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Annual Nativity Feast Saturday 10 September, 6.30 pm onwards, The Mangalorean Catholic Association of Sydney (MCAS) are celebrating their Annual Nativity Feast on 10th September at Our Lady of Dolours Church Hall (Chatswood) 6.30 pm onwards. There will be traditional cooked food, fun family atmosphere, talent contests and games. For tickets please contact Cyril on 0434829369 or Peter D’Mello on 0406101740.

For more information please visit http:// www.mcas.org.au/

Shri Shirdi Sai Mandir

Wednesday 28 September – 5 October, Raas Garba and Dandia every night after Shej Aarti and other religious celebrations everyday till 6 October at 420 Liverpool Road, Strathfield South. For more information call 0432502493 or visit www.shirdisai.org.au

Deepavali Milan

Saturday 8 October, 6 pm, Festival of Lights which will include Laxmi poojan, songs and dances, excerpts from Ramayana at Hornsby War Memorial Hall, 2 High Street, Hornsby. For tickets and more information contact Kamini Sahni on 0401059923, Shibani Sahni on 0416601688 or email kamini650@yahoo.com

Miscellaneous

Hindi Divas 2011 celebrations Sunday 11 September, 10.30am to 3.30 pm at Thornleigh West PS, Giblet Avenue, Thornleigh. Contact Tara Chand

UIA fell through was the failure of the two parties to come to a mutual understanding on flight tickets for Mr. Deol and his group – a situation Mr. Kumar squarely blames the UIA for.

Mr. Kumar says in his letter, “It was an agreement initially to give two business class tickets and three economies (sic) to Mr. Deol and his support staff but was then conveyed to Mr. Bajwa that Mr. Deol can travel only first class due to his spinal problem.”

Mr. Deol’s office, the letter adds, had agreed to settle for just one first class ticket instead of the two business class tickets initially agreed upon. Subsequent events indicate that the UIA failed to provide first class tickets for Mr. Deol despite, perhaps, giving Mr. Deol’s side an indication that they would.

The letter adds that after “various excuses” from Mr. Bajwa on the matter, “fully confirmed ticket itinerates were sent to Mr. Bajwa along with there (sic) PNR numbers on 03rd of August with a deadline of 08th of August to pay for them and get them issued.”

Mr. Kumar claims to have been in

Sharma on 0409 981 355, Mala Mehta on 0412283677 or Rekha Rajvanshi on 0403 116 301. The Australian Hindi Committee, the IABBV Hindi School students, teachers and parents and ILASA (Indian literary and art society of Australia) take great pride in celebrating Hindi Divas 2011. We request all Hindi speakers, supporters, teachers and schools/students to join in the celebrations and present a united face to promote India’s national language Hindi. For more details contact Mala Mehta on 0412283677 or 94840707 or email: info@ iabbv-hindischool.com; hindi_school@ hotmail.com or visit the website: iabbvhindischool.com

Hindi Samaaj cruise party Sunday 18 September, 2 pm onwards, Hindi Samaaj is organising a cruise party with Bollywood song and dance, entertainment, live music, food and drink. The pickup point will be Huntley’s Point Road, Gladesville Wharf, Gladesville. For more information, please contact Gunjan Tripathi on 0413 886 527 or Sunil Srivastava on 0422 003 109

Spring camp

Friday 23 September to Sunday 25 September, 6 pm on Friday to 4 pm on Sunday, Sydney Sanskrit School is organising a weekend day and night spring camp. For more information please contact Meenakshi Srinivasan on 0423457343 or Meera Jagadeesh on 0402960564 or email at: info. sydneysanskritschool@gmail.com

Multi-faith forum on environmental ethics Sunday 9 October, 2 – 5pm (1:45 constant touch with Mr. Bajwa during this time. “On 8th August evening I was informed by him that he has taken the extension of payment for tickets until 9th August and he will certainly get the tickets issued by 9th afternoon. Then I receive a phone call from him on 10th afternoon that for some reason the tickets can’t be issued and they have cancelled and he started offering business class tickets of different airlines again,” the letter says.

Mr. Kumar goes on to add, “Mr. Bajwa’s claims of 11th hour money demand from Sunny Deol or his office or anyone are completely baseless and I openly challenge him to prove that.”

It may be noted that Mr. Bajwa had, in his email to Indian Link which was subsequently published, had blamed the “dealers/brokers/agents” working with UIA for the fiasco, indicating that “there was an unreasonable demand of additional $15,000.00 at the eleventh hour of our preparations.”

Mr Kumar further states that “Mr. Deol was so keen to attend the function that he offered to catch a Singapore Airlines flight on 13th August morning from Mumbai for 2pm start) at Room: PS-EB.G.02, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta Campus. Hindu Council of Australia together with ARRCC (Australian Religious Response to Climate Change), FEN (Faith-Ecology-Network) and the UWS Multi-faith Chaplaincy have organised a joint multi-faith forum to address the moral and ethical issues involved in tackling the very important problem of climate change, environmental degradation and the prevailing atmosphere of greed, fear and hatred afflicting the humanity. A distinguished panel of speakers representing each of the main religious faiths will address the Forum. Free admission, refreshments will be provided. Please register online @ www.arrcc.org.au/ ecoforum or call 9873 4214; Mobile: 0406 033 704. RSVP latest by 30 Sept. 2011 Research on HRM policies

Parth Patel, currently studying for his Doctorate at the University of Newcastle, is looking for information from Indianowned multinational companies to assist in a research project on Human Resources Management policies. The project titled, Transfer of HRM Policies and Practices between Headquarters and Subsidiaries of Indian MNCs in Australia will examine the motives for and the mechanisms by which headquarters of MNCs monitor and control their Australian subsidiaries in the transfer of their human resource (HR) policies and practices. This research is particularly important because of the increasingly important role of MNCs in emerging economies (like India) and the relationship between headquarters and subsidiaries of such organisations. Parth is primarily targeting companies in which was going to land him in Sydney on 14th morning around 10 am and he was prepared to go straight to stadium from Airport,” adding “you might be shocked as Mr. Bajwa stated at that time that since he has organized a dinner on 13th evening for which he is charging people and if Mr. Deol can’t attend that function he is of no use for him.”

Indian Link contacted Mr. Bajwa for his response on the matter, however our email queries remained unanswered till the time of going to print.

Gaurav Pandey

the IT sector, and would request about an hour’s interview with senior/functional managers/departmental heads. The interview will broadly focus on asking various questions in different areas of MNC operations. Findings from the study will be used to produce an academic thesis and writing papers in scientific journals, book chapters and peer-reviewed academic conferences/seminars. All data collected will strictly be kept confidential complying with university’s ethics regulations. Parth requests assistance from relevant parties to participate in this research project and he would be grateful if you would be willing to participate.

Please contact Parth on 0405591190 or (02) 49216340; or drop him an email at Parth.Patel@uon.edu.au

Crestwood Badminton Association

Crestwood Badminton Association has a 22 year long badminton playing history in Sydney’s Hills District and players of different ethnic backgrounds come to play here.

The Association is looking for new members who would like play badminton regularly. The new members will be able to play on Wednesdays from 7.00pm till 10.00 pm and Saturdays from 7.00 am till 10.00am.

For more details contact Basker Ratnam on 0459 183 644.

Correction

In the August-1 2011 edition of Indian Link, an inadvertent error was made in Vidya Muthanna’s article on Sakhi Sangam. Neena Sinha’s name was omitted as one of the original founders. The error is regretted. Ed.