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I scream life
The ringing bell pierces the thick summer air, It tells you that the ice-cream man is here. On his cycle cart he roams, Carrying joy and...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 30, 20241 min read
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Rabbit, Turtle, and Peacock
Karan looked across the floor of the store. He couldn’t be sure but the man browsing in the books section definitely looked like Amit. At...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 22, 20244 min read
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A tragedy of comic blunders
How does one become an Indian citizen? I wonder if any one of us who identify as such have ever given it a thought. If you are not an...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 15, 20243 min read
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The heritage obsession
A friend recently returned from London and was recounting his experiences. Most of it was the usual stuff of how impressive things are in...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 6, 20242 min read
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The journey
Although the train journey started only 30 minutes ago, the journey she was on started eight months ago. Samiksha made her way to the...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 3, 20245 min read
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Work-life balanceÂ
In India, over 11000 people (about the seating capacity of Cameron basketball stadium at Duke University) in the private sector committed...
Vinay Payyapilly
Dec 27, 20233 min read
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Beach litter
The wind whipped around him like an invisible cloak. His hair flapped around like a black flame. In the horizon, the orange sun was in...
Vinay Payyapilly
Dec 18, 20233 min read
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Ghar WapsiÂ
It was a funeral kind of day. The sky overcast with dark, threatening clouds and everything brushed in shades of grey. The rain...
Vinay Payyapilly
Dec 13, 20235 min read
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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...
Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 19, 20234 min read
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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...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 22, 20233 min read
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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...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 10, 20233 min read
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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...
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 11, 20233 min read
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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...
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 2, 20232 min read
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Technical writing in a ChatGPT world
Such paradigm-shifting technologies grow the industry or force people upstream.
Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 28, 20232 min read
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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.
Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 21, 20232 min read
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Writing self reviews at work
Performance reviews are a checkpoint to see whether the employee and the management are on the same page
Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 14, 20233 min read
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What women want
Is it so strange then that men ask, what do women want?
Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 7, 20234 min read
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Culture wars and the clothes we wear
Culture evolves to reflect the times in which we live. It changes to reflect our needs.
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 28, 20233 min read
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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
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 17, 20236 min read
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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
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 10, 20232 min read
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