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…

  • Displacement Diaries.

    Displacement Diaries.

    Displacement isn’t just movement—it is identity unraveling, routine collapsing, and certainty dissolving. The body relocates quickly; the mind lingers, carrying fragments of a life interrupted.

  • Health Shadows.

    Health Shadows.

    War doesn’t end when the guns fall silent; it lingers in lungs, minds, and systems—an invisible illness quietly shaping generations long after headlines fade.

  • Gender Roles-Invisible Impact

    Gender Roles-Invisible Impact

    War reshapes gender quietly—pushing Gen Z toward inherited roles, where ambition contracts, identities harden, and invisible losses outnumber visible ones, long after the headlines fade.

  • Food Futures: The invisible Trauma.

    Food Futures: The invisible Trauma.

    War doesn’t just destroy cities—it quietly rewrites what we eat. As soil degrades and diets shift, food security becomes survival, not policy.

  • Education…EnGulfed?

    Education…EnGulfed?

    War doesn’t just shut schools. It rewires thinking—trading curiosity for survival, depth for efficiency, and quietly reshaping how an entire generation learns, chooses, and dreams.

  • Kookamati Returns…

    Kookamati Returns…

    Decision paralysis isn’t confusion—it’s self-preservation disguised as intellect. I stall, spiral, collapse, reset. History does the same; we just give it grander names.

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