#IndiaTodayWomanSummit2014 @mkoirala : Beating cancer and living to tell the tale #womenpower

Manisha Koirala comes out brave and speaks about battling cancer and life after that. She arrives at the India Today Woman Summit 2014 wearing a beautiful crisp silk saree and glowing as always. Telling us that, earlier she was only existing but now after cancer and recovering that, she is living life and feeling the grass.

Manisha goes on to tell that the good part about being a celebrity in India is that if I asked for help, I would get it. My family and friends' support helped me to recover and deal with the fears. 

I checked on with Bollywood actor Lisa Ray and cricketer Yuvraj and spoke with them to know if I will be fine. My doctor told me not to Google so much because I might not get the right information.

Manisha added that her bonding became better with her mother, father and brother during the treatment.

Manisha further says, "I was numb, in denial when I was first told about cancer. I knew my friends who had cancer, but till the time it doesn't happen to you, you don't know how does it feel."

She also reveals about writing a separate book on cancer.

Cancer changed me at a molecular level, I discovered life after cancer, I wrote a journal every day it is on my bedside.

The good part about being a celebrity is that when you ask for help you get it. So in a time like this

You become like a child, all these things you think you have control over, when you are knocked out on a hospital bed, you realise you have no control over it.

There's more awareness in the US. It's not a stigma if you have it. It's not a death sentence. I've met alot of people who have survived 30-40 years.

Lisa Ray told Manisha Koirala 'don't call it going bald, call it the chemo cut'.

Zakia told Manisha 'don't call it chemotherapy, call it a vitamin shot'

I think it's better to go in the snap of a finger than to live with the fear for a long time.

I would love to work again. I enjoy films, I enjoy acting, it would be great to work again. I have become a big time Modi fan.

Now when I see people walking, I feel like hugging people.

I never knew there were 7 parks around my building.That is the difference between existing and living.