Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Why I am not an motivational speaker.
With the thunderstorm and pouring rain, like all respectable residents of the Mango meadows I am nursing my Robusta. How wonderful the aroma is and the annoyingly familiar flavour is comforting and irritating at the same time. The familiarity is comforting, and the fact that I find familiarity comforting is annoying. My belief system tells…
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world cultural diversity day
In a new place just talk to your auto driver, you will learn a lot. One thing that impressed me was the anger that the auto driver at Trivandrum had against Amity Shah for his insensitiveness is wishing people happy Vamana jayanthi without realizing that Onam is the festival of Kerala and not just the…
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Musing on Museums
May 18th is the International Museums Day. It is a day created to raise awareness on how important museums are in the development of the society. Museums have been around since 3rd century BC, and the first ever one was at the University of Alexandria. Then came the European custom of family owned museum which…
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Healing the Mother on Mother’s day
Its mother’s day. What can I gift my mother for mother’s day. We have been fed with amazing stories of mothers, Kunti, Jijabhai’s and Kaikeyi’s. From our tradition. Coming to independent India we have the all we have that lady I forget her name, the abused sacrificing doormat mother. I think her name was Sulochana…
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world art day
April 15th is the world art day. The International association of Arts set up UNESCO in 1954 chose this day as it is the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci. I am a little confused about this, what do they mean by art? Maybe anything that is not science. Or is focused on drawing, paintings…
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