Indian Weekender

The Indian Weekender is New Zealand’s first weekend publication that is targeted at the 120,000-strong ethnic Indian readership in the country. However, the online edition is increasingly being accessed by readers in Fiji, Australia, India, the US, the UK, Canada, Singapore and Malaysia besides other countries. IW is published by Kiwi Media Group, a media savvy enterprise promoted by well established Kiwi businesspeople. With special correspondents in India and Fiji and wide ranging niche content arrangements, IW brings the latest in news of interest to the Indian diaspora, fresh perspectives through its analytical columns, weekend leisure reading for the entire family, with generous portions of the two topics that bind Indians together no matter where they live – Bollywood and cricket.

Group Editor-in-Chief

Dev Nadkarni
Dev has been in the media industry for over 25 years and has worked as writer, journalist, editor, cartoonist, academic and communications consultant in the IT and development sectors. Born and raised in Mumbai, India, he has wide experience working in print, television and online media on three continents.

In addition to his editorial role with the Kiwi Media Group, he is also writer and sub-editor of the National Business Review (NBR) – New Zealand’s leading business weekly, a regular contributor to the New Zealand Herald, contributing editor and columnist with the Fiji based Islands Business International publishing group and is the publisher of Pacific Business Online. (www.pacificbusinessonline.com)

Dev is also a Pacific and South Asian affairs commentator for publications in Australia, the European Union as well as Television New Zealand (TVNZ) and other international TV channels.

He consults with the United Nations’ development initiatives on projects around the Pacific region as well as development organisations in New Zealand on a range of training and communication projects. Earlier he headed the Journalism Programme at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.

Dev is a director with Knowledge Basket South Pacific Limited (www.knowledge-basket.com.fj) and Islands Today Media Limited.


021 171 2777

Editor

Arvind Kumar
Arvind is a veteran journalist with more than 20 years in the industry - first as a news and sports reporter and later as a Sub-Editor and Chief Sub-Editor on some of the biggest newspapers in the region, including the Fiji Sun and the Fiji Times. He also served as Editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly in Suva. In New Zealand, Arvind has been a Sub-Editor with the New Zealand Herald, the Waikato Times and is currently Chief Sub-Editor of NZ Rural Press, the agricultural arm of Fairfax Media NZ, the country's largest print media organisation. You can contact him on his details below.


021 0518142

Chief technology officer

Rohan deSouza
Rohan has over 14 years experience in the IT industry working in various roles from Graphic/Web Design through to Web Marketing and Web Development. He has worked with some of the biggest multinational companies and has over 6 years experience in the online news industry. He is presently working as an Interactive Producer and manages some of NZ's most visited websites including TV3's 3 News website, Radio Live and BSport. You can contact him on his email below.



Contributions

Thanks to Karen D'Lima for her design contributions. Cameron McLay and Kim Moon for their amazing dev tips and Charles Wang for his brilliant imaging application.

The community

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