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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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Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 8, 20122 min read
‘Anna’ther political party
The inevitable has finally happened. After a year of fasts and making noises the Anna-led civil activists have decided to enter the...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 3, 20122 min read
Living in an online world
Google or Microsoft? Gmail or Live Mail? Google search or Bing? The Google users will tell you how insecure and intrusive Microsoft is...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 1, 20122 min read
Riding up and down
It is a small metal box that we ride up and down buildings in, our very own Dr. Who machine. Call it an elevator or a lift, the fact is...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 30, 20122 min read
My perfect Olympic opening ceremony
London 2012 is here and it was kicked off by a wonderfully colourful opening ceremony. It is ironic that the London edition of the games...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 28, 20122 min read
The Torchbearers
Another Olympics have come around. The extravaganza of the Olympics is set in London this year. Over the next few weeks we will see the...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 26, 20122 min read
Why India needs a democratic Congress party
Pranab Mukherjee is the thirteenth president of the Republic of India after a bitter election. There is a feeling among one section,...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 24, 20122 min read
Jeans and mini-skirts
Yet another politician has come out and said that women bring the rape on themselves by dressing provocatively. While crime against women...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 5, 20122 min read
The Right Thing
“The worst regret we have in life is not for the wrong things we did, but the thousands of right things we did for the wrong people”, see...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 22, 20123 min read
The Evolution Around Us
The n-word is back in the public domain in India. The southern state of Tamil Nadu proposes to set up a nuclear power plant to address...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 2, 20122 min read
Being pro-choice
The senate in the state of Washington today passed a legislation that clears the way for gay marriages in the state. This makes WA the...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 27, 20123 min read
Why Shah Rukh Khan will never be Amitabh Bachchan
Over the last decade Shah Rukh Khan has done his best to be the next Big B in the honeycomb called Bollywood. He isn’t the first to try...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 28, 20112 min read
Shirking Responsibility
Like many of the people in India, I was impressed and carried away by the Anna Hazare movement against corruption – for the first two...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 13, 20113 min read
Chasing Ephemeral Dreams
This week saw London burn under rioting from her youth going on rampage. In a world connected by television, the images of young children...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 9, 20113 min read
Shame! Shame! Shame!
M. F. Hussain is no more. The news trickled out on Twitter and then flooded the news channels. Unfortunately, the next few days will not...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 21, 20112 min read
From Happy Holidays to Spring Spheres
Here we go again, pandering to imaginary demons. A school in Seattle Washington will allow the distribution of Easter Eggs provided they...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 7, 20113 min read
Why I Cannot Support Anna Hazare
These are exciting times. What started as a agitation in Turkey has spread like wildfire and today reached India. As a lover of freedom...
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