Asian Lite News Archive

Category: Woman

  • PICS: Jewellery Show

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    Bulbeer Gandhi with Karisma Kapoor inaugrating Glamour during the inauguration of Glamour Jewellery Exhibition 2014 at Palladium Hotel in Mumbai 

  • PROFILE: Reena Ranger

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    Reena Ranger, the chairwoman and co-founder of Women Empowered (WE), was enjoying her role as a mother, however, she felt the urge to do something more to help shape the world. Speaking to Anjana Parikh from Asian Lite, Reena talks about the idea behind WE, and how women can bring a new approach to work…

  • Essex murder sparks race row

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    Kaliph Anaz looks into the murder of Saudi Arabian student in Essex.  “This isn’t the first attack on a Muslim student and certainly is not the last on a member of the Muslim community in the UK” said Omar Ali, president of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies The Muslim Council of Britain said: With the current…

  • PICS: Phenomenal Women

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    Indian film playback singer Kavita Krishnamurthy during “Phenomenal Women” – a Five-Day Long Art Show in Bangalore 

  • Rangoli–a British phenomenon

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      Ranbir Kaur, entered into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2003 for creating the biggest rangoli in the world. Rangoli, an art form that originated from India has now become a British phenomenon. Midlands-based Rangoli artist Ranbir tells Anjana Parikh from Asian Lite about this magnificent art and how she’s been commissioned across…

  • ‘I’m a master juggler’

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    Anjana Parikh Loveena Tandon, renowned journalist and foreign correspondent of Indian news channel, Aaj Tak, gives an insight into her busy life and the strength of a woman while playing a role of a mother, producer, director, writer and a journalist. Loveena Tandon AL: Can you please tell us something about yourself? Loveena:  I was…

  • Post-menopausal risks in woman

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    A staggering 43 million Indian women are affected by heart disease, with one in every three women dying of the condition as against one in 31 from breast cancer and experts say that it is post-menopausal women who are at a greater risk. Tapan Ghose, director and head of department of cardiac sciences at Paras…

  • PROFILE GALLERY – Kareena Kapoor

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    Kareena Kapoor is a true professional in Bollywood. The gorgeous Kareena Kapoor, who will next be seen in “Singham Returns”, is showing thorough professionalism towards the project. According to sources, the actress recently was not keeping well and was down with viral fever. But since the shooting of “Singham Returns” was to commence from Thursday at…

  • Angelina Jolie made an honorary Dame

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    Actress Angelina Jolie has been made an honorary Dame by Queen Elizabeth.   The “Maleficent” actress was among the stars recognised in Queen Elizabeth’s list of Birthday Honours for her dedication to campaigning against sexual violence and the use of rape as a weapon of war, reports contactmusic.com. The 39-year-old Oscar-winning beauty, who is the…

  • We salute Sarika Jain, IAS

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    Jatindra Dash profiles differently-abled Odisha girl who clears civil service exam in first attempt It was sheer hard work and determination that paid off, says Odisha’s differently-abled Sarika Jain who cracked in her first attempt the coveted civil services examination. Jain developed polio in her right leg in 1985 when she was just two years old.…

  • ‘Time spent in India changed me’

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    Twenty-year-old Suhani Gandhi from Bedford will be representing the UK for Miss India Worldwide competition in Dubai this week. In an exclusive interview with Anjana Parikh from Asian Lite, the winner of Miss India Europe title and an LLB student at the University of Birmingham, Gandhi talks about the three traits that a beauty queen…

  • Let your voice be heard

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    Britain saw the latest event held by Women Empowered recently. The theme for the night was on how one could harness the power of the internet and social media and posed the question that in a world on 7 billion people can one person really have their voice heard? Reena Ranger explained the rationale of the…

  • Indian-origin woman wins service award

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    An Indian-origin woman in the US has been conferred an Indian diaspora organisation’s 2014 Service Award. Meena Kumari, associate professor of anatomy and physiology at Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, has received the 2014 Service Award of the Association of Scientists of Indian Origin in America, a university statement said. “It is very…

  • GALLERY – Women Empowered, London

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    “How one could harness the power of the internet and social media and posed the question that in a world on seven billion people can one person really have their voice heard? That was the question raised at Women Empowered’s latest event. Reena Ranger welcomed the guests and explained the rationale of the evening’s event by…

  • Behind the Silken Veil

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    Why do the beautiful dancers and dances of the Middle East and Asia seem so mysterious and inaccessible? Why, in many cultures, are female dancers often seen as overtly sexual – think Dance of the Seven Veils, but is this the whole story? Lingua Franca World Music Productions have brought together three professional performers from…

  • Sushma seeks support for women’s bill

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    The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday said the 16th Lok Sabha should be the one which passes the much-delayed women’s reservation bill. “A lot of parties have spoken about women’s empowerment, but we have done our bit by making a woman the chief minister of Gujarat. We also have 25 percent women in our cabinet…

  • PICS – Angelina in London

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  • SALMA:- Family comes first

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    Mexican actress Salma Hayek feels that her achievements would have been meaningless if she wouldn’t have had her “own family”. The actress-producer is married to French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault and has a six-year-old daughter, Valentina, reports contactmusic.com. She said: “I wouldn’t have had a fulfilling life if I hadn’t been able to start my own…

  • ‘People of Bhopal are survivors’

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    Anjana Parikh interviews Jaya Greaves who worked for Southern Voices, the UK-based organisation that sought to ensure voices of the southern people are heard in mainstream life.  She is currently working for the victims of Bhopal Gas Tragedy, who she thinks have been forgotten in recent times, and who still need support.   Jaya Greaves…

  • London summit to end sexual violence

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    A four-day summit Tuesday on ending sexual violence during war would be headed by British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, actress Angelina Jolie. The event at the ExCel Centre in London, called the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, is the final result of…

  • Window into a communal room

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    Born in a Sri Lankan Tamil family in Malaysia, edu­cated in Singapore and later immigrated to the UK, Rani Moorthy, the versatile writer, actor and presenter, thinks that she has al­ways been an outsider, and this makes her see the world in a little differ­ent way. Speaking to Anjana Parikh from Asian Lite, Ms Moorthy…

  • London Lauds Asian Achivers

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    High flying Asian women who have battled to overcome obstacles in business, the professions, sports and culture recognised at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2014 in association with the Royal Bank of Scotland. A leading fertility expert was one of 17 women recognised for their outstanding careers at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards…

  • Seepaj wins Miss India US title

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    In a magical night, amongst Bollywood and Hollywood celebrities, Seepaj Dhaliwal was crowned Miss India North America. Spirit Of India’s 22nd annual sold-out pageant had Indian contestants from all over USA and Canada competing for the coveted titles. The pageant was presented by GillAutoGroup.com and L.A. Tan in association with co-presenters included Wells Fargo, South…

  • Stressed may affect behaviour of the unborn

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    Stress during pregnancy can affect the baby in your womb in many ways as researchers have found that foetuses are more likely to show left-handed movements in the womb when their mothers are stressed. “Our research suggests that stressed mothers have foetuses who touch their face relatively more with their left hand,” said Nadja Reissland,…

  • Anandiben Patel, the new chief minister of Gujarat

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    Anandiben Patel: Gujarat’s first woman CM Some 25 years ago, without a second thought, a woman school teacher plunged into the Narmada river and rescued two young girl students who were drowning. The teacher was 47 years old then. Today, at the age of 73, Anandiben Patel is all set to become Gujarat’s next and…

  • HC launches book on Goan migrants

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    Lib Dem Watford Councillor Rabi Martins released a book by author Selma Carvalho, entitled ‘A Railway Runs Through: Goans of British East Africa, 1865—1980,’ at the HSBC Club, Beckenham on 3 May, 2014. The book is the culmination of a three-year project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, UK, under the aegis of the Goan…

  • Andhra girl youngest to climb Everest

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    A 13-year-old girl from Andhra Pradesh Sunday became the youngest female climber to scale Mount Everest. Malavath Purna along with 16-year-old Sadhanapalli Anand achieved the historic feat, according to information reaching social welfare department here. After a 52-day-long expedition, the duo pitched the national flag and the picture of B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India’s…

  • CUPIDITY – By Bikram Vohra

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    “What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the Beatles, and me?” Remember those famous lines from Oliver Barret IV. Words that made Love Story such a big hit. Love means never having to say you are sorry. It does not…

  • Australian state pushes for dowry ban

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    The Australian state of Victoria is pushing for a ban on the Indian practice of dowry in marriages amid concerns that it is leading to domestic violence and abuse of women within the Indian community here, a media report said Friday. Economic abuse was made illegal under the Family Violence Act in 2008, but Australian…

  • Missing woman mountaineer ‘reportedly dead’

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      Nepali authorities Friday said Everester Chhanda Gayen and her two Sherpa guides “have been reportedly killed” even as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee planned to head to Nepal Saturday to monitor rescue operations for the missing ace mountaineer, hoping for a “miracle”. The 35-year-old mountaineer went missing Tuesday after an avalanche on the Kanchengjunga…

  • INTERVIEW – Soundarya

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    Asian Lite, top Asian newspaper in the UK, profile Soundarya, the eldest daughter of Rajni Kant Soundarya R. Ashwin, whose debut directorial “Kochadaiiyaan” happens to be the country’s first photo-realistic performance capture entertainer, says gender is no longer an issue – neither within nor outside the entertainment space. She is proud that she brought in…

  • When diamonds are not a girl’s best friend!

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    Don’t buy this piece of diamond for your beloved as it has a tendency to disappear! You read it right. According to scientist from Rice University, some microscopic diamonds only last seconds before fading back into less-structured forms of carbon under the impact of an electron beam. “The most ‘nano’ of the nanodiamonds were seen…

  • Moss is Britain’s richest model

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    Kate Moss has topped the list of Britain’s richest models, surpassing the likes of Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell. The 40-year-old icon who shot to fame when she was signed by Storm Model Management aged just 14, has been crowned the wealthiest model with an estimated fortune of 55 million pounds, according to a new…

  • ‘Kathak dance is my soul’

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    Kajal Sharma performing at the 75 birthday celebration of her guru, Padma Vibhushan Pt.Birju Maharaj, at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi. Photo credit: Ashwini Chopra I was introduced to Kathak at a very tender age.  At the tender age of 7 I met Pt.Birju Maharaj in New Delhi where he was teaching his class at…

  • Sam Cam Hails Sangam

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    Samantha Cameron praised the “remarkable” and “amazing” charity the Sangam Association of Asian Women at a Downing Street reception. The Prime Minister’s wife welcomed over 100 guests on behalf of the pioneering Barnet-based charity and praised the way the charity has evolved over the past four decades. Speaking at the event, Mrs Cameron said “I…

  • ‘Our language skills are dialect for us’

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    Manchester-based Sabeena Khan has a mission in life. The mother of four children and, a lecturer in business studies, Ms Khan whose pen name is Sabz, has embarked on a journey to keep written Urdu alive in the country of her birth. She tells Anjana Parikh about her debut book Kadam (Steps)– a compilation of…

  • NaMo wave in fashion world

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    Narendra Modi is man of the moment. If his agenda and vision led to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s triumph at the hustings, his influence is looming large over the nation’s fashion scene too and yielding rich dividends for designers. In the highly volatile fashion world, where style statements change with changing seasons, Modi’s wardrobe, simple…

  • Kidman to have second surrogate child

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    Actress Nicole Kidman has reportedly planned to have another baby through a surrogate mother. The 46-year-old earlier welcomed daughter Faith, who is three-years old now, through a surrogate mother. According to a source, the 46-year-old may hire a surrogate mother in a desperate attempt to salvage her troubled marriage with musician Keith Urban, reports showbizspy.com…

  • Women don’t realise their strength’

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    She encountered a lot of upheaval in life but was undeterred by the situation. Mrs Pervin Todiwala, the co-founder of London-based Café Spice Namaste, in a chit-chat with Asian Lite, talks about her journey from Bombay to Britain. The co-founder and patron of Café Spice Namaste, the Indian restaurant she set up in London with…