Vinay Payyapilly
The Literate Illiterate
India is a country of divisions and groups. Here you can be a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian or any of the other hundred religions to be...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 12, 20092 min read
Hyderabad – Ernakulam
It has been quite a while since I did this route by road, so I thought it was time to run it again. This time however things were going...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 22, 20071 min read
Talking to the Gods
As I sat down to write the piece on Harry Potter a set of loudspeakers started out outside my window. As I write they blare out...
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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...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 23, 20071 min read
So Who’s Watching This Crap?
I used to think television journalism in India was frivolous, but these guys make NDTV look like a serious news channel. Everywhere I go...
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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...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Nov 24, 20062 min read
In Fairness to the Indian Cricketers
Fortunately I stopped watching cricket quite sometime before the debacle of the second ODI of the South African series. But be that as it...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 10, 20061 min read
The Korean Nuke Test
Should the world be worried? I say it should, not because there is another nuclear-capable country now, but because of the statement put...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 13, 20061 min read
An Existence Called Arjun Singh
I have been troubling my memory for the past 15 minutes and I am unable to remember one act of sense from this person. His two most...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 30, 20042 min read
On Rights and Duties
Watching a good idea die is bad enough, but watching it struggle gamely on, against all odds is gut wrenching. Whoever thought of the...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20042 min read
Of Leaders – Flawed or Otherwise
The basis of this post started while I was having a debate over MSN Messenger with a friend of mine. The discussion happened to veer...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20042 min read
Who’s responsibility is it?
This essay, like a few before this, was born out of a conversation I had with a friend. The conversation was about the right of an...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20042 min read
A Festival of Lights
Diwali is up on us. For me festivals are a collage of memories. As I near each one, pictures of the previous instances of that festival...
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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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