Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Writing Right Retreat

    Writing Right Retreat

    Noololyako chenni, noololyako   the base voice of the singer was crooning.  Asking his glamorous lady love, why doesn’t she spin? “ratiyillelo jaana ”she replies, that she needs a spinners wheel…the dialogue goes on in the nasal twang of the folk singers. Once upon a time these singers would never enter Durbar-e-khaas. But the song is…

  • A Crappy Affair

    A Crappy Affair

    World toilet day The UN has declared Nov.19th as the world Toilet day. We have lived and grown up with toilets, of course during our younger days when we travelled we never used public toilets since we were worried about hygiene with the advent of pay toilets those are taken care off too. The impact…

  • To Pant is Human, To Purr is Essential.

    To Pant is Human, To Purr is Essential.

    A cat empress asks questions humans forget to ask, while sweatpants, uniforms, and quiet wisdom remind us that essence, not excess, is where dignity curls up and purrs.

  • Of Idlis, Inner Space and Squirrels with Title Deeds

    Of Idlis, Inner Space and Squirrels with Title Deeds

    We buy houses to escape loneliness, forgetting the body is already home, the soul its resident, and squirrels manage belonging without paperwork or approval.

  • Fear As Identity

    Fear As Identity

    This piece reflects on how repeated narratives of fear and grievance shape the collective emotional climate in India. Drawing from social psychology and yogic perspectives, it explores how survival-based thinking can weaken mature agency, narrow empathy, and lead to reactive patterns in everyday life. Rather than focusing on politics or personalities, the essay looks at…

  • Self-Care With Crime

    Self-Care With Crime

    On difficult days, soup and crime fiction regulate the nervous system, externalize danger, restore order, and remind us why resolution feels deeply, psychologically necessary.

  • Internation Choreographers Day

    Internation Choreographers Day

    On International Choreographers’ Day, choreography emerges as embodied knowledge—where text, terrain, ritual, and lived experience converge to shape meaning through movement in theatre.

  • A Quiet Audit.

    A Quiet Audit.

    The Ticking clock, things to be done, everything can be so overwhelming. But pausing while, with no interruptions transiting from one year to the next with clarity.

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