Lest We Forget: Jallianwala Bagh, 94 years later

When was the last time you noticed a sparrow in your window? Why are sparrows endangered in India? Vaihayasi Pande Daniel tells you how you can help prevent sparrows going extinct in India. The tiger is going extinct in India. So is the vulture. The elephant. And the Ganges river dolphin. These are larger than life, magnificent creatures. Hearing their stories of extinction makes us sad. But would your heart be as full to hear that the common house sparrow is also vanishing? Yes, ...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist has its cinematic moments but celebrates just black and white aspects of life instead of exploring grey areas, Vaihayasi Pande Daniel writes.Janissary: a member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century © Random House Dictionary. Young boys were cruelly whisked away at the age of seven, or less, from Christian families in the Ottoman Empire, forcibly converted to Islam and trained to serve and be loyal footmen of the empire.

'Some fear that Gujarat's tourism potential will be lost. That's wrong. Gujarat has such wonderful places. And they have developed such a wonderful system of tourism for the Asiatic lion. That will continue.' Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel discusses the April 15 Supreme Court order -- where a pride or two of lions will move from the Gir forest in Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh, with Dr Asad R Rahmani, director, Bombay Natural History Society. The Asiatic lion lost much of its empire ...

A journey to the Sri Harmandir Sahib, also called the Golden Temple, in Amritsar can evoke purity and peace in even the faithless, writes Vaihayasi Pande DanielWe trod softly, bare-foot, heads covered, in the rosy dawn light, with hundreds of others, up the cool white marble steps. When we crested the top of the stairs, we had our first memorable view of the lovely 16th century Sri Harmandir Sahib.It took my breath away. "Heaven can wait," I murmured to myself, awe-struck, as we gazed in wonder ...

Nana Patekar in a still from The Attacks of 26/11 that releases today. (Photo courtesy: Facebook)more photos Film: The Attacks of 26/11 Director: Ram Gopal VarmaCast: Nana Patekar, Sanjeev JaiswalPlot: The Attacks of 26/11 is a 2013 crime-thriller ...

How many of us travel with $25 billion in our luggage? Ruchir Sharma, head of the emerging markets equity team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, New York, certainly does. An economic traveller, he hops from country to country, uncompromisingly sniffing out opportunity, for Morgan Stanley's billions. Every week he may be in a different country, figuring out its economic climate, testing its investment waters. Like a detective, he has to quickly and astutely construct a picture of the ...

How many of us travel with $25 billion in our luggage? Ruchir Sharma, head of the emerging markets equity team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, New York, certainly does. An economic traveller, he hops from country to country, uncompromisingly sniffing out opportunity, for Morgan Stanley's billions. Every week he may be in a different country, figuring out its economic climate, testing its investment waters. Like a detective, he has to quickly and astutely construct a picture of the ...

How many of us travel with $25 billion in our luggage? Ruchir Sharma, head of the emerging markets equity team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, New York, certainly does. An economic traveller, he hops from country to country, uncompromisingly sniffing out opportunity, for Morgan Stanley's billions. Every week he may be in a different country, figuring out its economic climate, testing its investment waters. Like a detective, he has to quickly and astutely construct a picture of ...

Mr Varma, you were not making a horror film; you were making a film about real lives. Could you not have done it more sensitively, asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel, who extensively reported for Rediff.com from the frontline when 26/11 unfolded.I have a headache. My ears are still ringing. The nausea is just about abating.Post-traumatic stress disorder after seeing a movie called The Attacks of 26/11. Okay well I am exaggerating a bit…But hell, I just learned this trick from the master of ...