Vinay Payyapilly
Selling our Gods short
Does having an image of Christ on my car dashboard make me a better Christian? Does going to church every Sunday make me one? Does it...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Nov 28, 20122 min read
How Honda got it terribly wrong
Two days later a user car dealer checked my car and his first words on returning from the test drive were, “What a beautiful car! Why are...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Nov 21, 20122 min read
Anushka Sharma’s backward steps for woman- and humankind
If my assumptions, which are not too far out I should say, are correct, I am still trying to figure out how she could have given the nod...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 29, 20123 min read
Hyderabad – Bangalore – Ooty
18-June-2015 | Updated information This post was written almost three years ago, so I thought it is high time I update it with fresh...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 22, 20121 min read
Toilets v/s Temples
Recently I found myself in the rather strange and novel situation of being in complete agreement with a politician. Jayaram Ramesh’s push...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 26, 20122 min read
Cutting the nose…
On September 9, a young girl returning from her uncle’s house was allegedly raped by a group of boys. It took her a couple of days to...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 6, 20122 min read
The indifference of power
In Koodankulam, the people protest the building of a nuclear facility. The government slaps sedition cases on the victims and go ahead...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 3, 20122 min read
Should Kasab hang?
Kasab at Chatrapati Shivaji terminus The Supreme Court has spoken and they say Kasab must hang. This has reopened the debate about the...
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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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