PLEASE NOTE: There is also another website dedicated to Aroon at www.AroonMaharajh.com
The funeral will take place on Mon 1st September:
12pm Service at the church
St Francis de Sales Church, 16 Wellington Road, Hampton Hill, Middx TW12 1JR
2.45pm Service at Randalls Park Crematorium
Randalls Rd, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 0AG
Please send donations rather than flowers for CHASE Childrens Hospice (www.chasecare.org.uk) to:
Full Portion Media, 7 Coda Centre, 189 Munster Road, Fulham, SW6 6AW
Dot Com Fever, BBC Panorama, April 2000
Asian Babes in Asian hands, Telegraph, March 2004The new owner of Asian Babes,
Britain’s first and only soft-porn magazine aimed at Indians and
Pakistanis, said he had no moral qualms about buying the title and that
he has plans on how to make even more money from the business.
In
his first interview, Aroon Maharajh, a dynamic 37-year-old businessman
whose father is an Indian from South Africa and mother an Austrian,
spoke about his purchase of Fantasy Magazines, a collection of 45
“adult” titles, from Richard Desmond, the proprietor of Express
Newspapers.
At
first, it might seem odd that Maharajh, who has been brought up by a
father steeped in orthodox Hindu Brahmin values, should take on Asian Babes. But for Maharajh, who moves briskly from one money-making idea to the next, morality does not enter the equation. “I
don’t have any issues with it. It’s completely legal business, it sits
in a lot of stores running right the way through England and in
Ireland, it occupies 27-28 per cent of the top shelf. I see great
potential for the business.”
“Aroon
is very much an Indian,” emphasises his 63-year-old father, Kithandra
Vebeecun Maharajh, whose ancestors emigrated from Rajasthan to South
Africa “between 1820 and 1830 as indentured labourers” and who himself
set foot on British soil on “May 20, 1960”.
Aroon Maharajh is happily married with three “beautiful” boys, Max Aroon, 13, Louis Kumar, 10, and Oliver Patrick, 7. “I
love the Indian culture and I love the Indian people,” begins Maharajh.
“If you come into our house during the week, you would think you had
walked into an Indian house because of the smell of curries. My eldest
son helped me cook a fish curry the other night. We eat curries two,
three times a week and they are always home cooked.”
Father
and son are now planning to make their first journey to India. “My
father and I were talking about this,” says Maharajh. “I said to him,
‘Now is the time for us to go back’.”
