Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Walking into the sunset

    Walking into the sunset

    Listen well while I tell you a story Of a boy and girl in the spring When the first flowers bloom into glory Every bird begins to sing… I am talking of the eighties, the baby boomers, girls taking up careers was accepted in the middle class families, and when I say careers, I mean…

  • Grade sheet 2016

    Grade sheet 2016

    #life lessons The year begins with the deafening sounds of crackers over Mandovi and we realize life is drudge when a normal 10-mnts zip down the drive turns into a 100-mnts stake out. Every channel goes berserk with proposals and projections and choose to call it hopeful prediction. Then comes Loveria the valentine’s madness the…

  • Arguments on Argument

    Arguments on Argument

    Arguments the dictionary defines as, A reason given as proof or rebuttal. It could be a disclosure intended to persuade. It could be a coherent series of statements leading from a premise to a conclusion. It was quite an eye-opener for me here I was using a word without real clarity of what it meant.…

  • Baingan Bertha

    Baingan Bertha

    We become what we love, everything else is just movement. This was the sufiyana message that I received today. I come from town called Perampalli. Which is famous for its eggplants, I do not call it brinjal because these are green in color, round and seeded. In kannada we call it gulla.  An vertically and horizontally challenged woman…

  • Of Slump and Trump

    Of Slump and Trump

    I am not a very political aware person, neither do I have intelligence to understand anything beyond housekeeping nor do I have the interest in doing so.  Yet when I hear MrD and my daughters argue about and express eloquently the scenario it strikes to me, that we are forgetting a huge issue. Jimmy Kimmel…

  • Life…Whats next?

    Dear Zindagi You are mystery aren’t you, I mean each day begins without a clue as to how it is going to go, I could go anyway, anywhere it is the beginning of the rest of my life. Actually when I think of life and mystery I kind of agree with Oscar Wilde, true mystery…

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