Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
Shefali Vaidya is a freelance writer, media personality and columnist based in Pune. She writes columns regularly for Swarajya Magazine, India Facts and Tarun Bharat. She came into the limelight after her article, which covered major political issues, appeared in the columns of Swarajya.
Profession, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Vaidya has actively contributed to media outlets like First Post, ABP Online, Indian Express and New Indian Express. She works as a consulting editor with Media Vidya, a Marathi news outlet in Pune.
- Shefali has her Vlog named Shef’s Special, feature bilingual content-both in English and Marathi. She writes on a variety of topics like current affairs, art and craft, culture, travel and human-interest stories for multiple online and print publications. She has worked for traditional and new media and has been involved in television programming, content management for websites and magazines.
- She also heads niche heritage and textile trails for Wanderfirst, a startup that provides curated tours across India. She is a self-confessed fan of the Indian saree, which she calls “versatile”, as it can be draped in any manner to suit a particular occasion. She is a powerful orator and frequently delivers lectures on India’s heritage and glorious history across various organizations. She is an Ananta Leadership fellow and is a member of IHAR, a think tank dedicated to Indian history.
- Shefali Vaidya is known for voicing her opinions without mincing her words. Her debates touched upon many controversial issues which were not highlighted previously, such as the Haj subsidy. She compiles information from multiple sources and presents a complete set of facts. She is most famously for her political satire. Her keen observation highlights the ironic stances that people take. She draws attention to them by bringing out the humour in them.
- She enjoys a large online audience on social media platforms like Twitter. Many a time, she has been engaged in a war of words on Twitter (now called X). She has also been invited to numerous television debates and features on multiple Tv and radio shows.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- Shefali holds a Master’s degree in Mass Communications from the University of Pune, an advanced post-graduate diploma in Spanish and a post-graduate diploma in Indology.
Family :
- Shefali Vaidya is married to Ganesh Mohan and is mother to triplets- two sons Aadit and Arjun, and a daughter Ananya. Her husband hails from a Tamil background, while she comes from a Konkani family.
Other Interesting Facts :
- She is an avid traveller and enjoys travelling with her kids.
- Having faced a tough pregnancy while bearing her triplets, she now writes on her blog “Triple Impressions”, which resonates with the emotions and changes that soon-to-be parents go through. It is a good landing page for parents-to-be who are seeking an interesting narrative to read.
Is she Chitpawan, Saraswat or Gaud Saraswat Brahman? Vaidya is a common family name like mine.
Shefali Vaidya is not from Goa although she grew up in Cuncolim. (Cuncolim is a Christian village.) Her family is part of the immigrant votebank imported from Maharashtra by Maharashtawadi Gomantak Party during the 1960s. Hence her settling in Pune is a classic case of “Return to Sender”. Since her lies about the Goa Inquisition and forced conversions got exposed recently by the Inquisition records themselves as well as by other contemporary sources of that time period, Niz Goenkars don’t want her back. I’d appreciate it very much if the institutes from which she got her post-graduate diplomas are also included in her biography, she keeps doubling down on her narrative and so those institutions are clearly places for serious scholars to avoid.