All stories by VAIHAYASI PANDE DANIEL
'Cancer is not incurable'
Rediff.com11 May 2017Cancer surgeon Dr Ramakant Deshpande answers the most crucial questions on the disease. And offers very important advice on ensuring yourself a healthy, everyday life.
And so the Sheena Bora murder trial gets a new twist
Rediff.com8 May 2017'Not only will Peter, Indrani, Sanjeev be making twice monthly trips to the sessions court for many years, so will their family, their lawyers and the journalists covering the case, becoming almost like bittersweet friends, as large portions of their lives play out there.'
Indrani, Peter, Sanjeev: A morning at the Sheena Bora trial
Rediff.com8 May 2017'A man, probably a lawyer, in black trousers and a white shirt, next to me, was talking to a woman in white.' 'My stock-taking stopped frozen in its tracks.' 'I was sitting almost right next to Indrani Mukerjea.'
And Indrani Mukerjea sat there, alone...
Rediff.com8 May 2017'How much fashion she used to do.' 'Now all gone in the water!' 'All good things have to come to an end.' 'And all bad things have come to an end.'
Indrani Mukerjea's charm has not deserted her
Rediff.com8 May 2017'That winsome smile is a key asset. And says a lot about her too.'
Indian on the outside, Swedish on the inside
Rediff.com28 Apr 2017Born and abandoned in Mumbai, reborn in Sweden, Erika Sandberg says she is Indian on the outside but feels Swedish on the inside. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel narrates her tale.
How did Indrani get the hair dye?
Rediff.com21 Apr 2017'People wondered aloud why she had given up on the aging, getting-day-by-day-more-infirm avatar. And was freshly blooming.'
Review: Watch Naam Shabana for Taapsee Pannu
Rediff.com30 Mar 2017Taapsee is super. But that's not to say that the rest of the cast isn't tremendous, says Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
'Many times we miss the cancer symptoms'
Rediff.com28 Mar 2017'Live a healthy lifestyle. Like what our parents taught us. Like our parents' parents taught them.' 'We become obese. In obesity the chance of cancer increases.' 'Any new symptom? Please talk to your doctor. Some screening test might need to be done.'
Khalid Masood is a product of the West, not Islam
Rediff.com28 Mar 2017'Did Islam kill those five people in London?' 'Or did one wacko individual do them in?' asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
'India will be world's fastest economy for the next decade'
Rediff.com2 Mar 2017Economist Dale W Jorgenson declares that India is doing "very, very well" and forecasts that India might continue to outrun world economies, including China over the next many years.
And Peter Mukerjea went hungry...
Rediff.com19 Feb 2017'It is perhaps kind of easy to see why Peter and the police clash.' 'The obvious air of entitlement that emanates from him, maybe unknowingly, probably gets the goat of the policemen.'
New York City Immigrant Affairs chief: I was in tears
Rediff.com13 Feb 2017Nisha Agarwal, commissioner of the New York Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, recalls, with both anguish and elation, the events of the last fortnight after the US President's order banning entry for people from seven countries was put in place.
'Demonetisation is theft'
Rediff.com8 Feb 2017'Demonetisation, is in principal, a mistake, because it involves a theft -- a taking of private property by the State.' 'It is one of those bad Indian ideas that has been tried twice in the past, with two failures for the record books.' 'This cloud over the economy will probably remain as long as Modi is in power.'
'FY18 will be tough for India's economy'
Rediff.com1 Feb 2017'It will take a long time for the effects of demonetisation to wear away, and I am not even sure that a year lost, can at all be even recovered.'
How the British stole the Kohinoor from a child
Rediff.com23 Jan 2017'I can tell you the case that hurts me the most is the one in which the little boy is forced to sign the Kohinoor over.' 'You take a mother away from a child, you surround him with grown ups speaking a different language, you tell him he must sign this over or else...'
'India had never seen anything like Bhopal'
Rediff.com3 Dec 2016Photojournalist Chandu Mhatre, one of the first to reach Bhopal after India's worst industrial disaster ravaged the city, remembers his worst seven days, in a conversation with Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com.
Why staying hungry can be BAD for you!
Rediff.com30 Nov 2016'With enjoyable physical activity, stress release quality sleep and the right diet, we can reverse the metabolic damage which is wreaking havoc in the world and especially in India.'
Why you feel hungry all the time
Rediff.com29 Nov 2016'These are foods that are very common in the Indian diet... Naan, chapatti, rice...' 'Those processed carbohydrates are far worse for body weight and heart health than the fats they replaced.' 'The problem with these foods is that even if there isn't any obvious sugar in them, they turn to sugar very quickly.'
Chabad House to build a museum for all 26/11 victims
Rediff.com21 Nov 2016Mumbai's Chabad House, which was attacked in the 26/11 terror attacks, is unlike any other Jewish centre, Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky tells Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.