INL 15 Jan 2019 Digital Edition

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JANUARY 15, 2019
Homelink
Our friends make it to the Queen’s Honours List
Staff Reporter
Three friends of
Indian Newslink
have been featured
on the Queen’s New
Year Honours List. They
are fellow journalist Fran
O’Sullivan (Business Editor
of the New Zealand Herald)
who becomes an Officer
of the New Zealand Order
of Merit (ONZM), Virinder
Aggarwal, Founding Member
of the Asian Network
Inc and Bhikhu Bhana of
the New Zealand Indian
Central Association (NZICA),
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who will receive each a
Queen’s Service Medal
(QSM) respectively for their
services to the Asian and
Indian communities.
Ruxmani Kasanji of Wellington
is being admitted as
Member of the New Zealand
Order of Merit (MNZM) for
her services to the Indian
community.
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Ruxmani Kasanji
Ruxmani Kasanji became
the first Headmistress of the
Wellington Indian Association
(WIA) Gujarati Language
School for Children
in 1969, managing a staff of
nine voluntary teachers.
She taught Gujarati on a
weekly basis between 1958
and 1973 with an annual
roll of around 175 to 200
students aged five to 13
years. She played a key role
in the establishment of the
Indian Women’s Committee,
known as Mahila Samaj, at
the WIA. This Committee
focused on women’s welfare
and fundraising and she was
Secretary from 1971 until
1988. She was made a Life
Member of WIA in 1994, one
of only two women in the
WIA’s history to receive this
recognition. She has been a
member of the Indian Senior
Citizens Group since 2015.
She helped establish Yoga in
Daily Life Society in Wellington
in 1993 and served on
the Board from 1996 to 2010.
She was President in the
mid-1990s and Vice President
from 2012 to 2015.
Bhikhu Bhana
Bhikhu Bhana has been
involved with the New
Zealand Indian Central
Association for more than 40
years and has been President
since 2016, having held other
offices previously within the
organisation.
Mr Bhana has been a
member of the Pukekohe
Indian Association for 25
years and has held the roles
of Secretary and President.
As President he played a key
role in revitalising the organisation
and helped instigate
events with other Indian
groups in the region. He has
organised a Diwali Festival
event at the Pukekohe Arts
and Cultural Centre.
Mr Bhana was instrumental
in the NZICA sponsorship
of the Sports Segment of
the Fifth Annual Indian
Newslink Indian Sports &
Community Awards 2018
held at Alexandra Park on
October 8, 2018.
Virinder Aggarwal
Virinder Aggarwal was
a founding member of The
Asian Network Inc in 2002,
served on the Executive
Committee, and has been
Chairperson for six years.
The Asian Network
provides a platform to
assist Asian communities
in Auckland by identifying
and responding to the
needs to these communities
through information sharing,
training opportunities, and
submissions to central and
local government. Under
Mr Aggarwal’s leadership
the Network co-hosted two
International Asian Health
Conferences in collaboration
with the University of
Auckland’s Centre for Asian
Health Research and Evaluation
and established an
annual Asian Forum focusing
on health and wellbeing.
He has edited the Network’s
monthly newsletter and been
on the Editorial Advisory
Board for the Migrant News
bimonthly newspaper.
Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi
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Manukau East
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