Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Some awesome things I learnt at the Valley of Words festivals.

    “When will you learn that there isn’t a word for everything?” ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love That’s called being speechless, there was this amazing drive from Kurukshetra to Dehradun. After registering at the #BNLF counter we were free to saunter around the festival grounds. I was looking for the blogger street, I might have as…

  • Society Prepares the crime and the criminal executes it.

    Society Prepares the crime and the criminal executes it.

    Increasing criminal instinct in children who is responsible?   Criminal instinct, is somewhere quite different from criminal behaviour. The habitual committing of criminal acts or offences by a young person, especially one below the age at which ordinary criminal prosecution is not possible is delinquency.   Modern theories and speculation have linked many factors to…

  • Coffee-Cat

    I love my coffee. Over my lifetime I don’t know how many cups of coffee I’ve had but take my word for it – it’s a lot. Over all that time coffee has gone from just something I accepted as normal to hero or villain depending on what narrative was trendy at the time. […] via…

  • Why Kankadasa will always remain relevant.

    Why Kankadasa will always remain relevant.

    “How can we let a lowly Kurba in/” the Brahmins of the Mutta hurled at the man, Vadiraja Teertha decided it was time to humble the arrogant Brahmins. He had immense faith in the devotion of the man, so he kept quiet. The Man stood out and sang the praise of the Lord … Lo…

  • God’s gift

    Originally posted on Cantadora – The keeper of stories.: Plinky would like me share of the best gifts I’ve ever received. I am honey, God’s gift to mankind. But seriously, this kind of messy situations,  gift is an Old English word that means payment for a wife, dowry, it is related Old Norse gipt,Old High…

  • 2IT=> IT (Indian Talent)+IT(information technology)=India Tomorrow?

    Originally posted on Parwatisingari's Weblog: #digitalindia image courtesy internet The government envisions a digital India, and e-governance is supposed to be the core of it. fine, this is because e-governance or I do not know if digital India will empower the Indian. Technology of course becomes the key to the digital india vision. Intel promises…

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