All stories by Vaihayasi Pande Daniel
'Peace of mind toh nahin hai ji'
Rediff.com28 Feb 2022'It makes no sense at all to leave because I have my whole family with me.' 'My wife and children are citizens here.'
Hamara Bajaj Kindled Pride in Being Indian
Rediff.com24 Feb 2022In 1989 when Bajaj came out with their legendary and elegant Hamara Bajaj campaign, that looked more at apna India, rather than the scooter, and at all hues of scootered Indians, it drew millions of eyeballs and was brilliantly successful.
'Rahul Bhai would take on Modi or anybody, if he felt something was not in the favour of the nation'
Rediff.com18 Feb 2022'Rahul Bhai was well known for speaking the truth.' 'He did not accept anything he considered wrong.'
COVID-19: How The RAT Can Help
Rediff.com2 Feb 2022'Serial testing is much more valuable than a single test which reflects just a point in time.'
'Infections are going to skyrocket'
Rediff.com1 Feb 2022'And they are going to be milder because we are dealing with the vaccinated and are much richer in terms of the immune response in the population.'
'Omicron is not the end of the pandemic'
Rediff.com1 Feb 2022'The pandemic ends only when 70 per cent of the world is vaccinated with two doses.'
'It's a patient's right to ask questions'
Rediff.com31 Jan 2022'If a doctor is kind of trying to say that there's an urgency, relatives should definitely get a second opinion.'
Do I Need To Be Hospitalised For COVID-19?
Rediff.com12 Jan 2022'There are no drugs to be given in the first week, if you have been hospitalised.' 'If you're getting any drug, that drug is likely to be unnecessary.' 'Or the hospitalisation is unnecessary.'
'Everybody need not rush to hospital'
Rediff.com7 Jan 2022'If your oxygen saturation is okay and is maintained after the six-minute walk test -- which has been described all over the world -- and you do not have an unrelenting fever, then you can even be managed at home.'
'If you don't double vaccinate and don't mask, Omicron is going to come for you'
Rediff.com7 Jan 2022'We know, from our experience of this virus, that there's something known as long COVID-19, where you have this persistent fatigue and some people have lost their neurological acuteness and they are not as sharp as they used to be.'
'We haven't heard the last about Omicron'
Rediff.com31 Dec 2021'Your body will be able to deal with Omicron at any time, but it depends (on when) if you are vaccinated.'
'Remember, always, the virus doesn't want to die'
Rediff.com31 Dec 2021'If you think you think you're going to booster yourself out of the pandemic, in COVID-19's case, you can forget it.'
'The severe cases are mostly unvaccinated people'
Rediff.com28 Dec 2021'In our ICUs, the majority are unvaccinated people.' 'Out of the hospital, in the community, we see that -- whether you are vaccinated or whether you're not vaccinated -- the symptoms are more or less the same.'
'Omicron is a very, very obvious case for boosters'
Rediff.com27 Dec 2021'An individual who maybe has had two vaccines, or has had two vaccines, and a booster, is going to be pretty well protected.'
'Everybody's going to get infected'
Rediff.com27 Dec 2021'In the likelihood that Omicron is circulating, you have a much greater chance of getting infected now, than you did during the Age of Delta.'
'Humans have never learned from history'
Rediff.com17 Dec 2021'We need to retell this history from many different perspectives.'
'Vegetarianism can help'
Rediff.com17 Dec 2021'But one of the important things to remember is that what we are seeing today in India -- the destruction of the forests, the opening up of the forests to mining companies.' 'It's a horrifying thing that's going on.' 'Yet, if you look at who owns the mining companies, you will see that almost always they are vegetarians!' 'They are people, who in their own lives would probably not even hurt an insect, but yet have no qualms about destroying an entire ecosystem.'
'Omicron won't be a big challenge for India'
Rediff.com6 Dec 2021... 'Or any country which has reasonable vaccine coverage.' 'The emergence of Omicron clearly proves that if we allow a virus to circulate in an unvaccinated population, it would take a form which could be a Variant of Concern, or a new variant.'
'Omicron may make you more sick'
Rediff.com29 Nov 2021'This virus may have more immune evasion capability and therefore, it may make you more sick.'