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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Quiet Resistance.
As a child of the Emergency, I learnt silence early—yet beneath it, quiet resistance pulsed, stubbornly preserving agency, dignity, and a society’s unwillingness to fully submit.
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Psychological Aftershocks.
War doesn’t end; it relocates—into bodies, families, and generations, where unprocessed fear becomes inherited anxiety, silent behaviors, and symptoms medicine struggles to fully explain.
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Oil Dependency.
War no longer invades borders; it enters kitchens. Oil prices rise, tempers follow, and households quietly surrender—paying the cost of conflicts they neither started nor understand.
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Anxiety Economies.
Anxiety economics reshapes behavior quietly, as scarcity mindset drives caution, delays care, and alters spending—echoing across generations through inherited habits, fear, and fragile trust.
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Nutritional Gaps
War rarely announces hunger; it edits plates quietly. Generations inherit scarcity in their biology—through metabolism, memory, and mental health—long after the last shot is fired.
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Black Markets
War turns scarcity into opportunity; the black market thrives as systems fail, reshaping behaviour, trust, and survival—often quietly, efficiently, and at a deeply human cost.
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