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Vaihayasi Pande Daniel

Editorial Director Vaihayasi Pande Daniel creates digital content/writes on travel, food, lifestyle and more for 30 years. You can e-mail the author at haysidaniel@rediffmail.com

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Dr Nirupam Bajpai, the man who knows India's pulse

Dr Nirupam Bajpai, the man who knows India's pulse

Rediff.com   8 Jul 2010

Senior Earth Institute economist and Dr Nirupam Bajpai is a global vagabond. He flits between the Big Apple, interior India, Mumbai, New Delhi and other developing countries in Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia, faithfully collecting endless data to feed his continuous research on improving developing economies. His special beat: Any of India's 600,000 varied villages.

Dr Nirupam Bajpai, the man who knows India's pulse

Dr Nirupam Bajpai, the man who knows India's pulse

Rediff.com   8 Jul 2010

Senior Earth Institute economist and Dr Nirupam Bajpai is a global vagabond. He flits between the Big Apple, interior India, Mumbai, New Delhi and other developing countries in Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia, faithfully collecting endless data to feed his continuous research on improving developing economies. His special beat: Any of India's 600,000 varied villages.

'The Sarasvati was more sacred than the Ganga'

'The Sarasvati was more sacred than the Ganga'

Rediff.com   22 May 2010

At the edge of the Shola forest, at the foot of the Ayyasamy Hills, in western Tamil Nadu, near Coimbatore, lives a writer and scholar who traveled to India from northern France over three decades ago and never went home. Michel Danino, who 'loves chapattis, sambar, yoga and everything Indian', has devoted his life to studying Indian culture/heritage and history, authoring several books both in French and English on India.

The baby born in a hail of Kasab's bullets

The baby born in a hail of Kasab's bullets

Rediff.com   6 May 2010

As Ajmal Kasab's trial comes to a close we catch up with 'Goli' Chauhan born just as the terrorists created havoc at Mumbai's Cama Hospital.

I have dedicated my time and soul to free kids'

I have dedicated my time and soul to free kids'

Rediff.com   13 Feb 2010

Titled The Blue Notebook, it is the story of a child prostitute named Batuk, from Mumbai, who records the miseries of her life in a little blue notebook

She saw the terrorists 2 days before 26/11

She saw the terrorists 2 days before 26/11

Rediff.com   18 Nov 2009

26/11 survivor Anamika Gupta on her unforgettable encounters with the terrorists.

She saw the terrorists 2 days before 26/11

She saw the terrorists 2 days before 26/11

Rediff.com   18 Nov 2009

26/11 survivor Anamika Gupta on her unforgettable encounters with the terrorists.

How Mumbai's children cope with trauma

How Mumbai's children cope with trauma

Rediff.com   11 Dec 2008

Doctors say parents need to educate themselves on how trauma affects a child and how it will show up in children.

'The keywords of cooking today - 'speed' & 'easy''

'The keywords of cooking today - 'speed' & 'easy''

Rediff.com   1 Oct 2007

Top food consultant Karen Anand chats about her new book 'Simple Cooking for the Desperate Housewife' and how you can go from drab cooking to fab cooking in your own kitchen.

11/7: We MUST remember

11/7: We MUST remember

Rediff.com   12 Jul 2007

July 11 did not deserve to be an ordinary day. It is a day of anger. A day to respectfully honour hundreds of citizens -- who could have been you or me killed in the space of minutes. Of lives lost. Of homes shattered. How can we not remember?

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