Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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World Theatre Day
Its world theatre day. I am looking back on my own journey through theatre. Having a mother whose unfulfilled dream was arangetram, she insisted that I learnt Bharatnatyam and did my vidwat. My only claim to independence is that I refused to the arangetram this remains a bone of contention between us. I remember crafting…
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Write Rituals
Writing is tasting life twice, once when you experience it, and second time when you write the experience. The best way to write your story is to just start writing. Some interesting writing practices shared by Chetan Mahajan and other writers. Endeavour to get into flow researchers suggest comes from being intrinsically motivated, one has…
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Setting My story
Setting is the time, place and situation in which the story occurs. Description is the material and words devoted to fleshing out that time and place. This provides the physical context and reality for the story. Setting is not ornamental it is integral nothing happens at nowhere. This is something I learnt at the advanced…
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Transmitting on World Radio Day
March 26th 2012 Plinky Prompts had asked us do people still listen to radio and my here is my musing on broadcasting. Today is the 7th edition of the world the theme is Radio and sports. All radio stations, regulatory bodies and related organizations are invited to celebrate the radio and its contribution, to democratic…
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Veiled words
Its the world Hijaab day. How and why and what about it is here in a blog I wrote last year. But over the year here are two interesting point of views that i came across. “What is it about Islam, I thought, that can make a woman so strong that she no longer strives…
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Difficult Dialogues
The spoken word is kind of critical; it gives us an insight to the kind of person we are dealing with. The way the words are put together. This has been a major criteria for me when and where to put in the dialogue How much of the narrative should be in conversation. How do…
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