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Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 28, 20233 min read
Culture wars and the clothes we wear
Culture evolves to reflect the times in which we live. It changes to reflect our needs.
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Vinay Payyapilly
Nov 3, 20222 min read
Making cycling count
As an avid cyclist, I can attest to the pleasures of cycling. I am happiest when I am on the cycle. After you take up cycling, you follow...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 5, 20222 min read
The best upgrade to your cycle
As a regular cyclist, beginners often ask me on what the best upgrade is to make to a cycle. One can approach this question from various...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 12, 20223 min read
Vikram (Tamil, 2022)
As is the norm in the Karan Johan school of filmmaking, Vikram’s release was preceded my huge promotions. It started with the star cast –...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 25, 20212 min read
Samsung Dex, a game changer
Alright, let me admit it up front, I am quite excited today because I finally got my Samsung Dex to work. But the excitement from making...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 11, 20212 min read
What women want
I am not a big fan of the Olympics. Not that I have anything specific against the Olympics, it’s just that I find that nation-based...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 23, 20212 min read
Affirmative Action
A strange thing you will see in Indian restaurants is the Family room.
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 19, 20213 min read
Toofaan (2021)
You don’t have to win to win. To win, you have to be better than what you thought you could be. At that moment, irrespective of where you pl
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 5, 20212 min read
Another promise bites the dust
In 2019, Prime Minister Modi, in typical style, announced that India would be free of single-use plastic by 2022. Just as with so many...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 7, 20212 min read
Moral Judgements
In May 2021, Justice Anil Kshetarpal passed an order dismissing an appeal by a young couple asking from protection on the grounds that...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 2, 20213 min read
To martyr or not to martyr
These are times of extremes. We leave no space for in-betweens or grays. One casualty of this behavior is our language. On the personal...
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Vinay Payyapilly
May 27, 20213 min read
The dangers of hero worship
Heroes, mentors, gurus....we seem to have an inherent need to deify someone and put them on a pedestal. As a young boy, I was a big fan...
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Vinay Payyapilly
May 21, 20214 min read
Nehru and Modi, are they really the same person?
No, the title isn't click-bait. By now, you must be used to people comparing Modi to Indira Gandhi and remarking how similar they are in...
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Vinay Payyapilly
May 12, 20214 min read
Good words masquerading as bad - Part 2
Words such as hoarding, profit, surge-pricing, black money have come to hold a very negative meaning in our society. The negativity...
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Vinay Payyapilly
May 10, 20212 min read
Good words masquerading as bad words - Part 1
Words such as hoarding, profit, surge-pricing, black money have come to hold a very negative meaning in our society. The negativity...
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Vinay Payyapilly
May 4, 20212 min read
Those Muslim men and their four wives
It's a common argument, isn't it? Muslims have four wives and hence they can have more children, which then leads to a growing Muslim...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 22, 20214 min read
What's good for the rich is bad for the poor
The other day a friend of mine was telling me how he is making a killing at the stock market. A share that traded at 800 the same time...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 19, 20212 min read
Making documentation a key activity
A common complaint when two or more technical writers get together is how documentation is not given the importance it deserves by the...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 15, 20212 min read
Heads you lose, tails you lose!
The start of the Corona pandemic saw many countries go into lock-down mode with a varying results. But what did become clear was that...
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