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Dear Reader—Welcome to ‘India Fiji Today’ June issue . This is a monthly electronic maga-zine and it has been set up to keep the Fiji com-munity here in USA informed about the happen-ings back in their former home, Fiji and the Fiji community abroad. It is obvious that the Fiji com-munity here has an interest in the affairs of Fiji. Almost thirty thousand former Fijians are settled in America and the majority are settled on the West Coast state of California. Since the majority of the former Fiji residents settled here are of In-dian origin, materials and articles on India has been included for their interest.

India Fiji Today publisher, Arun Maharaj has involved himself in public and community activities at local and national levels. He is a ‘California Jaycees’ and the ‘Jaycees International Senator’. In 2003 he was appointed a co - chairman of the ‘California Business Advisory Council’ and received the ‘American National Leadership Award’and was also invited to the ‘US Presidential Dinner’ in Washington D.C. He is a former member of the ‘USA Fiji Festival Advisory Council’. Being actively involved in ‘Fiji Jaycees’ he is a past National President of Fiji Jaycees, a former Chairman of the ‘Fiji Jaycees Senate’ and past President of ‘Nasinu Jaycees’. As the Director of ‘Nasinu Festival’ he served the ‘Valelevu Hospital Carnival Committee’ in Nasinu as its advisor. He also represented Fiji in the ‘Japan Jaycees Youth Voyage’ and ‘Jaycees International Congress’ in Japan. As a teacher in Fiji he taught at Vunimono High School in Nausori, DAV College in Suva, Rishikul High School in Nasinu. As the editor he compiled and edited many school magazines. He also served as national secretary of the ‘Fiji Teachers Union Credit Union’.

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FROM THE PUBLISHER

FIJI FACTS

GAINED INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN—1970

FIRST MILITARY COUP—1987 SECOND COUP—2000

THIRD COUP—2006

POPULATION—850,000 ABOUT 67% Fijians and Other

Minority Races Indians about 33%

Prior to the First Military Coup Indians were in Majorit

\\FIJIANS SETTLED ABROAD Australia –48,000—(2006 Figures)

New Zealand -37,000-(2006 Figures) Canada –24,000-(2000 Figures)

PRIME MINISTERS OF FIJI Late Ratu Sir K. Mara—1970-1987 Late Timoci Bavadra– 1987—1987

Sitiveni Rabuka—1987-1999 Mahendra P. Chaudhary-1999-2000

Laisenia Qarase-2000-2006 Frank Bainimarama-2006 to Date

PRESIDENTS OF FIJI Late Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau

Late Ratu Sir K. Mara Late Ratu Josefa I. Uluivuda

Ratu Epeli Nailatikau

NUMBER OF ISLANDS More Than 300—ABOUT 100 ARE INHABITAT

Government Buildings

Suva, Fiji

FIJI FEATURE EDITORIAL

FIJI FEATURE

‘RIDDING CORRUPTION ’

A CORRUPTION FREE FIJI!!! Fiji seems to be on the way to a corruption free lifestyle. Acts of bribery that occurred in the recent past years under different Fiji ad-ministrations seems to be exposed now. The recent jail sentence of two senior business executives seems to give a clear message about the commitment of Fiji towards ridding dishonest act from the daily life of Fiji. The trend not to follow the stipulated laws and regulations by some people in authority that lured some people to partake in the corrupt act for both the parties benefit seems to have been an ongoing act. Corruption seems to have thrived in many sectors of the country between different par-ties where both the parties gained financially. The act of fraud is prevalent in some third world countries as the poor people have to suffer as they do not have the money to offer in exchange of official work to be done, which is their right.

The recent cases of corrupt acts being ex-posed in Fiji should be giving relief to the general public as the act of corruption is a parasite to the community which does not let the people live freely.

To some elements of the community particularly in the business community who are accustomed to the dishonest way of making money, ahead of the people who believe in fairness, this no-ble act of punishing the culprits, by the government may be warning them to

straighten their dealings or face the consequences. All citizens have a right to freedom

and free dealings based on their ca-pabilities and not be plague by the

enemies of the so-ciety who only deem their life

important.

Some do not realize that we all basi-cally need two to three meals a day;

clothes to cover our body and a shelter to stay alive and be peaceful.

They unnecessarily take the risk to sat-isfy their insatiable desires by loading themselves with wealth which many times they do not even use.

Editor—Arun Maharaj

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THE BEATING OF A FORMER

FIJIAN IN VANCOUVER CANADA

A REVIEW ONLY

The recent beating of a former Fiji man in Vancou-ver has generated concern among the Fiji commu-nity which is heavily settled in Vancouver and its suburb. The victim, a newspaper delivery man is believed to have been beaten by police as he was on his way to deliver newspaper at a hotel.

Canada which is home to over twenty thousand former Fijians faced struggle from its migrant com-munity particularly in Vancouver. A lot of Indian settlers occupied most areas in Vancouver in the

residential and business areas. They dominated most areas of business. Even in other cities like Toronto the Indians excelled in most fields includ-ing representations in the Canadian parliament.

Canada had earlier settlers from Fiji and the Fiji population grew dramatically after the po-litical turmoil of Fiji in 1987 as the Fijians were

given refuge status. Former Fijians have mostly settled in Vancouver; Edmonton;

Calgary and Toronto.

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FIJI ’S MOST POPULOUS AND

RECENTLY ESTABLISHED TOWN

Fiji’s most recently established town is the largest town and most popu-lous with a population of more than 87,000, ahead of the capital city, Suva. It is situated about five miles away from Suva and has a great land area about twice that of Suva, stretching from Nasinu 4 Miles to 9 Miles. It used to cover area up to Nasinu 10 Miles. It is an urban area with no rural area in its boundary. Nasinu was declared a town in 1999 and has been controlled by a town council, headed by a mayor, made up of elected councilors, the largest town council in Fiji, until the dissolu-tion of all town councils by the cur-rent Fiji government. Nasinu lived under the shadow of Suva for a long time as a suburban and rural area. It was in the late sev-enties when Nasinu started showing signs of its own identity when Nasinu Jaycees and Nasinu Football As-sociation were established in 1977.

Shortly afterwards Housing Authority set up its headquarters there in Valelevu, where Nasinu Town stands today. Nasinu Jaycees played a lead-ing role in developing the suburban area by many of its community devel-opment projects and in 1980 for the first time, Nasinu Festival was organ-ized by the Jaycees. The Housing Au-thority developed many areas turning it into modern settlements. After the 1987 political turmoil of Fiji, sudden exodus of people from the country had massive impact on the Jaycees and other service organizations and the development plans of the Housing Authority as Fiji lay in limbo.

Today the ‘1987 event’ is history and Nasinu has all amenities of a modern lifestyle with a new set of migrant population from other parts of the country, who may not know much about its history. The original Nasinuans may be in limited number as majority have left for abroad.

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A Perspective INDIA FIJI TODAY

by Jai P. Narayan—Union City—California—

Most of us would readily believe that we are part and parcel of one creation. The Creator is one and we’re all manifestations of that one Creator. In-deed, each one of us and each item of creation are tied to that one Supreme Being, as if through an umbilical chord.

Each item of creation is governed by the same energy and possesses the same potentials. No individual is supreme to anyone else since the central core is the same in all. With the exception of some who have major limitations, most other people have all the nec-essary abilities to achieve success in life. Why then do we see marked differ-ences in the achieve-ments of people gener-ally, and even within the same family?

A look at differences in achievements of different members of the same family can be quite revealing. In fact, it is not un-common to find within the same family some ma-jor differences in the overall progress, develop-ment and success of different individuals. Here, I am not limiting the measure of success to how well-off we are in material terms but generally to success in any of life’s noble endeavors.

How can we explain such differences when each member of the family came from the same genetic tree and was exposed to more or less the same environment? Is it luck or .fate? Yes, luck or

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fate may play a part, but the differences may also be due to how each applied himself/herself and utilized the opportunities presented. We all have at our disposal the means to prosper in this world. But we have to play our part and realize that what we get out of life depends on what we put into it. As we know, positive attitude, absolute determination and persistent effort are the essentials for achieving success.

Needless to say, we should never be overawed by the success or status of anyone. As we are from the same creation, we are no less or more than anyone else, and we must guard against any tendency to think that others are superior. We stand to harm ourselves if we have the habit of running ourselves down or engage in self-defeating thoughts. Likewise, we should never place our-selves on the pedestal and

think that others are inferior to us. Looking down on others or laughing at the misfortune of others re-flects immaturity and lack of understanding of hu-man nature and its potentials. Life is an even playing field and how we play the life- game depends on us!

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BEING GENUINE Being genuine in your actions is the way to happy living. Genuine actions go a long way towards attaining positive re-sults in life. Even in material things, genuine materials last much longer than those that are fake. ‘Genuine gold will always shine brightly even if it is put in dirt or mud but fake gold will only shine briefly even if it is polished constantly’. The concept of ‘being genuine’ is a quality in human beings which is generally ignored and not taken seriously although it is one of the most impor-tant of all the characteris-tics . Positive and lasting results are not possible without genuine actions. We can draw an analogy between genuine actions and pretences to truth and lie. Genuine actions is like truth while pretenses are like lies. We see in real life situa-tions that genuine actions bear fruit for yourselves like being genuinely being involved in your work or profession; study-ing for a particular profession; commitment to business etc. Along with these personal

personal life effects genuine behavior has an implication on the world surrounding us particularly on your relation-ships with people. A genuine relationship lasts, where one is prepared to give and not

to take advantage of the re-lationship and be ready to gain all the time. Those who always believe in gaining something out of a relation-ship without ever being pre-pared to give in are not in genuine relationship and the relationship will fall apart. It is a paradox of life that

people are in relationship with others but are not able to achieve the true satisfaction or love on their part of the relationship. A genuine worship of the Lord or someone would pro-vide peace and satisfaction whereas the pretense to worship for fame may

not provide peace and eventually the fame will die out leaving one in total oblivion. Even in greeting some-one, which is a very tem-porary relationship, where you may not meet that person ever again in life, differences can be made between genuine greeting, either verbal or hand-shake, and a fake one. “Be genuine and you may find a genuine

world around you and not a fake one.”

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INDIA SITES

TAJ MAHAL AGRA—UTTAR PRADESH

B Construction of the world famous monument was com-pleted in 1653 after almost twenty years of construction. Located on the banks of Yamuna River it is regarded as

one of the most magnificent structures in the world. A sym-bol of love stands greeting millions of visitors from India

and abroad on yearly basis.

PROMINENT PEOPLE

SONIA GANDHI INDIA

Sonia Gandhi was born in Italy in 1946. While studying in Cam-bridge U.K. she met Rajiv Gandhi, who was studying at the

Cambridge University then and later became the Prime Minis-ter of India. They married in 1969. As the leader of the Con-gress Party she is the most popular political figure in India to-

day. Sonia Gandhi also served as the Leader of the Opposition of India from 1998—2004.—Source -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Gandhi

MAHENDRA CHAUDHARY

FIJI

Mahendra Chaudhary was the fourth Prime Minister of Fiji. Born in 1942 in Ba he became the leading trade unionist of Fiji. Later he

joined politics and became a senior member of the Fiji Labor Party. In 1987 after the Labor Party formed government he became the Minis-ter of Finance. In 1991 he became the Leader of the Opposition and

in 1999 he was elected the Prime Minister of Fiji after his party’s land-slide victory. Later after his government was removed from power he fought hard for his government’s reinstatement which failed and he

succumbed to defeat. He fought the later general elections in Fiji and after the military takeover of the Qarase Government in 2006,

he briefly served in the Military Government Source—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahendra_Chaudhry

INDIAN FILM WORLD

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The popular Bollywood celebrity’s restaurant venture seems an ex-tension to his numerous charity ac-tivities in India. It is believed plans are underway for Salman Khan to set up restaurant chains for charity. The first one to open its doors is believed to be in Bandra, close to his home. The proceeds from the business is expected to go towards charity. Salman Khan is known for sharing his home- cooked food for lunch with his

SALMAN KHAN’S RESTAURANT VENTURE colleagues during his film shoot-ings. He is probably the leading charitable worker in Bollywood today. Well respected and loved by the millions of fans in India and abroad, Salman Khan seems to be enjoying a simple ‘common -man’ living style. His quest for charity makes many less fortunate lives happy. “We all live for ourselves but the beauty of living, lies in living for others’’.

STARS’ PROFILE

Born in 1950 as Shivaji Rao Gaewad in 1950 in Bangalore Rajnikanth grew to star-dom from ordinary living. Having lost his mother in childhood he faced a hard child-hood and worked in various places for liv-ing including as a bus conductor in Banga-lore. He later made it to the Film Industry and today is a celebrated artist.

RAJINIKANTH SHAHID KAPOOR The heartthrob of millions Shahid Kapoor is a successful actor today. Son of actor Pankaj Kapoor he was born in Delhi and lived his childhood there with his mother. He won the Best Debut award in 2003 and since then has been nominated twice for Best Actor award for Filmfare. He is today among the leading Bollywood celebrities.

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DRUNK DRIVING IN DELHI

With a population of around four-teen million it can be imagined the number of people on the streets of India’s capi-tal on daily basis. Drunk driving adds to the com-motion on the roads. Most people use public transporta-tion but the motor cars and other ve-hicle users contribute greatly to the road usage. The heavy trucks use considerable part of the roads. To make things worse

people decide to drive after consuming alcohol. In a recent crack—down on drunken driving it is believed over a

thousand people have been arrested and jailed for drunk driving. Accidents take many lives when they occur on busy roads. Delhi being capital and the sec-ond most populous city of India is vis-ited by many Indi-ans from the outer parts of India. The

constant crack down on crime and loiter-ing on Delhi roads will probably make it a safe city in India to travel to.

Driving on Indian Road

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RAJNI ABBI—NEW

MAYOR OF DELHI India has a legacy of producing woman leaders. The election of Rajni Abbi a 49 year old professor at the Delhi University as the new Mayor of Delhi has added to the list of re-nowned ladies who are serv-ing or have served India. Currently the office of the President of India is held by Pratibha Patil; Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh is

held by Mayawati and the leader of the Congress Party is

being held by Sonia Gan-dhi. There are also some women in the current gov-ernment hold-ing important portfolios. The legacy of woman lead-ership started

with Indira Gandhi becoming the first woman prime minister of India.

Lone Road User

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FIJI TODAY INDIA FIJI TODAY

NO MORE INDIAN COLLEGE.

The recent schools name change policy has put the well known Suva sec-ondary school’s name in history. The name Indian College does not exist anymore as the schools name has been changed to Jai Narayan College , named after Mr. Jai Narayan a former long time principal of the school. The school was founded in 1946 along with a sister

school, Deenbandhu Primary School in Rewa Street in

Suva. Thousands of children have gone through the school over the last 60 years with the name Indian College to them synonymous to education. It will

be hard to forget the name by the school’s ex—students as the name meant to them more than just a school’s name. The new name Jai Nayayan Col-lege will honor the dedication of its former principal who will also go in the history of the school.

FIJI TODAY

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HUNT FOR CORRUPT ACTS

The government’s dedication for rid-ding corruption seems to be the ma-jor priority for now. The case of a La-basa businessman involved in a fraud act adds to the number of cor-ruption cases already brought to jus-tice. It is be-lieved the La-basa busi-nessman, a hardware dealer falsely obtained money from a government ministry for materials not supplied to a church. The government official is also believed to have been charged. It seems such acts of cor-ruption have been a common prac-tice of some businessmen and some government officials. to obtain money falsely. Much of such cases

were not brought to justice in the past and the people involved took great advantage of the fact. The sudden actions by the govern-ment has left some corrupt people

in total despair as they probably were under the impression that their actions were the order of the day and they will keep winning and will never be exposed. The exposure of one of Fiji’s leading businessman’s fraudulent be-

havior is a huge crackdown on cor-ruption in Fiji. Sentencing the busi-nessman shows the level of seri-ousness on the policy of corruption in Fiji. This should act as a major deterrent for future corrupts acts.

FIJI TODAY

A RURAL SCENE

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SCHOOLS’ NAMES CHANGE The recent name changes policy implemented for schools that were named after religions and races is a highly bold move. It is believed about fifty schools throughout Fiji had their names changed recently. The schools when founded by various organiza-tions must have had some religious or racial ideals and principles which were fulfilled over the years. Majority of Fiji’s schools are controlled by religious groups. Schools have been functioning very much on reli-gious and racial lines with no dis-pute as teachers and school heads were the preferences of the school committees. Race and religion played an integral part of the school system. There have been talks of national unity in Fiji for a long time.

Attempts have failed to achieve a government of national unity. The schools name change policy may be hard to accept by some religious

and racial or-ganizations controlling the schools but is a definite posi-tive step to-wards achiev-ing ‘national unity’! Fiji has come

a long way from the days of ‘Alliance and Federation Parties’ based on ra-cial lines. The concept of national unity has been propagated in the past during elections by many prominent politicians of the past but much was not achieved. The recent schools name change policy may bring the realization of ‘national unity’ in Fiji.

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TAXI DRIVERS’ FRAUD ACT

Some Nadi taxi drivers seem to be deceiving the innocent tour-ists whom they depend for their business. Fraud acts seem to have made strong roots in many business circles in Fiji. It is believed some taxi drivers operating from the Nadi Air-port are cheating the tourists by overcharging them by not using taxi meters. Taxis are supposed to use meters but to make more money from the innocent visitors who are in a way at the mercy of the taxi drivers, the drivers fix their own fares which are obviously much more than the normal meter fare.

Tourism has been providing constant income to Fiji as an industry for a long time and the

deceptive ac-tions by the unreliable few can put the in-dustry in jeop-ardy. It is also be-lieved that the drivers are obtaining for-

eign currencies from the tour-ists for fare. The foreign cur-rency is later sold to people who deal in foreign currency at a higher rate. The taxi drivers make additional money and the buyers gain by obtaining for-eign currency without dealing with the banks.

A MARIGOLD GARDEN—NASINU

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SYDNEY GIRL ’S DROWNING IN FIJI

Drowning in Fiji waters have claimed many lives, some of even tour-ists. The re-cent drown-ing of a 28 year old girl from Sydney adds to the many drown-ing cases of Fiji. It is be-lieved the deceased drowned while scuba diving in Beqa. Re-portedly she was holidaying in Beqa with her boyfriend and had gone out for diving when the accident occurred. Des-perate attempts were made

to save her by the instructors and her boyfriend but she died after

being taken out of the water where she had drowned.

Fiji wa-ters are attractive for the tourists as the tropical climate

of Fiji makes it a pleasant experi-ence with warm water diving. Ac-cidents of this nature is regretta-ble but can be avoided with proper care taken.

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APPRECIATION TO THE READERS OF INDIA FIJI TODAY JUNE ISSUE —AS

THE EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF INDIA FIIJI TODAY I WISH TO THANK YOU FOR READING THIS ISSUE OF THE MAGA-ZINE. I HOPE YOUR READING WAS A FRUITFUL ONE. AND I

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Convictions but once Formed they must be

Defended Against the Heaviest Odds’ !!!

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