Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Packing For a Road Trip

    Packing For a Road Trip

    Am back from one road trip, and realized how much of unnecessary things I was carrying,  So to work things out here is what I did, I made a checklist. A road trip is essentially a journey via automobiles, sometimes impromptu; it could involve some spiriting activity. Before come into to the checklist of must…

  • Etiquette school drop outs

    Carasid, is a lovely eatery at campal, they- have delicious cakes, now with Paratas and breakfast counter they have really grown. What used to draw most of us to Carasid, was the feeling of sitting in the garden and sipping Tea.  The owners Sunil and Chris are great fun. Both are Marathon runners, yet they…

  • A Lunch Break -On a Road Trip

    A Lunch Break -On a Road Trip

    Have a long weekend, then the place to go is Goa, people enter the state from the skies, through the trains, on the roads, my grouse with road trippers is whiny long blog for another day the way they piddle anywhere and everywhere, drink beer and dump the bottles where they drain the last drop…

  • The Salesman

    The Salesman

    Hope Ira Hayes will excuse me for borrowing her title. One of the most irritating issues for me, is the telecaller of illegal status, mumbling in Hindi! The absolute height was the oriflame office from Bangalore, the customer care person talks to me in hindi and demands that I reply since it is rajyabhasha, of…

  • No Girl Left Behind

    No Girl Left Behind

    Today is the international girl child day, I am looking back, when we grew up gender was never an issue, so to me lot of this stuff that media throws up is strange, yet last year a fellow blogger had put in a question, about girls changing name, I found it idiotic, I still do.…

  • Down the Memory lane.

    We are busy  planning for tomorrows Ramleela it is a student production and at the break, Mrs.Padmashree Josalkar and I were discussing our growing up, Padmashree is from the famous Gubbi theatre, she was talking of how the kids of the family would step in small roles, and as little kids they would forget that…

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