Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Of Idlis, Inner Space and Squirrels with Title Deeds

    Of Idlis, Inner Space and Squirrels with Title Deeds

    We buy houses to escape loneliness, forgetting the body is already home, the soul its resident, and squirrels manage belonging without paperwork or approval.

  • Fear As Identity

    Fear As Identity

    This piece reflects on how repeated narratives of fear and grievance shape the collective emotional climate in India. Drawing from social psychology and yogic perspectives, it explores how survival-based thinking can weaken mature agency, narrow empathy, and lead to reactive patterns in everyday life. Rather than focusing on politics or personalities, the essay looks at…

  • Self-Care With Crime

    Self-Care With Crime

    On difficult days, soup and crime fiction regulate the nervous system, externalize danger, restore order, and remind us why resolution feels deeply, psychologically necessary.

  • Internation Choreographers Day

    Internation Choreographers Day

    On International Choreographers’ Day, choreography emerges as embodied knowledge—where text, terrain, ritual, and lived experience converge to shape meaning through movement in theatre.

  • A Quiet Audit.

    A Quiet Audit.

    The Ticking clock, things to be done, everything can be so overwhelming. But pausing while, with no interruptions transiting from one year to the next with clarity.

  • Two Influencers.

    Two Influencers.

    Using history as metaphor, this essay examines how societies create, reward, and sustain influence—whether it comforts power or confronts it.

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