ARTS and CULTURE: 

OMG- Online Music Galatta has 9 grids with a grid each for New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, India, Dubai, UK, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and USA. OMG- Online Music Galatta carries news, music and talk sets championing Tamil language, culture, pop culture and traditions.

Cecilia Kang, Kiwi-Korean designer and trans woman is not only in collaboration with natural skincare brand, Nellie Tier for her upcoming fashion show at New Zealand Fashion Week 2021, but also joins hands with Vin Tomar to empower more people where their aim is to promote diverse migrant communities like the Kiwi-Indian community.

Abhi’s work is more than just a praise because she wants to embrace the experiences she has gone through and wants to initiate a sense of belongingness with all the migrant women irrespective for their colour, race or ethnicity. With poetry by published author Sudha Rao, and music by Karnan Saba this is a must-see photographic exhibition.

Naaree Women’s Group of New Zealand, a group to empower women are hosting Ganapati Mahotsav, A Family Event on Saturday 11th September 2021.at Mt Roskill War Memorial Hall May Road.

Hindu Youth New Zealand is proud to announce New Zealand’s first ever DharmaFest! An event that brings various Dharma based groups and spiritual organisations together to showcase the beautiful dimensions of Hindu/Dharmic culture, through food, clothing, art, crafts, knowledge systems like Yoga, Ayurveda, Meditation / Mindfulness, and the contribution of this diverse community to the wider New Zealand society.

Mt Eden’s Fickling Centre will provide the venue for a special interfaith concert this month, with performers and choirs from many of Auckland’s spiritual traditions participating. The evening program has the simple purpose of bringing together our diverse interfaith communities and musicians – from Sikh, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Bahai and Sufi faiths. The free admission public concert will highlight both the diversity of Auckland’s cultures and share the unique music of their rich traditions.

The yoga sutras are probably the greatest document on life and the most uninteresting book on the planet. Patanjali wrote it like this intentionally because the idea is that this is a formula to open up life.

The Auckland Diwali Festival returns to Aotea Square and Queen Street for its 20th anniversary on 30 – 31 October this year.

Health for Humanity Yogathon had a great start on Saturday, 12 June in many cities including Auckland, Rotorua, Palmerston North and Wellington. This year the team had aimed to reach 250,000 Surya Namaskars (Sun Salutations). It will continue till 26 June 2021.

Health for Humanity Yogathon aims to reach 250,000 Surya Namaskars (Sun Salutations) this year. It will be held from 12 June to 26 June 2021 in several cities encouraging all New Zealanders to learn, participate and incorporate yoga in their daily lives. International Day of Yoga will also be celebrated during this period. In addition to surya namaskars, there will be yoga, meditation, mantra, bhakti, music, and talks from experts from all parts of New Zealand.

Gopal Bhatia is the name synonym with beautiful and soulful voice for most Indians in New Zealand. The ace singer accomplished yet another feat last week at Christchurch with a power packed performance at the La Vida centre on 15 March. This was Gopal’s third show in his ‘Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas’ series to pay tribute to the legendry Singer Kishore Kumar.

“KARMA: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny”, is #1 in its category with Amazon Australia. This widely anticipated title was published on May 4 by Penguin Random House — the first of Sadhguru’s written works to be locally published by a major AUS/NZ imprint — and has rapidly sold out among major booksellers in both countries.