A Magazine About Fiji & India Lifestyles— January 2012

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ARUN MAHARAJ Publisher/Editor—India Fiji Today

India Fiji Today Publisher Arun Maharaj has a long association with compiling and editing magazines. He has compiled numerous issues of annual school magazines for the secondary schools he taught in Fiji. He has also published many magazines for Fiji Jaycees. Apart from his interest in writing articles he

has served the public life in Fiji and here in USA as follows— Past co-chairman of the California Business Advisory Council—California Jay-

cees Senator—Jaycees International Senator—Recipient of the American National Leadership Award— Invited to the US Presidential Dinner in Washington DC.—Former member of USA Fiji Festival advisory committee—Fiji delegate to Japan Jaycees

Youth Voyage in Japan—Represented Fiji in Jaycees World Congress in Japan—Former sec-retary of Fiji Teachers Union Credit Union—Taught at Vunimono High School in Nausori Fi-

ji—DAV College in Suva Fiji—Rishikul High School in Nasinu Fiji

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Disclaimer—Fiji Today/Fiji Feature

Fiji Today/Fiji Feature is the editor’s review on the major happenings back in Fiji based on the information from , Fiji Times; Fiji Live, Fiji Sun; visitors to and from Fiji and other Fiji publications. These are editor’s own views based on the information from those sources. The ‘perspectives’ are the

editor’s/writers’ views and opinion and any error/s and or misinterpretation are regretted and the editor / publisher is not responsible for any such error/s and or further discussions .The Publisher/Editor of India Fiji Today will not accept any LIABILITY, CRITICISM, ANNOYANCE

or ADVERSE REACTION what so ever, to the contrary of its intention caused by any misinterpretation, miss-understanding or non-acceptance of the same.

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The desire to serve is the key characteristic of community workers. There may be some who get into public life for self gains but they have a short—lived public life because of their selfish desire. It is said, that it is never crowded at the extra mile, as there are only a few from every community who go out to truly serve their community or nation. The members of the ‘Fiji American National Associa-tion’—FANA have gone out to serve the Fiji community in the San Francisco Bay Area and the great-er Bay Area for the last many years by staging various programs including the popular Fiji Idol and the Fiji Festival. Some are still there since the inception of the organization and some have joined them later but the activities have been going on regular basis. Fiji community’s identity has been es-tablished in the Bay Area by these programs particularly by the Fiji Festival. As a pioneer member of USA Fiji Festival responsible for introducing the Charity Queen Contest it gives me pride to see the current members at work. Also as a Past National President of Fiji Jaycees and California Jay-cees and Jaycees International Senator I salute all who go out to serve their communities.

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Sacramento Correspondent

Kristeen Prakash

Contributing Writer Jai P. Narayan

Correspondents Mahesh Bharadwaj

Delhi, India

Indar Nair Sydney, Australia

Subhash Chandra Auckland, New Zealand

Indar Mudaliar Toronto, Canada

First Casino for Fiji The granting of license for Fiji’s first casino is a great step to Fiji in terms of its international status. It is be-lieved an American company has been granted the approval to set up the casino at the Denarau Island. Fiji has the American taste after McDon-ald’s opened its outlet in Fiji and with the casino in place the country will enjoy its benefits too. The project will be highly beneficial to Fiji as it will create employment and provide tax-es and funding for essential commu-nity projects. The people of Fiji who have not traveled to USA or abroad will get an opportunity to get the feel of casino and the lucky ones will take their wins home. The tourists who are fond of the casinos will feel homely and try their hands on the fortune machines. All in all the pro-ject seems highly beneficial for Fiji government and its people.

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ARUN MAHARAJ—HAYWARD—CA USA Publisher/Editor—India Fiji Today

India Fiji Today Publisher Arun Maharaj has a

long association with compiling and

editing maga-zines. He has

compiled numer-ous issues of an-

nual school maga-zines for the sec-ondary schools he taught in Fiji. He

has also pub-lished many mag-azines for Fiji Jay-cees. Apart from

his interest in writ-ing articles he has served the public life in Fiji and here in USA as follows— Past co-chairman of the California Business Advisory Council—California Jaycees Senator—Jaycees Inter-

national Senator—Recipient of the American National Leadership Award— Invited to the US Presidential Dinner in Washington DC.—Former member

of USA Fiji Festival advisory committee—Fiji delegate to Japan Jaycees Youth Voyage in Japan—Represented Fiji in Jaycees World Congress in Japan—Former secretary of Fiji Teachers Union Credit Union—Taught at

Vunimono High School in Nausori Fiji—DAV College in Suva Fiji—Rishikul

High School in Nasinu Fiji

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A Fiji’s Past MEMORIES TO CHERISH.. .

Some Sugar—Cane

Farms—Now History Fiji’s sugar cane industry during its peak days was not just an industry, its was a phenomenon. While it contributed towards Fiji’s major economy it was the livelihood of many in Fiji, whose life revolved around the cane farming industry. All of the west and most of the north was fully involved in the production of cane and the country depended on it as its major income earner. A lot of the farmers did not physically see a lot of money coming out of their daily hard work, many times in scorching heat, but they still de- pended on it as their sole i n c o m e source. A lot of cash was traded with the goods and services they needed dur-ing the year for their living. The shop keep- ers in the sugar cane re- gion made fortunes by p r o v i d i n g goods to the f a r m e r s throughout the year on cred-it system and o b t a i n e d cash when the cane payments were made to the farmers.

Apart from the actual farming there were lots of other related activities carried out on around the cane fields. There was lots of socialization such as having tea, lunch and even grog sessions together and that provided a sense of belongingness and togetherness to the farm-ers. It gave them a community of their own which was far different from the lives in Fiji’s urban areas. If the cane farms could speak they would narrate many memorable events that took place there. Today many of these, once prosperous farms are lying idle covered with bush and have become history.

A once thriving cane farm in the interior of Labasa–

Vanualevu, Fiji

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A P E R S P E C T I V E

Does the Parents’ Karma Determine the Type of Children who Will be Born to Them ?

Yes. If the parents have good karma, they will be happy in their children, without worry, anxiety,

etc. Otherwise they will suffer through the bad fate or conduct of the children. Because of their past karma, they are fated to undergo this type of sufferings. For example, Gandhari was a very pure and chaste woman but her karma caused her to suffer mental agony on account of her son’s misdeeds.

Does the Parents’ Karma Affect the Children?

The actions or deeds of the parents in a particular birth cycle will affect the children in the same birth only. The effect will not be carried over to the next birth. For example, a father may incur heavy financial debts but dies before he is able to repay them. The burden of repaying the debts falls upon the son. The son is thus affected by this father’s actions in that birth only. The debt will be repaid in the same birth and will not be carried over to the next.

The parents’ karma of past births does not affect the children. Everyone is born according to his or her own individual karma. When you die, you carry with you only your own good deeds and bad deeds, not other people. When you are born, you have your own karma-kantamala around your neck and not other people’s. So, one’s present situation in life depends upon one’s own karma or actions of the past and not on the karma of other people. But, although the parents’ karma does not affect the karma of the children, both their karmas are related and inter-woven.

For example, suppose you have a set of parents who are good and noble in every way but they have an invalid or disabled child who is bed-ridden. Due to past karma, the parents are fated to undergo the sorrow of having an invalid child. The child, on account of past karma, is fated to undergo physical suffering. Or, suppose you have another set of parents who are also good and noble but are unhappy because their daughter is

widowed. Due to past karma, the parents are fated to undergo the type of sorrow caused by

having a widowed daughter. The daughter, due to her past karma, is fated to suffer widow-

hood. In both cases, you have two sets of individual karmas that are linked together.

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A P E R S P E C T I V E

Our Existence in this

Physical Universe Our existence in this Universe is something

we wonder about, from time to time. We are born and eventually die. Our existence as hu-mans is very consistent with whatever exits in this physical universe. Everything in nature comes, flourishes, decays and finally goes. Since our existence is apparently governed by the laws of this universe, our lives may be sub-ject to some kind of universal programming. The question is to what extent? We will never know the truth but can only speculate.

Generally, Hindus believe that planetary influences have significant impact on human lives. Many other people also hold similar beliefs. In fact, Hindus believe that the Nava-graha need to be appeased to minimize pain and suffering that comes with their unfavor-able positioning. In the Hindu system, the Navagraha comprise 5 visible Planets, Sun and the Moon, and two planets unique to Hindu astrology, named, Rahu and Ketu. Who would dispute that Sun does not have an effect on our existence; indeed it is central to our existence. And the Moon? Well, about 55% to 75% of human bodies are composed of water, and water covers 70 % of the Earth’s surface. Moon’s gravitational force exer-cises its effects on our bodies and water on this Earth. All nearby heavenly bodies must have some effect on us, although we do not know how much, for sure.

Despite the possibility that our lives are programmed to some extent, I believe that our Creator has not doomed us by bringing us in this world. He has given us the ability to think and shape our lives. Perhaps, he presented some obstacles in our way to make us understand that life will not always be plain-sailing. Perhaps, it was meant for us to prove our worth as human beings. Imagine what kind of life we would have had if all good things were handed to us on a silver platter. Our constitutional make up is such that we derive satisfaction from achieving things. We are proud of what we achieve and have a sense of ownership of them. These achievements generate a sense of happiness and a feeling of usefulness and worth. Humans are supreme in the animal kingdom and are placed here to demonstrate that they are capable of higher things.

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In Getting Happiness Many Times Peace is

Ignored but it is Peace that we are Longing for

in Life….

We live in a life of competition, to better our lives, in terms of practical point of view, something that will give us physical satisfac-tion. This is a common characteristic of hu-man beings to look for physical satisfaction but whether this gives peace to us is a con-cept that is generally ignored. Being practical in this competitive world is acceptable as this will lead us to achieve our goals in life, that will provide us immense satisfaction with wealth, fame and whatever but the happi-ness may be limited to material things only. Material acquisition is sometimes tempo-rary even though you may have to spend your life acquiring it. As migrants our thoughts, may have unintentionally, changed over things, particularly relationships, as we may be looking at life from a practical point of view as we try to blend with a lifestyle which may be completely alien to some of us. In doing so we may become practical only and this may affect our relationships with whom we were close to, back in our for-mer home. Peace is attained by having positive emotion which is a rare quality found in us, some have more and some have less. Even by being practical in our daily lives we can al-ways have some emotions connected with it. Positive emotion is an ingredient of a happy life! Back in our former home Fiji, we may have been more emotional as we looked at things from a different perspective. It is generally believed that things that are material are not the real things, they will not get us closer to peace but may give us temporary happiness because we can physical-ly see the objects.

Peace is something that can only be felt within us and can not be seen and can never be bought like material things.

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INDIAN FILM WORLD

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The Golden—Era... The forties, fifties and sixties, the golden—era of Indian Film Indus-try saw the success of the black

and white films on the silver screen. This period brought films that still haunt the people’s minds with its stories and the evergreen songs. When we take a journey back into the Golden Era—Black and White era we meet personali-

ties like Raj Kapoor, Guru Dutt, Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Meena Kumari, Nargis,

Waheeda Rehman, Vijayanthima-la, Madhubala and others . They are the celebrated artists who will always live in the history of Indian

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2012

January

India Today

The Magnificent View of Shimla-

India’s—Summer Capital…….. The hill station city in the Himachal Pradesh is situated at the height of about 7,000 feet. The site is highly

specticular and highly snowy during winter and cool during the harsh winter of India. It is regarded as the summer capital of In-dia. The winding hilly roads lead to the hill top city which is visited by millions of locals and foreigners annually.

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2012

January

India Today

Driving Along the Rural Roads

of the Far Eastern—Bihar State

Travel-ing in India during Sum-mer can be a tough experi-ence,. particu-larly when visiting the far eastern state of Bihar.The car has to be well air-conditioned for you to survive the scorching heat. The site is highly rural as can be seen in the pic-ture, showing the lifestyle of rural India. Bihar is about sixteen hours of drive from the capital, Delhi.

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January

Roadside Settlements in Rural

Uttar Pradesh—North india…..

India Today

Major road—side settle-ments are com-mon site as you drive along the ru-ral In-dia. This picture shows a settlement in Uttar Pradesh. People live along the road side an earn their living by doing some business with the people passing by. Some are also engaged in dairy farm and cash crop farming.

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January

India Today

The Masoori Hill Station - Another

Magnificent Site-Worth Visiting…. At an altitude of about 6,000 feet the Hill Station City is a mag-nificent site. Like Shimla the winter is high-ly snowy and the summer is very pleasant. Crowded by tourists the city provides the beautiful scenery of the foot of the Himalayas. Ho-tels provide good services making your lives comfortable.

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Fiji Today 2012

January

Road—side vending has been a common practice in most parts of Fiji. For a long time. The cur-rent vendors at the junction of the Mead Road and Princess Road in Tamavua seem to be facing struggle with the neighbors and the Suva City Council. It is believed their business from the site is causing alarm to the community and the city authority. When traveling fro Suva to Nadi you will meet many vendors along the roadside some selling fish, crabs and other sea food while the others sell vegetables. While traveling from Suva to Nausori along the King’s Road you will see many vendors selling vegeta-bles and fruits. The seven miles bridge site has been a popular fish selling spot for years. The eight miles shopping area is cov-ered by vendors selling particularly vegetables. This has been the way of life for these vendors who depend on it for their daily income.

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Fiji Today 2012

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Smoke—Free Villages

Fiji seems to be going health con-scious as some villages are being de-clared ‘smoke free’ in Vanu-alevu. I t seems two villages so far have faced ‘smoke—ban’ by the Minis-try of Health. Freelance smokers will now face the battle of smoke—ban as they will have to go to special areas allotted for smoking. It may be difficult for the smokers to abide by the new regulation and as such the ban could even cut down the number of smokers in the village. Smoking has effect on even the non—smokers as they are in the same envi-ronment where smoking takes place. The new regulation should bring about healthy environment in Fiji’s villages which are surrounded by the healthy and beautiful nature.

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Reopening of School

Schools are an essential amenity in any commu-nity. The re-opening of a secondary school in Cakodrove, near Sa-v u s a v u which was c l o s e d down al-most thirty years ago is a welcoming news to the surrounding villages. With the lack of secondary school in the area the children had to travel long dis-tances to attend school and that incurred lots of expense and waste of traveling time. The school is believed to be in operation at the beginning of the next school term. A primary school at the site has been in operation and with the secondary section reo-pening it will provide great relief to the children’s education.

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Fiji Today 2012

January

While Fiji has a ca-pacity to grow vari-ous types of crops, importance is being giv-en to pota-to, which is in great c o n s u m p -tion in al-most all homes in Fiji. Potato has been generally grown in Sigatoka Valley for years and now the crop is being planted in other parts of the western division of Fiji. The crop is being harvested now and being transported to the markets for sale. Government assistance is believed to have been going on for the last few years as a trial for boosting pota-to farming in Fiji.

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Fiji Today 2012

January

Rural—Viria Lighting The lightening of people’s lives—what can be a b e t t e r N e w Year’s gift to the villages of Viria, a remote area closest to Nau-sori town. It is believed the in-auguration of the project to pro-vide electricity to the villages was done at the end of December. The pro jec t seems to have been greatly welcomed by the people of Viria who were without the services of electricity, a essential service in this modern times. The electricity will be particularly useful for the younger generation and students who need the services to use the many electronic devises, particularly computers for their daily lives and studies.

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Tourism in Savusavu Tourism in-d u s t r y seems to be thriving in the lone n o r t h e r n town of Sa-vusavu. It is b e l i e v e d cruise ships make fre-quent visits to the town booming the h a n d i c r a f t and other tourist prod-ucts. Savusavu is a small town located on the sea coast making it possible for the ships carrying tourists to visit the rich and natu-ral scenery, the town has to offer. Market vendors mostly women seem to be doing good business with their products. Handicraft sales was common and thriving in Fiji’s capital sometime back as Suva was visited by tourist ships on regular basis.

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Fiji Today 2012

January

Water Upgrading in West Water being the most e s s e n t i a l h u m a n n e e d should be r e a d i l y available to p e o p l e . Most resi-dents in Fi-ji’s western d i v i s i o n may not have been getting regular supply of tap water. The towns from Rakiraki to Sigatoka now will have constant supply of water after all the towns have had their water supply system upgraded. Millions of dollars spent on the project should be well appreciated by the residents of the west towns. The setting up of a reservoir in Ba would give the large district constant and better water supply. Water problems have been faced by most parts of the country in-cluding the central division in the recent past years.

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A Ba Student’s Death

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