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The Dreaded Editor
I must confess that in the older days, when I was younger and much more confident in my abilities, I would look at an editor as an...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 21, 20132 min read


Breaking a custom
Taken from http://static.www.odcdn.com/images/us/od/promo/pages/cpd_form.jpg In a world where it is often proclaimed that “the customer...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 24, 20132 min read


Flexible documents
http://www.cpnd.org/assets/images/jigsaw-pieces-red.png Today, most content is developed on word processors. This wonderful software give...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 17, 20131 min read


Democracy and the freedom for the CBI
India today. The Central Bureau of Investigation is the premier investigation agency in India. Like the Supreme Court, the CBI often...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 13, 20132 min read


A Forgettable Month for the PM
Manmohan Singh. Everything that could have gone wrong did and still, somehow, he clings to the chair and continues to degrade the highest...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 12, 20132 min read


Nouns stacks
Image taken from http://dougcookrd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Confused-Woman.jpg Acme enables you to build agile software development...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 10, 20131 min read


What if…
Let us take a look at the clues we have at our disposal. First, Sonia Gandhi refuses the prime minister’s post, albeit on the pressure...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 5, 20131 min read
I screwed up, now you have to help me
NDTV report on Jaipur tunnel accident NDTV carried a news story about a family (father, mother and two kids) who were travelling on a...
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 17, 20132 min read


Unwelcome compliments
English: This is the California Attorney General’s official photograph. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) President Obama seems to have put his...
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 7, 20133 min read


Where is the news?
According to wiki.answers.com, there are over 1600 news channels in India – 1600!!! When 24-hour news channels were announced, I was one...
Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 30, 20131 min read


Pacific Islands
30 ml – Bacardi 30 ml – Smirnoff A dash of Citrus Blue Lime juice Club Sode Preparation: Pour 30 ml of Bacardi into a glass. Add 30 ml of...
Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 17, 20131 min read


Moral policing – When it is right? When is it wrong?
The Slate’s Culture Gabfest This week’s Slate Culture Gabfest opened up a very interesting thought for me. In this episode they take up...
Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 6, 20132 min read
Road trip: Hyderabad – Aluva [Dec 2012]
Nothing catches my imagination or fires me up as much as taking a road trip. Add to that the excitement of doing my first long trip in my...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 5, 20132 min read
Rape is not about sex
The heinous, barbaric act of rape on a Delhi bus has the entire country up in arms. About time, I would say. There have been over 400...
Vinay Payyapilly
Dec 19, 20122 min read
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...
Vinay Payyapilly
Nov 30, 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...
Vinay Payyapilly
Nov 28, 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...
Vinay Payyapilly
Nov 21, 20122 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...
Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 29, 20123 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...
Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 22, 20121 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...
Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 26, 20122 min read
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