Indian Newslink is not a rich person’s organisation, nor is it funded by businesspersons with plenty of spare cash. It is a small newspaper, owned by a sole individual, with an office that is more obscure than opulent. Yet, over the past 11 years, this young organisation has perhaps achieved more in terms of its credibility, honesty, impartiality and public support and advertiser patronage than any others in the industry can claim.
From its beginnings as a monthly to its transformation as a fortnightly, this Newspaper has been a trailblazer, endearing itself to hundreds of thousands of readers in New Zealand and around the world as a quality publication. Over the years, Indian Newslink has had a few siblings, the most notable ones being the Indian Newslink Fastfind Indian Business Directory, the Indian Newslink Journalism Scholarship and the Indian Newslink Indian Business Awards (IBA).
The family is growing; you would hear and read about the forthcoming developments in good time.
With 220 issues to its credit, we thought Indian Newslink deserved a little celebration and what can be a better venue than the one, which would find the presence of 500 people including the country’s top leaders, businesspersons, professionals others and gathered to applaud the success of their colleagues, associates, counterparts and even competitors?
As we began considering ways and means of making this Special Issue a Collectors’ Issue, we thought of reviewing each of these issues without bias. Our choice of entrusting the mammoth task fell on the able shoulders of our Columnist Rajendra Prasad, whose erudition, sense of purpose, sincerity, and most important of all, loyalty have always been a source of inspiration for us.
Mr Prasad pored over the issues, studied them and came with a copious appraisal that ran to almost 100,000 words. It is a pity that paucity of space constrained us to redact his review to a large extent but we hope the following pages would provide you at least the highlights of most issues of Indian Newslink over its 11-year span.
However, we hope to post unabridged version of his review online our Web Edition (www.indiannewslink.co.nz).
As we thank Mr Prasad for his tireless efforts that led to the production of what we believe is an incredible issue, we are also beholden to our other contributors who spared no less time or effort in keeping you informed of the developments in the world, the country and the community.
We are also grateful to our advertisers, well-wishers, sponsors of IBA and others who make Indian Newslink a reality every fortnight. The ensuing pages bring forth how we handled news, broke them and sometimes got into trouble. There is not an enterprise in the world that has grown without blood, sweat and tears. There could be upstarts but we have always been news-gatherers with journalism as our only passion and profession.
We hope we have achieved something worth of you since we began our journey 11 years ago this day.
We hope to remain worthy of your patronage.
Nothing else matters.
