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Another promise bites the dust
In 2019, Prime Minister Modi, in typical style, announced that India would be free of single-use plastic by 2022. Just as with so many...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 5, 20212 min read
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Moral Judgements
In May 2021, Justice Anil Kshetarpal passed an order dismissing an appeal by a young couple asking from protection on the grounds that...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 7, 20212 min read
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To martyr or not to martyr
These are times of extremes. We leave no space for in-betweens or grays. One casualty of this behavior is our language. On the personal...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 2, 20213 min read
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The dangers of hero worship
Heroes, mentors, gurus....we seem to have an inherent need to deify someone and put them on a pedestal. As a young boy, I was a big fan...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 27, 20213 min read
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Nehru and Modi, are they really the same person?
No, the title isn't click-bait. By now, you must be used to people comparing Modi to Indira Gandhi and remarking how similar they are in...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 21, 20214 min read
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Good words masquerading as bad - Part 2
Words such as hoarding, profit, surge-pricing, black money have come to hold a very negative meaning in our society. The negativity...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 12, 20214 min read
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Good words masquerading as bad words - Part 1
Words such as hoarding, profit, surge-pricing, black money have come to hold a very negative meaning in our society. The negativity...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 10, 20212 min read
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Those Muslim men and their four wives
It's a common argument, isn't it? Muslims have four wives and hence they can have more children, which then leads to a growing Muslim...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 4, 20212 min read
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What's good for the rich is bad for the poor
The other day a friend of mine was telling me how he is making a killing at the stock market. A share that traded at 800 the same time...
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 22, 20214 min read
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Making documentation a key activity
A common complaint when two or more technical writers get together is how documentation is not given the importance it deserves by the...
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 19, 20212 min read
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Heads you lose, tails you lose!
The start of the Corona pandemic saw many countries go into lock-down mode with a varying results. But what did become clear was that...
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 15, 20212 min read
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Why it is your religious duty to get vaccinated
Strange but true - The laws of evolution and natural selection work when applied to religions too. To understand this, let us consider...
Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 17, 20211 min read
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Why its patriotic to take the vaccine
We have stood in so many queues – to get the latest Apple phone, tickets to concerts and games, to get the best Thanksgiving deals, and so m
Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 15, 20211 min read
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Catholics and their idols
Merely having an idol does not in any way indicate worship. The act of worship includes ceremonies.
Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 18, 20204 min read
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The Fig Leaf of Tradition
Tanishq ads have always had something more than just an accent on gold and jewelry as things to aspire to.
Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 14, 20203 min read
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The Lack of Imagination
The hubris that lets us imagine that we can control things to go as per a plan is going to cost us heavily in the days to come. While the...
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 20, 20203 min read
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Defining Nationhood
When we claim a piece of land as an integral part of our country, does that include the people who live on that piece of land? Nations...
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 9, 20202 min read
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The Immorality of Social Distancing
There is very little that I can say about the Corona (COVID-19) virus that isn’t already said. So I will desist. But I would like to...
Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 21, 20202 min read
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What is Citizenship?
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS – N.N. / http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survivors_liberation_dachau.jpg Citizenship has meant different things...
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 14, 20202 min read
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Why the CAA/NRC is not just silly but dangerous
Let’s leave the right and wrong of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NCR) aside for a moment and...
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 5, 20203 min read
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