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INDIAN MUM-DAUGHTER DUO DELIGHTED

AFTER COMPASSIONATE VISA EXTENSION
¡¡ SANDEEP SINGH Earlier the family had arrived in had initially approved the daughter’s

A
New Zealand with the long-term visitor visa for three months, which
n Auckland based Indian
goal of studying, working and finally expired on March 19, whereas
mum was delighted after
settling in the country in order to the mother’s initial visitor visa
Associate Immigration
rebuild her life after a failed marriage application is still pending with them
Minister Kris Faafoi had agreed to
and escape from the social stigma when she first spoke with the Indian
extend their visas on compassionate
attached to that back home. Weekender.
grounds.
Therefore, leaving New Zealand Since then Ms Tandon had
The distressed mother Neisha
was not an option for Ms Tandon. been scrambling for help from
Tandon was clueless on how to
In desperation to resurrect her immigration lawyers, community
remain legitimately in New Zealand
visa situation, which was partner leaders to different politicians.
along with her school-going teenage
dependent, she consulted a licensed However, toward the end, she
daughter after her husband passed
immigration adviser, who filed the request with the office of
away on December 20, 2017 –
rightly sought for visitor Associate Minister Kris Faafoi,
halfway through immigrating to the
Ms Tandon visa for the mother- along with a support letter from the
country.
daughter duo from Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman.
“I have decided to grant you a was facing a Immigration New To which the Minister after due
twelve-month open work visa and grim situation Zealand (INZ), consideration had given approval for
Chehak [the daughter] a twelve- where she had with a plea that it visa extension for twelve months.
month student visa, under section 61 literally nowhere
The Indian Weekender last reported husband’s sudden would give time “If you and Chehak are granted
of the Immigration Act 2009, subject
to health and character,” the letter
(https://www.indianweekender. death! to go back, if not to them to sort visas I suggest you use this
co.nz/Pages/ArticleDetails/7/9309/ In Ms Tandon’s given a chance to out their lives. opportunity to explore your options
from the office of Associate Minister
New-Zealand/Mum-clueless-on- case what was more resurrect her Although for further visas under the relevant
said.
how-to-keep-her-and-teen-daughter- compelling that she technically correct, instructions. If you do so it will be up
Expectedly ecstatic with this Kiwi-dream
in-NZ-after-husband-passes-aw) had a teenage daughter it seems compassion to INZ to assess whether you should
outcome, Ms Tandon was speechless.
With little or no support from from an earlier failed was missing, or little be granted,” the letter from the office
“I have no words to express my
friends and family, either here or marriage, studying in New Zealand, thought was given, in this of Minister Faafoi said.
happiness.”
back in India, Ms Tandon was facing who identified herself as a Kiwi and immediate solution sought from the Ms Tandon understands the
“It just feels like we have been
a grim situation where she had saw New Zealand as her home. INZ. significance of this and is committed
given a second chance to rebuild our
literally nowhere to go back, if not Ms Tandon was on a spouse- As a three-month visitor visa, to do everything under her control to
lives,” an emotional Ms Tandon told
given a chance to resurrect her Kiwi- dependent work visa, which was for a mum-daughter duo, who have not miss the bus again.
The Indian Weekender.
dream. due to expire in August 2018, and recently struggled to arrange for “I am definitely going to use these
The life story of Neisha Tandon, the
Ms Tandon had then told The working full-time at Z Gas Station, husband’s funeral, would in no way twelve months in a manner which
wife of 32-year-old Atul Tandon who
Indian Weekender, “We saw New whereas their teenage daughter have brought any respite, or even leads to positive and favourable
passed away on December 20, 2017,
Zealand as our biggest hope when we studied in year nine at One Tree Hill given some breathing space to them results for both of us.
while here on a work visa, was at
first arrived here in 2014.” College on a domestic student visa at to plan anything else. “I might take study visa if needed,”
the risk of turning upside down with
A hope that came crashing with her the time of Mr Tandon’s death. Immigration New Zealand (INZ) Ms Tandon said.
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¡¡ SANDEEP SINGH
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I hold on strongly to my heritage
and know that I will always have
a tie to India, but joining the Royal
New Zealand Navy (RNZN) gave me
new ties all around the world,” Leading
chef Zylen Thomas proudly asserted
when asked about what he feels of
being a Kiwi of Indian heritage, and
working for the New Zealand Defence
Forces (NZDF).
Clearly, the feeling of pride in serving
the nation and the satisfaction of being
in a dream job was overwhelming in the first
response that came out from Mr Thomas.
The story of Mr Thomas is the second in
the series Kiwi Indians Reaching for the Stars,
which is an effort, in association with New
Zealand Defence Forces (NZDF), to put the
spotlight on those proud Kiwi-Indians who
have been joining other Kiwis in defending and
shaping our nation.
Leading Chef Zylen Thomas has been in
the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) for ten
years, and has experienced many roles.
Now serving on HMNZS Te Mana, Mr
Thomas is primarily a chef but is also the leader
of the Junior Rates Mess, a team leader in the
Damage Control Organisation, and part of the
ship’s boarding party.
Mr Thomas has served on most ships in
the RNZN, including the decommissioned
HMNZS Manawanui where he ran the galley.
He was also part of the team on HMNZS
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Born in Mumbai and raised in Bangalore, Mr
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15, and started a Kiwi-life.
After finishing school he was offered a
scholarship to train as a chef at the Manukau
Institute of Technology, and subsequently
pursued his dream aspiration of joining the
New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF).
“I come from a military family as my
grandfather and uncle were in the Indian Air
Force,” Mr Thomas said.
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even playing cricket against the Indian Defence
Force team.
Leading In fact, he has also captained both the RNZN
Chef Zylen cricket and football teams.
Thomas has been Mr Thomas believes that his Indian
in the Royal New background has helped him adjust easily to the
Zealand Navy (RNZN) military lifestyle.
for ten years, and has “My advice to people thinking of joining the
experienced many Defence Forces is clear.
roles. “Give it a go. Get out of your comfort zone.
You will explore so much of the world.”
Ever since joining the RNZN Mr Thomas
has travelled all over the world – Asia, Pacific
Islands, Antarctica, and even further afield.
Explaining the fascinating part of the job Mr
Thomas said, “My favourite part of the job is
giving people the satisfaction of a good meal.
“I also want to help young sailors, especially
the ones that have come from difficult
backgrounds, to show them that life has a silver
lining,” Mr Thomas further added sharing his
aspirations to move through the ranks and into
more management positions.
Mr Thomas is actively involved in sport
and has travelled to Australia as part of the
NZDF teams for both football and cricket,
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Balmoral Drop in Centre
envisages being safe
place of choice for
everyone in community
¡¡ SANDEEP SINGH
S
hanti Niwas and Bhartiya
Mandir, have teamed up
together to start Balmoral Drop-
in Centre – a place where seniors can
socialise and relax in a safe and central
location.
The drop in centre is scheduled to
start on Friday, July 20, at Balmoral
temple, Sandringham.
The centre is planning to remain
open twice a week on every Wednesday
and Friday from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Idea behind the
initiative
E
xplaining the rationale of this
special drop-in centre for seniors
Mrs Nilima Venkat, General Manager of
Shanti Niwas Charitable Trust told The Indian
Weekender, “There is always a demand for
services for seniors in the community, and we
feel that all the time.
“In this instance, we have teamed up together
with Bhartiya Mandir to come up with a
centrally based drop-in centre.
The facility intends to help in reducing
isolation, improve mental health and wellbeing
of seniors.
“Seniors have always mentioned that apart
from meeting their friends at Shanti Niwas
once a week there is no other common location
available during the weekdays, where they can
catch up on a daily basis.
“The need for meeting and exercising on a
daily basis like back home is immense. “They
would like to make new friends but are unable
to do that because of the absence of a common
ground wherein they can meet and interact
regularly,” Ms Venkat said.
“The facilities will help in reducing isolation,
improve mental health and wellbeing. Further,
the exercises are approved by ACC which will
help in the prevention of falls. Regular activities
and learning of new skills are always helpful in
delaying the onset of dementia among seniors,”
Mrs Venkat said.
How it is different
I nitially, the idea about Drop-in Centre
was exclusively dedicated for the seniors,
whereby volunteers and staff of Shanti Niwas
Charitable trust which have decades of
experience in delivering services for elderly
people in South Asian Communities would be
providing and managing the centre.
However, gradually the idea developed
to involve everyone else in the community
including children and women to make it more
inclusive.
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Pughai Padam – the short film that

swept eight awards at TASMANZ 2018
¡¡ RIZWAN MOHAMMAD person who is in his early adulthood,

A
group of inexperienced but
talented youngsters worked
together and made a short
film on anti-smoking – Pughai
Padam – a film which was both
entertaining and delivered a subtle
yet strong message to the audience
and won hearts at the TASMANZ
Film Festival 2018.
Eight different short films made
by different groups of young talents
showcased their work at TASMANZ
2018 and raved the audience for their
creativity and storytelling prowess.
Of the eights short films produced,
one film stood out as the winner of
the best film and also grabbed seven
other awards at TASMANZ (Tamil
Short Movie Association of New
Zealand) Film Festival 2018.
Pughai Padam, a short film made
under 9:50 PM Studio supported by
Auckland Tamil Association was
raved for its black comedy, hints of
supernatural element, screenplay,
dialogues, camera work etc. The
name of the film that simply
translates to ‘A Smoking Movie’
took the subject of smoking not only
as a health hazard but also cause of
many financial troubles in ones’ life.
Through its black comedy and
dialogues, using the infamous
Mukesh’s anti-smoking commercial
that is shown in every theatre in
Vishwa Balasubramanian and Madan
Senthil(right) with the team at the award function
India, prior to showing a movie,
for educating the moviegoers about
perils of smoking.
However, in Pughai Padam’s case,
what was standout is the fact that the
subtle message was conveyed to
audience in the form of a fantastic
screenplay from some very talented
actors, background music and
cinematography.
In fact it would not be an
exaggeration to say that the viewer
cannot take his eyes off the screen
until the film is over and also cannot
stop chuckling every next minute of
the film.
The Indian Weekender took the
opportunity to speak to the team
of the winning film to know more
about the motivation and efforts
behind their award-winning work,
Pughai Padam, a
short film made under
9:50 PM Studio supported
by Auckland Tamil
their aspirations to and making a movie was
bring out films of Association was raved for just something he wanted
its story and technical
such international to try. The film won the
standards making the finesse best cinematography award,
community proud. and one of the most iconic shots
The director of the was the one-minute continuous shot
film Vishwa Balasubramanian of four friends talking about ‘Ouija
in conversation with The Indian Mystical Spirit Board’ lying on
Weekender tells how he used the the floor with their heads tagged to
concept of comedy to reach out to the one another and the camera doing a
audience and touch their chords in 360 circle over their faces. Vishwa
making them understand the vices of considers the scene an inspiration
smoking. He shared this concept with from a 1997 Tamil film Iruvar
the producer of the film Ravindran directed by Mani Ratnam and shot
Vai, President Auckland Tamil by award winning cinematographer
Association (ATA) and worked with Santosh Sivan which gave him an
his friend and lead actor in the film idea to shoot the scene in the similar
Madan Senthil, writing dialogues for angle and fashion.
the script. Madan Senthil who is the co-
Vishwa considers himself amateur, dialogue writer and the lead actor
as he is into a different profession regarded his character as any other
cunning, lazy and spoiled himself
taking up vices like smoking and
drinking. His work in the film,
especially impeccable comic timing
won him the best actor award.
Vishwa commends his other team
members especially the actors and
the post-production team for giving
the film a fine tune and polishing
the movie to come in par with
international standards.
“After every day of the shoot,
I would show the scenes to Vai
[Ravindran-producer], and he would
ask to explain the shots and give me
feedback,” Vishwa said during the
interview.
The film will soon be sent to
different international short film
festivals and is positive to get
accolades and win awards at such
international platforms as well.
Both Vishwa and Madan are
excited with their second consecutive
win and have already started working
on their next project which will be
screened at TYO Film competition.
The film has won eight total awards,
such as best short film, dialogue,
music (Sasank Sivasubramanian),
production design (Anamika
Balachander), lead actor (Madan
Senthil), cinematography (Santosh
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No end to the unkind
cuts in health
Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi
National Party List MP
N
ew Zealanders are right to wonder when the
stream of cuts by stealth in the health sector will
come to a halt under the shaky leadership of
Health Minister David Clark.
There have been cuts for the young, cuts for the old,
cuts for people with rare diseases, cuts in mental health
and cuts for New Zealanders needing cochlear implants.
This begs the question: how many more of these cuts will
there be?
Just last weekend, we heard that a universally-supported
pilot to improve the response of 111 mental health calls
has been scrapped for the sake of just $8 million.
Before the election Labour campaigned heavily on
mental health, but now in Government it has put the mental
health needs of New Zealanders on the backburner while
they hold an unnecessary inquiry into the sector, despite
the country’s independent Mental Health Commissioner
Kevin Allan telling the Health Select Committee last year
that there was a need for action, not an inquiry.
This decision, on top of the events of recent weeks, has
made clear just how vague the coalition Government’s
plan is around the health sector and how quick they have
been to backtrack on election promises.
After campaigning on pumping record amounts into
health, they came up badly short when the books were
opened for Budget 2018.
It beggars belief that Labour spent less in this year’s
Budget than National spent in last year’s Budget. They
pledged $774 million after our National-led Government
added $888 million in new funding in 2017, and the
$10 cheaper GP fees visits for all New Zealanders was
missing.
But there was more bad news to come when Dr Clark
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These targets were tangible measures for not just DHBs
but also New Zealanders who were interested to see how
their DHB was tracking, and research has proved that
hundreds of lives have been saved by having these targets
in place.
This decision, which hadn’t even been approved by
the Government Ministers, will cost lives if the focus
and public scrutiny on better, faster healthcare in specific
areas is lessened.
 As bad as these outcomes are for Kiwis, the nurses’
strike last week – the first in thirty years - had significant
implications for patients of our national health system.
 Elective surgeries that were cancelled include cardiac
surgery, surgeries for cancer and joint replacements.
These patients may have been waiting some time for their
procedures and they could now be pushed back with a
knock on effect on all elective surgeries or those who
missed out may even be bumped to the bottom of the
list. We simply don’t know, because the Minister hasn’t
spoken up. Now there is concern that further disruptive
strikes are looming after the nurses’ organisation has
said that further action will happen if additional funding
isn’t made available following the strike – which the
Government hasn’t done.
 But for a Government that claims to care, the decision
to cut extra funding for cochlear implants is one of the
cruellest.
It’s a callous and disgraceful decision which is going
to see people lose their hearing when they don’t need to.
National last year boosted the number of funded cochlear
implants for adults, having previously sped up access to
implants for children.
 They’ve also broken their election promise to establish
a fund to pay for drugs for treatments for people with rare
diseases.
When you add in the Minister’s handling of
management and board issues at the Counties Manukau
District Health Board, it’s clear he is making a mess in
health and New Zealanders are paying the price.
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Family of Indian man
mourns his inflight death
¡¡ RIZWAN MOHAMMAD
A
25-year-old Indian
travelling to India from
Auckland suffered medical
man
condition mid-air and passed away.
Beant Singh came to New Zealand
three years ago on a spouse visa and
lived with his wife in Palmerston
North. He was travelling to meet his
family in Moga district of Punjab, India. Mr Singh also has two sisters, one of
whom is studying in New Zealand.
Mr Singh travelled to Auckland with his wife from Palmerston North on the
day of the flight and stayed with his cousin Manjinder Singh on Wednesday,
June 11. Both dropped Mr Singh at the Auckland airport and headed back
home in Auckland.
Mr Singh aboard Hong Kong Airlines scheduled 11:30 p.m on Wednesday,
July 11 from Auckland, suffered a medical eventmid-air and was given
medical attention by a doctor travelling in the plane. The flight made an
emergency landing at Darwin Airport in Australia, but Mr Singh could not
be revived.
Mr Singh’s wife received a call from the airport authorities on Thursday,
July 13, with the news of her husband’s sudden demise who then contacted
Mr Singh’s sisters and cousin Manjinder.
“I was at work when Beant’s wife called me and gave me the news,”
Manjinder Singh told The Indian Weekender.
Later, Manjinder then booked a flight for Beant’s wife and his sister who
flew to New Delhi on Thursday night.
Honorary Consul of India in Auckland Bhav Dhillon told The Indian
Weekender that the Indian embassy officials in Perth were handling the
repatriation of the body back to India.
Manjinder is liaising with the funeral home and authorities in Darwin who
said the official procedures are almost done, and the body will be flown back
to India very soon.
MrBeant Singh was scheduled to reach New Delhi at 3 a.m. (India time)
from where he had planned his onward journey back home in Punjab.
Cousin Manjinder Singh started a fundraising drive on social media after
the news to support his family financially, and the initiative raised $17,269 at
the end of the fundraising as on Thursday, July 19.
Deceased Beant Singh’s family is waiting for the body to reach Delhi so
that they can conduct his last rites.
“We are absolutely shocked, he was such a young, hard-working and happy
person, can’t fathom that he is more,” Manjinder told The Indian Weekender.
8 NEW ZEALAND
Community to remember
Wenceslaus Anthony on
first death anniversary
¡¡ RIZWAN MOHAMMAD
T
he Kiwi-Indian
community will gather
together this weekend
to remember and pay homage
to one of their beloved sons,
Wenceslaus Anthony – a
successful businessman, papal
medal awardee and a prominent
community leader.
Divine Retreat Centre New
Zealand (DRC NZ) is hosting
a commemoration service on
Sunday, July 23 on the first death anniversary
of Wenceslaus Anthony, who was also the
founder and chairman of the organisation until
his untimely demise.
Wenceslaus Anthony was a prominent
community figure known for his humility,
business excellence, and contribution towards
the betterment of the community in New
Zealand.
His efforts over the years led to the
establishment of the DRC NZ, an off-shoot of
the main Divine Retreat Centre, Potta, India,
which is one of the largest Catholic retreat
centres in the world. He also established the
Mother Teresa Interfaith Committee on the
birth centenary of Mother Teresa in 2010.
Mr Anthony was on a business and holiday
tour for eight weeks with his family overseas
visiting Israel, Egypt, Sri Lanka and events in
India. During the trip, he met with the former
President of India, Pranab Mukherjee in New
Delhi and the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Ranil Wickremesinghe, attended his nephew’s
wedding ceremony in Kerala before he was
admitted to Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India
after falling ill.
M
Wenceslaus
Anthony was a
prominent community
figure known for his
humility, business
excellence, and
contribution towards
the betterment of
the community in
New Zealand
Mr Anthony suffered multiple organ failure
and passed away at the hospital on July 23,
2017.
Mr Anthony was a former co-chairperson
of India New Zealand Business Council and
fostered the India-New Zealand bilateral
relations and also travelled as a delegate to
India twice with the then Prime Minister Sir
John Key.
Mr Anthony received Member of the New
Zealand Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth
II in December 2013 for his services to New
Zealand-India relations.
His efforts awarded him as the first Kiwi
Indian to be honoured with the Papal Media Pro
Ecclesia Et Pontifice (Decoration of Honour of
the Roman Catholic Church) by Pope Francis.
His untimely death came as a blow for the
community and several memorial services were
held in India and New Zealand in his honour.
Divine Retreat Centre New Zealand is
conducting the First Year Memorial Eucharistic
Celebration at 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 22, at St
John Vianney Church on 317 Hillsborough
Road, Hillsborough, Auckland.
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Michael Wood hosts
seniors’ forum
¡¡ IWK BUREAU
ember of Parliament for Mount
Roskill, and Parliamentary Under-
Secretary, Michael Wood, hosted
a Seniors’ Forum on Thursday, July 19, to
discuss government’s winter energy payment,
insulation grants, and other policies and issues
of interest to seniors.
The forum was held at the Dominion
Road School in Mt Roskill. A diverse group
of seniors from the area attended the forum, The government’s new Warmer Kiwi
which included members from the Indian and Homes insulation grants will fund up to two-
Chinese community. thirds of the cost of insulation for homeowners.
Mr Wood opened the forum speaking about
This grant is targeted to low decile areas,
the Positive Ageing strategy and how New people with health issues and for those with
Zealand’s senior population is projected to
community services cards.
grow to around one million seniors in 2028 From July 1, 2019, the new Healthy Homes
and about one-fourth of the total population
standards for rental properties will kick in,
by 2038.
and homes will have to meet the new higher
Mr Wood also emphasised the need for standards before being tenanted.
a linked up approach to support people
Mr Wood also discussed elder abuse in the
to age well, by taking into consideration community, which sadly is a real problem in
the implications for housing, transport,
our community with up to one in ten seniors
employment and health.
may be affected. Abuse is more likely to be
He mentioned that the Positive Ageing
consultation is continuing until August 24 and from a family member and could be physical,
financial or emotional.
how people could provide their input on www.
If you think anyone is being abused, please
Super seniors.msd.govt.nz/ageing population
reach out and support them. You can talk to
The other issue of significance discussed
at the forum was the newly introduced winter the Police, Age Concern, and advice is also
energy payment for seniors by the government. available from the Office for Seniors Helpline
This payment goes to everyone on National on 0800 32 668 65
Superannuation or benefit. A payment of $20 Mr Wood also provided some tips for a
a week for singles and $32 a week for couples warmer home this winter such as getting hot
will be paid over July/August /September in water cylinder wrapped, trimming back trees
2018 and from May to September from 2019. that block the sun, using good quality thermal
This is an automatic payment, and there is no curtains, opening windows for 20 minutes
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Also, if people don’t want it, they can kit from any library to test one’s home for
opt out. The other topic that attracted much
insulation. The attendees shared their own tips
attention was about Warming up Kiwi homes.
with the group.
According to some rough estimates around 20
The group also enjoyed some beautiful
per cent of people report cold-housing. music by violinist Joy and morning tea.
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Volunteers needed for 2018 Telangana Association

Auckland Diwali Festival
¡¡ IWK BUREAU celebrates Bonalu festival
A
uckland Diwali ¡¡ RIZWAN MOHAMMAD

Festival organisers
are looking for keen
volunteers to help at this
year’s event, on Saturday, 20
and Sunday, 21 October.
Volunteers are an important
part of events delivered by
Auckland Tourism, Events
and Economic Development
(ATEED), which produces
Auckland’s major cultural
festivals on behalf of
Auckland Council.
“We’re really proud of our Team AKL events
volunteers,” says festival producer Leilana
Meredith. “They are Auckland residents from
all walks of life and backgrounds, including a
lot of international students, who generously
give their time, energy and enthusiasm to help
make our events a success and festival-goers’
experiences positive.”
The volunteer time commitment is flexible.
Some volunteers might work one four-hour
shift during an event, while others might work
multiple shifts every day of the event, as their
time allows.
Roles can include being festival ambassadors,
providing event information to festival-goers or
assisting with workshops.
Diwali volunteers receive a t-shirt, snacks,
meals or meal vouchers (depending on the
length of their shifts) and a certificate of
participation.
If you want to get involved, or have friends,
family or colleagues (16 years old and over) that
might be interested, go to the ‘Get Involved’
section at www.aucklandnz.com/diwali.
Everyone keen to take part needs to
complete an online application, which includes
submitting information for a Ministry of Justice
check, and reading and accepting the ATEED
volunteers policy. Details will be provided to
you by return email when you apply.
“Volunteering for an event like Diwali is
a great way to see a new side to these events
and Auckland,” says Leilana Meredith. “It’s a
great way to learn or develop new skills and
experience that benefits your job or studies, and
a great way to meet new people.
“If you’re enthusiastic and passionate about
exciting events and everything Auckland, we
want to hear from you.”
For further information please contact
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B
onalu is one of the most
important festivals
celebrated by the
Telangana community across the
globe, a tradition that started in
the 18th century and celebrated
till now.
Back in Telangana and across
different countries of the world,
this festival is celebrated with
immense joy, hours of special
puja and offerings.
“It was a good gathering and we men,
women and children in traditional dresses
performing puja with a floral presentation to
goddess Mahakali at the event venue,” Kalyan
Rao Kasunganti, President of the Telangana
Association of New Zealand told The Indian
Weekender.
Members of Telangana Association New
Zealand cherished the fact that their celebration
of Bonalu puja was among the very first all
around the world, purely because of the fact
that the land of the Aotearoa is among the few
countries to receive first sunlight of the day.
“We are proud to say that we are the first
in the world to celebrate this festival as we
are ahead in time geographically. There are
massive celebrations planned back home in
Telangana,” Vijay Kosna, president of TRS
NZ said.
The festival has an immense historical
significance for the people of Telangana state
as it has been celebrated continuously every
year for over two centuries as an offering and
gratitude towards goddess Mahakali.
The history of the festival goes back to the
twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad
in South India in the 18th century. It is
believed that a massive plague broke out in
the twin cities in 1813 that killed thousands
of people across the two places. A battalion
of soldiers from Hyderabad was deployed at
Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh just before this,
and as they came to know of the disease, the
soldiers prayed to goddess Mahakali to stop
this disease, and in return, they would install a
temple of Mahakali in the region.
It is believed that soon after that, the disease
stopped and the military battalion came back
to the city to fulfil their promise and installed
the idol of the goddess followed by Bonalu to
her.
The tradition has since been observed
every year for the last two hundred years by
the Telanganites in India and wherever they
settled overseas.
The celebrations in Mt Eden War memorial
started at 1:30 p.m. with Puja and offering
fruits and flowers to the deity and ended at 6
p.m. with an early dinner for the members of
the community.

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How does your child memorise…?

¡¡ TULIKA SAKLANI ¡¡ Ask them to remember a long word or twelve-

L
ast Friday, my six-year-
old daughter was given a
Hindi song to memorise
for a neighbourhood event.
Although, she was supposed to memorise
the one-page song just in one day, but she
continued to struggleeven two hours before the
event.I was unable to understand why she was
getting confused.
To understand what her memory pattern is,
I gave her a combination of 10 easy and not so
easy words to memorise. After five minutes,
I noticed a pattern in her memorisation. The
words which had a relation like Table, chair,
school, books she memorized them faster. The
bigger words like Amsterdam or punctuation
she tried to either skip it or just memorised the
first part of it. I repeated the same test by giving
Hindi words too. She did the same thing with
Hindi words as well.
I rearranged the entire song as per her
memory style. Within half an hour she learnt
the entire song. I have tried this on few children
during my tenure as a counsellor in schools
and have always been successful. Somewhere
I am quite influenced by serial position effect
coined by Herman Ebbinghaus. Many students
of psychology or professional psychologist
may not agree with me when I say that serial
position effect is a good way of understanding
a memory pattern because itis basically a test to
check the recall accuracy.
We teach our children how to memorise but
sometimes we may not pay attention on what
We teach our children
how to memorise but
sometimes we may
not pay attention and unconventional online tips available in
on what catches the market for boosting a child’s memory but
sometimes it is better to try something funny
the attention of our coming straight from your own creation instead
children and how of reading ready made stuff.
Some fun methods to improve
child is memorising
your child’s memory:
L et the child count land marks, trees, colours,
numbers while travelling with the child in a
car or walking in the park.
Children find it quite interesting if we give
catches the attention of our children and how them ownership of remembering and then
child is memorising!Memory is a store house recalling all the landmarks where your car is
of the mind where data is automatically saved. parked.
The secret to good memory is attention, and ¡¡ Let them make their own timetable for the
weekend.
attention to a subject which depends upon our
¡¡ Let them count grocery items and take their
interest in it. There are heaps of conventional help in arranging them in kitchen.
digit number, split the word and remember
the small words. In case of numbers make
them in groups.
¡¡ How about making your child brush teeth
sometimes with right or sometimes with left
hand for a change?
¡¡ Let the child express in detail an event or
something which happened in the school.
¡¡ You can ask your child after few hours of
shopping about what attracted him/her the
most in the market…?
Basically, the idea is to develop the cognitive
process of your child by making small efforts
and engaging yourself.
Memory and Emotions go hand
in hand
I think the concept of improving memory
cannot be viewed in isolation. It’s also about
developing emotions as well. Here is a simple
set of questions that you can answer about
your child. If you answer “yes” to these five
questions, then be happy
Emotional Quotient –EQ
1) Is your child verbalisingtheir own feelings,
and can your child identifyfeelings in
others?
2) Can your child feel and express empathy?
3) Can the child wait to get what they want?
4) Do they have toleration of frustration and
can they delay gratification without getting
distressed?Can they resolve conflicts?
5) Can they remember explaining the details
of an incident, event or a story...?
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Inland Revenue Multiple targeted burglaries

Department frustrate restaurateur in Auckland
warns of ¡¡ RIZWAN MOHAMMAD

A
spree of burglaries and odd

sophisticated robbery is forcing an Indian

restaurant owner to sell the

email scam
business and move to Australia.
Curry Leaf, a renowned Indian
restaurant in the Helensville region of
Auckland has been targeted ina spree of
burglaries in the past few months.
For the last five months, the restaurant
has been attacked four times, usually just
after the restaurant closes its business
for the day and the burglars have taken
alcohol bottles and cash from the store.
The owner of the restaurant Max Bisht
says he feels burglars have targeted the
place and this has become rampant in
the last few months.
Curry Leaf restaurant in Helensville
¡¡ IWK BUREAU “I have owned this place for 13 years

A
without any trouble, but now its very
sophisticated email scam is doing the rounds using Inland frustrating,” Mr Bisht told The Indian has also gone down
Revenue branding to trick people into giving up their credit Weekender. tremendously.” Mr
card details. Bisht added.
“It’s becoming too tough to pay for
The email usually claims the recipient is due a large tax refund The police station
the damages again and again,” he added.
and then asks them to click on a link to another website where their is located ata visible
The latest blow came on Tuesday,
money can supposedly be claimed. distance from the
July 10 when two men came to the store
Inland Revenue Chief Information Security Officer Doug restaurant, but they
around mid-night, smashed the glasses
Hammond says the email looks very convincing but there are a have not been able to
couple of important details that give their game away. and took bottles of alcohol and cash
from the premises. catch the offenders yet.
“Firstly look where the email is from. If it doesn’t come from an
Bisht’s other restaurant in Massey has “The offenders came
address that ends with ird.govt.nz then be very suspicious.
“Secondly look at the link where they are trying to direct people been attacked in the last few months as outside my restaurant
to claim the refund. Hover over the link with your mouse and make well and that has made him suspicious last night in their Mazda
sure the web address is for a real Inland Revenue website. Don’t that the same offenders have done the car to screen the place,”
click on it. two burglaries. Mr Bisht said.
“We send out emails all the time but customers should be aware The first burglary happened on March “I know its repeated
what a fraudulent one looks like.” 6 when the burglars swept the till clean offenders and the same
Anyone who receives an email they’re not sure about should people as I have seen
of $1000, and alcohol, which was
notify Inland Revenue at phishing@ird.govt.nz. one person wearing
followed by another incident on May
Mr Hammond says this particular scam has been quite prevalent the same cap in all our
2 and the third only four days later on
lately and Inland Revenue has received around 700 notifications CCTV footages of the
about it in the past week. May 6.
“The third time, the burglars came in break-ins,” he added.
“The same scammers look to be making multiple attempts to lure
through the back door, breaking it, then Bisht also said that
unsuspecting customers and have been using the same messaging
broke more glasses in the store and then after 4 p.m. there is
sent from a number of email addresses.
the front glass door again,” Bisht added. no police around in the area, which prevention advice to Bisht to help make
“We would never send anyone an email with a hyperlink to a
The burglars break the glass windows, makes the place more vulnerable to such the premise more secure.
webpage that asks you to submit your personal information so be
vigilant about any correspondence with those instructions.” front glass door and take alcohol bottles offences and unsafe for the community. “No arrests have been made in relation
If you have clicked on the form and submitted any personal or from the restaurant. This has cost him A police spokesperson told media to these burglaries; however police are
credit card data please contact your bank immediately.  We also thousands in repairs of the damages and that they had attended three of the four following strong lines of inquiry and
recommend you contact IDcare (http://www.idcare.org or phone subsequent expenses. break-ins at Curry Leaf. would like to hear from anyone who may
0800 201 415). “Since these break-ins, my business She added that they had provided have information,” Police told media.

Bhartiya Samaj celebrates Matariki for the seniors

¡¡ IWK BUREAU

B
hartiya Samaj Charitable Trust (BSCT)
celebrated Matariki on July Saturday,
14, for the senior members of the
Maori community.
Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster
of stars that rises in mid-winter and for many
Māori, it heralds the start of a new year.
Traditionally, it has been a time for celebrating
new life and planting new crops. In the 21st
century, observing Matariki has become
popular again as a cross-cultural celebration.
“It was a great honour to have Māori
community elder, Helene to grace the occasion
with her esteemed presence. She addressed the
entire audience and patiently explained the
meaning of Matariki with its true significance in citizen’s meeting and there was a visible minute skits in the form of dialogues, dance “Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day
the lives of Māori,” Jeet Suchdev, chairmanof increase in the attendance by our endearing performances and acts from each participant and it was yet another fun-filled eventful day
Bhartiya Samaj told The Indian Weekender. members,” Mr Suchdev added. that made us travel back in time and took us that kept the entire audience glued to their
This followed with a Bhartiya Samaj’s The day commenced with a stupendous back to yesteryears,” he added. seats. It was delightful to see everyone smile
regular senior citizens’ meeting where more performance by several senior members theme The entire audience applauded their and look forward to more entertainment,” a
number of seniors joined the discussion. based on ‘The 1970s Bollywood Theme’. performances and as a token of appreciation the representative from Bhartiya Samaj said.
“We then started our scheduled senior “It was truly delightful to watch these two- panel of judges felicitated the top performers. ••
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government is to make sure that we get • Business Loans • Medical / Health
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said to a full audience at the launch of 150 people • Re-Finance and Refixing • Mortgage Repayment cover
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“Our government is absolutely thanked everyone who attended and asked
occasion and reassured everyone that this
committed to stopping this,” Mr Lees- questions to the Minister. Mr Warraich
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Photographic Auckland Libraries worked with the Trust’s photographic archive and drew on the inspiring
oral histories of the migrant Punjabi women served by the Trust. Auckland Libraries

exhibition to display
is proud to have facilitated the documentation of Punjabi women’s voices and is honoured
to be the repository for their stories and the photographic archive of the Trust, to be

oral histories of
preserved in perpetuity as part of the Auckland Stories project.

The exhibiton will be held during Ladies Cultural Night 2018.

migrant Punjabi A permanent exhibition will be installed at the Trust offices at 2 Sutton Crescent, Papatoetoe.

women
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omen Care Trust in
Papatoetoe and Auckland
Libraries have collaborated
to bring an exhibition on the stories of
Indian migrant women settling in New
Zealand.
‘Punjabana Di Kahani Unha Di
Zubani – Voices of Woman Care Trust’
will be inaugurated at the Ladies’
Cultural Night, an annual event
organised by Women Care Trust at Vodafone
Event Centre in Manukau for the females of all
ages from the Indian community, on Saturday,
July 21.
The exhibition will showcase pictorial
stories of Punjabi Indian women settling in
New Zealand and the role of Women Care Trust
who has a rich history of supporting the women
in the country to have a better life.
Ladies’ Cultural Night is one of the most
popular cultural events for the women of the
Indian community, especially the Punjabi
women organised by Women Care Trust every
year. The event gets a houseful attendance
with scores of dances, singing and comic
performances. The event will be a launchpad
to show the work of the Trust for the women in
the community supported by Auckland Library.
“Auckland Libraries worked with the Trusts
photographic archive and drew on the inspiring
oral histories of the migrant Punjabi women
served by the Trust,” Smita Biswas, Team
Leader at West Auckland Research Centre,
representing Auckland Libraries told The
Indian Weekender.
“Auckland Libraries is proud to have
facilitated the documentation of Punjabi
women’s voices and is honoured to be the
repository for their stories and the photographic
archive of the Trust, to be preserved in
perpetuity as part of the Auckland Stories
project,” Ms Biswas added.
The exhibition will be permanently installed
at the Women Care Trust office at 2 Sutton
Crescent in Papatoetoe.
Ladies’ Cultural Night will be held on
Saturday, July 21 at Vodafone Event Centre
from 6 p.m. onwards. The event centre has free
parking for the visitors with tickets at a nominal
amount of $10; there will be Live DJ, Live
Play, bhangra and gidda performances.
 14 NEW ZEALAND Friday, July 20, 2018 The Indian Weekender

By Rohit Sachdeva

Jagannath Rath
Yatra celebrated
with religious
fervour
¡¡ ROHIT SACHDEVA

H
undreds of devotees attended
the  Jagannath Rath Yatra at BAPS
– Shri Swaminarayan Temple in
Christchurch that celebrated Shree Jagannath,
an avatar of Lord Krishna. The festival was
celebrated on 15 July 2018. Devotees came to
seek blessings of Lord Krishna.
The celebrations began around 5 pm  with
a group of devotees singing dhun, prarthana
and kirtans.There were videos shown of the
celebrations in India and blessings by Param
Pujya Mahant Swami Maharaj. One of the
devotees also delivered a lecture on How to
maintain the refuge of God.Thereafter the Rath
or mini chariot was pulled around the mandir
hall by the devotees. 
A Mahaprasad followed the Aarti and Dhun.
This is an annual event celebrated at BAPS Shri
Swaminarayan Temple in Christchurch.

From City of Gardens to City of Opportunities–

How Ministry of Awesome is helping
entrepreneurs excel The Indian Weekender

C
hanging the image of a city takes time.
And one of the organisations that is
working hard to do this is Ministry of
Awesome. Ministry of Awesome provides a
launch pad for the entrepreneurs in Christchurch
and is working on changing the image of
Christchurch to the city of opportunities. And
they are doing this along with some incredible
organisations like ChristchurchNZ, ARA,
Canterbury Tech, Callaghan Innovation, The
Chamber, Canterbury Angels, EPIC, and UC’s
Centre for Entrepreneurship.
The Indian Weekender spoke to Startup
Activation Programme Coordinator at MoA,
Jacob Varghese, who said that Ministry of
Awesome is the starting point for entrepreneurs,
innovators, and startups in the city. Jacob said
one of the unique things about MoA is the
Startup Accelerator programme which gives
entrepreneurs the support and mentoring spoke to Startup
needed to make their venture market ready. Activation Programme
The programme offers capability training
programmes like the Launch Club early stage Coordinator at MoA,
accelerator programme and ‘Deep Dive’ series Jacob Varghese, who
of training sessions.
MoA works with high growth early stage said that Ministry of
entrepreneurs and startups. One of the best Awesome is the starting
things about MoA is that it is not sector
focused. However, most of the start-ups they point for entrepreneurs,
have been working on are technology startups innovators, and
including Healthcare, Agritech, Transport,
Digital Technology and interestingly LawTech. startups in the city.
The entrepreneurs that MoA has worked in past
include Lucy Bennetto from Bennetto Foods
who recently secured a great deal with a Swiss
chocolate manufacturing company. on Tuesdays. They can also signup for Activator Readers of The Indian Weekender can also
Sessions that are made up of 20-minute contact Jacob at jacob@ministryofawesome.
There are many ways one can connect with
the Ministry of Awesome. Anyone can attend mentoring sessions where entrepreneurs of all com directly for one free session of
their weekly networking event, Coffee and Jam sizes and stages talk through their business and mentoring.
sessions which run from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm get focused feedback from Jacob. ••

ChCh dairy owners petrified with three brazen incidents in one morning
¡¡ RIZWAN MOHAMMAD from the register and ran away before the A police spokeswoman said that the offenders The Indian Weekender has contacted the

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worker could hit the panic alarm button. simply ram-raided the store damaging the police for an update on the investigation on the
olice were called at two different
“These kinds of robberies seem to happen entrance door, shattering glasses and taking three incidents and waiting for their response.
locations in Christchurch attacked
frequently,” she told media. down the wall but did not steal anything from In two other incidents during the weekend
by brazen robbers and attended two
AUM Foodmarket at the corner of Hopkins the store. in Dunedin, two dairy stores located in St
separate incidents of arson early on Friday
St and Mackenzie Ave in Woolston was In another incident, police were alerted to Kilda were robbed of thousands of dollars
morning, July 13.
reported to be attacked by a car in the wee three cars set ablaze at two different locations and tobacco products taken by two armed
Police were called to On the Spot Dairy on
hours of Friday morning. in the city. offenders. The incident happened on Sunday
Lincoln Road at about11 a.m. after reports of
Police was alerted at 5:20 a.m. of an Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) evening, after 6 p.m., and the police suspect that
an armed robbery at the store.
attempted ram raid at AUM Foodmarket. Shop spokesman Brent Dunn told media that two cars the two robberies in St Kilda are committed by
A woman working at the store who chose
manager Saginder Singh that he cannot open were found ablaze on Matlock St in Woolston, the same couple, who are also reported to have
not to be named told police that a man entered
the shop as there was extensive damage to the while a third was found in Greenpark St in used a handgun to rob the stores. The police are
the store wearing a hoodie and confronted her
store. Hoon Hay just after 5 a.m. investigating the incidents.
with a small knife. He then took eight packets
“This is simply ridiculous and unacceptable,” Police are investigating if the two incidents
of tobacco and some cigarette packs and cash
he told media. are connected.
 The Indian Weekender Friday, July 20, 2018 FIJI 15

FOUR FIJIANS BOUND FOR INDIA Japan tour

eye-opener for
W headgirl
aseem Sufyaan Ali, 18,
of Lautoka, was inspired
by his sister and mother
who studied in India to apply for
scholarships offered by the Indian
Council of Cultural Relations
(ICCR) Suva.
His prayers were answered when
he was given a chance to study for
a Bachelor of Engineering degree in
Aeronautical Engineering at Gujarat
Technological College.
He was one of the four scholarship
recipients who received their
air tickets at the Indian High
Commission office at Life Insurance Shanaya Prasad

Corporation India (LICI) building in
Suva last week.
“I am privileged to do a BE
because this course is not offered in
Fiji and I am fortunate to be given a
scholarship,” Mr Ali said.
“I will work hard so that I can come
back after I complete my studies so
that I can serve my country.”
Wassim’s course is for four years.
Another recipient, Pauliasi
Manuloa Dakunimata, 19, said he
was blessed to have been given an
From left: Zakiya Zeba Maqbool, Indian High Commisioner to Fiji Vishvas Sapkal, Waseem Sufyaan Ali, Pauliasi Manuloa
Dakunimata and Sherine Rajendra Prasad in Suva
Xavier College last year and this year
I am privileged to do a I started doing short courses at Fiji
BE because this course Maritime Academy while waiting
is not offered in Fiji and I for the response from ICCR,” Mr
Dakunimata said.
am fortunate to be given
“I am grateful and honoured to
a scholarship be given the opportunity to study
in India.”
opportunity to make his dream come Indian high commissioner Vishvas
true. “I was a Year 13 student at Sapkal reminded the Fijian students
to uphold their academic excellence
in India and serve their country.
The other two recipients, Zakiya
Zeba Maqbool and Sherine Prasad,
said they were extremely glad and
lucky to be selected. The students
leave for India between the end of
this month and the first week of
next month.
S
hanaya Prasad  was among the
top five students from around
Fiji selected for the Sakura
programme, which is facilitated by
the Japanese government.
 Participating in the Sakura High
School Science Programme has been
an eye-opener for Labasa Sangam
College headgirl Shanaya Prasad .
The Year 13 Science student is the
first from the school and Northern
Division who was selected for the

‘Education is for every Fijian’

programme in Japan.
The programme aims to raise the
interest of Asian youths toward the

N
o one is left behind through we hardly grace important speakers sciences and technologies at Japanese
this Parliament education and for us to welcome the Parliament universities, research institutions and
initiative and such a move outreach team is indeed a privilege. private companies.
is commendable. “They have certainly brought “I have witnessed a variety of
These were the sentiments shared Parliament down to our level and technologies produced by reputable
by the Social Science head of for that, we thank the Speaker corporations such as Yaskawa
department for Balata College in Honourable, Dr Jiko Luveni and Electronic Corporation, Miriakan
Tavua Mr Sanil Prasad following the the Secretary-General Mrs Viniana Science Museum as well as the
“Parliament Bus” programme at the Namosimalua for allowing the technical college,” Shanaya said.
school on Monday, 16 July 2018. team to travel all the way to Tavua “A person of interest whom I met
Mr Prasad said the exposure of for the purpose of educating our during my tour was Mamoru Mohri,
students to such a programme students as well as us teachers about a Japanese scientist.
would certainly help “He is a former National Space
Parliament.”
"This Development Agency of Japan
them to understand Year 12 student Ria Sharma, also
is really a good astronaut, and a veteran of two
better the workings learning opportunity thanked the team on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space
of our Parliament, for our students. Most students, saying most of them would Administration  shuttle missions.”
especially the of them don’t have any Students of Balata College in Tavua listening attentively during the
take Parliament education home to She said two of the main qualities
law-making idea about what happens “Parliament Bus” programme their families so they may also be she observed were punctuality and
processes. in Parliament but today, enlightened about the workings of perseverance.
happens in Parliament informative presentation about the
“This is really they have been well- the august house. “I was impressed with Dr Mohri’s
informed." but today, they have been roles and functions of Parliament
a good learning Meanwhile, the programme was punctuality in spite of his busy
well-informed,” he said. and other important information schedules and prestigious role at
opportunity for our in conjunction with the school’s
“We must commend the they have imparted to us. the National Museum of Emerging
students. Most of them Social Science week.
team members for such a lively and “For a semi-rural school like ours, Science and Innovation in Tokyo,”
don’t have any idea about what
Shanaya said.

Indian govt gives the FEO $224,000 for “We have all seen and experienced
for ourselves the development and

the purchase of 4 additional vehicles

modern technologies in Japan.
“In spite of these developments
and influence of the modern era,

T
he Indian government has given $224,000
to the Fijian Elections Office for the
purchase of 4 additional vehicles to help
in their preparations for the upcoming general
elections.
While receiving the assistance, the Permanent
Secretary for the Prime Minister’s Office, Yogesh
Karan says that government is happy for the
additional support towards the general elections
which included the $70,000 worth SUV Mahindra
vehicle that they earlier donated.
Karan says the elections office has also
received indelible ink worth $20,000. India’s
High Commissioner to Fiji Visvash Sapkal says
India is always ready to assist Fiji in the upcoming
elections.
Meanwhile the Supervisor of Elections
Mohammad Saneem thanked the Indian
government for their ongoing assistance to carry
out the elections.
the Japanese people are still rooted
to their culture – we should always
remember that culture is our
identity.” Shanaya, who resides at
Bulileka, labels her one week stint as
an experience of a life time.
She was among the top five
students from around Fiji selected
for the Sakura programme, which
is facilitated by the Japanese
government. Selection was based on
their results for the Year 12 external
examination.
During the school assembly, she
said activities under the Sakura
programme included visitation
to various research stations and
universities.
“I was so excited when the teachers
(L-R) India’s High Commissioner to Fiji Visvash Sapkal, Permanent Secretary for the Prime Minister’s Office, told me that I had been selected for
Yogesh Karan and Supervisor of Elections Mohammad Saneem the programme,” she said.
 Thought of the week
"Everyone can rise above their circumstanc-
es and achieve success if they are dedicated
and passionate about what they do."
- Nelson Mandela
Editorial
Thailand cave rescue: The soft power Auckland Weather forecast for the week
July 13 – July 19, 2018
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escue missions seem to be emerging as the new element of soft power within international
relations.
Now that the world has come out from the grips of Thailand cave rescue mission, which
had ended, fortunately, saving miraculously all twelve children and coach, stranded deep within
underground caves for more than 17 days, it’s time to move on and delve upon the emergence of
rescue missions as new elements of soft power within international relations. 
During this 17 days ordeal, which seem to have affected millions of people all around the
world, who kept glued to their television screens or smartphones continuously to be regularly Mostly Cloudy Periods of Partly Mostly Variable Cloudy
updated about the fate of boys and their coach, stranded deep within the Tham Luang cave system, sunny rain rain sunny, a cloudy clouds with and sun
significant attention was also on the complex rescue mission assembled together from local and and nice begining shower shower
international expertise.
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For it was the merit and unwavering commitment of these people leading and executing, what
could inarguably be one of the most daunting and complex rescue missions of recent times, that we 18° 18° 18° 18° 16° 16° 17°
had such a different outcome of the 17-day ordeal. (The death of a former Thai naval seal Saman
Kunan, was the only casualty of the week-long complex rescue mission.)
The images of boys being finally located by two British cave divers almost ten days after first This week in New Zealand’s history
reported missing generated huge emotions and goodwill all around the world.
Since then the news of rescue mission being led by renowned international experts such as 20 July 1892
divers from Great Britain, specialist doctor-diver from Australia, along with US Navy seals, Steam locomotive sets world speed record
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and experts from countries like Japan and China, Finland, Denmark, assisting in the mission in he Wellington and Manawatu Railway (WMR) Company’s locomotive No. 10 established a
different capacities, had captivated imaginations of people all around the world. world speed record for the narrow 3 foot 6 inch (1067 mm) gauge, averaging 68 km per hour
However, for experts of international relations, these images might have slightly deeper
on a two-hour run and hitting a top speed of 103 kph.
implications, as it demonstrates the significance of rescue missions as an element of soft power in
international politics. Soft power in international relations is defined as the ability of a country to
persuade others to do what it wants without force or coercion. 24 July 2000
Ever since Joseph Nye coined the word soft power in the late 1980s, it has gradually crept into New Zealand soldier killed in Timor-Leste
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state’s foreign policy within the realm of international relations, with different states demonstrating rivate Leonard Manning was the first New Zealander killed in combat since the Vietnam
varying levels of propensity to shore-up their soft power repertoire.  War. Manning’s patrol was part of New Zealand’s contribution to the United Nations (UN)
While scholars of international relations tend to define state’s soft power as its overall
peacekeeping force in the fledgling nation of Timor-Leste (East Timor).
attractiveness due to its culture, political values and foreign policies in general, it would not be
an exception to argue that soft power is the manifestation of a state’s overall goodwill generated
through the above or any other means. 26 July 1863
For states cannot persuade others to do what it wants without force or coercion without banking Floods kill 25 miners in Central Otago
on its overall goodwill. It is this goodwill, which essentially translates into some kind of ability for
nation-states to influence other actors in international relations and defined as soft power.
In this regard it is important to note that international rescue missions almost inadvertently
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series of flash floods and slips caused by 24 hours of heavy rain. It was the worst day of a
brutal winter during which an estimated 100 miners were drowned, buried by mudslides or died
generate goodwill. The goodwill is generated through the basic human spirit of collective action of exposure.
in reaching and helping out, and making sacrifices for people, who sometimes are completely
unrelated by ordinary ties like ethnicity, nationality or political and cultural proximity, but instead,
are united by an extraordinary bond of humanity.
26 July 1865
While international rescue missions come in all scales, sizes and complexities, requiring a Parliament moves to Wellington
varying level of expertise and capabilities, some missions generate more emotions than others.
As a rule more gripping and dangerous the crisis is, and provided more ease of reporting by
international media is available, the greater is the goodwill.
T he capital moved from Auckland to more centrally located Wellington on the recommendation
of a specially appointed Australian commission. The former Wellington Provincial Council
chamber became the new home for Parliament.
Indeed this was the case with the latest Thailand cave rescue mission.
The transactional goodwill generated during any such crisis resulting in complex international 26 July 1928
rescue missions potentially can develop into more relational, and long lasting people to people,
and government to government goodwill. This can potentially translate into a more favourable Kiwi boxer fights for world heavyweight title
decision-making from other states, as and when a situation arises, within international politics.
Thereby, shoring-up state’s overall soft power!
It is probably for this reason that some states more than others in international relations are
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world heavyweight title in front of 46,000 spectators at Yankee Stadium, New York. Although
he was defeated, his title bid had aroused tremendous interest in both New Zealand and the USA.
consciously indulging in developing capabilities to assist and lead in complex rescue missions
abroad, sometimes in areas far and away from what essentially can be considered as their own Indian Weekender : Volume 10 Issue 18
backyard. It is important to understand that some states have inbuilt capabilities, or have developed
capabilities over a period of time that suits to a crisis-on-hand,  which they generously offer to Publisher: Kiwi Media Publishing Limited
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life. In the recent Thai cave rescue mission, the states like Great Britain, Australia, and the United Chief Reporter: Swati Sharma | swati@indianweekender.co.nz
States would fall into this category, which had either specific advanced diving capabilities to come
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citizenry and diaspora, where it can also come to rescue to foreigners caught in the crisis situation
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China is one such country which has in the recent past shored-up its capabilities and demonstrated
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involved directly in the crisis. is not responsible for advertisers’ claims as appearing in the publication
China had established a dedicated Chinese International Search and Rescue Team (CISAR) in
April 2001, with a mandate to carry out rescue missions in foreign soil. Views expressed in the articles are solely of the authors and do not in any way represent
Since 2001, CISAR had contributed in rescue missions in places as distant as Haiti, Algeria, and
the views of the team at the Indian Weekender
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crisis as an opportunity to generate international goodwill for them, and are increasingly
augmenting their capabilities to be able to deliver, as and when the opportunity presents.
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German ruling a real-life lesson for India on digital inheritance 

NISHANT ARORA and Picasa web albums, has an “Inactive

I
n a landmark ruling when it comes to post-
death digital rights, Germany’s highest
court has told Facebook to grant a grieving
mother access to her late daughter’s account.
Citing data protection laws, Facebook had
earlier refused to allow the woman access to
the profile of her 15-year-old daughter who
was killed by an underground train in Berlin in
2012.
Judges at the Federal Constitutional Court
in Karlsruhe in southwest Germany ruled on
July 12 that “parents can inherit the contract
between their child and a social media platform
in the same way they would be able to inherit
physical documents such as diaries and private
letters”.
“From an inheritance law view, there is no
reason to treat digital content differently,” the
ruling said.
There are over two billion people on
Facebook, 1.5 billion on WhatsApp, one billion
on Instagram and 330 million on Twitter -- out
of which millions are from India.
There is no denying the fact that most of
us spend a sizable amount of time on digital
platforms and few of us actually think what will
happen to our digital possessions once we die.
The latest ruling has reignited the debate on
how to make digital platforms realise the need
to transfer digital assets -- personal photos,
family videos and friendly posts -- to the family
once a member is no more.
“When someone dies leaving behind his
email and social media accounts, the same
are movable property and that being so, any
heirs of the concerned person can seek right to
access the same,” says Pavan Duggal, one of
the nation’s top cyber law experts.
A “digital heir” can preserve those precious
moments and gift those to future generations
via tools such as an external hard disk, Cloud
storage, pen drive or DVDs.
The said heirs can ask the digital/social
When someone dies leaving
behind his email and social
media accounts, the same are
movable property and that being
so, any heirs of the concerned
person can seek right to access
the same
media companies to get access after giving the
necessary proof.
“Invariably, the service provider may not
be inclined to give such access without any
requisite order from the court of competent
jurisdiction.
This could mean getting a succession
certificate from a court of competent jurisdiction
which could be a time-consuming process,”
Duggal said.
The German ruling has done justice to a
grieving women but the Indian cyber law has
not even touched upon -- let alone dwelt on the
nuances of -- the issue of one’s digital life post-
death.
“It is pertinent to note that India does not
have a dedicated law on digital inheritance,
which is indeed unfortunate, given the rapid
adoption of and reliance on the digital data by
Indians,” Duggal lamented.
Facebook and WhatsApp each has over 200
million Indian users.
The photo-sharing app Instagram, according
to www.statista.com , has nearly 60 million
users in India (as of April 2018). According to
statistician Hachem Sadikki from the University
of Massachusetts, Facebook will become the
world’s biggest virtual graveyard by the end
of this century as there will be more profiles of
dead people than of living users.
The social media giants, however, have
formulated their own solutions to the problem.
Facebook “memorialises” your account and
allows you to choose a “legacy contact”. No
one can log into a “memorialised” account.
The “legacy contact” can “manage” your
account by adding a pinned post (like a funeral
announcement), respond to new friend requests
and change the profile picture and cover photo
-- but nothing beyond that.
Google, which owns Gmail, YouTube
Account Manager” feature which allows a
user to nominate who has access to his or her
information.
If people don’t log on after a while, their
accounts can be deleted or shared with a
designated person.
According to Twitter, “In the event of the
death of a Twitter user, we can work with a
person authorised to act on behalf of the estate
or with a verified immediate family member of
the deceased to have an account deactivated.”
The micro-blogging site, however, says that
“we are unable to provide account access to
anyone regardless of his or her relationship to
the deceased.”
From the security point of view, one has to
safeguard digital impressions in case of death so
that they are not used for anti-social purposes.
“Digital signatures/impressions generally
have a validity/expiry date which require a
yearly renewal and they are also equipped with
a unique combination of passkey so even if
someone has the digital signatures they must
know the access key to use that,” noted social
media analyst Anoop Mishra. 17
The law, however, is silent on this not just
in India but in other countries too. Several US
states have been debating for years the question
of whether families can access someone else’s
digital assets after they die.
“The law has to intrinsically recognise
that digital data and information, as also
aspects pertaining to digital life, are integral
components of our life and the law must
provide for seamless inheritance of digital
data,” Duggal noted
According to the experts, rather than being
allowing the accounts of digital users to lapse, it
is imperative that the rights to the digital assets
of the dead person be adequately recognised
and granted to the relatives of the dead person.
The German ruling has opened a window
for other countries to take cognizance and
formulate laws that cater to digital inheritance.

Reimagining employability in India: A singular imperative

AMIT DASGUPTA This would be equally true of airline that argue that global, virtual teams

T
he singular expectation
from university education
is guaranteed employability
and, thus, a return on investment.
When this fails to happen, it is
because the quality of education does
not respond to market demand.
Drawing on data from
60,000 graduates pan-India, an
employability solutions company
noted that around 47 percent of
Indian graduates are unemployable.
According to a McKinsey report,
only a quarter of Indian engineers are
employable. Other studies put it at a
much lower figure and even as low
as five percent. These are alarming
statistics because they would
significantly and negatively impact
India’s demographic dividend.
In the meantime, technology
has emerged as a game-changer.
Breakthroughs in robotics, Artificial
Intelligence, Internet of Things, 3D
printing, driverless vehicles, for
example, have triggered a revolution
that is expected to transform
everyday human experience.
Take robotic surgery, for instance.
The surgeon can now carry out the
most complex procedures with far
greater skill, precision and dexterity.
Robotics, similarly, is being used
in the construction industry and it
is argued that with robotic systems,
consistent accompanied by higher
quality, speed and efficiency. In the
military, it is estimated that the US
armed forces could have more robots
on the battlefield than real soldiers
by 2025. Not only would these
robots have deadly capability but,
more importantly, their use would
dramatically reduce loss of life
among American soldiers in combat
zones.
In a similar fashion, 3D printing
is already impacting manufacturing,
the production of medical devices,
the fashion industry, architecture and
the automobile industry.
The dramatic impact that the
technology revolution is having
and would continue to have is an
indisputable fact of contemporary
life.
This would suggest that in 4-5
years time, when a student graduates,
the job the person would do is yet to
they gear students up to anticipate
uncertainty and have the ability to
respond to it.
This is not true of Indian education,
however, because of its steadfast
refusal to evolve and embrace new
challenges and prepare for a rapidly
changing world. Unless it does
so, education would not lead to
employability or job creation through
entrepreneurship.
What we know as facts are,
first, that the rapid breakthroughs
in technology would result in
several current jobs being done by
machines. We are already seeing this
in multiple fields, some of which
we interact with in our daily lives.
Many supermarkets, for instance,
have introduced pay machines
and dispensed with manual bill
generation and payment counters
handled by staff. With the increasing
use of credit cards, pay-and-go would
and other modes of long-distance
travel where boarding passes can
now be printed without having to
visit the counters. The McKinsey
Global Institute estimates that around
one-third of all jobs across 46 nations
would be displaced by 2030.
Second, how we negotiate our
relationship with technology would
be critical to our well-being.
At present, there is fear of, and
even resistance to, technology
because of credible apprehensions
about loss of jobs. We need to
recognise that technology is only
a tool meant to assist us and to
improve overall performance and
productivity. Rather than a threat,
it is meant to complement our core
capabilities and free us from drudge
work that machines might do better
and more efficiently.
Even engineers, architects and
doctors need to rethink their role, as
machines would now replace what
they did.
But then again, there are several
other areas where technology would
be found wanting. Consequently,
there would be increasing demand for
new skills, as the work place would
itself be dramatically transformed.
The McKinsky report estimates
that automation could force
anywhere between 75 million to 375
would replace the current work
place environment because project
teams would now be geographically
dispersed. PricewaterhouseCoopers
projects this new style of working
to increase by 50 percent by 2020
resulting in a potential shortfall of 85
million qualified workers globally by
2020.
Third, this suggests that education
needs to build the soft human skills
that Artificial Intelligence cannot
emulate.
What we teach, consequently,
needs to be rethought. While strong
technical knowledge is important,
it is equally important that students
master intercultural communication
and are in a position to perform in
geographically dispersed virtual
environments. Team building,
leadership, crisis and conflict
management, and dealing with
people would be the key tipping
points in deciding who is employable
and who may be displaced.
Reimagining employability
is an imperative for India but its
success is entirely dependent on
how we redesign our approach to
education. What we require is close
collaboration between the corporate
sector and educational institutions to
create the work force of the future.
(Amit Dasgupta, a former

output would be much more be created. For educators, this would displace more persons from other million into new jobs by 2030. This diplomat, is the inaugural India
country director for UNSW
prove to be a nightmare, unless current jobs in many retail outlets. is borne out by other studies as well Sydney.)
 18 INDIA Friday, July 20, 2018 The Indian Weekender

PM MODI SEEKS
OPPOSITION’S
COOPERATION
IN PARLIAMENT
SESSION
P
rime Minister Narendra
Modi on Tuesday sought
cooperation of opposition
parties for smooth running of
Parliament during the monsoon
session, saying the opposition raising
its issues also gives the government
an opportunity to get feedback,
reconsider its position and move
forward.
Modi, who was speaking at an all-
party meeting here a day before the
start of the monsoon session, said it
is expectation and hope of the people
that Parliament should run smoothly
universities shall be calculated raise issues, ask questions, discuss,
department-wise and not based it will provide the government
on the aggregate vacant posts in a an opportunity to reconsider (its
university, will drastically affect position) and move ahead,” Kumar
recruitment of weaker sections.  said citing Modi.
He said the policy being followed He said Modi told the leaders
by the government will make it that every effort should be made for
nearly impossible for a scheduled smooth running of Parliament.
tribe candidate to avail benefits of Kumar said the government is
reservation in jobs in universities and prepared to address all the issues
make it very difficult for candidates raised by the opposition. The
belonging to the other backward government apprised the opposition
classes and the scheduled castes.  leaders of its legilative agenda for Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Parliamentary
“The vacancies for central the session. Rashtriya Janata Dal Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar at an all-party meeting ahead of the monsoon
universities that have been advertised (RJD)’s Jay Praskah Narayan Yadav session of Parliament, in New Delhi on Tuesday, July 17, 2018

and there should be discussions.
Opposition parties raised
their issues at the meeting with
Samajwadi Party (SP) talking about
a University Grants Commission
(UGC) notification issued in March
this year that “will have an impact on
the reservation for weaker sections in
teaching jobs in universities”.  of the House. Kumar said Modi, who
SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav told
reporters later that the party will
not allow Parliament to function if
it does not get a positive assurance
from the government on the issue.
He said the UGC notification,
which mentioned that the number
of reserved faculty posts across
do not have a single reserve category said that reservation provisions are Lt. Governor in Delhi is operating without the tacit support of
post,” he said. Parliamentary being attacked. on his own. What is our crime? government of the day,” he said and
Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar told He said the party will also We only want to deliver added that when the issue was raised
"Nowhere
reporters that the meeting was held in raise issues of price rise ration to people’s in 2014, the government did not
lynching can
a very good atmosphere. and lynchings, besides doorstep, install respond.
persist without
He said the Congress and other the demand for special CCTVs and want to He said earlier it was on rumours
the tacit support of
opposition parties said that they will category status to government of the day,” he work for promotion of beef or child lifting, and the
incidents were rising. “This is what
cooperate fully in smooth functioning Bihar. added that when the issue of education and
Aam aadmi Party was raised in 2014, the health. So, why are majoritarianism of politics means?”
spoke in the end, told the leaders that (AAP) leader Sanjay government did not we not allowed to Referring to TDP’s demand for
if they raise their issues in the Lok Singh said he raised respond." work?” he said. special category status to Andhra
Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, it will be concerns of the Delhi CPI-M member Pradesh, Salim said the government
beneficial for the country. government and asked “why Mohammad Salim said the has failed to address the issues that
“If the house runs, it is a win- the Centre is obstructing Delhi government should bring a law led to disruptions in the second-half
win situation for the ruling party, government’s work”. against mob lynching, in line with the of Budget session.
the opposition and the people of “I asked PM Modi as to why, even Supreme Court’s recommendation. The monsoon session will have 18
the country. When opposition will after the Supreme Court’s ruling, the “Nowhere lynching can persist sittings and conclude on August 10.

US offers India armed version of Guardian drone: Sources

I
f the deal comes to fruition,
it would be the first time
Washington has sold a large
armed drone to a country outside the
NATO alliance.
The United States has offered
India the armed version of Guardian
drones that were originally
authorized for sale as unarmed for
surveillance purposes, a senior US
official and an industry source told
said. If the deal comes to fruition, it
would be the first time Washington
has sold a large armed drone to a
country outside the NATO alliance.
It would also be the first high-tech
unmanned aircraft in the region,
where tensions between India and
Pakistan run high.
In April, President Donald
Trump’s administration rolled out a
long-awaited overhaul of US arms
export policy aimed at expanding
The Guardian drone would be the first high-tech unmanned aircraft in the region,
where tensions between India and Pakistan run high
sales to allies, saying it would bolster
the American defence industry and
create jobs at home.
The plan included a new drone
export policy that allowed lethal
drones that can fire missiles, and
surveillance drones of all sizes, to be
more widely available to allies.
One administrative hurdle to the
deal is that Washington is requiring
India to sign up to a communications
framework that some in New Delhi
worry might be too intrusive, the US
official said.
The drones were on the agenda
at a cancelled meeting between
Indian and the US ministers of
state and defence that was set for
July, the sources said. The top
level meeting is now expected
to take place in September. Last
June, General Atomics said the US
government had approved the sale
of a naval variant of the drone. India
has been in talks to buy 22 of the
unarmed surveillance aircraft, MQ-
9B Guardian, worth more than $2
billion to keep watch over the Indian
Ocean. Besides potentially including
the armed version of the drone, the
sources said the number of aircraft
had also changed.
An Indian defence source said the
military wanted a drone not just for
surveillance but also to be able to
hunt down targets at land and sea.
The military had argued the costs of
acquisition did not justify buying an
unarmed drone.
The cost and integration of the
weapons system are still issues,
as well as Indian assent to the
Communications Compatibility and
Security Agreement (COMCASA)
which Washington insists on as a
condition for operating advanced
defence systems.
India, the defence source said, has
shed its opposition to the agreement
after an assurance from the United
States it would apply largely to U.S-
procured weapons systems such as
fighter planes and drones and not to
the large Russian-origin equipment
with the Indian military.
U.S. drone manufacturers, facing
growing competition overseas,
especially from Chinese and Israeli
rivals which often sell under lighter
restrictions, have lobbied hard for
the changes in U.S export rules.
Among the changes will be a
more lenient application by the
U.S. government of an arms export
principle known as “presumption
of denial.” This has impeded many
drone deals by automatically denying
approval unless a compelling
security reason is given together
with strict buyer agreements to use
the weapons in accordance with
international law.
 The Indian Weekender Friday, July 20, 2018 INDIA 19

India, US
INDIAN EXPERTS GET OXFORD AWARDS discuss
FOR ARSENIC POISONING RESEARCH IN bilateral
defence ties
GANGA-BRAHMAPUTRA DELTA I
ndian and American defence
officials on Wednesday discussed
how to strengthen defence trade
ties and create opportunities for co-
production and co-development of
military equipment even as the two
countries are locked in a row over
the US sanctions against Russia that
have affected defence deals between
New Delhi and Moscow.
The 7th Defence Technology and
Trade Initiative (DTTI) meeting
which forms a part of Indo-US
Bilateral Defence Cooperation was
co-chaired by Secretary (Defence
Production) Ajay Kumar and US
Under Secretary of Defence for
Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen
M. Lord. The DTTI meetings are
held twice a year, alternately in India
In conjunction with the river Brahmputra, Ganga has created the world’s largest delta in the Sundarbans. A team comprising experts from the IIT-Kharagpur and the and the US with the aim of bringing
University of Oxford has been selected for an award for research-led innovation to mitigate arsenic poisoning in the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta
sustained leadership focus on the
The team developed a unified experimental and theoretical approach to mitigate bilateral defence trade relationship.
According to an official statement,
arsenic poisoning in the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta in north and northeast India Ajay Kumar told the meeting that

A
team comprising experts
from the Indian Institute
of Technology-Kharagpur
and the University of Oxford has
been selected for an award for
exceptional research-led innovation
to mitigate arsenic poisoning in the
Ganga-Brahmaputra delta in north
and northeast India.
The innovation awards instituted
by the university’s vice-chancellor
include one for prominent Oxford-
basedlinguist Aditi Lahiri, who
was selected for the “inspiring
leadership” award for developing
a flexible approach to speech
recognition.
The team that developed a
unified experimental and theoretical
approach to mitigate arsenic
poisoning includes Oxford-based
Ian Griffiths and Raka Mondal,
and IIT-Kharagpur‘s Sirshendu
De, Sourav Mondal and Krishnasri
Venkata. sound quantitative understanding
Griffiths developed a of its performance is essential, and
mathematical framework that, when this can only be obtained through
applied to a new arsenic filtering the development of mathematical
technology developed by De and models. Griffiths developed a
his colleagues, enables engineers to mathematical framework using
maintain current filters and deploy homogenisation theory and
them in a cost-effective manner. asymptotic analysis that distils
Describing the Ganga– the complex process into a simple
Brahmaputra delta as a “global predictive tool, which predicts the
hotspot for arsenic groundwater two key features - how frequently
contamination”, the university filters must be replaced, and how the
said naturally occurring arsenic filters may be upscaled to serve, for
concentrates in water drawn from example, a school or community.
deep wells create a major public The filters serve more than 5000
health issue in West Bengal and people and 40 community-scale
Bangladesh. De recently discovered filters are now being deployed.
a novel technology that uses The mathematical tools provide
naturally abundant laterite soil to the essential guidance needed for
filter arsenic. The technology has engineers to maintain current filters
the potential to provide a global and deploy these new filters in a
breakthrough, supplying clean water cost-effective manner. As part of
to the world, the university said. the model developed by Lahiri, a
To achieve this, however, a mobile phone language learning
application was produced enabling
second language learners to improve
pronunciation.
Words and sentences spoken into
the app are analysed and specific
feedback is given like a personal
tutor to improve and correct
mistakes. Oxford vice-chancellor
Louise Richardson said at the
awards ceremony:
“The range of projects, products
and models featured are testament
to the excellence of the innovation
taking place across the university’s
four divisions and there is clearly the
potential to innovate even further in
the future.
“As a university, we are
committed to global leadership in
knowledge exchange, innovation
and entrepreneurship, ensuring our
research, scholarship and teaching
contribute to the good of the nation
and the world.”
the Indian government had taken a
number of steps to give an impetus
to Indian defence industry and its
flagship ‘Make in India' initiative.
Given the large defence outlay
planned for India's defence
requirements in the future, he said,
the contribution of the industry, in
partnership with foreign original
equipment manufacturers to begin
with, is expected to be significant.
"This will also contribute to overall
growth of the economy and also have
several opportunity benefits and
downstream effects," he said.
Ellen Lord said the India-US
defence cooperation was one of the
core pillars of the defence relationship
between the two countries.
She said the US had designated
India as a ‘Major Defence Partner'
and expected the defence relationship
between the two countries to be
further strengthened.

Nepal to host fourth Bimstec Summit in August Congress confident about

N winning Friday’s no-confidence
epal will host the fourth
Bimstec Summit on August
30 and 31 in Kathmandu,
motion against Modi govt
T
the foreign ministry announced
he Congress has expressed There will be no Question Hour that
on Monday.
confidence about winning day and the House would not conduct
After the stalling of the Saarc
the no-trust motion against any other business either, she added.
process, India has been actively the Narendra Modi government, The saffron party has 273 members
pushing Bimstec, which includes slated to be taken up in Parliament in the Lok Sabha, without taking
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, on Friday, although the odds seem political allies into account.
Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and overwhelmingly in the BJP’s favour. Speaking to the media ahead of
Thailand, for greater regional “Who says we don’t have the the session, Modi said: “We hope
cooperation. India hosted the leaders Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with BRICS and BIMSTEC leaders posing for a
numbers?” news agency ANI quoted Parliament functions smoothly,
group photo during the BRICS and BIMSTEC Summits in Goa in 2016
of Bimstec during the Brics Outreach Congress leader Sonia Gandhi as whatever issues any party has, it can
Summit in Goa in 2016. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and of Bimstec process. According to saying, when asked if the Opposition raise on the floor of the house. The
“We have already started other heads of government or state of the decision of the sixth Bimstec stood a chance of emerging government is ready for discussions
preparations to hold the summit the six member states are expected ministerial meeting held in Thailand victorious. on all issues.”
and ensure its success,” This is to participate in the summit. in 2004, the summit should be held The Congress and Telugu Desam “Many important decisions in
foreign minister an important Nepal is the current chair every two years. Till date, only Party (TDP) were among the nation’s interest will be taken up in
Pradeep Gyawali told regional gathering of Bimstec. three summits were in 2004, 2008 Opposition parties that moved the the monsoon session. We hope for
reporters. taking place in A meeting of senior and 2014. motion on Wednesday, the first day good suggestions and discussions
“This is an Kathmandu after the officials will be held on Bimstec focuses on 14 areas of of the monsoon session. Lok Sabha from all experienced members,” he
important regional promulgation of Nepal’s August 28, followed by cooperation, including trade and speaker Sumitra Mahajan later added.
gathering taking new Constitution and a ministerial meeting on investment, technology, energy, announced that the House would take The prime minister’s office had
place in Kathmandu formation of the new August 30. transport and communications, up the motion on Friday. earlier expressed the hope that the
government “The House will take up the session would be fruitful. “May
after the promulgation The meeting tourism, fisheries, agriculture,
debate (on the motion) on July 20. the productivity of the forthcoming
of Nepal’s new of heads of state and cultural cooperation, environment
The discussion will be held for the session and the rich levels of debate
Constitution and formation of the government will be held on and natural disasters, public health,
full day, followed by voting on also become a source of inspiration
new government. The government August 31. poverty alleviation, people-to-people
it,” Mahajan said when the House for the various state assemblies,” it
attaches high importance to the The summit is the highest policy- contacts, counter-terrorism and reassembled after the lunch break. tweeted.
summit,” he said. making and decision-making body climate change.
 20 INDIA ABROAD
CREATING JOB OPPORTUNITIES FROM E-WASTE:
INDIA-BORN AUSTRALIAN SCIENTIST SHOWS THE WAY
T
he effective management and
disposal of electronic waste,
or e-waste – the innards
and shells of dumped smartphones,
desktops, laptops and printers,
among other things – is a massive
modern-day challenge.
But an India-born Australian says
end-of-life electronic products offer
huge economic and job-generating
potential, and India, which produces
upward of two million tonnes of
electronic waste every year, surely
has an advantage.
The solution uncovering
significant economic value in
e-dumps is also in line with Prime
Minister Narendra Modi’s “Swachh
Bharat” and “Make in India”
campaigns, said Veena Sahajwalla,
materials scientist at the University
of New South Wales (UNSW) in
Sydney.
Sahajwalla is the inventor of
what she calls microfactories that
can transform e-waste into reusable
material to be converted into
ceramics and plastic filaments for
3D printing. The high-grade metals
-- like gold, silver, copper, palladium
-- in the e-waste can be separated for
re-sale in conditions that are totally
safe.
India has an advantage, she said.
But how?
Street scrap collectors, and the
country has a huge number of
them, can be employed, trained and
introduced to the microfactories.
“India already has kabadiwallas
(waste collectors) and scavengers
working at the grassroots level,
collecting and separating waste and
Sikh, Hindu victims of Afghan attack honoured Bahrain praises Indian community’s
C role in its development
ondemning the terrorist
attack on Sikhs and
Hindus that killed 18, US
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has
called for confronting “hatred with
love, fear with understanding, and
darkness with light”.
Speaking at a memorial meeting
for the victims on Sunday, Gabbard,
who is the first Hindu elected to US
Congress, said;: “We must continue
to stand up to bigotry and hatred
in Afghanistan, here at home, and
around the world.”
The Islamic State has owned up
responsibility for the suicide bombing
on July 1 that struck members of the
Sikh and Hindu communities waiting
to meet President Ashraf Ghani. Ten
people were injured.
Sam Brownback, the head of
the State Department’s Office of
International Religious Freedom,
said in a message to the meeting,
“Our office will continue to monitor
the conditions faced by religious
minorities in Afghanistan. I stand
with you and will work toward an
Afghanistan that is peaceful and
secure for all its people.”
He added, “The loss of
"What
these community leaders
the future holds
was a terrible blow, not
for us, a miniscule
only to Afghanistan,
minority, does not look
but also to the
bright as long as foreign
international
insurgents are in Afghanistan.
community.”
They must be eradicated."
The meeting
"It is difficult to digest how we are allowing
everything that has got so much economic
value in itself to not be processed in a way
so there is equity."
that is the biggest advantage the
country has.
“What we and the government
need to do is give them the
technology, deploy the (e-waste)
microfactories and teach them how
it works. What will happen is that,
instead of burning that e-waste,
these people will be working in a
sustainable and safe environment
without producing any kind of toxic
waste,” the Mumbai-born alumnus
of IIT-Kanpur’s metallurgical
department said.
“This way,” she said, “we are not
displacing the kabadiwallas and
scavengers. Instead, we can create
more job opportunities.”
The Director of the Centre for
US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard
was organised by the by the Afghan
Hindu Association (AHA), in
conjunction with the Embassy of
Afghanistan, with the assistance of
the Hindu American Foundation
(HAF), and held in front of a mural
at the mission depicting
the ancient relics of
the Buddhas of
Bamiyan.
A H A
President
Sena Lund
solemnly
recited the
Sustainable Materials
Research and Technology
(SMaRT) at UNSW was in the
capital to meet government officials
to discuss her invention.
The recipient of the 2011
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the
highest honour conferred on
overseas Indians, for outstanding
achievement in science among
numerous other awards, proposed
to deploy a microfactory in Delhi’s
Seelampur – the capital’s digital
graveyard with piles of discarded
mobile phones and computers.
People in this semi-urban pocket
work with waste, including e-waste,
to create value-added products like
decorative glass panels, acoustic
names of the 18 slain Sikhs and
Hindu.
According to a HAF press
release, Afghanistan’s Ambassador
Hamdullah Mohib said: “This
occasion is one that brings us
together to recognize a community
that has deep roots in Afghanistan.
For many, they often think of
the minority Hindus and Sikhs as
migrants from India. But in reality,
the Hindus and Sikhs of Afghanistan
are original residents of this country.”
Jay Kansara, the HAF Director of
Government Relations, said Hindus
and Afghanistan have more than
5,000 years of history binding their
civilisations and a shared destiny in
democracy.
Leaders of the local Washington
gurdwara and the National Sikh
Campaign sang Sikh hymns, and
Pandit Ram Kumar Shastri of the
Asamai Mandir recited verses from
the Bhagavad Gita.
Former AHA President Joginder
Kapoor said: “What the future holds
for us, a miniscule minority, does
not look bright as long as foreign
insurgents are in Afghanistan. They
must be eradicated.”
Puneet Kundal, the Deputy Chief
of Mission at the Indian Embassy,
conveyed condolences from the
Indian government’s condolences to
the Afghanistan government and the
people of the country.
Friday, July 120, 2018
panels with throwaway cloth and
high-grade wood-plastic panels.
She said her invention “offers a
cost-effective solution to one of the
greatest environmental challenges
of our age”.
“It delivers new job
opportunities... to our cities... to
our rural areas,” she said. She said
e-waste generally contains 40 per
cent plastic which is usually burnt
adding to air pollution.
“There is no reason to burn
plastic… microfactories
can create filament
with plastic by
compressing
the waste in a
temperature
controlled area.”
She also said
her solution fitted
in perfectly with
Prime Minister Modi’s
mission “Make in India”
and “Swachh Bharat” missions.
“A modular microfactory, which
would require a 50 sq mt area,
can be located wherever waste is
stockpiled. The science behind these
factories would be brought in from
Australia. These microfactories
are affordable, can be built locally
and will help empower the people
working with waste.
“If you can create products
by using e-waste and then sell
the filaments (to) make value-
added products using 3D printing,
then we are not only making our
environment more liveable, but we
are also creating sustainable job
opportunities for the people at the
Relationship without complexities! 2nd India-Bahrain High Joint Commission led by
EAM Sushma Swaraj and Bahrain Foreign Minister begins in Manama. FM Shaikh
Khalifa praised the contribution of Indian community settled in Bahrain towards the
economic development of Bahrain.
B
ahrain Foreign Minister
Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed
Al Khalifa on Sunday lauded
the role of the Indian expatriate
community’s role in his country’s
development.
“FM Shaikh Khalifa praised the
contribution of Indian community
settled in Bahrain towards
the economic development of
Bahrain,” External Affairs Ministry
spokesperson Raveesh Kumar
tweeted following the second High
Joint Commission meeting led by
External Affairs Minister Sushma
Swaraj and Shaikh Khalifa in
Manama.
Bahrain is home to around 350,000
Indian nationals, the largest expatriate
community in the Gulf Kingdom,
and more than 3,000 Indian-owned
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lowest level of the chain.”
Talking about the challenges that
India might face, she said for the
“Make in India” campaign to be
successful, initial capital expenditure
was important. “A small operator
will simply not have enough money
to do something and, hence, if Prime
Minister Modi is looking at the Make
in India campaign, then finance and
the initial capital expenditure is
important.”
So what prompted her to do
something about all the waste? She
says that it was a visit to Seelampur
last year that got her thinking about
the inequity in our societies. “It was
so sad to see people working under
conditions that would be considered
unacceptable to all of us.
“It is difficult to digest how we
are allowing everything that has
got so much economic value in
itself to not be processed in a way
so there is equity. We love our
phones and computers. But at the
end of the spectrum, when all these
technologies come to the end of their
lives, we have people working under
unacceptable conditions to get rid
of it. It’s almost ironic that there are
two extreme ends of the best and the
worst of technology.”
She said it was UNSW’s “holistic
approach to education” that helped
her seamlessly venture into different
aspects of research to be able to
invent the microfactory, launched
at the varsity earlier this year. She
said material science students from
India, including doctoral and a
postdoctoral students, were doing
cutting-edge research at the UNSW.
or joint venture companies.
Bilateral trade between India and
Bahrain stood at over $875 million
as of February this year, according
to figures provided by the External
Affairs Ministry.
India’s total capital investment
into Bahrain between January 2003
and March 2018 has been estimated
at $1.69 billion.
On Saturday, the first day of her
two-day visit to Bahrain, Sushma
Swaraj, along with Shaikh Khalifa,
inaugurated the new Indian Embassy
complex in Manama.
“The new developments that have
taken place in the economic field in
the two countries, will take economic
relations to greater heights,” Sushma
Swaraj said in her address at the
ceremony.
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EU slaps
MANDELA: BEYOND A REVOLUTIONARY, record $5bn
STATESMAN AND MORAL SYMBOL fine on Google,
100 years since his birth, South Africa pays tribute to Nelson Mandela Pichai says will
S appeal
outh Africa on Wednesday marked 100

A
years since Nelson Mandela’s birth, with
Barack Obama hosting a youth leadership
project as archbishop Desmond Tutu led emotional
tributes to the late anti-apartheid icon.
Mandela’s birthday on July 18 is celebrated
annually around the world with charitable works
and the Nelson Mandela Foundation called for
people to “take action and inspire change” in his
name on the centenary year.
In Johannesburg, Obama told 200 young people
attending a leadership course he has set up that
Mandela had been a key inspiration in his life.
“Most people around the world think of Mandela
as an older man, with hair like mine,” he joked.
“What people of course don’t recall is that he
started as a very young man -- your age -- trying to
liberate his country. He then inspired me.”
Obama on Tuesday delivered the centrepiece
address of the celebrations to a crowd of 15,000 at
a cricket stadium, recalling the “wave of hope that birth anniversary at an art school in Mumbai
washed through hearts all around the world” when
Mandela was released from jail in 1990.
“Through his sacrifice and unwavering
leadership and, perhaps most of all, through his
moral example, Mandela... came to embody the
universal aspirations of dispossessed people,”
Obama said. Retired archbishop Desmond
Tutu, 86, recalled fond memories of his fellow
campaigner against white-minority rule and
fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner.
“The most extraordinary thing about
Nelson Mandela was his ordinariness. He
was just a particularly fine example of his life are universal
humanity,” Tutu said in a video message. principles of love, fairness
“The principles on which he led his and respect of others built
life are universal principles of love, on understanding of the
fairness and respect of others built on vulnerabilities that we
understanding of the vulnerabilities that we
all share.”
Tutu recalled Mandela’s willingness
to apologise when wrong, and laughed
as he remembered that the two used
to tease each other over Mandela’s
famous colourful shirts and Tutu’s purple
clerical robes.
- ‘He led us from oppression’ -
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, a
protege of Mandela who took office this year, said
he would mark “Mandela 100” by donating half
his salary to charity and called for others to do
the same.
“He led us from the wilderness of conflict and
oppression into the land of promise, of freedom,
democracy and equality,” Ramaphosa said.
Ramaphosa spent Mandela Day in Mvezo in
Eastern Cape province, Mandela’s birthplace,
at celebrations including the opening of a clinic,
a tree planting ceremony and distributions of
blankets to elderly citizens.
Machel Graca, Mandela’s widow, led a short
walk to promote Mandela’s legacy, while the
centenary was marked with the release of a new
book of his prison letters and a commemorative
ccusing
Google
o f
illegally using
Android mobile
devices to
strengthen
dominance
of its search engine, the European
Commission on Wednesday imposed
a record fine of 4.34 billion euros ($5
billion) on the tech giant, which said
it would appeal against the decision.
According to the Commission,
Google has imposed since 2011
illegal restrictions on Android device
manufacturers and mobile network
Children light candles beside a painting commemorating South African revolutionary Nelson Mandela's 100th
operators to cement its dominant
position in general Internet search.
bank note. Among a series of exhibitions, music
Google must now bring the
festivals and sports events worldwide, a memorial
conduct effectively to an end within
stone was also due to be unveiled at a special
90 days or face additional penalty,
service in London’s Westminster Abbey.
the ruling said.
Delivering the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture
on Tuesday, Obama warned that the world had Reacting to the ruling, Google
plunged into “strange and uncertain times”, in CEO Sundar Pichai said the company
a speech containing a series of apparent veiled will appeal against the Commission's
attacks on US decision.
The President Donald
Nelson Mandela with another iconic statesman and
"Rapid innovation, wide choice,
admirer
principles Trump. and falling prices are classic
on which he led Obama made He served one term as president before stepping hallmarks of robust competition.
no direct down in 1999. He died in 2013. Android has enabled this and created
reference to The year commemorating Mandela’s birth will more choice for everyone, not less.
his successor finish with a concert in Johannesburg in December This is why we intend to appeal
but warned that starring Beyonce, Jay-Z, Ed Sheeran, Pharrell today's Android decision," Pichai
“politics of fear Williams and Cassper wrote in a blog post immediately
all share and resentment” were Nyovest. after the verdict.
spreading, driven by leaders The decision, according to the
who scorned facts and told Google CEO, ignores the fact that
lies with an “utter loss of Android phones compete with iOS
shame”. phones.
The former US president "It also misses just how much
met Mandela only briefly in
choice Android provides to
2005 but gave a eulogy at his
thousands of phone makers and
funeral, hailing him as “the
mobile network operators who build
last great liberator of the
and sell Android devices; to millions
20th century”.
Mandela of app developers around the world
who have built their businesses with
Android; and billions of consumers
who can now afford and use cutting-
edge Android smartphones," Pichai
was wrote.
According to Commissioner
imprisoned Margrethe Vestager who is in charge
under apartheid of competition policy, their case is
rule in 1962 and about three types of restrictions that
only freed in 1990, Google has imposed on Android
when he went on to lead the device manufacturers and network
African National Congress party to operators to ensure that traffic on
victory in the first multi-race elections Android devices goes to the Google
in 1994. search engine.

World’s oldest bread, baked 14,500 years ago, found at prehistoric site in Jordan
C
harred remains of a flatbread
baked about 14,500 years ago
in a stone fireplace at a site
in northeastern Jordan have given
researchers a delectable surprise:
people began making bread, a vital
staple food, millennia before they
developed agriculture.
No matter how you slice it, the
discovery detailed on Monday shows
that hunter-gatherers in the Eastern
Mediterranean achieved the cultural
milestone of bread-making far earlier
than previously known, more than
4,000 years before plant cultivation
took root.
nomadic lifestyle, and was found at a
Black Desert archeological site.
“The presence of bread at a site of
this age is exceptional,” said Amaia
Arranz-Otaegui, a University of
Copenhagen postdoctoral researcher
inarchaeobotanyand lead author
of the research published in the
A stone structure at an archeological site containing a fireplace, seen in the
middle, where charred remains of 14,500-year-old bread was found in the Black
journal Proceedings of the National
Desert, in northeastern Jordan. Academy of Sciences.
Arranz-Otaegui said until now the
The flatbread, likely unleavened relative, that had been ground into origins of bread had been associated
and somewhat resembling pita bread, flour. with early farming societies that
was fashioned from wild cereals such It was made by a culture called cultivated cereals and legumes. The
as barley, einkorn or oats, as well the Natufians, who had begun to previous oldest evidence of bread
as tubers from an aquatic papyrus embrace a sedentary rather than came from a 9,100-year-old site in
Turkey. “We now have to assess
whether there was a relationship
between bread production and the
origins of agriculture,” Arranz-
Otaegui said.“It is possible that bread
may have provided an incentive for
people to take up plant cultivation
and farming, if it became a desirable
or much-sought-after food.”
UAbundant evidence from the site
indicated the Natufians had a meat-
and plant-based diet. The round floor
fireplaces, made from flat basalt
stones and measuring about a yard
(meter) in diameter, were located in
the middle of huts.
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ENGLAND OUTCLASS INDIA BY

8 WICKETS, CLINCH ODI SERIES
E
ngland put up a strong all-round show
to thump an underwhelming India by
eight wickets in the series-deciding third
and final One-day International (ODI) at the
Headingley cricket ground on Tuesday.
Leg-spinner Adil Rashid’s triple strikes in the
middle overs helped England restrict India for
a below par 256/8, despite captain Virat Kohli
playing a 71-run knock.
Then India’s bowlers could not respond to
brilliant batting from Joe Root (100 not out)
and Eoin Morgan (88 not out), who shared an
186-run stand for the third wicket as the hosts
cantered to a big win, with 5.3 overs to spare.
It was England’s second consecutive win as
they bounced back strongly after the first ODI
loss in Nottingham before they produced a
handsome win at the Lord’s.
For India, it was the second successive
occassion in which their bowling and batting
were outclassed.
After conceding 322 runs before being
bowled out for 236 in the second ODI, India
made as many as three changes, dropping
pacers Umesh Yadav, Siddharth Kaul and
batsman Lokesh Rahul in favour of pacers
Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Shardul Thakur
and batsman Dinesh Karthik. However, was the second
despite these changes, the result did successive occassion Dhoni once again came to the
not change. Put in to bat, India rode on in which their bowling rescue with a hard working
captain Kohli’s 71, combined with his and batting were
predecessor Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s
laborious 66-ball 42 and a valuable 44
from opener Shikhar Dhawan even as Rashid
applied the brakes to return figures of 3/49 off
his 10 overs.
India were in trouble early on, losing in-form
opener Rohit Sharma for a sluggish 18-ball
2, before Dhawan and Kohli forged a 71-run
second wicket stand to inject life back into the
innings. With the right-left duo of Kohli and
Dhawan going all guns blazing, all-rounder
Ben Stokes brought the hosts back into the
game with the run-out of Dhawan, who by then
had faced 49 balls and struck seven fours.
The southpaw’s dismissal brought in Dinesh
Karthik for his first game of the tour. Karthik
started off well with a boundary before picking
two more on his way to a quickfire 22-ball 21
but an inside
edge off a
tossed up
delivery from
Rashid ended
his stay and
also the 41-run
third wicket stand. Despite losing his partners
at the other end, Kohli kept his cool to raise
his 48th ODI half century with a boundary
off pacer Liam Plunkett and thereafter began
switching gears even as Suresh Raina (1) joined
him in the middle.
However, Rashid and his fellow spinner
Moeen Ali managed to keep the run flow
in check, which prompted both the Indian
batsmen to take risks and in the process the
leggie bamboozled the Indian skipper with a
ripper which broke through his defences
For before Raina too departed off the
India, it same over.
With India in deep trouble,
innings, and together with all-
outclassed. rounder Hardik Pandya (21 off
21 balls), raised a 36-run stand
for the sixth wicket before adding
another 27 runs with Bhuvneshwar Kumar
(21 off 35) to stretch the total to some sort of
respectability.
Towards the end, pacer Shardul Thakul
produced a brilliant cameo of 13-ball unbeaten
22, that saw him launch Stokes for two sixes in
the penultimate over as India’s total crossed the
250-run mark. For England, besides Rashid’s
three wickets, pacer David Willey also returned
figures of 3/40 while fellow quick Mark Wood
took one wicket.
Chasing a relatively easy target in modern-
day one-day cricket, England got off to a flier,
thanks to Jonny Bairstow’s quickfire
30 off 13 deliveries.
However, pacer Thakur
brought relief for India as
Bairstow was caught by
Raina.
Root then joined hands
with James Vince (30),
who was making hi first
ODI appearance in two
years. The partnership
was running smoothly for
30 runs until the latter ran
for a second but was caught
short by a throw from Pandya from
midwicket and Dhoni effected a run out.
Root, who roared back to form in the
previous ODI with an 113, was joined
in the middle by his captain Moragan,
who also returned to form with a 53 at
Lord’s.
Luck was also on England’s side
as right-hander Root was dropped by
Dhoni, who dived to his left to pick an
edge off a wide delivery from Shardul
in the 30th over. Root was batting on
59 then. Root completed his 13th ODI
century with a four towards midwicket
off Hardik as it not only gave him
the three-figure mark but also sealed
England’s win.

FIFA World Cup 2018: France overpower Croatia with a 4-2 win
F
rance won the World Cup for
the second time by ending
battling Croatia's dream of a
first title with a 4-2 victory in one
of the most entertaining and action-
packed finals for decades.
France led 2-1 at halftime after a
Mario Mandzukic own goal and an
Antoine Griezmann VAR penalty,
with Ivan Perisic briefly bringing
first-time finalists Croatia level.
Quickfire strikes by Paul Pogba
and Kylian Mbappe midway through
the second half put France on course
for the title but Mandzukic was gifted
a goal by French keeper Hugo Lloris
to set up a nervous last 20 minutes.
France, however, withstood a
spirited Croatia assault to lift the
trophy for the second time, following
their success on home soil 20 years
ago, and ensure there was no repeat of
two years ago when they were beaten
in the European Championship final
by Portugal in Paris.
The victory means that Didier
Deschamps, captain of the 1998
side, becomes the third man to win
the World Cup as player and coach
after Brazil's Mario Zagallo and
Germany's Franz Beckenbauer.
It was the highest-scoring final
since England beat West Germany
4-2 after extra-time in 1966 and the
highest in normal time since Brazil
beat Sweden 5-2 60 years ago.
Croatia's performance
Croatia had started full of energy
but fell behind when Mandzukic, who
also the final score then.
It was harsh on Croatia, who had
made most of the running, and they
were on top again after the break,
continually winning their one-on-one
duels in the air and in every tackle
and forging forward in the French
box with plenty of variety.
But France's defense, so
impressive all tournament, held and
they went 3-1 up on the hour as
Mbappe and Griezmann combined to
set up Pogba on the edge of the box.
His right-footed shot was blocked
but he coolly curved the rebound in
with his left.
After three successive extra-time
knockout games the chances of
another Croatian comeback seemed
slight but they looked dead and
scored the buried six minutes later.
extra-time Lucas Hernandez tore down the
winner left to set up Mbappe who drilled
against a low shot beyond keeper Danijel
England Subasic for the 19-year-old's fourth
in the goal of the tournament.
semi-final,
An awful blunder by Lloris revived
became the
Croatia, as the French keeper tried to
first man to
dribble around Mandzukic only for
score an own goal
the striker to tap the ball straight into
in a World Cup final when a
Griezmann free kick skidded in off the scores 10 minutes later, smashing Pitana awarded the 28th penalty an unguarded net.
his head in the 18th minute. It was in a low shot after Sime Vrsaljko of the tournament, another record, Croatia, beaten by the French in
the 12th own goal of the tournament. had headed Luka Modric's free kick which Griezmann stroked home in the semi-finals in their first World
That meant it was the fourth across the box. the 38th minute for his fourth goal of Cup appearance in 1998, continued
successive knockout game that But it was then Perisic's turn go Russia 2018. to press but their energy was sapped
Croatia had conceded first but from hero to zero when he flapped That made it the highest-scoring and France safely held out for the
Perisic, who got the equalizer against an arm at a corner and, after a VAR first half since 1974, when West victory.
England, was on hand again to level review, Argentine referee Nestor Germany led the Netherlands 2-1 -
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InStyle
Colourful shoes for a vibrant you 20 July to 26 July | By Manisha Koushik
Manisha Koushik is a practicing astrologer, tarot card reader, numerologist, vastu and fengshui
consultant based in India with a global presence through the online channels. She is available for
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at +91-11-26449898 Mobile/Whatsapp: +919015607139 • www.askmanisha.com
ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 20)
You will need to bear the expenditure of something not catered for in the budget.
Planning a break is on the cards just to be away from the dull routine. Married
couples can expect a fulfilling and enjoying week. Possibility of getting a
lucrative contract cannot be ruled out for some. You will manage to grasp the
nitty-gritty of a case at work before giving the correct decision. Lucky Number
: 11 / Lucky Colour : Light Pink
TAURUS (Apr 21-May 20)
A get-together will afford you an opportunity to regain your social turf. Things
begin to turn looking in the positive direction on the financial front. Academically,

W
hen it comes to mens formal shoes, black has traditionally been the only shade
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Suit it up with coloured brogues: A classic
brogue has always been a brown leather design
but with the passage of time there are now
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including patent leather and suede, going well
with various outfits from slim blue jeans and
si mple T-shirts to patterned shirts and chinos.
A dual toned brogue in shades of tan can be
paired up with a classic grey suit whereas yellow
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out with friends.
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setting the trend this season. Opt
for a blue suede loafer paired with a
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casual edge. Colouwrs like yellows,
maroons and even greens can be
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Hues of Browns and reds: Monk strap shoes
are versatile in nature. A chestnut brown monk
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auburn shoes is a perfect ensemble for a formal
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your performance beyond your own expectations will keep you in an upbeat
mood. A balanced approach to a work problem will prove beneficial. Health-
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Lucky Colour: Red
GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21)
Just thinking about someone special in your life will keep you in an upbeat mood.
You may succeed in continuing your daily routine of exercises and maintain
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handle. You may review your expenses and plan your budget accordingly. You
may have to get a project rolling quickly to beat competition. Lucky Number :
6 / Lucky Colour: White
CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 20)
A fresh avenue for earning opens up for you. Those in a relationship will manage
to keep the bonds strong. Catering for the family will give you innate satisfaction.
A word of praise from a superior is likely for doing something entrusted to you.
Academically, your attempts to step up the pace will succeed. Your hard work on
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Lucky Number : 22 / Lucky Colour : Magenta
LEO (Jul 21-Aug 22)
The upcoming week would be very important for professionals as new
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Lucky Colour: Light Gray
LIBRA (Sep 24-Oct 23)
Good luck can favour you on the professional front and help in achieving
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SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 22)
You may not be at your best behaviour with someone whom you just can’t
stand. A family issue may need to be deliberated upon, so that it does not disturb
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and comforts. Thumbs up is indicated for those on the pursuing higher studies.
Lucky Number: 7 / Lucky Colour: Golden

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Someone’s suggestions will help you in avoiding some obvious pitfalls at work.
An invitation to a family get-together promises to make the week enjoyable. .
Investments made during this week would bring in good profits in the long run.
Renovation of the house or construction related activities could be on the agenda
Casual style and bright colours: Gone are of some homemakers. Consistency on the fitness front will bring beneficial
those days when sneakers were a hot favorite results. Lucky Number:15 / Lucky Colour: Forest Green
only amongst college going lads. Now even CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 21)
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to work. So when it comes to casuals, cool life. More avenues for promoting your interests are likely to come to you soon.
and funky colours like red, blue, yellow and Love front seems moderate. Robust health will find you energetic and ready to
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mint green are quite in trend these days. One
or a refresher course to hone your existing skills. Lucky Number: 4 / Lucky
can even be ready for night parties to casual Colour: Light Blue
meetings by simply pairing these vibrant
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Having a finger in every pie will entail a lot of travelling, but it will be worth
chinos.
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perfect dose of panache to one's looks. on the health front will find distinct improvement. Lucky Number : 17 / Lucky
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SUDOKU NO: 21
HITORI NO: 21
Hitori – a logic puzzle with very simple
rules and challenging solutions. Can
you eliminate numbers until there are
no duplicates in any row or column?
Objective / Rules
Eliminate numbers until there are
no duplicates in any row or column.
Eliminate numbers by marking
Friday, July 20, 2018 TIME OUT 25
QUIZ QUESTIONS NO: 21 ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What type of hat is Sherlock
Holmes famous for wearing?
Deerstalker
1. What was John Merrick otherwise
known as? The Elephant Man
1. What name is given to an insincere
display of grief? Crocodile Tears
1. What is the name of the children’s
game played on the fingers with
looped string? Cats Cradle
1. What name is given to a double
one on a pair of dice? Snake Eyes
1. How many digits do the Simpsons
have on each hand? Four
1. Which popular cartoon character
lives on the island of Sweetwater?
Popeye
1. Which lake is the source of the
White Nile? Victoria
1. What colour are the flowers of St
Johns Wort? Yellow
1. Who was the fortieth president
of The United States? Ronald
Reagan
1. What colour are the double world
scores on a Scrabble board? Pink
1. In chess the opening move can be
made by either a pawn or which
other piece? A Knight
1. Which Country has won the most
Commonwealth Games Medals?
Australia
1. Which song contains these lyrics
“The colours of the rainbow so
pretty in the sky, Are also on the
faces of people going by, I see
friends shaking hands saying how
do you do”? What A Wonderful
World - Louis Armstrong
1. Which is the shortest circuit in
Formula 1? Monaco
1. What gives the drink Pernod its
distinctive flavour? Aniseed
1. What does a somnambulist do?
Sleep walks
1. In newspaper car sales
advertisements, for what do the
initials ESR stand? Electric sun
roof
1. What is 4 cubed minus 8 squared?
0 (nought)
1. From what expression does the
word “goodbye” derive? A God
Be With You.
Send us stories, drawings,
poems and other contributions by
your little ones along with their
photographs for this page. E-mail
us at reporter@indianweekender.
co.nz
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE NO: 21
See how many differences you can find in the right or left photo.
them in Black.
You are not allowed to have two
Black squares touching horizontally
or vertically (diagonally is ok).
Any White square can be reached
from any other (i.e. they are
connected).
 26 FEATURES Friday, July 20, 2018 The Indian Weekender

Red sauce pasta

R
ed Sauce Pasta is among the most popular
Italian pastas. This easy-to-make
recipe can be quickly prepared
at home using some simple
ingredients. To make this easy
pasta, you will need some
boiled pasta penne, boiled
peeled and chopped cherry
tomatoes, extra virgin
oil so that it tastes truly
Italian, some red chilli
powder, pepper, parsley
for garnish.
All you need to do is
just stir fry the veggies,
add the boiled pasta,
then spice it up with herbs

Paneer Butter Masala and chilli flakes. If you are

someone who’s looking for
Cottage Cheese (paneer) cooked a cheesy and creamy pasta,
then you can garnish it with some
in a creamy nut gravy

A
grated cheese and oregano to make this
2

smooth tomato, cashew nut and cream gravy delicious dish more aromatic and indulgent.

RECIPES
is characteristic of Paneer Butter Masala. The However, if you want to make it healthy, you can

V E G E TA R I A N
preparation makes the most of the rich umami use whole wheat pasta and skip using cheese and add more veggies to make
flavours of ripe tomatoes, while the gives it a hint of it a wholesome meal.
fragrance. Some chefs describe this dish as the vegetarian • Total Time: 30 min | Preparation Time:10 min
cousin of the butter chicken on their menus.
Preparation Time: 10 Min INGREDIENTS
Cooking Time: 45 Min • 225 gm boiled pasta penne
Serves: 6 / Taste: Mild • 4 cloves minced garlic
• 2 teaspoon finely chopped basil
INGREDIENTS • 3 pinches salt
• 250–260g paneer cut into • 2 pinches powdered black pepper
• cubes • 400 gm boiled,peeled,chopped cherry tomatoes
• 6 large tomatoes (red, ripe and • 1/2 teaspoon chilli flakes
• firm tomatoes are best) • 1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley
• 2 Tbsp butter • Add onion and saute until they turn golden-brown in
Ruby Dhillon India’s Most Wanted Recipies | 81

• 1 1/2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

• 1 onion, grated colour. • 3 cup water
• 1 tsp garlic paste • Add garlic paste, ginger paste, stir, add green chilli •
• 1 tsp ginger paste paste, stir for another minute. Add tomato purée, cover METHOD
• 2–3 green chillies, puréed into a and cook until oil surfaces, stirring often. Add cashew • To make this yummy pasta recipe, first you need to prepare the sauce
• paste paste to the onion masala and mix well. Sauté until the for the pasta.
• 1/4 cup cashew nut paste oil begins to seeps from the sides of the masala paste. • To begin with heat oil in a pan over medium flame and add minced garlic
• 1 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder • Add Kashmiri red chilli powder, cumin powder, garam along with red chili flakes and saute for 2 minutes. Take another pan,
• 1 tsp cumin powder masala powder, turmeric powder, sugar and salt to the pour the water and bring it to a boil.
• 1 tsp garam masala powder tomato gravy, mix well. A • Add pasta to the boiling water along with salt and oil, and cook the pasta
• 1 tsp turmeric powder • dd water, cover, turn up the heat and bring to the boil. for a few minutes. When its cooked, drain the extra water and transfer
• 1 tsp sugar Add the paneer along with fenugreek leaves, cover and the pasta in another bowl.
• Salt, to taste cook for 1–2 minutes. Add the cream to the paneer • Now add the peeled tomatoes, basil and parsley in the pan. Mix all the
• 1 cup of water and simmer for 1–2 minutes to warm through, stirring ingredients well and let it simmer for 10 minutes until the sauce starts
• 1 tsp dried fenugreek leaves occasionally. to thicken. When the sauce starts gaining consistency, put off the burner
• crushed • Garnish with chopped coriander on top. and add salt and black pepper powder to the sauce. Keep the sauce warm.
• 4 Tbsp cream • Serve hot with Plain Naan or Peshawari Naan • Add the pasta over the warm sauce and toss with carefully. Serve it
• 1/4 Cup chopped coriander immediately. In fact, if you are someone who likes the cheesy version of
METHOD Ruby’s Tip: A 350g can of tomato puree may be used pasta then you can garnish the pasta with some grated parmesan cheese
Remove the core of the tomatoes, cut into quarters and instead of fresh tomatoes. You can also make the dish and to make it more aromatic, you can dry roast a few basil leaves and
• place them in a blender. Purée until the tomatoes without cashew nut paste – it tastes just as good. Take care crush it with some chilli flakes and oregano.
become a very smooth sauce. Keep aside. not to over-cook the paneer as it will become hard and dry. • This herb fusion will make your pasta even more delectable. Serve it
• Melt butter in a deep heavy-bottomed pan on medium You can always add the paneer and cream together just with garlic bread and relish this delicious pasta recipe.
heat. before serving.

Natural skin healing techniques for healthy, young skin

S
kin is the most sensitive part of outer
body, so for having the desired beautiful
skin, one needs to treat it with more care.
Natural ingredients have their own specialty
and can work wonders if used religiously, say
experts.
Neem: Its leaves are one of the most important
essential ingredients in Ayurvedic medicines,
as these leaves contains nimbin, nimandial,
nimbinen and many other compounds that
have anti- inflammatory, anti-fungal and anti- irritation and dryness. Aloe Vera also improves improving concentration, digestion and brain
bacterial agents. Neem leaves are most powerful the digestive system, strengthens the immune aging, besides being an anti tumor agent and
antifungal agents that destroy fungi and its system and heals wounds. checking cancer-causing agents.
manifestations like ringworm and nail fungus. Rosemary: These plants contain essential Lavenders: It is known for its fragrance,
Due to anti viral properties, neem leaves are oil, which is mostly used for moisturizing the improving the mood and inducing restful
boiled and are used for bathing especially for skin. It also contains anti fungal and antiseptic sleep. But most of us don't know that it is one
those who are suffering from some skin related properties for which all of us opt for chemical of the effective skin healing plant which helps
problems like itching and irritation.
Aloe Vera: It is the most commonly seen
plant in every home.
The reason behind placing aloe Vera in our
home is, its qualities and properties like, air
purifying, to relieve sunburn, acne and skin

to reduce skin irritation problems, eliminate

dandruff and helps to reduce hair fall and
and artificial cosmetic products which may beneficial for healing stomach related problems.
not be safer than plants. These plants help in Lavender also relieves stress.
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25 INFLUENCERS
WHO MATTER
WHEN IT COMES TO
NEW ZEALAND - INDIA
RELATIONS
 28 ENTERTAINMENT Friday, July 20, 2018 The Indian Weekender

AUCKLAND’S HOTTEST BOLLYWOOD STATION

SRIDEVI’S DAUGHTER
In constant
touch with
Irrfan: Vishal
READY FOR HER BIG LAUNCH N Bhardwaj
ational award-winning

T
his is as close as a debut gets to a tragedy. Smita Patil who passed away long before she
Janhvi Kapoor is poised for her big launch. could see her son become an actor. The child never
It can’t get any bigger than Karan Johar, saw his mother. Today Prateik is struggling to
can it now? Unless she got Sanjay Leela Bhansali make his presence felt.  Prateik has gone through
to launch her, which she didn’t. more than his share of struggle. Being motherless
Sridevi must be very happy and living away from his father actor-politician
seeing her daughter Raj Babbar, Prateik was rudderless and on drugs.
shining even We met for the first time when he came home
before her for the promotion of his film Issaq. He was
debut. accompanied by his very pretty leading lady
Strangely Amyra Dastur who told me Prateik was
I am “afraid” of me.
reminded I tried to put Prateik at ease.  “When was the time to study? I was so hungry
o f “Sir, please look after me,” he
beseeched with his pleading eyes. I
felt as protective as I could for the
vulnerable child-man. Prateik has
Anubhav Sinha’s Mulk coming up
where he plays an Indian Muslim
accused of terror activities. It’s
a thankless role. But I have a
feeling Prateik will bring his
own insecurities into play while
portraying this outcast.
I feel a similar surge of
protectiveness for Jahnvi, though
she hardly needs any sympathy from
anybody. Fiercely protected by her
mother when alive, Janhvi and her
younger sister Khushi have coped
ably with their mother’s sudden loss.
During her lifetime I don’t think
Sridevi was too keen to see her
daughters become actresses.
I remember speaking to her on
this topic. The proud protective
mother always said she wanted her
daughters to get a proper education.
“Let them first finish studying, then we’ll see
what they want to,” she once told me softly, as
rumours of Janhvi’s debut had begun to gather
momentum. Sridevi didn’t much care for such
talk. From what I could make out she wasn’t keen
on her daughters becoming actresses. Not that
she ever said this out loud. But every time we’d
speak on the subject she would grow worried
and uncertain. The lack of a formal education in
her own career bothered Sridevi. She had begun
facing the camera from the time she was just 4.  he comes back.
When was the time to study? I was so
hungry for a formal education. I don’t
want my children to undergo the same
hunger,” Sridevi once told me.
for a formal education. I don’t want my children to
undergo the same hunger,” Sridevi once told me.
Boney was always more keen to make actors
out of his daughters. In this matter I believe the
husband and wife begged to defer.
Boney felt, ‘Jeena yahan marna yahan’ Sridevi
felt, ‘Ab bahot ho gaya.’ Now that it is happening
I don’t know how happy Sridevi would have been
to see her daughter in Dhadak.
The film comes with a heavy baggage. The
Marathi version Sairat became an instant classic.
I doubt Dhadak would get the same ovation.
Remakes inevitably suffer in comparison. Nobody
in his right mind would look for Sairat in Dhadak.
It would be as sacrilegious as looking for Sholay
in Ram Gopal Varma’s Aag.
Fire better or Fire worse.
filmmaker Vishal
Bhardwaj,
who has worked
with actor Irrfan
Khan in several
films, says that
he keeps talking
to the actor who
is recovering
from cancer and
is planning to start
shooting film with his once
Present at the song launch of
legendary singer Hariharan’s single
Afsaane on Monday, Vishal told
media: “Irrfan is in touch with me.
It is great that he is recovering and
I pray for his speedy recovery. I
hope he comes back soon and starts
working in films again. I keep talking
to him, these days he is sending me
voice note by recording songs in his
own voice. He is watching cricket
too.” The filmmaker has worked with
Irrfan in films like Maqbool, 7 Khoon
Maaf, Haider, Talvar among others.
Earlier this year Vishal announced
he would collaborate with the actor
again.Asked about if he is planning
to reschedule his film where he
planned to cast Irrfan and Deepika
Padukone together but got postponed
due to the actor’s ill-health, he said
that “as soon as Irrfan recovers and
come back, we will start our shooting
for the film.”

Brahmastra: Dimple Kapadia to

star opposite Nagarjuna in the film?
Fortunate to get opportunity to
prove myself: Ishaan Khatter
D
imple Kapadia will join the

second schedule of Brahmastra
in Bulgaria soon, as per a report.
She will be returning to the screen
after three years and will star opposite
Nagarjuna in the film.
Karan Johar has managed to pull
off a casting coup with his upcoming
production, Brahmastra. The film
stars Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and
Amitabh Bachchan. Karan announced
recently that Nagarjuna will be playing
a special role in the film.
Karan had posted, “We are honoured
and exceptionally excited to have the
one and only @iamnagarjuna doing
an extremely “special” role in our film
#BRAHMASTRA !! Directed by Ayan
Mukerji@SrBachchan @aliaa08
#RanbirKapoor ...thank you sir for your
love and your beautiful energy.”
He had also shared photos from the
welcome lunch organized by Team
Brahmastra for him.
Now, as per a report in Mumbai
Mirror, Dimple Kapadia will join the
second schedule of the film in Bulgaria
soon. She will be returning to the screen
after three years.
Dimple Kapadia was last seen in
Welcome and Finding Fanny co-
starring Deepika Padukone and Arjun
Kapoor.
A source informed Mirror, “She will
A
ctor Ishaan Khatter who is all set He has inspired me
for release of his forthcoming film on a personal level
Dhadak feels fortunate that he got and as an actor, I
an opportunity to work in films similar to his think he has done
family members. impressive work
Ishaan was interacting with media at the by proving himself
promotional interview of Dhadak along with time and again,” he
her co-actress Janhvi Kapoor on Thursday in said. 
Mumbai. Asked about Shahid’s
Whether he feels any pressure to maintain reaction to the trailer of
his family’s stature in the film industry, Ishaan his film, Ishaan said:
said: “I have only got encouragement and
“He hasn’t watched the
lessons from my family, so I don’t associate
film yet. He was really
negative things like pressure with them.
happy after watching the
“It’s a state of your mind. We can take
trailer. He told me it was all
expectations of audience in the form of
good and positive and didn’t
responsibility or pressure.
find any reason to criticize it.”
be seen opposite Nagarjuna in the film. "Our family is in love with this profession
Dhadak is romantic drama
It is to Karan’s credit that he could get and I am really fortunate that I have got an
film directed by Shashank
the nod from Dimple.” opportunity to prove myself and to do what I
love to do... My effort will be to put my heart Khaitan, produced by Dharma
Brahmastra is a supernatural romantic
fairytale and is the first of the trilogy that and soul in my work and I will try to make not Productions and Zee Studios
is being planned by Dharma Productions. only my family, but the entire country happy and stars Janhvi Kapoor
Ranbir Kapoor said in a recent interview with my work.” and Ishaan Khatter in
that it is important for the film to do well Ishaan said his brother Shahid Kapoor lead roles.
so that they can make sequels to the film. inspires him and that he The film is a
Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt have “always looks up to "It’s remake of the 2016
already wrapped up the first schedule him”. a state of Marathi language
of the film in Bulgaria earlier this year. “He is my elder your mind. We film Sairat. It is
The actors will be joined by Amitabh brother. I have can take expectations scheduled to
Bachchan in Bulgaria. learned a lot from of audience in the form be released on
of responsibility or July 20.
Brahmastra is slated to release on him even before
pressure."
Independence Day next year. he came into films.
 The Indian Weekender Friday, July 20, 2018 ENTERTAINMENT 29

RAJKUMMAR RAO: A
Actors not allowed to have fears: Kajol
ctress Kajol says there is
no place for fears in her
profession as people expect
them to be perfect all the time.
The new breed of actors are all trying to bring in “I feel that in this profession and in
this field, we are not allowed to have
a change and pushing the boundaries together fears of any sort. We are supposed to
kind of just go out there be perfect,

R
ajkummar Rao is all
praises for the current crop
of actors, who are going
beyond their comfort levels and
pushing the boundaries, whether it
be Ranveer Singh as Alauddin Khilji
in Padmaavat or Ranbir Kapoor as
Sanjay Dutt in Sanju.
Rajkummar Rao is amongst
the true blood method actors in
Bollywood, within the younger
generation. His acting skills are
subpar, with each film, we see the
actor in.
In an interview, Rajkummar spoke
candidly about how he is impressed
with his colleagues, who are
crossing boundaries when it comes
to their acting performances.
Rajkummar said, "It thrills me
when I see Varun [Dhawan] doing
an October or Ranveer [Singh]
playing [Alauddin] Khilji or Ranbir
[Kapoor] starring in the
Dutt biopic. In a
way, it’s very encouraging and Bachchan] challenges himself with
satisfactory that we — the new breed every third film and appears as a new
of actors — are all trying to bring in and different guy. Akshay Kumar
a change and pushing the boundaries too has been doing it for a long time,
together." so all of us are into it together. That’s
The actor also spoke in respect why I feel Indian cinema is surely
to his seniors and shared, "Look at going through a lovely change."
Shah Rukh sir play a dwarf in Zero Talking about his own craft,
or Aamir sir portray a 50-year-old Rajkummar shared, "Honestly, it’s
father to three daughters in Dangal. not difficult. I can talk for myself,
Even Salman sir has done films such as it has never been difficult. Also,
as Tubelight and Bajrangi Bhaijaan. the kind of people I work with are
And Amitji [Amitabh always very honest in what they do.
So that honesty is something that
translates into films that we
work on together. I have
"Honestly, never met someone, who
it’s not is a corrupt film-maker
difficult. I can and plays gimmicks."
talk for myself, as M e a n w h i l e ,
it has never been Rajkummar will next
difficult." be seen in Fanney Khan,
which is slated to release
on August 3, 2018.
incredible, amazing and not have any
faults. We are supposed to be perfect
all the time,” Kajol said. 
“I am very clear on the fact that we
all are imperfect. Not only me, we all
are imperfect and we all are humans
and we have a right to be human as
much we can.” The actress says she
has started embracing her fears.
“I have a lot of doubts... ‘Can I do
this or not, should I do this or should
I not?’ Especially, when the stage
is big and many people are looking
at you, many people are judging
you and there is so much of critic
happening.  Rehte Hain, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai,
“So, I think yes, you need to have
faith in them on a daily basis. You
have to calm them down and work
through them.”
Kajol, daughter of actress Tanuja,
made her Hindi film debut with
Rahul Rawail’s Bekhudi in 1992,
and was known as the most natural
actress of the 1990s. She was always
clear what type of roles she wanted to
do, the genres she wanted to explore
and she was confident about taking a
break to enjoy family time.
She went on to do projects like
Yeh Dillagi, Karan Arjun, Dilwale
Dulhania Le Jayenge, Bambai Ka
Babu, Gupt: The Hidden Truth,
Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya, Ishq,
Dushman, Hum Aapke Dil Mein
Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha, Raju Chacha
and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...”
some bombed and some worked their
magic at the box office.
Kajol dubbed for the Hindi version
of Disney.Pixar’s Incredibles 2. She
lent her voice to the character of
Helen Parr, Elastigirl. 
What next? 
“I would like to surprise myself.
Currently, I am just challenging
myself to go through the promotion
of Eela.” 

Priyanka: I love the

A legacy doesn’t help or create pressure,
says Raazi director Meghna Gulzar
idea of getting married
W
ith the blockbuster hit
Raazi and the highly

P
riyanka Chopra said that she is a romantic at heart and acclaimed Talvar (2015)
would love to get married. She states that she feels most to her name, filmmaker Meghna
beautiful when she is happy. Gulzar has truly come into her own
Actors Priyanka Chopra, who is reportedly dating American as a filmmaker. Her next project, the
singer Nick Jonas, says her marital status will not affect her biopic of India’s most charismatic
feminist opinions, and she would like to get married someday. soldier, the war hero Field Marshal
The 35-year-old actor spoke about the things that bring her joy Sam Manekshaw, looks set to help over five years to put my second and
in life and love at a Saks x Vogue event at Wolffer Estate Vineyards her scale new peaks. third films together, and then another
in the Hamptons, reports etonline.com. This success didn’t come easy. seven years for my fourth film! You
“I love the idea of getting married. I totally want to get married While much has been said about are only as good as your last film,
at some point,” Priyanka said. nepotism, that word means little to and it does not matter who your
“And I don’t think marriage makes you smaller or bigger or Meghna — all she knows about it is parents are. Nobody is going to bet
more feminist or not. Feminism basically is women saying give us that having two of the most famous on a losing proposition, one that isn’t
our own choices without judging us. That’s all it is. It’s not about people in Hindi filmdom didn’t get commercially viable. People had a
berating someone. It’s not about proving a point. I totally would her anything on a platter, because slight reservation about investing in
love to get married,” she added. “you’re are only as good as your last me in the beginning,” she adds.
Priyanka calls herself “super romantic”. film”, she says. Her first three films include
“I’m super mushy, and I think why not? You know, when you Meghna is the daughter of actor Filhaal... (2002), Just Married
love someone or when you care about somebody making them feel Rakhee, a superstar in her heydays, (2007), and Dus Kahaniyaan
special and giving attention is the most important thing.” and poet-filmmaker Gulzar, who has (2007). It was Talvar that made the
The actor feels “most beautiful” when she is happy. made classics such as Aandhi (1975) biggest difference. The filmmaker
“I really feel like the best thing a woman can wear is her and Ijaazat (1987). Despite this says, “Things are very different
confidence. Your clothes, your shoes, your bags, all of that is like, lineage, Meghna struggled to find now. I know it has a lot to do with
that’s the packaging. But when you have confidence, the world backers for her first few films. the success of Talvar. But I also
buys whatever you sell.” “Both the assumptions — that think the mindset of producers has
“I’ve been very lucky in that department. I’ve had very special having a legacy helps, or it creates changed, because the audience is
things done for me… I like thoughtful things done for me. I’m not the pressure of expectations — are driving content-rich films to success.
the chocolate and flowers kind of girl,” the actor added. false,” she says. The other day, someone asked me,
Priyanka is will soon begin shooting for Bharat with co- “Had it been of any help, then it ‘Do you think the filmmakers have
star Salman Khan. She will also be seen in The Sky is Pink with wouldn’t have taken me two-and-a- become more aware now or the
Farhan Akhtar. half years to put out my first film, and audiences have?’

Don’t want to play villain anymore, says Sanju actor Jim Sarbh
A
ctor Jim Sarbh, who is known
for portraying negative
characters in films like
Neerja, Padmaavat and Sanju, says
he doesn’t want to do negative roles
anymore.
On Zoom’s TV show Open House
with Renil, the actor spoke about his
journey from being a theatre actor to a
super-villain in Bollywood with host
Renil Abraham, said a statement.
“I am not going to play a villain for Before his Bollywood debut in "There’s never really been a stop to
a while. 2016, Jim was very active in the it. Except for one year, when I went
"It’s not because I don’t like that theatre world. off wandering around and stayed at an
kind of acting or don’t want to do From playing a lover to adapt into ashram for five months.
it, but because I want to try other the role of servant, Jim "Even there I was cast as Jesus in
things now,” Jim said. "One had played varied a play.
“One must say no to some must say no to roles during his "There was no escaping, so I came
opportunities to open the some opportunities theatre days. back to acting,” he added.
possibilities of others. to open the possibilities “I’ve been His performance as a drug
"Else, I will only remain of others. Else, I will only doing plays ever peddler in the film Sanju has been
a bad guy,” he added. remain a bad guy." since school. appreciated a lot.
 30 FEATURES Friday, July 20, 2018 The Indian Weekender

Theatre review—First World Problems

A blend of new and old voices from a diverse South Asian background comes to life in Agaram Productions’ latest—First World Problems. It’s
one you shouldn’t miss
PRATIK K

E
arly Monday morning gym
session with your personal
trainer. Tick. A protein-rich
breakfast. Tick. No traffic on the
road. Tick. But hold on. Life seems
too easy, so here comes the hiccups:
a long queue at Starbucks, free WiFi
working at a snail’s pace, and a
lukewarm cup of flat white when you
reach the counter. Sounds familiar?
Of course it does.
Welcome to first world problems.
While this may get a few laughs and
Internet memes, dig deeper and you
all their productions—a regret that popularity and their work is visible First World Problems is a refreshing pink.
will meet nagging aunties, curfews
continues to stay with me unless, in the extra matinee show that had to play and if I daresay a breakthrough Mustaq Missouri, the more
for a 30-someone living with their
of course, the team decides to rerun be added before the play even had its project. It is innovative. experienced in the group, shines in
parents, and Tinder dating issues
their more popular shows from opening night. The cast and crew have taken a ‘The Audition’, where he re-enacts
for browns.
the years gone by (The Mourning First World Problems is in some bold step forward to put forth voices the auditions for the several roles
Dig further and you will find
After and Rudali please)—I can say way a rebellious production. The that were until now drowned in the he missed or wasn’t considered for
unrealistic expectations of South
this with much conviction that if you play has its moments where the noise that otherwise reverberates only because he is a South Asian.
Asian parents, prejudice, and fewer
like theatre, you should not miss out audience will roar with laughter but in our society. The message that Aman Bajaj in ‘Queen B’ and Porvi
opportunities because your name
their works. look beyond that veil of comedy and runs through the course of the play Fomra in ‘Dial M for Meenakshi’
does not sound too English.
TEA—showcased as part of you will face a hard-hitting reality— beautifully ends in the last act—‘I give stellar performances. A special
Agaram Productions’ First World
the Auckland Theatre Festival— one where discrimination still holds am not a Hero’. It would not be mention also goes to Manali Bhatia
Problems (in association with Prayas
was a tale of two brothers in Sri its head high; one where the world fair to choose one story from the in ‘Nikita’s 101 notes to self: Dating
Theatre) is about all this and more.
Lanka trying to make sense of life is built on stereotypes. What is often smorgasbord of talent seen on-stage; sutras for brown girls in Aotearoa’.
Ahi Karunaharan (Artistic Director
under colonial rule; Swabhoomi— jokingly passed off as a ‘first world all performers bring their unique flair While I could add in all the names
and Curator) and Ankita Singh
Borrowed Earth traced the journey of problem’—barring the lukewarm to their acts. and performances, it would take
(Producer) bring together a rowdy
Indians in New Zealand, highlighting coffees and long queues—are real They are an absolute delight more pages than the Editor would be
and rebellious bunch of performers
issues that hit home for many issues faced by real people in a real to watch, and complementing the willing to part with, so I will leave
and give them two minutes each to
viewers; and Dara recreated a piece world. fierce and fun brought on-stage by it to the performers to introduce
narrate a first world problem faced
of Mughal history. And now, in First The play highlights that everyday the actors is the stage (designed by themselves. The last we checked,
by South Asians in Aotearoa.
World Problems, Ahi, along with co- struggle. There is a certain urgency Natasha Iyer) itself with colourful there were still a few seats left in that
Anyone who has been following
directors Padma Akula, Rina Patel, in the way the stories have been and quirky drapes and a splash of hot
the theatre scene in Auckland would extra matinee show.
and Sananda Chatterjee, packs in scripted and enacted and it is almost
have heard of or watched the plays
more than a dozen short plays and electrifying. And that need to tell First World Problems
produced by the teams behind
monologues, all written, performed, the story perhaps stems from being by Agaram Productions in association with Prayas Theatre
Agaram Productions and Prayas
and directed by South Asians and neglected and shunned for so long Date: July 17 to 21, 2018
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