Dear reader: While it was raining cats and dogs in Auckland, it was raining awards for global Indians in October.
Read this in the latest issue: http://www.theglobalindian.co.nz/uploads/Nov06TGI.pdf (FILE SIZE: 974KB. May take awhile to download) Most Indians must have been on Cloud Nine. And why not! Auckland University's Eesvan Krishnan was awarded the prestigious Rhodes scholarship, and Governor General Anand Satyanand has been chosen to receive a honorary doctorate. In the UK, Indian writer Kiran Desai became the youngest woman to win the Booker Prize. Shabana Azmi, who was awarded the UK's Gandhi Peace Prize, is first Indian recipient of this award. India's prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh received an honorary degree from his alma mater, Cambridge University. And Amitabh Bachchan was conferred honorary Doctorate of Arts by UK's De Montford University. Bring on that bottle of champagne! And New Zealand Prime Minister was in India, hoping to attract more Indian students and IT companies to New Zealand, to boost New Zealand's ailing economy. A Asia:NZ Foundation report suggests that Asia will supply most of the world's labour requirements over the coming years. And Auckland International Airport is looking up to India and China for passenger traffic. Read all this and more, in the latest issue: http://www.theglobalindian.co.nz/uploads/Nov06TGI.pdf (You'll need latest Adobe PDF Reader to view this file. You can download it for free at www.adobe.com) Warm regards Vaibhav Gangan Director and Managing Editor - The Global Indian www.theglobalindian.co.nz The Global Indian, New Zealand's e-zine for overseas Indians PS:Please visit our advertisers/partners: For broadband: www.woosh.com For cheap international calls: www.telecom.co.nz/0161 For air tickets: www.air-india.com For best Indian food: www.jewelofindia.co.nz For Indian education in New Zealand: www.giisnewzealand.org For charity: www.cry.org For holiday package: http://www.royalasiangoldholidays.com/form_global_indians.html -- This is ZESTGlobal. Post articles on international affairs to [email protected] If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTGlobal by sending a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/join/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
