MA Centre (Aust) Foundation presents inaugural awards

The Queen was not the only matriarch acknowledging service to the community through her honours last month. Amma’s Ashram in Carrum Downs celebrated a multicultural event acknowledging the service of community leaders.

The event ‘Embracing Peace 2019’ was hosted by the MA Centre (Aust) Foundation, a not-for-profit inspired by the humanitarian leader Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma). This year’s theme ‘Grace in Action’ fostered the ideal of service (sewa) through compassion, acceptance and understanding.

This was the fourth year of this annual event and the inaugural year for presenting community awards, according to Nava Subramaniam, Director of Amrita Australia Ltd, one of Amma’s many charitable organisations in Australia.

Amrita Australia’s mission as a public benevolent institution is to provide relief to persons who are unable to care for themselves or who suffer from poverty, sickness, destitution and helplessness.

Among its current community outreach projects is a Kids Breakfast Club, a program that provides breakfast at local primary schools, benefitting economically and socially disadvantaged children who would otherwise start the day without a healthy meal.

Another project, Mother’s Kitchen, provides free nutritious meals to homeless and vulnerable persons in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.

Amrita Australia is also fundraising for AIMS Faridabad, a healthcare facility in Delhi NCR. The hospital, spread over 100 acres of industrial city land, will include a multidisciplinary children’s facility and

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DIRECTOR: Gauravv K. Chawla

STARRING: Saif Ali Khan, Rohan Mehra, Radhika Apte, Chitrangda Singh

I can’t recall a single notable (or even non-notable) Indian film based on the plunging dips and giddying highs of the stock market. Do you remember Harshad Mehta? How could you forget the podgy stockbroker who made thousands of Indians rich overnight and then it all ended in a financial mess in no time at all?

Saif Ali Khan’s Shakun Kothari’s destiny run on the same lines. Except that Saif as the wily ruthless

Machiavellian stockbroker is everything that Harshad Mehta would have wanted to be. This is Saif’s most gloriously written and performed part, meaty witty and wicked. He chews into it exposing a sacred hunger that I didn’t notice in his last over-hyped outing.

Saif as Shakun is a true-blue Gujju who won’t let neo-affluence corrupt his cultural integrity. He slips into Gujjufications with the unrehearsed cuteness of tycoon, who has long ceased to be cute to everyone, including his own wife and children.

When debutant Rohan Mehra enters the plot as Rizwan there is no Shakun Kothari around. We know Rizwan idolizes Shakun and wants to be like

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