhimanyu

Roy. Set in Kolkata, the lm is directed bydebutant Akshay Roy and is a Maneesh

Sharma production.

Parineeti will be seen essaying the

character of an aspiring singer in the Yash

Raj Films (YRF) movie and will also croon

a number for it. According to reports,

Ayushmann will also be singing in the lm.

Tisca Chopra happyto break ‘serious’image with full-oncomedy 3 Dev

A ctress Tisca Chopra, who is often

tagged as a serious actor, is happy

to break that image with a full-on

comedy titled 3 Dev.“I’ve been wanting to do a comedy for a

long time, as you do one lm where peoplereally like a type of role of yours and then

everybody thinks that you can do only that.

If you compare it to telling a singer to sing

in only one sur, it will get very boring.

“There is a lm of mine coming named 3

Dev, which will come in June.

That you should denitely watch;it’s a full-on comedy, but with a little

bit of meaning in it,” said Tisca at the

Pink Power initiative for upcoming

women entrepreneurs.

Known for her serious roles in lmssuch as Taare Zameen Par, Firaaq and

Rahasya, she says, “I want to do many

dierent things. I’m essentially not a veryserious person.

Looking at my face, it might seem that

I’m very serious, but I’m not very serious.”

3 Dev also stars Tisca’s Rahasya co-star

Kay Kay Menon, as well as Karan Singh

Grover, Kunal Roy Kapur, Raima Sen,

Prosenjit Chatterjee, and marks the debut

of TV actor Ravi Dubey. The lm is directed by Ankoosh Bhatt.

About her character, she said, “It’s too

early to talk about the character; you know

how it is nowadays, leave the producers to

do their job; I’ll do my job.”

The other roles that fascinate her? “I’d

like to play Indira Gandhi, I’d like to play

Amrita Sher-Gil; I’d like to play a killer, acop, a spy, so many dierent roles.”

Since she was present at a women

entrepreneurship event, she was asked

about her entrepreneur plans, and said, “I

want to produce some lms. After that I want to start a restaurant,

not right now.”

Will we see less of Tisca on screen after

she turns a producer? “You feel that I’ll

produce lms for others?” she said.Tisca was last seen in Loveshhuda and

Sardar Gabbar Singh.

SRK invitesHollywood lm-

maker Paul Feig

A fter hosting a star-studded dinner

party for Apple CEO Tim Cook,

superstar Shah Rukh Khan has

extended an open invitation to Hollywood

director Paul Feig, his wife Laurie and all

their friends.

On Wednesday, May 25, Laurie tweeted

that she hoped that someday Paul is

welcomed to Shah Rukh’s house Mannat

in Mumbai.

“Someday I hope Paul Feig can be

welcome at Mannat! dream, Shah Rukh

Khan,” Laurie had tweeted.

Responding to that post, Shah Rukh

shared that he will keep French fries ready

for the Spy director.

“Laurie Feig, Paul Feig and all your

friends are most welcome whenever you are

in India.

“Tell Paul, will keep French fries ready

for him,” the Don star tweeted.The Bridesmaids director said that it

would be an honour to meet the 50-year-

old Bollywood actor. You’re on, Shah Rukh

Khan! I’ll bring the ketchup.

“It would be an honour to meet you.

Many thanks, my friend,” Paul tweeted.




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Pink Ribbon BreakfastDate: Friday, 3 June 2016

Time: 7:30 a.m.

Place: Sierra Café, 563 Mt Albert Road, Royal Oak (corner of Hillsborough Road)

Cost: $20 per ticket proceeds to The NZ Breast Cancer Foundation (payment may be

made on the day)

National party MP Dr Parmjeet Parmar is inviting everyone to join her in this noblecause to make a dierence with this worthwhile event. A Pink Ribbon Breakfast is

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Auckland Turban DayDate: Saturday, 28 May 2016

Time: 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

With an aim to educate people of dierent cultures about Sikhism and Punjabi culture,

Sikh Youth of New Zealand (SYNZ) is organising Auckland Turban Day on May 28.

Come and try amazing and colourful turbans on yourself with the help of our experts.It’s a free event. Anyone can join the event to have fun and learn about Sikh faith and

also to get a taste of Punjab with masala chai (tea) that will be served free of cost to the

public.

Auckland Art FairDate: Saturday and Sunday 25-29 May 2016

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Venue: The Cloud, Queens Wharf, Auckland CBD

Auckland Art Fair returns to The Cloud with a new focus on ar t of our region - the

wider Pacic rim. See artworks by more than 150 artists represented by the leading

galleries of New Zealand, Australia and further aeld. For those just starting to collect

contemporary art, Ngatahi Editions is a collaboration of nine Auckland non-prot

organisations, showing artworks made specially for them by artists to help raise funds

for their organisations. The cafes, bars and restaurants at the fair are by internationally

renowned chef and art collector, Peter Gordon. Make a day of it and come experience

the Auckland Art Fair. Bu tickets at artfair.co.nz/buy-tickets or contact Stephanie or

Hayley [email protected] or 09 376 4603. General admission $30 ($25 early bird until

30 April) Students and senior $20, Child $15, under 5s free, opening night $95 and

artists’ party $45.

Open Orchestra CentralDate: Saturday 28 May 2016

Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Venue: Auckland Town Hall, Queen Street, Auckland CBD

Enjoy a free performance by the full Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and explore

individual instruments up close in the Music Zoo. Come along and watch, talk to APO

musicians and listen to some orchestral favourites.

ARIES(March 21-April 20)

A promising week for professionals is foretold.Changes in the workplace are inevitable, but will notaffect you in any way. Judicious spending will ndyour bank balance in a healthy state. If there are anydifferences with spouse over some issue, this is thetime to resolve them. Your initiative on the romanticfront can get you a lukewarm response. Adopt await and watch policy regarding buying or selling ofproperty.

Lucky No.: 9 / Lucky Colour: Dark Red

LEO(July 23-August 23)

You are likely to be happily involved in yourprofession and take the best decisions. It may bedifcult to nd extra energy for lending a helpinghand on the domestic front. A marriage proposalcan become a source of joy for the eligible. Someof you can suffer the after effects of love gone sour.

A real estate transaction is likely to prove protable.Conserve money by keeping a check on spending.

Lucky No.: 6 / Lucky Colour: Dark brown

TAURUS(April 21-May 20)

Your fondest wishes are likely to come true thisweek as you steal the show in a family function.You will manage to impress one and all by your giftof the gab on the work front. A vacation will giveyou ample opportunity to enjoy the new locale andlet your hair down. Good nancial returns fromprevious investments will keep you in an upbeatmood. Health remains satisfactory.

Lucky No.: 7 / Lucky Colour: Grey

GEMINI(May 21-June 21)

Finger in every pie will keep you abreast at workand make you fully prepared for any eventuality. Youcan count on the total support of family members indomestic matters. You manage to ward off a nancialcrunch by thinking ahead. Good eating habits willkeep you safe from lifestyle diseases. Romance atthis juncture may not rock. An out of town trip is inthe ofng for some.

Lucky No.: 5 / Lucky Colour: Turquoise

CANCER(June 22-July 20)

Workplace colleagues will lend you a helping handwithout any reservations. You will succeed in gettingyour work recognised by the ones who matter. Youmanage to save enough to organise a grand functionor an event. Shopping will be fun, but don’t loosen thepurse strings too much. You will nd your relationshipgoing from strength to strength. Starting an exerciseregime is on the cards for some.

Lucky No.: 7 / Lucky Colour: Red

VIRGO(August 24-Sep 23)

A change of portfolio is in the ofng for some at work. Your leadership qualities will be muchappreciated in a particular situation that you maynd yourself in this period. Homemakers will ndthis phase fruitful when they manage to makethe changes on the home front. Those spirituallyinclined will be able to set out on a pilgrimage.Financial worries can make some restless, but thesituation will not be beyond redemption.

Lucky No.: 7 / Lucky Colour: Grey

LIBRA (Sep 24-October 23)

Hard work and sleepless nights are in store forsome organising a family function, but it will beworth the effort. Your expertise is likely to get yousome good breaks on the professional front. Itis best to consult knowledgeable people beforegoing in for investments. Treating partner to amovie or dinner will go a long way in an enrichingrelationship. A family member can hold animaginary grudge against you.

Lucky No.: 4 / Lucky Colour: Orange

SCORPIO(Oct 24-November 22)

Your skills and expertise will help you in establishingyourself at the workplace. A windfall can be expectedfor those disposing of property, but they will have tobe careful while investing this money. It may seemdifcult to get rid of an ailment permanently. You willsucceed in raising the spirits of a depressed familymember. A compatible match is likely for the eligible.Don’t overstrain yourself by becoming too gureconscious.

Lucky No.: 8 / Lucky Colour: Electric green

AQUARIUS(Jan 22-February 19)

You can feel a bit mentally disturbed this week

due to something that happened in the past. Adeliberate attempt at saving is the only way youcan repay your loans. Shooting your mouth off atan inappropriate time can harm your image, sokeep a low prole at work. You can get a feeling ofbeing neglected by those close to you. A regularroutine will keep you in the prime of health.

Lucky No.: 9 / Lucky Colour: Cream

PISCES(Feb 20-March 20)

Those opting for higher studies will be able to gather

their focus and energy. Spending without a set plancan affect your future nancially. Appreciation atwork is in store for some. All your attempts at a freshbeginning or turning over a new leaf are likely to faceunanticipated hurdles. Prots are likely to dip forretailers as footfalls refuse to increase despite bestefforts. Those ill will make good progress.

Lucky No.: 17 / Lucky Colour: Coffee

CAPRICORN(Dec 22-January 21)

Feeling positive about a situation will set things

right for you, even if they are going wrong. Anexcellent investment opportunity comes yourway that will lead you to nancial security. Higherstudies can beckon some. Domestic harmony isassured for those wanting to spend time by them-selves at home. Newlyweds are likely to enjoy anextended togetherness on a short vacation. Therewill be nothing to complain about the health front.

Lucky No.: 9 / Lucky Colour: Peach

SAGITTARIUS(Nov 23-December 11)

Those with a creative bent of mind can feel a bit

frustrated due to lack of recognition. Financial bet-terment is just round the corner for some. A familyfunction is on the anvil and will give you an op-portunity to showcase your talents. Your efforts onthe romantic front will be richly rewarded. Thosewanting to reduce weight can taste success. Newdrivers need to be careful on the road.

Lucky No.: 2 / Lucky Colour: Indigo

WEEKLY FORECAST: MAY 27 TO JUN 2

By Manisha KoushikManisha Koushik is the talented daughter and associate of world renowned celebrity astrologer Dr Prem Kumar

Sharma. A practicing astrologer, tarot card reader, numerologist, vastu and fengshui consultant is based in Indiabut maintains a global presence through the online channels. She is available for consultations online as well.Let her tarot cards do the magic and numbers make you understand which choices in life will be best for you!E-mail: [email protected] | Website: www.askmanisha.comContact: +91-11-26449898 Mobile/Whatsapp: +919015607139




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