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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...

Vinay Payyapilly

Mar 17, 20101 min read

Why India is a Blueprint for the Future

In 1947, as India awoke to freedom and self-governance, the world sat back and waited. Everybody waited, smug in the knowledge that India...

Vinay Payyapilly

Jan 4, 20102 min read

On Protesting and the Right to be Heard

The right to protest and make one’s voice heard is a fundamental right and ties very closely with the right to be free and the freedom of...

Vinay Payyapilly

Dec 7, 20081 min read

HYD-SIN-ICN-SFO-SEA

For this trip to Seattle I took a different route – Hyderabad-Singapore–Seoul–San Fransisco-Seattle on Singapore Airlines–United...

Vinay Payyapilly

Aug 7, 20072 min read

A truly local bank

HSBC (Photo credit: Kansir) On the 31st of July I mistakenly assumed that I had finished my last angry day with HSBC. For over 5 years my...

Vinay Payyapilly

Jun 27, 20072 min read

Is India Free?

Wrote this as a reply to a post on Orkut asking the question in the subject line. *** Is India free? The answer is an emphatic Yes and...

Vinay Payyapilly

Dec 6, 20062 min read

Remembering Dec 6

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. – Etienne Gilson All through our history the moments...

Vinay Payyapilly

Jun 8, 20041 min read

Open Markets

The newswires have been full with articles on how the unions in the UK were up in arms about British companies moving jobs to India and...

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