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Friday, August 6, 2021
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Givealittle page launched to support
legal action against Immigration Minister for
cancelling General Visitor Visa applications for partners
SANDEEP SINGH
A
Givealittle page has been launched
for fundraising to support legal
action against Immigration Minister’s
decision of lapsing General Visitor Visa
applications for partners living offshores.
“We need your funds to back what is in
effect a Class Action that impacts thousands
of partners of those living in New Zealand,”
the page read. The page is aiming to generate
$50,000 in next 5 days and so far 138 generous
donors have contributed $7290.
(https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/
immigration-legal-action-fund?
Notably, the lawyers Pooja Sunder and
Stewart Dalley from the legal firm D&S Law
has led the efforts of several other lawyers,
immigration advisers and activists seeking
fair and just treatment of partners of people
residing in New Zealand and separated from
their overseas based partners because of archaic
immigration rules and filed a case for judicial
review on July 22.
The legal action decision was primarily
precipitated by Immigration Minister’s two
preceding decisions The first decision was
dated 23 June 2021, related to the continued
suspension of the processing of offshore visa
applications until 06 February 2022, and the
second, dated 07 July 2021, was the Minister’s
decision to issue instructions to Immigration
New Zealand to lapse or return and refund
offshore visas, including applications made by
partners of New Zealanders and migrants.
These decisions are causing heightened
distress among the impacted community.
The two decisions are being challenged in the
High Court on the grounds
a) that Immigration NZ failed to adequately
take into account the international legal human
rights obligations that give special protection to
the family unit and
b) has discriminated against those partners
unable to live together offshore for reasons
including religion, culture, sex or sexual
orientation. Noted Immigration Adviser and
activist Katy Armstrong has told the Indian
Weekender that the judicial review case is not
just about one individual.
“It impacts a whole class of partners (and
their children) stranded overseas. It impacts
those temporary visa holders whose partners are
stuck off-shore unable to apply for partnership
visas,” Armstrong said.
“It impacts all partners (of temporary
migrants or New Zealanders) who cannot
meet the “living together” requirements for
partnership,” Armstrong said.
Many couples cannot live together before
both partners enter New Zealand due to their
ethnic, and religious backgrounds or as a result
of cultural and religious traditions. It is also not
possible for many of those who identify as part
of the LGBTIQ+ community as many countries
do not permit LGBTIQ+ partnerships much
less allow them to live together.
Kiwi-Indian community worst
affected by INZ’s arbitrary action
on Partnership Visa
It is important to note that the Kiwi-Indian
community has been one of the biggest single
community to have experienced the wrath
of the government’s ineptitude in handling
Immigration NZ’s handling of partnership
visa issues.
In 2019, the issue came up to the fore when
Immigration New Zealand started a mass
rejection of applications emanating from their
Mumbai office, apparently to clear the long
burgeoning visa processing queue, on the
grounds of not issuing the alternative “general
visitor visa” based on the relationship with their
New Zealand based partners.
On persistent media probing and community
outrage, especially against a racist barrage
against the Indian community by a then Minister
of the crown under the current government,
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern intervened and
made claims that the issue has been fixed and
the perceived bias against Indian marriages for
the purpose of visa was removed.
That claim, as it turned out, was not correct,
and Immigration New Zealand’s bias against
relationships based on Indian marriages
continued and no “Partnership visas” were
issued for entering into the country.
As a band-aid solution then, INZ returned
to the pre-May 2019 position of issuing an
alternative “general visitor visa” to facilitate
members of the Kiwi-Indian community to
bring their overseas-based spouses.
When the NZ government closed the borders
in March 2020 – all such Kiwi-Indians who
had married their overseas-based partners as
per their traditional Indian marriages were
not allowed to enter New Zealand. (This also
included people who have already arrived
in New Zealand on such alternatively issued
visitor visas and were travelling overseas at the
time of border closure).
Surprisingly, and unfortunately, the
Kiwi-Indian community and their leaders
had not taken up on the issue that was
clearly discriminatory and biased against
Indian marriages.
Call for generous donation to
support legal action.
Meanwhile, calling for generous donation
from everyone experiencing the wrath of
immigration systems and the well-wishers
in wider communities Armstrong posted in
a Facebook group dedicated to families &
partners separated by NZ’s closed borders,
“We have 3500 Members in this group. We
are asking every single one of you to consider
donating if you can (but only if you can). Get
your friends, family members, employers know
too! Legal Action is an expensive affair, even
when you have lawyers like D&S Law willing
to act for reduced fees.
If everyone puts in something we can reach
our target of 50k.
As someone yesterday said, they have
already spent $450 on border exceptions that
have gone nowhere.
Let’s put our funds to this action and break
new ground together!!! No matter how big or
small. We will also seek donations from the
wider community.”

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NEW ZEALAND 3
National Party launches
‘Covid contribution visa’ to give
certainty to migrant workers in country
IWK BUREAU
National Party has announced a policy
that aims to give certainty to skilled
migrant workers in the country by
clearing backlog in residency and bringing a
new category of “Covid contribution visa.”
National will clear the current residency
backlog and provide a clear pathway for
skilled migrants already in the country
to gain residency.
Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins
says we are losing the skilled migrants we
desperately need who moved to New Zealand
before the lockdown with the promise there
would be a pathway to residency for them and
their families.
“In the last four years this Government,
through poor planning and poor policy, have
completely broken our immigration system
so that we now have the longest queues for
residence in our history and record wait times
for getting residence visas processed
“This has destroyed our international
reputation as a destination for skilled migrants
to move to and is causing the migrants
we do have onshore to look to take their
skills elsewhere.
“We can’t afford to lose any more doctors,
engineers, teachers and IT workers because
they have no certainty around when they can
become a resident.
“These people have played a pivotal role in
getting New Zealand through the worst of the
Covid-19 pandemic.
“The Government is effectively forcing
skilled migrants to leave the country, while
trying to find space in MIQ for other foreign
workers to replace them. It is madness in a time
of skill shortages and MIQ shortages.
“National has come up with a plan to
fix the issue.
“The first thing we will do is clear the
residency backlog. We will unfreeze the
residency pool and streamline and fast-track
residency processing to clear the backlog of
more than 30,000 applications.
“Then we need to offer our migrant workers
here a pathway to residency. These are our
"
Finally, we will decouple
visas from a specific
employer to stop migrant
exploitation. A smarter
approach is bonding people
to sectors and regions which
would make sure the right
skills are in the right regions."
dairy farmer workers, aged care workers, truck
drivers, construction workers and hospitality
staff who are in New Zealand because there
was a skills shortage.
“Finally, we will decouple visas from a
specific employer to stop migrant exploitation.
A smarter approach is bonding people to sectors
and regions which would make sure the right
skills are in the right regions.
“We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
with record low unemployment and the biggest
labour shortage in 40 years to offer a pathway
to residence for those migrants who stuck with
us through Covid and have contributed to our
economy and our society.
“This pathway would be through a ‘Covid
Contribution Visa’, which would give our
valuable migrants the ability, time and surety to
apply for residence.
“We expect this to affect around
35,000 Essential Skills workers and their
families that will be processed in the next
few years once we have cleared the current
residency backlog. In the meantime, we will
offer all of these workers a three-year work visa
so they do not have to keep reapplying while
they wait.
“We cannot attract good people to our
shores to help boost our economy and our
productivity if we have a system that is in
complete meltdown.
“By clearing the residency backlog and
offering a Covid contribution pathway to
residence we can clear the decks and start again.
“If we want the best, we need to be the best.
Labour’s immigration policies have made New
Zealand the worst and National has a plan to fix
it,” Collins said.

4 NEW ZEALAND
Friday, August 6, 2021
The Indian Weekender
Call for MIQ booking system
reform – ‘The govt just doesn’t get it’
RNZ
A
group of New Zealanders living
overseas has launched a petition to
reform the Managed Isolation and
Quarantine (MIQ) booking system, increase
capacity, and consider alternatives for returnees
who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
The Grounded Kiwis petition was launched
earlier this week and has received more than
3000 signatures so far.
The group say that New Zealanders abroad
feel they have been abandoned and that the
MIQ system is broken.
Alexandra Birt, a Kiwi living in London who
drafted the petition, told Morning Report she
wanted to return home to see family, but many
others had their own reasons.
“New Zealanders at home and abroad are
really affected by the system at the moment,
and a general essence of it for those of us
abroad, is that we can’t get home.
“And for those who are in New Zealand who
have urgent needs to go overseas, they can’t
do that at the moment because you just simply
can’t get space in MIQ. So that’s why I set up
the petition.”
She said there needed to be a fairer
booking system.
“That looks like a system that’s transparent,
accessible, minimises uncertainty, and
ultimately just one that allows people
to get home.
“It’s a system that can’t be subverted by
bots and scripts or paying third parties which
we›ve heard a lot about in the media recently;
one that meets the accessibility standards, so
everyone has an equal opportunity to book.
“There’s been a lot of issues with emergency
allocations where people have extremely valid
emergency circumstances, but they just can’t
obtain emergency allocation and ultimately
what it all comes down towards one where
supply meets demand.”
She said the system needed to be upfront
about wait times.
The government and MBIE also needed to
look at the science to allow travel options for
those who had been vaccinated, Birt said.
“One of the complaints was ... on the basis
that the current system, as it’s designed,
is inaccessible and discriminates against
particularly older disabled and blind people
who can’t complete the steps quickly enough
to secure a slot for people that are relying
on screen readers who just are not in the
same position as other people might be who
are able to utilise these kinds of high-tech
speedy solutions.”
The Human Rights Commission has
received 30 complaints about the online booking
portal, including claims that it discriminates
against older people, disabled people and
blind people.
“I feel like the government just
doesn’t get it.”
Birt said the government “kept referring to
Victoria goes
into a snap
seven day
Covid-19
lockdown after
mystery cases
RNZ
Eight new cases of Covid-19 were
reported in the state today, with six
of those from results received on
Wednesday.
The lockdown will last for seven days.
Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said
today’s decision to go into another lockdown
was hard to make.
“The advice to me from the experts is that if
the situation as being analogous to a sporting
event, and to me that just boggles my mind
when people are trying to get home”.
“I had a friend whose mum died overnight
and she couldn’t get home to New Zealand
because once someone has died, we no longer
One of the complaints
was ... on the basis that
the current system, as it’s
designed, is inaccessible
and discriminates against
particularly older disabled
and blind people who can’t
complete the steps quickly
enough to secure a slot for
people that are relying on
screen readers who just are not
in the same position as other
people might be who are able
to utilise these kinds of hightech
speedy solutions
meet the emergency criteria to get back.
“So she was separated from her family in
that awful situation, and to analogise that with
trying to get a ticket to a sporting event, it’s
just ... they don’t get it, and that’s why we’re
campaigning for change. It’s both changing the
perception and actually seeking action.”
Last month, MIQ deputy chief executive
Megan Main said a fairer system was in
the works but «the reality is some people
will miss out.
we were to wait even just a few days, there’s
every chance that instead of being locked down
for a week, if this gets away from us then we
are potentially locked down until we all get
vaccinated and that’s months away.”
Andrews said he is doing all he can to avoid
a “New South Wales-style” outbreak.
Officials are concerned about an infected
teacher at a school west of Melbourne and three
new cases linked to her.
The source of those infections are unknown.
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NEW ZEALAND 5
Government upbeat as
unemployment fells to 4 per cent
IWK BUREAU
The government is upbeat on the latest
reports of fall in unemployment rates to
pre-Covid levels of 4 per cent.
The Government’s efforts to secure the
recovery has seen more Kiwis in jobs and
higher wages, with unemployment falling to
pre-COVID levels and more people in work.
Stats NZ figures show unemployment rate
fell to 4 percent in the June quarter from 4.6
percent in the March quarter, the lowest rate
since December 2019. This compares with
The Treasury’s Half year Economic and Fiscal
Update forecast unemployment rate of 5.2
percent.
Employment rose by 28,000 in the quarter,
and the total number of people in work is now
63,000 above where it was in the December
2019 quarter before COVID.
The average hourly wage rose 4 percent to
$34.76 an hour, compared with a 3.3 percent
rise in inflation, meaning more money in New
Zealander’s back pockets.
“This positive result shows the Government’s
plan is delivering, giving households and
businesses the confidence to spend and invest
and accelerate the recovery. An extra 63,000
people are in jobs since September 2020, when
unemployment peaked at 5.2 percent,” Grant
Robertson said.
“Our focus remains on accelerating the
recovery and dealing with the challenges that a
fast growing economy brings. Our vaccination
programme is ramping up and we’ll have more
to say on reconnecting to the rest of the work
soon, which will provide further confidence to
business as they plan ahead.
“Our critical worker scheme has seen
17,000 people enter New Zealand to support
businesses and other organisations to keep the
economy moving. We will continue to work
with businesses on opportunities to expand the
number of people we can bring in to support
our recovering economy. We also continue to
invest heavily in education, skills and training
to build back better.
“The ongoing impact of the pandemic is
likely to see unemployment move around a
bit. Nevertheless, New Zealand has performed
favourably against the countries we measure
ourselves against.”
“On comparable measures, New Zealand’s 4
percent unemployment rate stands against 5.2
percent in Australia, 5.9 percent in the United
States and 8 percent in Canada. The OECD
average is 6.6 percent,” Grant Robertson said.
“The stronger labour market saw another
large number of people come off the benefit in
the June quarter, with over 31,000 entering paid
work,” Carmel Sepuloni said.
“Our programmes to assist those who are
disadvantaged in the labour market to reenter
the workforce are making a difference.
Flexiwage has seen 4,782 people placed into
employment, while Apprenticeship Boost has
supported over 31,000 into a trade.
“Today’s figures also show a drop in Māori
and Pacific unemployment by 1 percent and
1.6 percent respectively, as well as a significant
drop in the numbers of young people Not in
Education, Employment or Training.
“While today’s figures are positive and
shows our plan is working, we know we have
more work to do,” Carmel Sepuloni said.
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Friday, August 6, 2021
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Kiwi-Indian
temporary
migrant worker
dies in Auckland,
leaves young
family distraught
SANDEEP SINGH
A
Kiwi-Indian man has died on Monday
night (July 26) at his workplace
in Auckland leaving his wife and
nine-month-old kid absolutely shattered
and distraught.
31-year-old Siddhartha Dasson, originally
from Batala, Punjab passed away suddenly
during his night shift at BP Weymouth,
expectedly leaving the wife Shreejana Kadel,
in utter disbelief and shock.
His other day job was in the hospitality
industry at The Sebel Quay West Auckland.
Sidharth was married to Shreena – a native
of Nepal since 2013 back in India after being
in relationship for many years.
Speaking to the Indian Weekender Shreena
said, “I am very close to Sidharth’s mum
and dad, and they have left it on me to
decide on how best to manage the funeral
[or repatriation].”
“Papa is retired from insurance firm and his
brother works in an insurance firm in Punjab,”
Shreena said.
The couple had first met in Brisbane,
Australia in 2009 where both of them were
pursuing international education – Shreena
studied in hair dressing and Siddhartha
studying hospitality to become a chef.
They fell in love and returned
back to India in 2011 to meet
each other’s parents and take
their blessings for the new
married life.
The couple had initial plans
of leaving for Australia after
completing their higher study in
New Zealand, however Sidhhartha
fell in love with New Zealand and the
lifestyle, and they decided to change the
plan and lay down roots and start family
here in NZ.
As a part of their plans to live permanently in
New Zealand, the couple had recently applied
for Essential Skills work visa on July 13
and were confident of a favourable outcome
as their application was fully supported by
their employer.
Earlier, only nine months ago the couple
had a new member in the family son Zayden
Kadel Dasson at Middlemore hospital which
has changed their lives for ever Shreena told
the Indian Weekender.
Community rallies to support
the young family
When the Indian Weekender first
"I am very
close to Sidharth’s
mum and dad, and they
have left it on me to decide
on how best to manage the
funeral [or repatriation]., “Papa
is retired from insurance firm
and his brother works in
spoke with Shreena she said,
“I do need help, but I don’t
know what?”
Following this the
word spread out and the
community has rallied
together to fundraise for the
young family.
Dinesh Khadka, the
immediate past President of
Nepal Society of New Zealand told
the Indian Weekender that a givealittle page
has been created and we are getting generous
support from our Nepalese and the Kiwi-
Indian community.
an insurance firm in
Punjab."
At the time of the publishing of this story
1056 generous doners have donated $51, 132
within seven days after the creation of the
Givealittle page.
However, appealing to the community
Dinesh Khadka said, “We are requesting our
communities to continue to shower love,
kindness and compassion to support Shreena
and her infant child in this distressful time.”
The community is urged to send their
contribution https://givealittle.co.nz/
cause/iam-not-alone?fbclid=IwAR3k_CR
ZOoa6wRC5BjBWgt2TiBBfKzvwIUrUrHe
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Shreena is planning to remain in New
Zealand and not return back immediately to
India, because she is scared that the current
closed border regime might not allow her
back into the country and threaten everything
Siddhartha and she had worked upon to create
a life in New Zealand.
She remains clueless as of now if she can
seek help from Immigration New Zealand
and the government to be allowed to travel
overseas for emotional support and have the
ability to return back after few months.
Sidhartha was given an emotional farewell
at the funeral held on Sunday, August 1, at
Ann’s Funeral in South Auckland.
Govt and Reserve Bank agree on
new moves to tighten mortgage lending
RADIO NEW ZEALAND
Mortgage lending rules are
to be toughened after the
government has given the
Reserve Bank approval to tighten
loan-to-value ratios and move to
bring in debt-to-income ratios.
In a statement, Finance Minister
Grant Robertson said the central
bank would start consulting reducing
low deposit lending by banks to no
more than 10 percent of their total
lending from the current 20 percent.
The measure would come into force
on 1 October.
The government has also given
RBNZ approval for debt-to-income
ratios or interest rate floors, to ensure
borrowers can afford to service
mortgages.
“This change will ensure that the
Reserve Bank has the flexibility
to respond to emerging financial
stability risks and deploy appropriate
tools as required,” Robertson said.
He said debt-to-income ratios
would be designed to minimise any
negative effect on first home buyers,
with consultation starting in October.
The moves followed changes
made at the start of the year to cool
the housing market, which have
proved largely ineffective in slowing
the 20 percent annual growth in
house prices.
RBNZ deputy governor Geoff
Bascand said the further restrictions
were needed to ensure the financial
system was strong, and borrowers
able to cope with any economic and
financial pressures such as rising
interest rates.
“We’ve already made adjustments
to Loan-to-Value Ratio (LVR)
restrictions to partially manage this
risk, but we haven’t seen a sufficient
reduction in risky lending.”
I
believe this
agreed wording
will set clear public
expectations
while maintaining
the operational
independence of the
Reserve Bank. It is
still up to the Reserve
Bank how it chooses
to introduce any
restrictions, having
had regard to this
condition
“If house prices were to fall, some
buyers could face the possibility
of negative equity - which means
the value of their property is below
the outstanding balance on their
mortgage,” Bascand said.
The RBNZ will consult on the
DTIs and interest rate floors from
October, a process it said would take
at least three months.
Robertson said the aim of the
previous and new moves has been
to improve the affordability for firsthome
buyers. Earlier moves have
been aimed at property investors.
Robertson said they had also
clarified in the memorandum that the
bank would need to avoid negative
impacts on first-home buyers where
possible.
“I believe this agreed wording
will set clear public expectations
while maintaining the operational
independence of the Reserve Bank. It
is still up to the Reserve Bank how it
chooses to introduce any restrictions,
having had regard to this condition,”
Robertson said.

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NEW ZEALAND 7
Govt tinkering won’t
solve housing crisis,
says National Party’s
Shadow Treasurer
Andrew Bayly
National Party MP and
Shadow Treasurer
The Government’s tinkering with
monetary and financial stability policy
is doing nothing to address rampant
house price inflation
Instead, the Finance Minister Grant
Robertson is using the Reserve Bank as a
scapegoat for the Government’s failure to break
down the barriers and costs to encourage the
building of new houses, a failure that is the real
cause of house price inflation.
“The Reserve Bank’s proposed new LVR
restrictions are fine as long as they don’t inhibit
owner-occupied house buyers, especially first
home buyers,” says Mr Bayly.
“But the Government’s real focus should
be on removing the barriers to building new
houses. As the Reserve Bank Governor himself
said before being corralled by the Minister of
Finance, the real challenge with the housing
market is a lack of supply and the factors
preventing building, such as access to the land
and planning rules.
“If the Reserve Bank thinks that debtto-income
ratios and interest rate floors are
required for financial stability, we look forward
to seeing them make the case. But this tool
shouldn’t detract from the real cause of house
price inflation – failure to move faster to get
more new houses built.
“Minister Robertson’s continued attempts
to shift responsibility for housing affordability
onto the Reserve Bank is distracting it from its
core mission of price and financial stability. It
would be better if he left them to get on with
their job and that he got on with his.
“What’s missing from the Government’s
focus on lending is how we can get more of it
directed toward the more productive side of the
economy. We really need to start focusing on
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Take a musical
odyssey across
India’s six beautiful
seasons
IWK BUREAU
After the resounding success
of Ragas of the Gods a
couple of years ago, the
Mohan Nadkarni Foundation will
stage Raagas of the Seasons – a
unique musical odyssey through
India’s six beautiful seasons on
Saturday 28 August in Auckland.
The new multimedia concert
will travel melodically and visually
through the beauty of our six Indian
seasons with a variety of musical
styles that are closely linked to
these seasons.
And during this musical journey
with some Auckland’s most talented
singers the audience will explore how
these seasons are so closely linked to
so many aspects of our lives.
Since ancient times, Indians have
associated these six seasons with
every sphere of human activity –
relationships, emotions, feelings,
moods, food, colours – and songs,
which has come down to us
through our traditions right down
to wildly popular and timeless
Hindi film songs.
Festivals celebrating harvests,
solstices, gods and goddesses were
always accompanied by song and
dance, creating strong associations
between music and season.
While most countries observe
four seasons annually – commonly
referred to as summer, winter,
autumn, spring.
However, since the time of the
ancient Vedic civilisation, people
of the Indian subcontinent have
been observing six seasons – Vasant
(spring); Grishma (summer);
Varsha (monsoon); Sharad
(autumn); Hemant (pre-winter); and
Shishir (winter).
Presented in six segments
corresponding to the six seasons,
Raagas of the Seasons is featuring
New Zealand’s accomplished
singers, dancers and musicians,
to bring you a unique bouquet of
different musical and dance styles,
all of these related to the seasons they
are linked to.
Auckland’s well-known and
popular singers Sandhya Badakere,
Vidya Teke, Guncha Singh, Gopal
Krishan, Jayasree Sitharaman
and Aritra Sengupta along with
instrumentalists Ashok Malur, Lester
Silver, Navneel Prasad, Mihir Patel
and Swanand Chitnis will perform.
Kathak exponent Parul Juneja
and Bharatanatyam dancer Pooja
Bhagath complete the ensemble.
Talented stage actor Shweta Divekar
is the narrator.
Mohan Nadkarni Foundation
brings you Raagas of the Seasons in
association with Might-I and Swar
Sadhana Academy.
Mark your calendars for
SATURDAY 28 AUGUST 2021
6PM for Raagas of the Seasons
at the Green Bay High School
Performing Arts Centre, 161
GODLEY ROAD, GREEN BAY,
AUCKLAND. Tickets are selling
fast and available at www.
ticketbazaar.co.nz
Don’t miss this amazing journey
of songs, music and dance across
India’s six beautiful seasons!
Tokyo Olympics:
Carrington wins
gold to make
history
RNZ
Lisa Carrington has become New Zealand’s most
successful Olympian after winning the K1 500m
gold medal in Tokyo.
It is Carrington’s third gold medal of the Games, having
won the the K1 200 and K2 500.
She has now won five Olympic golds in her career
surpassing the four gold won by fellow kayaker Ian
Fergusson. Carrington is also the first New Zealand
woman to win three gold medals at one Olympics.
It is the New Zealand team’s seventh gold of the Tokyo
Olympics, giving them a total of 17 medals.
Carrington could still win a fourth gold with the K4
500 yet to come. She told Sky Sport afterwards that her
aproach to the K500 had been simple.
“The way that I approached that 500 is about emptying
the tank completely. It’s just a completely different race,
and into the headwind it’s just a bit longer but the strategy
has to stay the same for me.
“It hurt a lot but it just means that I gave everything, so
I’m really happy. It’s amazing - you set out for such a big
task this week, but to be able to do it is just another thing.
I’m so proud, I’m just amazed at what’s happened this
week so far,” she said.
“There’s so many people that support me - I’m just so
fortunate to have such an incredible support team.”
Carrington said she’d learned a lot from the 2016 Rio
Olympics.
“You might have the capability to be able to have great
races, but to actually execute it and do it is another thing.
“It’s taken me five years to have that courage to get
back out there and do something that is really scary and
hurts a lot.
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“I hate it, and I love it.”
‘It’s just about every single race’
Carrington’s fiancé Michael Buck was watching from
the Cloud at Auckland’s waterfront.
“I think she had it won in the last 50-odd metres, so
maybe some early celebrations started. But yeah, just
relief, happiness, so stoked for her,” he told Checkpoint.
“She doesn’t set out to become the greatest Olympian
or whatever it’s just about every single race, and trying
to be better every time and she did that. It was amazing.
“Earlier in the week she was nervous, a bit scared about
what was coming up, but after Tuesday and yesterday,
pretty relaxed,” Buck said.
His message for Lisa: “One more event, then come
home. We miss you.”
Buck said for the K4, Carrington’s three teammates are
going to step up and ride the momentum of her success.
“I think they’ll have a great shot at it.”
Carrington’s mother Glynis told Checkpoint the day
has been “bigger than life itself”.
“I was just very emotional actually. The change
between seeing her as our daughter to just admiring here
is the most amazing woman.”
The family were in Lisa’s hometown of Ohope for
today’s race, with lots of friends and those she had grown
up with at the surf club there.
Glynis said the nervous anticipation before her
daughter’s races has not got any easier.
“Nothing is written in stone beforehand, so it’s that
feeling of, I know she will do her best. She always does
her best, and willing the best will be in that race.”
“The enormity of what she’s put herself up there to do.
The courage she’s had to have to go for it, to start with, to
say ‘I want to do this’, and

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NEW ZEALAND 9
Why the Radio New Zealand
Charter review matters to
Ethnic New Zealanders
Melissa Lee
are paying for the platform so I
National Party’s
encourage you to make a submission
Spokesperson for Ethnic
Communities, Broadcasting if you have something to say because
& Media, Digital Economy I and the New Zealand Parliament
and Communications want to hear from you.
In April, it was finally announced The Key Questions the Economic
Parliament would be able to Development Science and Innovation
do the job prescribed in law Committee are asking you to provide
under the Radio New Zealand Act
1995 and review the RNZ Charter.
feedback on are:
How have the changes introduced
Public submissions are now open to the Charter by the Radio New
for your views until August 13 and
Zealand Amendment Act 2016
guided RNZ’s operations?
as an opposition member of the
Are the principles of operation,
Economic Development, Science
outlined in the “Purpose” section
and Innovation Committee hearing
of the Charter, still fit for purpose?
the Inquiry and the National Party
Specifically we are focusing on
Spokesperson for Broadcasting and the questions: Does RNZ currently
Media I encourage you to make a
submission.
I believe it is crucial that ethnic
New Zealanders make their voice
heard in the Review of the Radio
New Zealand Charter because, as
an integral and growing part of the
provide reliable, independent, and
freely accessible information? Does
RNZ programming effectively reflect
New Zealand’s ethnic, cultural and
artistic diversity?
Are the standards and objectives,
outlined in the “Delivery” section
New Zealand community, RNZ is of the Charter, still fit for purpose?
meant to represent you and be a
We are particularly interested in
the following questions: Is RNZ
media choice you want to tune into.
utilising its platforms and modes of
While we have many amazing ethnic
delivery effectively, especially given
community radio, broadcasting and
technological advancements? Does
media organisations (such as Indian
RNZ effectively preserve and archive
Weekender!) our national public material of historical significance?
broadcaster has a duty to “reflect
New Zealand’s cultural identity”.
You are a part of that cultural
If so, what criteria does RNZ use
to determine what is historically
significant? Given RNZ’s focus on
identity and you as taxpayers increasing youth listenership, is RNZ
adequately accounting for different
age group audiences?
Are any changes needed to the
wording of the Charter?
From my perspective as National’s
Spokesperson for Broadcasting
and Media it is pretty clear a public
radio station and/or non-commercial
broadcaster will continue to exist in
some form or another for years to
come so it is vital all communities
get a chance to be represented in
discussions relating to its future.
The RNZ Charter is the guiding
document for Radio New Zealand
and what it says is what RNZ will do
for years of listeners and readers to
come. Your voice to Parliament will
be critical for the future of this public
broadcaster.
Ethnic New Zealanders need to
feel their voice is being heard and
has stories that engage them from
our pre-eminent public broadcaster,
Simply put there is a problem if
diverse voices in New Zealand do
not believe RNZ reflects them or is
a service they want and Parliament
must act should this be the case.
I urge you all to submit to RNZ on
whether you feel your voice is being
heard on the airwaves and if not,
what our Parliament can do to better
support that voice being present on
RNZ.
It’s time to talk radio.
Whangarei Malayalee
Association to celebrate
Onam festival
SANDEEP SINGH
Whangarei Malayalee
Association (WMA)
is all set to host the
Onam festival in New Zealand’s
most northern city Whangarei
– which is also known as the
gateway of the popular Bay
of Island.
Shaji Cherian, President
of WMA, told the Indian
Weekender that his team was all
ready to bring together another
edition of the most popular
festival of the Indian state
of Kerala in the community
Up North.
Onam is the most revered and
celebrated festival in Kerala. It
is symbolic of King Mahabali’s annual homecoming as well as celebrates the
Vaman avatar of Lord Vishnu.
This ten-day long festival brings in the best of festive spirit among the
people of Kerala and is celebrated with much splendour.
Shaji Cherian told the Indian Weekender that Onam was all about festivities,
cultural programs, music and Sadhya.
For the uninitiated, Sadhya is a feast in Kerala, hugely important to all
Malayalis and now increasingly becoming popular worldwide for the banquet
of food items served on the banana leaf, which can vary from 24–28 dishes
served as a single course or even more.
It will not be an exaggeration to say that eating Sadhya in an Onam festival
is a remarkable cultural experience, and it is this kind of cultural experience
that WMA wants to create for its members and guests on Tuesday, August 17.
The event is ticketed, and tickets are available by contacting Shaji Cherian
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Wellington Diwali Festival 2021
set to return on Labour Weekend
SANDEEP SINGH
Wellington Diwali Festival
of Lights 2021 is all set
to return to TSB and Shed
6 on Monday, October 25, from 1.30
pm to 9 pm, a communique from the
producers of the event confirmed.
Notably, this popular festival in
the capital city is brought to you
by Wellington City Council and
produced by Communities Action
Trust New Zealand (CATNZ).
Murali Kumar, the founding
Trustee, Operations & Events
Manager for the CATNZ told the
Indian Weekender that it was a
privilege to produce the much-loved
festival for the people of Wellington
that celebrates Indian culture,
inclusivity and the multiculturalism
of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Speaking to the Indian
Weekender, Murali said, “With stage
performances, craft, retail stalls,
exhibition, presentations, workshops
and diverse authentic Indian cuisine,
the Diwali festival returns with a
bang to Wellington’s waterfront TSB
and Shed 6, Queens Wharf.”
Murali also recalled fond
memories of how the Wellington
Diwali Festival was lucky enough to
go ahead in 2020 and bring smiles and
joy on the faces of people, otherwise
jaded by Covid-19 related lockdowns
and changing Alert Levels that
resulted in the cancellation of many
large-scale events across the country.
Kiwi-Indian conferred with
community service award
SILKY SHARMA
A
prominent Kiwi-Indian and an
emerging community leader in
Christchurch, Manish Pandey
was conferred with community service
award by the Waipuna Halswell-Hornby-
Riccarton community board of the
Christchurch City Council.
Pandey is currently
the Vice President
of Christchurch
Multicultural
Council and actively
involved in the
organisation’s
numerous community
service projects.
He has been working
actively within different
communities of the Chistchurch
region, including standing for local board
elections in 2019 under The People’s
Choice banner (The People’s Choice is the
local party of the Labour Party).
Pandey has a long involvement in
community space in the Christchurch
region right from 2010 including being
a volunteer patroller in Riccarton
Community Patrol (2011)
and volunteering in
Christchurch Multicultural
Council in January 2012.
Speaking with the Indian
Weekender Pandey said, “Losing yourself
in service of others is the best way to find
yourself.”
“I am following my father’s footsteps
in helping others in whatever way I can
assist,” Pandey said recalling his earliest
inspiration for putting other’s interests
before his own needs.
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The festival is well-known
amongst Wellington’s multicultural
communities for bringing together
a number of cultural performances
reflecting the rich cultural history of
Celebration of diversity at Christchurch
Multicultural festival
SILKY SHARMA
India on a grand stage.
Unlike Auckland’s
Diwali festival,
Wellington Diwali
is held indoors
with seating
spaces for the
spectators both
in front of the
stage and on
the side first-floor
balconies that give
a spectacular view of
the stage performances amid
vivid lighting and festive backdrop.
Call out for making the festival
bigger, better and grand
The IndianNZ Association of Christchurch
Inc.’s annual event Christchurch
Multicultural Festival - Celebration of
Cultures was successful in bringing together
diverse communities from different multicultural
backgrounds in the true sense of growing diversity
in the South Island’s biggest city.
The festival was held on Saturday, July 31, at La
Vida Centre, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, with
the purpose of bringing diverse communities of
Christchurch under one roof.
More than 22 different cultural groups showcase
their culture on the stage, mesmerising one and all.
The event was attended by more than 600
people from different diverse Communities along
with Dignitaries from Hamilton, Wellington and
Auckland. Among the dignitaries, key were
Minister for Housing and local MP for Wigram,
Megan Woods, Deputy Mayor Andrew Turner,
Executive Director of Ministry Ethnic Communities
Anusha Guler, MP for Christchurch Central Duncan
Webb, MP for Upper Harbour Vanushi Walters and
MP for Hamilton West Dr Gaurav Sharma.
The event was also attended by Guests from the
Ministry of Ethnic Communities, Habib Marwat and
Eileen Yee.
Community leaders including Vijay Kumar,
Surinder Tandon, Dr Rajendra Prasad, Sam Yu,
Menu Alex, Sushila Bisht, Vinesh Prakash, Cathy
O’Neill, Khima Nanda Rijal, Hero Mds, Ezekiel
"With
stage
performances, craft,
retail stalls, exhibition,
presentations, workshops and
diverse authentic Indian cuisine,
the Diwali festival returns
with a bang to Wellington’s
waterfront TSB and Shed
6, Queens Wharf."
Meanwhile, inviting participation
from one and all to make the next
iteration of the Wellington Diwali
Festival, said, “We need your
help and participation to bring the
sights, sounds and spicy tastes of
India to Wellington for the whole
city to enjoy!”
“Please read the general
information sheet for more details
on costs, final date to send the
application forms and any other
terms and conditions,” Murali said.
The Indian Weekender has been
associated with the Wellington
Diwali as an official media partner
since 2018 and presents its Mr & Ms
Wellington Diwali show to the
Wellington audience.
In 2020, the festival was
held in slightly compact
form with a late start
and an early finish
and without the muchanticipated
fireworks
across the wharf owing
to uncertainties related
to Covid lockdowns and
changing alert levels.
This year the festival will return
to its normal full-day version
and see the return of the popular
firework show.
Prasad, Sharnali Atashi Tisi, Jackie Reyes and many
more attended the event.
Delicious food and ethnic stalls were one of the
main attractions at the event, with eye-catching
decoration at the entrance (along with dazzling
cultural performances from the stage).

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India@75 celebrations begin in NZ:
High Commissioner presents unique
display of Indian cuisine 'Chaat Street'
SANDEEP SINGH
Indian High Commissioner Muktesh Pardeshi kicked off
India @75 celebrations in Wellington this morning by
presenting a unique display of Indian cuisine “Chaat
Street” at the Wellington On a Plate Festival.
Visa Wellington on a plate is a month-long - food
festival or a culinary adventure as the organisers describe
themselves - in the capital city, which celebrates all things
food and beverage.
The event witnesses hundreds of festival events, festival
dishes that showcase the best of Wellington region’s
ingredients, suppliers and producers, creative cocktails and
all the burgers.
This year in the spirit of global celebrations under the
India@75 campaign, High Commissioner Mr Pardeshi had
taken keen interest to promote authentic Indian cuisines
popularly known as Indian street food to the Wellington food
lovers and worked together with renowned Chef Vaibhav
Vishen which resulted in the now displaying “Chaat Street.”
The Chaat Street event is open to all food lovers, and
patrons from 9.00 am till late on Wednesday, August 4 and
Thursday, August 5 at Level 1/60 Dixon Street, Wellington.
Speaking with the Indian Weekender, Mr Pardeshi said,
“This August is a Food Festival month in Wellington. This
is also the month when India enters the 75th year of its
Independence. Therefore, we have joined hands with Indian
participants in Wellington on a Plate to promote Indian
cuisine as a part of India@75 events.”
For the uninitiated, India@75 (or Azadi ka Amrit
Mahotsav) is a series of mega celebrations launched by the
government of India beginning 75 weeks prior to India’s
Independence Day, 2022 and extending till 2023.
Mr Pardeshi elaborating further on the Chaat Street event
in Wellington, said, “Chef Vaibhav Vishen, who was until
recently Head Chef with Double Tree Hilton, is offering two
culinary events- Street Chaat, which was kicked off today
and Kashmir Odyssey, a fine dining experience later this
month. We also have Satya Chai Lounge over the coming
weekend.”
Extending a warm invitation to all Indians living in the
region, and friends of India, Mr Pardeshi said, “These are
excellent opportunities to enjoy different styles of Indian
food and celebrate the spirit of India’s Independence.”
Dunedin ED staff fear patients
could die due to wait times
RNZ
Emergency department staff and management at Dunedin Hospital
met again today over growing concerns patients are at risk of dying
while they wait for treatment.
Dunedin Hospital nurse Anne Daniels said staff were at breaking point
and do not feel they were being heard.
She said current staffing levels do not meet the huge demand the
department is experiencing, meaning patients are not being seen within
specified triage times.
“We are carrying the emotions and the psychological scars of our inability
to do the job that we have trained to do.”
She said staff were asked daily to take on extra hours or return to work
to do overtime.
“We have hit the wall, we are exhausted, we can’t do it anymore.”
Last week, Daniels, who has been a nurse for 40 years, lodged a
provisional improvement notice (Pin) with the Southern District Health
Board. The notice, an action under the Health and Safety at Work Act,
requires a workplace to display the notice and take steps within eight days
to address the safety issues raised or face possible further action.
Following a provisional meeting this morning, Daniels said she felt the
DHB had listened to the concerns that had been raised.
“I believe that the organisation and the main leadership team have
heard us, and they’re doing everything in their power to work with us in
collaboration and I get a real sense of hope from that.”
A formal response was received from leadership this afternoon.
A report tabled at a Southern District Health Board meeting on Tuesday
found one Dunedin Hospital ward was regularly understaffed by 20 percent
or more between July 2018 and October 2020.
Daniels said emergency departments were seeing patients with more
complex needs, including specialty patients referred from GPs.
“They come into the ED where they wait for many, many hours to be
seen by the specialty patients, which causes bedlock.”
She said, on top of that, there is a growing number of high acuity patients,
with patients much sicker than they used to be when they arrive in the ED.
The patients with most serious need due to a potential loss of life
(triage one) were seen immediately, with triage two patients seen
within 10 minutes.
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Editorial
Demand for quashing
requirement of
“living together” for
partnership visas
needs community’s
support
It is high time that the demand for quashing the requirement of “living together” for partnership
visas needs strong credible political backing and community’s support.
For long, the issue has been persisting around without any concerted community support and
ownership by the political leadership in the country, resulting in the inconvenience of forced family
separation for thousands of Kiwis and guests in this country.
Thousands of Kiwi citizens and residents and countless more temporary migrant workers
remain separated from their overseas-based partners and families, primarily because they fail to
demonstrate to Immigration New Zealand that they were “living together” as a couple.
The Kiwi-Indian community has experienced the maximum brunt of this arbitrary interpretation
of the “living together” requirement for partnership visas by Immigration New Zealand in recent
years, much before family separation in the current Covid-19 ravaged world had become a bit more
acceptable. Thousands of partnership visa applications, largely emanating from the Mumbai office
of Immigration New Zealand, were summarily rejected in 2019 because of the sudden change
of heart of immigration officials in the interpretation of the “living together” requirement for
partnership visas. At that time, the issue was largely perceived as a trivial ethnic community issue,
seen largely from the lens of non-western cultures versus western culture, where the expectation
was conformity from the previous to the latter.
Even the solution offered by Prime Minister, which eventually turned out to be a mere band-aid,
was offered in the form of tweak around in the culturally arranged marriage visa category.
As it eventually turned out that the offered solution was neither reasonable nor practicable –
forcing Immigration New Zealand to revert back to pre-May-2019 practices of assessing such
partnership visa requests. It clearly exposed the restrictive view of seeing the entire issue as limited
to an ethnic-cultural minority and hence conveniently brushed under the carpet.
Sadly, neither the Kiwi-Indian community nor the political leaders representing the communityowned
up the issue and worked rigorously to rake up the matter at the higher echelons of parliament.
Ideally, one of the sitting Kiwi-Indian MPs before the 2020 elections should have worked hard
along with the community to prepare a members-only bill to quash the absurd “living together”
requirement for partnership visa – if raking up the issue within their respective political parties
was too much an ask. Members Bill in New Zealand parliament is a unique opportunity available
to individual lawmakers (Members of Parliament) to demonstrate their passion and commitment
towards any particular issue. Such Bills only see the light of the day and are accepted for discussion
and voting in the parliament after having been picked up through a lottery system, but it does
demonstrate the robust commitment of individual MPs towards the cause, which often have made
immense contributions in the society’s outlook towards an issue.
David Seymour’s members’ bill on euthanasia has changed the country’s direction and appetite
on a very sensitive issue for many Kiwis.
Unfortunately, none of the then Kiwi-Indian MPs in parliament (Priyanca Radhakrishan, Parmjeet
Parmar, Kanwaljeet Singh Bakshi) has bothered to work in that direction – owning the issue up and
working along the community to come up with a Members Bill in parliament seeking change in law
that discriminates against Indian marriages for partnership visas.
Anyway – that was then – now today, the issue still remains unresolved, except that it has
now become obvious that its scope has widened as more and more Kiwis – beyond the Kiwi-
Indian community – are experiencing the wrath of arbitrary interpretation of the requirement of
“living together” for partnership visas. Kiwis of many dispensations – ethnicity, race and cultural
background and sexual orientation – have experienced and continue to experience discrimination
from this archaic interpretation of “living together” requirement for a partnership visa.
There are many social media groups where thousands of Kiwi citizens and residents have come
together to support each other in what seems to be the common pain point of not having demonstrable
“living together” experience to satisfy Immigration New Zealand that they are a legitimate couple,
albeit only living separately overseas, because of various compulsions of modern lives.
A lawsuit has been brought in NZ courts against a decision by Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi,
which also adversely affects such separated couples trying to enter NZ and join their partners.
A petition is also going on seeking the signature of New Zealanders affected or sympathetic to the
demand of removing the arbitrary requirement of “living together” for a partnership visa.
A protest was held in front of Beehive by such Kiwi citizens and residents facing forced
separation from their overseas-based partners on Monday, August 2, which witnessed participation
from sympathetic political leaders.
However, what is still required is passionate community support and dedicated political ownership
to bring the issue to the centre of national attention.
It is for the Kiwi-Indian community to dwell if it is prepared to throw its weight behind an
emotive issue that has affected them more than anyone else in the recent past and support the call
for quashing the requirement of “living together” for partnership visas.
Thought of the week
“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it.
Try again. Do better the second time. The only people
who never tumble are those who never mount the
high wire.” —Oprah Winfrey
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7 August 1908
First train runs length of main trunk line
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The first train to travel the length of the North Island main trunk line, the ‘Parliament Special’
left Wellington on the evening of 7 August. On board were Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward
and other members of Parliament heading to Auckland to greet the American navy’s ‘Great
White Fleet’.
8 August 1915
Wellington Battalion captures Chunuk Bair
The high point of the New Zealand effort at Gallipoli, the capture of Chunuk Bair underlined
the leadership qualities of Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone.
8 August 1995
Shakti begins in New Zealand
On 8 August 1995 Farida Sultana and seven other women met to discuss the establishment
of a culturally specialist support service for Asian, Middle Eastern and African women in
New Zealand. Sultana had been working as a volunteer at an Auckland women’s refuge and saw
a need for culturally sensitive assistance and support.
9 August 1908
US 'Great White Fleet' arrives in Auckland
Sixteen American battleships arrived in New Zealand with much pomp and ceremony.
A feature of the six-day ‘fleet week’ stopover was a civic reception attended by most of
the members of the New Zealand Parliament, who had travelled north from Wellington aboard
the ‘Parliament Special’ – the first train to traverse the whole length of the still-unfinished main
trunk railway line (see 6 November).
10 August 1840
British proclaim sovereignty as French head for Akaroa
H
MS Britomart arrived at Akaroa, on Banks Peninsula, a week before a shipload of French
colonists landed there. The Britomart's captain raised the Union Jack to confirm Britain's
claim to sovereignty over the area.

The Indian Weekender Friday, August 6, 2021 FIJI 13
New Zealand is sending 100,000 vaccine
doses and additional financial support
to Fiji for nursing staff as the country's
Covid-19 death toll passed 250.
Fiji reported 1100 new cases and 13 more
deaths today, bringing to total death toll to 254.
Of the deaths, 252 of them have come from
the April outbreak of the Delta variant of
Covid-19.
Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta said
New Zealand paid for 100,000 doses of the
AstraZeneca vaccine directly from the Spanish
government to meet Fiji's immediate vaccine
needs. The vaccines were due to arrive today.
"Our thoughts remain with Fiji during this
incredibly challenging period," Mahuta said in
a statement.
NZ sends 100,000 vaccine doses to Fiji
Earlier this year, the Government committed
to providing up to 500,000 doses.
Mahuta said that commitment still stood.
"AstraZeneca is Fiji's vaccine of choice and
these doses will further support the excellent
work Fiji is doing in vaccinating its population."
Mahuta said the nation's vaccination drive
was coming along.
"Fiji's vaccination programme is progressing
well with 25 percent now fully vaccinated,
and first doses provided to 82 percent of the
population. Our commitment stands and New
Zealand will continue to work with Fiji to
confirm its remaining vaccine requirements."
She said the government was also
funding for 190 Fiji graduate nurses for a
three-month period.
"The recruitment of these nurses not only
supports Fiji's response in the short term, but
also contributes to the long-term resilience of
the health sector."
New Zealand has also responded to a range
of other requests from Fiji.
"In the last two weeks New Zealand has
supported the provision and retrofitting of
ambulances and medical equipment, provided
funding support to civil society partners
and begun delivering 700,000 testing swabs
and privacy screens for medical facilities,"
Mahuta said.
These initiatives build on previous packages
of support New Zealand has provided Fiji,
including $40 million of financial assistance,
PPE, testing equipment and other relief
supplies.
New Zealand has also deployed two rotations
of medical personnel to the joint Australia New
Zealand Medical Assistance Team.
"We remain in close contact with the
government of Fiji and civil society partners to
support further requests," Mahuta said.
PRIORITY FOR JAB:
Dr Nasedra – People with NCDs at
higher risk of dying from COVID-19
PEOPLE suffering from noncommunicable
diseases (NCDs) have
very high chances of dying from
COVID-19 because NCDs reduce the body’s
ability to fight infection, says Dr Luke Nasedra.
The head of the Fiji Emergency Medical
Team (FEMAT) said this was the reason
they were placed on the “priority list” of the
COVID-19 vaccination drive.
“NCDs increase susceptibility for infection
and causes impairment of physical reserve –
cardiac and respiratory,” Dr Nasedra said.
“NCDs also reduce the body’s ability to
fight infections.
“With the addition of COVID-19 death
imminent for people with NCDs, preventative
COVID measures are important together
with vaccination and seeking medical
attention early.”
"
With the addition
of COVID-19 death
imminent for people
with NCDs, preventative
COVID measures are
important together with
vaccination and seeking
medical attention early."
Dr Nasedra said it was important for family
members to support their loved ones with
NCDs by ensuring everyone in the family get
their vaccination and avoiding unnecessary
movements which might result in them
contracting the virus from somewhere else.
The CWM Hospital acting superintendent
said Fijians suffering from NCDs should
also maintain their social distance and
strictly adhere to COVID measures for their
own safety.
The senior specialist surgeon has also urged
Fiji’s NCDs patients to consult the 165 helpline
for phone consultations if they felt they might
have got the virus.
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NEW ZEALAND
Over a ton of colour to be used at
Krishna Holi 2021 event in Kumeu
The Indian Weekender Friday, February 12, 2021 11
RIZWAN MOHAMMAD
T
he biggest Holi event in the country
on Sunday, February 14 at ISKCON
Temple in Kumeu will put over one
ton of colours for 10,000 visitors to play with
celebrating the annual Hindu festival.
Holi is one of the most popular and widely
celebrated festivals for the Indian community
after Diwali that is celebrated by the diaspora
and the adjoining communities across the globe.
The annual festival of colour falls on March
28-29 this year, and the religious element of the
festival signifies the triumph of good over evil.
It is observed a the end of winter and advent of
spring month (in the Indian subcontinent), and
spiritual part of the festival starts with Holika
Dahan (burning demon Holika) also known as
Chhoti Holi and the following day as Holi.
In its 9th year, Krishna Holi event at the
iconic Hare Krishna Temple in Kumeu, West
Auckland attracts thousands of people from all
walks of life, different ethnicities and faiths to
be a part of a colourful and joyous event.
Speaking with the Indian Weekender,
Krishna Chandra from the temple said they are
excited to see the festive season of Holi back
after a gloomy year of Covid-19 in the country.
“Holi at the Krishna Temple is one of the
most vibrant events in our calendar- we see
families dressed white clothing visi the temple
and then dance and drench in dry and wet
colours from noon till early evening,” Krishna
Chandra, secretary and spokesperson of Hare
Krishna Temple said.
The temple spread over 100 acres start the
free event at 11 a.m. and will have stalls that
distribute at least ten to 12 colours, and there
will also be watercolours for the visitors.
A giant LED screen is also installed on the
stage with a DJ and live music for the attendees
to dance and have fun.
“It’s a family-friendly- tobacco and alcoholfree
event. People of all ages can have fun as
there will be colour stalls, water stations, food
stalls, changing rooms, showering stations for
people drenched in colour,” Mr Chandra said.
He added tha the temple stocks colours to be sanitisers are in place for people, arrangements
used at the festival at least 2-3 years at a time. for children activities, so that everyone gets to
The temple will be used over a ton of colour at enjoy the even to its fullest.
the event both in its dry form and with water. “We have volunteers, security to usher
“We have given 200 kgs of colour to fire vehicles to park in the appropriate places,
brigade who will mix it in their water tank manage the oncoming and returning traffic,
and then splash it on the visitors at different and make sure visitors feel comfortable at the
intervals.
event,” Mr Chandra added.
“Since this year’s event coincides with The event organisers have appealed the
Valentine’s Day, we have kept valentine theme visitors to come in white dress as colours tend event like previous years will be high octane,
gifts and gift station too at the venue for the to exhibit its vibrancy on white clothing, get full of energy and good vibes,” Mr Chandra
public to celebrate the occasion there,” Mr spare clothing to change after playing with added.
Chandra added.
colour and food and water arrangements have ISKCON Temple is located on 1229
Mr Chandra says all arrangements in been made a the venue.
Coatesville-Riverhead Highway, Kumeu, West
terms of Covid QR Code scanning and hand “Hol is always a fun event and Krishna Holi Auckland, and the event starts at noon to 5 p.m.
Hare Krishna temple to host ‘Saatvik food festival’
RIZWAN MOHAMMAD
T
he Hare Krishna Temple in Kumeu, West Auckland
is hosting its annual food festival event on Saturday,
February 13, for the community.
More than 3000 people are expected to attend the event
where they will be served saatvik vegetarian food, tour the
temple premises and have a relaxing family-fun day.
“Our Hare Krishna Food Festival is very popular amongs the
wider Kiwi community in Auckland, people from all faiths and
ethnicities come to the temple, take a tour of the place knowing
about the deities, the ISKCON establishment, its works for the
community and have snacks and food during the day,” Krishna
Chandra, secretary and spokesperson for Hare Krishna temple
told the Indian Weekender.
The event is said to be quiet, and exhibit a relaxing
environment where people get to meet new people, make
friends, experience the calmness being with nature, have
Saatvik (pure) vegetarian food and have good family day.
“This event is happening just one day before our most
popular Krishna Holi event which is will be loud, full of energy,
playfulness, music and dance,” Mr Chandra added.
The events will start at 2 p.m. and end at seven in the evening.
Besides the food festival, Krishna Temple organises lunch
event every Sunday at its premises where 300-400 people
come, chant mantras, meditate, spend some time with nature
and dine with the community members.
“It is a soothing atmosphere at the temple, chanting mantras
with the community, knowing more about the religion, what
can they do a the temple and how can they make a difference in
the community by serving others and the less privileged.
“There are also children’s activities
organised so that they engage themselves
and also have a good time at the temple,” Mr
Chandra said.

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FEATURES
Friday, August 6, 2021 The Indian Weekender
Samsung
Galaxy Z
Fold 2
BEST FOLDING PHONE IN 2021
Folding phones have been
around for less than two years
and have already seen their
share of controversies.
But if you are interested in buying
one and are willing to pay the hefty
price required, there’s really only one
model worth considering: Samsung’s
Galaxy Z Fold 2.
The Fold 2 is Samsung’s secondgeneration
folding phone. Its main
premise is this: it is sized like a
normal smartphone that fits in your
pocket, but it unfolds to reveal a
tablet-sized 7.6-inch display on the
inside.
That inside screen makes
everything from reading books
to browsing the web to watching
video to playing games more
enjoyable and immersive.
When you’re
done using it, just fold it back up and
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 2 is expensive, extravagant, and the easiest way to fit a tabletsized
screen into your pocket.
stick it in your pocket just
like any other phone.
That flexibility is
unmatched by any
other phone you can
buy right now, but it
doesn’t come without
a significant list of
compromises.
The Fold 2 is twice
as thick when closed
compared to normal phones,
and its outside screen is much
smaller than what you’re probably
used to.
It is also delicate; there’s no rated
dust or water resistance, and its inner
screen is more likely to get damaged
if you poke it too hard.
But the biggest compromise is its
cost: the Fold 2 is roughly twice as
expensive as other high-end phones.
Since it debuted for $2,000, it’s been
permanently marked down by $200,
but you’re still paying a lot for the
ability to fold a tablet screen in half.
If you’re willing to put up with
those compromises for an experience
that’s unlike anything else, though,
the Fold 2 delivers.
GOOGLE
PIXEL 4A
BEST ANDROID PHONE
UNDER $400
If you’re on a budget and prefer
Android, then the Google Pixel
4A is the obvious choice. It
doesn’t have the largest screen or
the fastest processor, but it does have
a clean version of Android that’s
guaranteed to get software updates
for at least three years. It only comes
in one version: black with 128GB of
storage for $349.
The Pixel 4A’s main claim to fame
is its camera, which can go headto-head
with smartphones that cost
$1,500 or more.
That’s because Google does
so much of the image processing
in software — the sensor itself is
actually quite old and not very special.
It means the Pixel 4A can take night
photos, do astrophotography, and
has a passable portrait mode. It can’t
hang with the iPhone SE for video
but beats it for photos every time.
The rest of the Pixel 4A’s specs are
good but not great.
It has a 5.8-inch screen, just
enough RAM to keep apps from
closing in the background, and a
headphone jack.
There’s no wireless charging,
no fancy face unlock, and the body
is made out of plastic instead of
something more premium like glass.

The Indian Weekender Friday, August 6, 2021
FEATURES 15
FASHION AND BEAUTY
Culture and identity
surrounding fashion
FOZIA YUSUF
So, you see lots of social media
style bloggers on social media.
I always wonder what
makes these bloggers tick to create
this inspirational content that the rest
of the public is spellbound to follow.
The first thing that comes to my mind
is Cultural identity. And the Culture
to influence people.
For a long time, the fashion
industry has been influenced by
culture the ever so evolving lifestyle.
These changes fuel modernization,
art, and technological innovation.
As a Fashion designer, what
matters to me the most is the clothes
culture that shapes our society.
The portrayal of these beauties
by fashion bloggers, models
photographers, Provides us with a
guideline as to what next.
Clothes are items that can’t be
separated from us homosapiens.
It has become part of the
basic need.
Clothes are known to be
associated, as a communication tool
of identity, customs, and individual
nature and how they use clothing.
Designers and manufacturers
produce clothes and other accessories
in conformity with the cultures of
different regions.
You will hardly find a Muslim
woman in Mini -skirts in Saudi
Arabia or American Women in
Burqas.
In Ancient Egypt, the dressing
sense of people during that era was
largely influenced by the rich.
Clothes worn during these
ancient times didn’t only look
glamorous.
It was also climatized to
protect against harsh weather.
The status of an individual
was known by the amount
of jewellery they wore and
clothes.
Designers all
over the world
like to work
with colours,
including the
colours of
fruits
a n d
vegetables
in your
collection
always keeps
you in trend with
the fashion culture
for the season.
Plus, people can connect
better with colours.
Even though the western world
has taken over the fashion market.
Countries like India and Pakistan,
the Middle East, Africa, still make
it a point to stay connected with
traditional outfits.
They constantly introduce new
fashion trends influenced by the
cultural identity of their nations.
Fashion is forever changing.
Many times, even the perilous
trends get popular in many countries,
and people couldn’t resist the
changes and adapted to these trends.
No matter how hideous they
looked.
Coming back to this era
of our social media such as
Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok.
Fashion trends are amplified
by our social media gurus,
influencers, bloggers, and
media.
They pick these styles from
what inspires, creativity be it
their favourite actors, actresses,
models, and sometimes create
their trends that are admired and
adopted by people.
These are how trends become
popular with influencing
the cultural identity of an
individual.
Traditional do somewhat
limit how much of the western
trends impact the changes
even if it looks good.
Anything that the
influencing culture, accepts
and is good enough becomes
a fashion statement.
Hence culture has a major
part to play in deciding the
fashion identity.
Fashion trends in society
are just a reflection of
its cultural identity. As
culture changes, so does
fashion.
Pic Credits- Instagram,
Kaleidoscope Fashion Events,
Instagram

16 ENTERTAINMENT
Friday, August 6, 2021 The Indian Weekender
August 2021’s top upcoming series to watch on Netflix
'30 Rock' Seasons 1-7
After four years away, 30 Rock is back
on Netflix (it also will still be available
on Hulu and Peacock). Tina Fey’s workplace
comedy, where Fey plays Liz Lemon, the
cheese-loving head writer of TGS With Tracy
Jordan, still works (for the most part) because
it was documenting the decline of broadcast
networks.
'Friday Night Lights' Seasons 1-5
Like 30 Rock, FNL returns to Netflix for
the first time since 2017 (and, like 30
Rock, it’ll also still be available on Peacock
and Hulu). Chandler won an Emmy for playing
Eric Taylor, who coached the Dillon Panthers in
football-crazy Texas.
'Cooking With Paris'
Based on Hilton’s popular YouTube
series, Cooking With Paris shows the
proto-influcencer cooking with an eye towards
having fun with her friends, results be damned.
There may end up being some glitter involved.
But we’re also on board to see Paris Hilton
sticking her hand up a turkey’s butt in order to
stuff it.
'Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings Of Miami'
Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami is
the story of Willy Falcon and Sal Malguta,
two friends who went from high school dropouts
to the most powerful drug dealers in Florida’s
biggest city. The story mostly concentrates on
what happened after the feds caught up with
the pair in the 1980s, the trials that ensued, and
how this friendship splintered.
'Hit & Run'
Hit & Run is a thriller about a married man
(Raz) who is devastated when his wife is
killed by a hit and run driver in Tel Aviv. When
the perpetrators escape to New York City, he
gets the help from an American ex-girlfriend
(Lathan) to find out just what his wife was into.
The unique casting of Israeli stars like Raz and
Ashkenazi with American stars like Lathan and
Henry should make for some interesting and
tense drama.
Best movies to watch on Disney Plus
Led ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
hauntingly powerful reflection on
A larger-than-life figures, One Night in
Miami finds Regina King in command of her
craft in her feature directorial debut.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
singularly rich period piece, Portrait of
A a Lady on Fire finds stirring, thoughtprovoking
drama within a powerfully acted
romance. In 1770 the young daughter of a
French countess develops a mutual attraction
to the female artist commissioned to paint her
wedding portrait.
MINARI
by arresting performances from Steven
Yeun and Yeri Han, Minari offers an
intimate and heart-wrenching portrait of family
and assimilation in 1980s America. A tender
and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari
follows a Korean-American family that moves
to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own
American Dream.
MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Framed by a pair of powerhouse
performances, Ma Rainey's Black
Bottom pays affectionate tribute to a blues
legend -- and Black culture at large. Tensions
and temperatures rise over the course of an
afternoon recording session in 1920s Chicago
as a band of musicians await trailblazing
performer, the legendary “Mother of the
Blues,” Ma Rainey (Academy Award® winner
Viola Davis).
'Untold'
Untold is a series of sports documentaries
that explore seemingly well-known stories
with some fresh perspectives. The first episode
is about the 2004 “Malice At The Palace,”
where a brawl between the Indiana Pacers and
Detroit Pistons ended up in the stands, egged on
by fans attacking Artest. Jenner talks about her
push to gold in the 1976 Olympics, Martin talks
about the abuse she suffered at home while
rising through the boxing world, and more.
'Brand New Cherry Flavor'
An adaptation of Todd Grimson’s
novel, Brand New Cherry Flavor is a
horror drama about a filmmaker who goes to
Hollywood in the early ’90s and gets involved
in a world of revenge, sex, magic and — for
some reason — kittens.
THE INVISIBLE MAN
Smart, well-acted, and above all scary, The
Invisible Man proves that sometimes, the
classic source material for a fresh reboot can
be hiding in plain sight. After staging his own
suicide, a crazed scientist uses his power to
become invisible to stalk and terrorize his exgirlfriend.
When the police refuse to believe her
story, she decides to take matters into her own
hands and fight back.
'The Chair'
In a series co-created by Amanda Peet, Oh
plays Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim, the first woman and
person of color to chair the English department
at Pembroke University. In her new role, she’ll
have to deal with demanding professors, a tight
budget, and the other crazy demands of the job.
'Clickbait'
Grenier plays Nick Brewer, a husband and
father who is kidnapped and appears in
an online video where he admits to attacking
women and he will die if the video gets to 5
million views.
'Sparking Joy'
In Kondo’s follow-up series to Tidying Up,
the organization expert goes to people’s
homes and businesses and teaches people
how organization can bring emotional
transformations into their lives. Viewers will
also meet Kondo’s family and visit her home,
to see how she puts her principles in practice in
her own life.
SOUL
film as beautiful to contemplate as it is
A to behold, Soul proves Pixar's power
to deliver outstanding all-ages entertainment
remains undimmed. Joe is a middle-school
band teacher whose life hasn't quite gone the
way he expected. His true passion is jazz -- and
he's good. But when he travels to another realm
to help someone find their passion, he soon
discovers what it means to have soul.
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
A
boldly provocative, timely
thriller, Promising Young Woman is an
auspicious feature debut for writer-director
Emerald Fennell -- and a career highlight for
Carey Mulligan.

The Indian Weekender Friday, August 6, 2021
FEATURES 17
Sandwiches: An all time favourite
Cold sandwiches are easy for lunch boxes during the winter time as eggs
and chicken can stay fresh for long. There’s something wonderful about these
sandwiches (chicken sandwich, egg sandwich or a tuna sandwich). They are
the ultimate lunchtime comfort food, cocktail party or for kids lunch boxes.
CHICKEN COLD SANDWICH
INGREDIENTS:
• 6 - bread slices
• 200gm - boneless chicken or 2 -
pieces of chicken breast (small)
• 1 - bay leaf
• 2-3 - black pepper corns
• 1/2cup - celery, chopped
• 2tbsp - chives, chopped
• 1/4cup - spring onion, chopped
• 1/2cup - mayonnaise
• 2cups - shredded iceberg lettuce
• 1/4tsp - black pepper powder
• 1/2tsp - salt or according to taste
• Butter to spread
add bay leaf and peppercorns
to chicken and let simmer for 5
minutes.
• Remove the saucepan from the
flame, cover and set aside to cool.
• Meanwhile wash and chop celery,
chives and spring onion, then place
them in a medium size bowl.
• Add mayonnaise to the onion
mixture and mix well.
• Once the chicken is cool, slice
it into pieces or shred it with the
fork (discard bay leaf and pepper
corns).
• Add chicken to mayonnaise
mixture and mix till well combined.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Cut the crust of the bread then
place them on the tray.
• Spread butter on all the slices.
• Evenly divide the chicken mixture,
then place it on 3 slices; spreading
METHOD:
• Clean and wash chicken.
• Place chicken in a medium size
saucepan and pour enough water
to cover.
• Bring to the boil over medium
flame.
• Reduce the flame to low, then
Egg Sandwich
it evenly to the corners.
• Sprinkle some shredded lettuce
on chicken (enough to cover the
chicken).
• Place remaining bread on top of
the lettuce and slightly press it
with your hand.
• Slice it diagonally or vertically.
• Serve in parties or add in lunch
box. Serves -2 -3
INGREDIENTS:
• 12 - bread slices
• 8 - eggs
• 1 - capsicum
• 1 - red onion, small
• 1 - carrot, small
• 1 - celery
• 1/2 - cucumber
• 1 - tomato, small
• 1cup - cream cheese
• 1/2tsp - black pepper
• 1tsp - salt
• Mayonnaise to spread
METHOD:
• Place eggs in a saucepan and cover with
water at least ½ inch above the eggs.
Bring water to a rolling boil over high
flame then cover and remove from heat.
• Let stand covered eggs for 15-17 minutes
(for large eggs).
• Remove the eggs from hot water and place
in a bowl of ice water or run under cold
water for 5 minutes. Set aside.
• Wash and chop capsicum, red onion,
carrot, celery and cucumber, place them in
a medium size bowl.
• Wash and cut tomato into half; remove the
inner side of the tomato then chop it into
small pieces and transfer it to the onion
bowl.
• Peel and grate the eggs, then transfer them
to onion bowl, mix till well combined.
• Beat cream cheese till smooth, then add to
the eggs and mix.
• Sprinkle salt and black pepper, gently mix
well again.
• Cut the edges of the bread; place them on
the tray.
• Spread mayonnaise on all the slices.
• Place egg mixture on 6 slices, ( dividing it
into equal portions ) spreading it evenly to
the corners.
• Top with the remaining bread slices and
slightly press it with your hand.
• Cut the bread in half or any shape that you
like.
• Serve with tea or add in lunch box.
• Serves 4-5
TUNA SANDWICH
INGREDIENTS:
• 4 - bread slices
• 180gm - tuna can in spring
water
• 1 - red onion, small
• 1/2 - capsicum
• 1/2 - carrot
• 2tbsp - celery, chopped
• 1/2cup - cream cheese
• 3tbsp - mayonnaise
• 1/2tsp - black pepper
powder
• 1tsp - salt or according to
taste
• 1 - lemon
METHOD:
• Place tuna in a bowl, then
press it with a spatula or
hand to extract all of the
liquid out of the fish. Set
aside.
• Peel, wash and chop onion,
capsicum, carrot and
celery, place it in a medium
size bowl.
• Beat cream cheese till
smooth.
• Add fish to the onion
mixture and mix well.
• Add cream cheese and
gently fold in.
• Season with salt and freshly
cracked black pepper.
• Place half of the mixture
onto 1 slice of bread and
the other half on another
slice of bread.
• Squeeze lemon on top.
• Place the remaining slices
of bread on top and gently press
it with your hand.
Serve or add in lunch box.
Serves - 2

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Friday, August 6, 2021 The Indian Weekender
CROSSWORD NO: 80
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ACROSS------------,
I) More impolite
6) Peter's cottontail?
10) Seance noises
14) Japanese port
15) What a nurse provides
16) Cornell of university fame
17) The majors
20) Small salamander
21) News tidbit
22) Steep slopes
23) Enthusiasm
25) Harp and Bass
26) Fai ry -tale giant
28) Synthetic
32) Gets dimmer
34) Settle comfortably, as into
a chair
35) Regal emblem
38) Hardly a short film
IT'S A L-L-LONG STORY
2 3 4 5 7
14
17
20
32
38
2
42) Guileful
43) Abu Dhabi honcho
44) Put into office
45) Ones with iron hands
48) Gets under the skin of
49) Racket part
51) Biblical king
53) Unimportant facts
55) Trunk of a tree
56) Sales agent
59) A place without restrictions
62) Jazz singing
63) Healing houseplant
64) Pop stars?
65) Candidates, in brief
66) Fancy wheels
67) Inferior wheat
8 9
Cole G. Givens
11 12 13
11th February
DOWN
I) Prizefighter's wear
2) Amer. milita ry fliers
3) Malicious
4) Barely achieve (with "out")
5) Extremely zealous
6) Eyeball coat
7) Like the eye of a storm
8) Web address
9) Golf pegs
10) Entertain lavishly
11) Cloudless sky's hue
12) Gets ready for surge ry
13) Talk back
18) Supercollider collider
19) College world
24) Rural dance
26) Kills, slangily
27) Caesar's France
29) The "N" of UNCF
30) "Welcome" bearer
31) Burning result
33) Don't get up?
35) Fifth gear, often
36) Moranis of "Ghostbusters"
37) Casino actions
39) Maximum limits?
40) A small drink of liquor
41) Bit of this and a bit of that
45) Golf course holes?
46) Oar holders
47) Unload, on Wall Street
49) El_ (Spanish painter)
50) Qatari money
52) Jockey's controls
53) Cooking meas.
54) First of all?
55) Where to speak your piece online
57) And others, in a bibliography
58) "Hey, Mac!"
60) By way of
61) Janitor's implement
ANSWERS CROSSWORD NO: 80
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ACROSS------------,
I) More impolite
6) Peter's cottontail?
10) Seance noises
14) Japanese port
15) What a nurse provides
16) Cornell of university fame
17) The majors
20) Small salamander
21) News tidbit
22) Steep slopes
23) Enthusiasm
25) Harp and Bass
26) Fai ry-tale giant
28) Synthetic
32) Gets dimmer
34) Settle comfortably, as into
a chair
35) Regal emblem
38) Hardly a short film
IT'S A L-L-LONG STORY
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42) Guileful
43) Abu Dhabi honcho
44) Put into office
45) Ones with iron hands
48) Gets under the skin of
49) Racket part
51) Biblical king
53) Unimportant facts
55) Trunk of a tree
56) Sales agent
59) A place without restrictions
62) Jazz singing
63) Healing houseplant
64) Pop stars?
65) Candidates, in brief
66) Fancy wheels
67) Inferior wheat
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HITORI NO: 80
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DOWN
I) Prizefighter's wear
2) Amer. milita ry fliers
3) Malicious
4) Barely achieve (with "out")
5) Extremely zealous
6) Eyeball coat
7) Like the eye of a storm
8) Web address
9) Golf pegs
10) Entertain lavishly
11) Cloudless sky's hue
12) Gets ready for surge ry
13) Talk back
11th February
18) Supercollider collider
19) College world
24) Rural dance
26) Kills, slangily
27) Caesar's France
29) The "N" of UNCF
30) "Welcome" bearer
31) Burning result
33) Don't get up?
35) Fifth gear, often
36) Moranis of "Ghostbusters"
37) Casino actions
39) Maximum limits?
40) A small drink of liquor
41) Bit of this and a bit of that
45) Golf course holes?
46) Oar holders
47) Unload, on Wall Street
49) El_ (Spanish painter)
50) Qatari money
52) Jockey's controls
53) Cooking meas.
54) First of all?
55) Where to speak your piece online
57) And others, in a bibliography
58) "Hey, Mac!"
60) By way of
61) Janitor's implement
Eliminate numbers until there are no duplicates in any row or
column. Eliminate numbers by marking 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).
SUDOKU SOLUSIONS AND ANSWERS NO: 80
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62
64
65
67
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. What's the best selling book of all time? The Bible
2. What year was the first series of X Factor? 2004
3. “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” originated in what
movie? Jaws
4. What is the capital of Iceland? Reykjavík
5. What is the longest running soap opera in the UK?
Coronation Street
6. The Troubles in Northern Ireland were brought to an end
in 1998 with the signing of what document? The Good
Friday Agreement
7. Who is the vice president of the US? Kamala Harris
8. In Greek mythology, Perseus slays which monster with
snakes for hair? Medusa
9. Vanilla comes from what flowers? Orchids
10. What is the painting ‘La Gioconda’ more usually known
as? The Mona Lisa
11. Z and which other letter are worth the most in Scrabble? Q
12. Woolworths had its own children’s clothing brand - can
you remember what it was called? Ladybird
13. Who did Queen Elizabeth II surpass as Britain's longest
serving monarch in September 2015? Queen Victoria
14. When did the Cold War end? 1989
15. How many sitting US presidents have been assassinated?
Four (Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William
McKinley and JFK)
16. How many pounds are in a stone? 14
17. Which art movement is Salvador Dali associated with?
Surrealism
18. Which is the eighth and furthest-known planet from the sun
in the solar system? Neptune
19. 'S. O. S.' is a common example of which electrical telegraph
communication system? Morse Code
20. The Pittsburgh Penguins play which sport? Ice Hockey
6 August to 12 August 2021 | By Manisha Koushik
ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20)
Your good performance may fetch you a
prestigious assignment at work. Money loaned to
someone will be dutifully returned. Job prospects
for those looking for suitable employment are
likely to improve. Those with a medical problem
will be able to stabilise their condition. You will
remain in an upbeat mood on the academic front. Planning an
overseas journey is indicated. Socially, you will remain popular.
You may organize something at your place on someone’s behalf.
Lucky No.: 9 / Lucky Colour: Saffron
TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 20)
A hectic time is foreseen on the social front, but
you will be in for a great time. Someone can come
to your aid without even asking on the family front.
A whirlwind romance can leave some breathless!
You make all the right moves on the work front and
impress those who matter. A pleasant surprise is in
store for some on the social front. Stability on the financial front is
foreseen. Health poses no problems. Lucky No.:1 / Lucky Colour:
Light Yellow
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUN 21)
You will enjoy the extra workload, as you enjoy
doing it. Some of you are likely to be in for a pleasant
surprise. A celebration of some sort may take place
in your honour. You may get the opportunity to
try out some new ideas on the professional front.
Deriving much pleasure on the romantic front is
foreseen for some. Financial condition is set to improve by your
constant efforts. You may undertake a long journey. Lucky No.:2 /
Lucky Colour: White
CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 20)
Career prospects are likely to get enhanced by a
recent development. Higher ups will be happy with
your performance at work and may suitably reward
you. Some of you may take the initiative to make
the home front aesthetically pleasing. Praise on
the social front for something you have achieved
is in the pipeline. Your love for travel can translate into a leisure
trip. Those seeking romance will not be disappointed. Health and
finance need your attention. Lucky No.:9 / Lucky Colour: Red
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 consultations online as well. E-mail her at support@askmanisha.com or contact
at +91-11-26449898 Mobile/Whatsapp: +91-9716145644 • www.askmanisha.com
LEO (JUL21-AUG 20)
This is the best time to project a request to superiors,
so don’t hesitate. You may feel inferior to someone
at work, because of his or her better showing.
Lack of self-confidence is likely to be apparent
in your performance at work. You can be rash in
spending and waste money unnecessarily. Falling
prey to someone’s guile needs to be guarded against. Neglect can
make a minor ailment serious. Spouse may accompany you to
meet someone in this week. Lucky No.: 8 / Lucky Colour: Dark
Turquoise
VIRGO (AUG 23-SEP 23)
You will be in the right frame of mind to tackle
something complex at work. People are likely to
appreciate your upholding the family traditions.
Some religious rite being performed at home is
likely to involve you and others. A payment you
have been waiting for may get released soon.
Romance is likely to beckon some and make the week enjoyable. A
property deal is set to materialise for those aiming to own a house.
Lucky No.:11 / Lucky Colour: Pink
LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23)
You may be pushing your luck with someone
who is watching your every move. Doing up
your home and calling people over is likely to
give you a high. Tying the knot with the one you
love cannot be ruled out. You may find boss in a
bad mood in this week, so steer clear and save all
discussion points for tomorrow. Go right ahead to help someone
monetarily, but ensure that he or she returns your money. Lucky
No.:22 / Lucky Colour: Silver
SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22)
You will be able to walk the thin line on the social
front and come out victorious. A family youngster
may become a source of great joy for you. An outing
with friends or siblings will be pure fun, so get set
to enjoy your heart out! On the academic front,
you are likely to fare well due to your unwavering
focus. A senior is likely to laud you for your good work. You remain
financially secure. Lucky No.:1 / Lucky Colour: Lemon
SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21)
Family life proves immensely fulfilling. You will
remain totally comfortable with a project or a task
in hand. Someone may seek monetary help, so say
yes only if you mean it. Someone who likes your
company is set to spend a lot of time with you.
Self-control and an active life are likely to have
positive fallout on your health. You will take steps to make your
love life exciting. A short vacation is on the cards. Lucky No.: 4 /
Lucky Colour: Sky Blue
CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 21)
There is a lot happening in your life at this juncture
that is keeping you mentally occupied. Your romantic
feelings will be readily reciprocated by the one you
love. Learning additional skills is likely to benefit
you professionally. Your decisions at workplace are
likely to boost your reputation. Budget may go haywire, if enough
care is not exercised. Someone may invite you in this week. A late
night party or eating out may prove detrimental to health. Lucky
No.: 18 / Lucky Colour: Chocolate
AQUARIUS (JAN 22-FEB 19)
You will succeed in promoting someone’s cause.
Something you had been hoping for is about to get
accomplished on the professional front. Students
are likely to realise their dreams. You will manage
to put a mentally disturbed person at ease by giving
a sympathetic ear. Praise for a job well done is in
the pipeline. Partner may inspire you to take up a healthy activity.
Financial terms for a transaction are likely to get settled in your
favour. Lucky No.: 7 / Lucky Colour: Rose
PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20)
There is a good chance of meeting someone you
have ignored in the past. You may flounder at work
by not adopting a systematic approach to problem
solving. An argument with senior may make you
feel insecure. You will be able to raise the capital
for funding a project. Good time is foreseen for
some in their social circle. Those contemplating a long journey
should be cautious about their health. Positive developments on the
love front are foreseen. Lucky No.:3 / Lucky Colour: Violet

The Indian Weekender Friday, August 6, 2021
FEATURES 19
When Is The Best Time to Visit
12 Top-Rated Tourist Attractions in
New Zealand
New Zealand?
SUMMER
December, Janaury, February
AUTUMN
March, April May
WINTER
June, July, August
SPRING
September, October, November
This is peak season in
New Zealand and the
country is buzzing with
tourists and Kiwis on
summer holidays
Great time to travel,
fewer people and less
expensive while the weather
is still quite nice and the
water warm.
We have beautiful winter
landscapes and because
New Zealand has a ocean
cooled climate our winters
are relatively mild.
Clear crisp days, the
farms are full of lambs.
evrything is starting to
warm up as we head
towards summer.

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