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…

  • The Council Of Women

    The Council Of Women

    Inside my mind lives a council of feminine archetypes — mother, maiden, lover, crone, and disruptor — quietly shaping my inner trance and editing my life story.

  • Colours of Inner and Outer spaces.

    Colours of Inner and Outer spaces.

    A healer reads auras. A storyteller reads society. Between subconscious whispers and cultural colour codes, they discover emotions may be nothing more than… a very elaborate palette. 🎨

  • I Name You…

    I Name You…

    Names are not we are given, it is what we respond to. The Egyptian theology says all of us have our secret names that our soul recognizes.

  • Panguni, Powder and Proper Bath

    Panguni, Powder and Proper Bath

    At Aunt Selvi’s breakfast table, Holi becomes less about color and more about climate, discipline, and how every culture edits mythology to suit itself.

  • QED: Story Lost, Wisdom Gained.

    QED: Story Lost, Wisdom Gained.

    On the final day of disciplined output, Akshara dismantled his own Roman apartment complex and chose forest over performance.

  • Day 24 at Gate 24

    Day 24 at Gate 24

    At Gate 24, Akshara audits imaginary passengers while Ptah demands desire, Saraswathi demands discipline, and boarding groups expose the economics of human longing.

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