Vinay Payyapilly
Callous Echoes: Unmasking Our Reactions to Tragedy
Shankar is a daily-wage worker. Married with three kids, he is as good a husband and father as can be expected. There is nothing overtly...
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Vinay Payyapilly
May 22, 20233 min read
The price of protecting and preserving monuments
Here are some statistics to set things up: According to the 2011 census, India has close to 2 million homeless people. The average square...
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Vinay Payyapilly
May 10, 20233 min read
Rethinking our cities
We must rethink our cities. The current FSI rules have forced our cities to grow horizontally. They are like an ever-growing organism...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 11, 20233 min read
Reclaiming public spaces
I first consciously noticed how badly we treat our common spaces when someone I know, who is fanatical about cleanliness, reached over...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 2, 20232 min read
Why we need traffic jams
Traffic jams, the bane of modern living, lead to increased commute time, pollution from idling vehicles, and flared tempers. The...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 28, 20232 min read
Technical writing in a ChatGPT world
Such paradigm-shifting technologies grow the industry or force people upstream.
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Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 21, 20232 min read
What’s in a name?
Time is like a summer breeze, in constant motion. History is a series of snapshots, each showing but one flutter of the leaf at a time.
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Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 14, 20233 min read
Writing self reviews at work
Performance reviews are a checkpoint to see whether the employee and the management are on the same page
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Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 7, 20234 min read
What women want
Is it so strange then that men ask, what do women want?
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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
Feb 17, 20236 min read
Common mistakes documentation teams make
Hard as it may be to comprehend, a technical writer’s job isn’t to create content. It is to enable the user to complete a task through instr
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Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 10, 20232 min read
When less is more
Give somebody a hammer and everything looks like a nail. Give a technical writer a problem and they’ll more often than not, write an article
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Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 4, 20234 min read
Non-XML to XML: A Help site’s coming-of-age story
It was somewhere in 2019 that we decided that it was time to grow up and use a real documentation tool. Up till that point, we were using...
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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
Oct 3, 20223 min read
A stray problem
The tiny state of Kerala is up in arms over free-range dogs. The menace of these dogs to people is real. They hunt in packs and if you...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 30, 20222 min read
Using the cycle to commute
I cycled to work every day last week. Before this, I would cycle to work on and off, but never as a regular thing. There are too many...
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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
Nov 1, 20211 min read
Pavement Conversations, Episode 14: Single Living with Sirisha
In this episode, I talk to Sirisha about how it is for a young woman to leave her home and move to a new city to start a career and a...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 20, 20211 min read
Pavement Conversations, Episode 13: Cycling with Niha
In this episode, I talk to Niha about how she took to long-distance cycling. We talk about her early struggles to get acceptance and her...
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