Vinay Payyapilly
Saluting a bimbo
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151537377476050 Two things about this video strike me. Firstly, that Sridevi’s children got to see...
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Vinay Payyapilly
May 13, 20132 min read
Democracy and the freedom for the CBI
India today. The Central Bureau of Investigation is the premier investigation agency in India. Like the Supreme Court, the CBI often...
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Vinay Payyapilly
May 12, 20132 min read
A Forgettable Month for the PM
Manmohan Singh. Everything that could have gone wrong did and still, somehow, he clings to the chair and continues to degrade the highest...
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Vinay Payyapilly
May 5, 20131 min read
What if…
Let us take a look at the clues we have at our disposal. First, Sonia Gandhi refuses the prime minister’s post, albeit on the pressure...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 17, 20132 min read
I screwed up, now you have to help me
NDTV report on Jaipur tunnel accident NDTV carried a news story about a family (father, mother and two kids) who were travelling on a...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 7, 20133 min read
Unwelcome compliments
English: This is the California Attorney General’s official photograph. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) President Obama seems to have put his...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 30, 20131 min read
Where is the news?
According to wiki.answers.com, there are over 1600 news channels in India – 1600!!! When 24-hour news channels were announced, I was one...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 6, 20132 min read
Moral policing – When it is right? When is it wrong?
The Slate’s Culture Gabfest This week’s Slate Culture Gabfest opened up a very interesting thought for me. In this episode they take up...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Dec 19, 20122 min read
Rape is not about sex
The heinous, barbaric act of rape on a Delhi bus has the entire country up in arms. About time, I would say. There have been over 400...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Nov 30, 20122 min read
Selling our Gods short
Does having an image of Christ on my car dashboard make me a better Christian? Does going to church every Sunday make me one? Does it...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Nov 28, 20122 min read
How Honda got it terribly wrong
Two days later a user car dealer checked my car and his first words on returning from the test drive were, “What a beautiful car! Why are...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Nov 21, 20122 min read
Anushka Sharma’s backward steps for woman- and humankind
If my assumptions, which are not too far out I should say, are correct, I am still trying to figure out how she could have given the nod...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 22, 20121 min read
Toilets v/s Temples
Recently I found myself in the rather strange and novel situation of being in complete agreement with a politician. Jayaram Ramesh’s push...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 26, 20122 min read
Cutting the nose…
On September 9, a young girl returning from her uncle’s house was allegedly raped by a group of boys. It took her a couple of days to...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 6, 20122 min read
The indifference of power
In Koodankulam, the people protest the building of a nuclear facility. The government slaps sedition cases on the victims and go ahead...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 3, 20122 min read
Should Kasab hang?
Kasab at Chatrapati Shivaji terminus The Supreme Court has spoken and they say Kasab must hang. This has reopened the debate about the...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 18, 20122 min read
Are we evolving in our brains?
The Earth is in a constant state of change, some of it natural and some through the machinations of humans. Whatever the origin of the...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 17, 20121 min read
Eradicating a scourge
13 January 2012 must go down as a golden date in modern Indian history. It marked one year since the last polio case in India. Once...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 15, 20123 min read
Independence Day?
On 15th August of each year we commemorate an event that in beginning to have less and less meaning to the common man – our Independence...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 10, 20122 min read
Sedition and the common man
An increasingly scary trend has emerged in our country – people being put into prison on charges of sedition for voicing their opinions...
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