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…

  • Efficient Hauntings

    Efficient Hauntings

    A child swallows an apocalypse, a “game” rewrites innocence, a ghost waits for release, and silence becomes the family’s most efficient inheritance system.

  • Self Possed.

    Self Possed.

    Raveena feared ghosts; Kanika feared herself. Ptah shuffled tarot cards and exposed the real horror—trauma recycling itself while I blamed everything on writer’s block.

  • Tile By Tile

    Tile By Tile

    A cobra with administrative patience stalks a tiled childhood, demanding overdue grief, while Akshara and Ptah argue whether abandonment requires therapy—or better punchlines.

  • Ancestral Wisdom Pvt.Ltd.

    Ancestral Wisdom Pvt.Ltd.

    In a cubicle scented with burnt coffee and legacy trauma, Akshara learns that ancestral ghosts don’t haunt—they audit. Responsibility, unfortunately, is non-transferable.

  • Stepping Together– Waltz Missing.

    Stepping Together– Waltz Missing.

    Marriage, SriJi declared, is a dance—sometimes intimate, sometimes evasive. Unfortunately, no one remembers the steps, and the music is usually drowned by deadlines.

  • Ancestory Now Discontinued.

    Ancestory Now Discontinued.

    He thought leaving home ended inheritance. Ptah corrected him gently: you don’t escape ancestry, you reupholster it—then wonder why the furniture keeps judging you.

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