Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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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…
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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…
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Xocolatl Chiquitita ?
Grandma Allarasi’s Dairy was like a chocolate factory. Travel was like coconut blends, Dark chocolate flavours of parenting, the grounding warm cocoa of personal stories. and grandma herself chocolate chilli
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Benzodiazepines
Jyotsna relied on Saturday Valium for comfort; Rahul saw his Ativan strip as an exit plan. Easy OTC access fuels iatrogenic benzo dependence and hidden suffering.
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Solitary Confinement
Loneliness isn’t the absence of people; it’s the absence of genuine connection. Healing begins when we choose empathy, conversation, and authentic relationships over mere proximity.
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The Swayam Rites.
“She performed her Swayam Shraddha, offered funeral cakes to her own soul, and walked away. She didn’t commit suicide; she committed the perfect, bloodless murder.”
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The Butterfly Effect.
Over your afternoon feni, notice the silence: Mandovi’s birds are gone, tree cover has shrunk, and desertification claims over half our paradise. Time to restore.
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The Great Indian Bore
We are breeding a generation of super-literate barbarians who can code software and quote ancient scriptures, yet struggle with queues, littering, and basic human decency.
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