Your favourite Kiwi Indian publication, Indian Weekender, is two years old.
Anniversaries are about a sense of satisfaction, gratitude and anticipation. About completion, renewal, rededication.
Satisfaction at the achievement of yet another milestone, however small, and peering into the rear view mirror watching the road just travelled fade away into the past.
Gratitude for the company and help of fellow travellers that we met along the way and for those who become part of the journey – such as you, our valued readers, advertisers, contributors, writers, columnists, photographers, distributors and vendors.
Anticipation for the great things we all hope and dream lie in store for us in our journey forward toward achieving greater successes in serving the Kiwi Indian community in a range of media: print, online, mobile, entertainment – and who knows which other new media this long and exciting road we have chosen for ourselves will lead to?
At the end of our first year we quickly moved to establish Indian Weekender as the most printed and circulated Indian publication in New Zealand – a position that we still maintain and will continue to hold.
We also launched our immensely popular website, which continues to be the most accessed Kiwi Indian website and one of the most accessed Indian websites in Australasia. We followed that up with a mobile version and an iPad version that have ever-increasing access rates.
The second year has been spent consolidating our position and improving our products to serve the community better. Our efforts have been amply aided by new advertisers, whose list is growing impressively, new writers and contributors – and of course new team members, besides a growing readership, which indeed is our raison d’etre.
Two big initiatives in our second year have been our espousal of the cause of raising funds for presenting the first ever ambulance from the Indian Community to St John Ambulance and our foray into sponsoring and presenting a range of cultural events.
We plan to step up both our community related fund raising activities and promotion of cultural, sporting and other activities in the Kiwi Indian community in our third year.
As we enter our third year, we are confident in the thought that the good wishes of all our readers, advertisers, contributors and associates as well as the larger community are with us.
Enjoy the second anniversary issue of your favourite Indian Weekender, now out on the stands and soon to be available electronically on this website.