Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • The Brew

    The Brew

    The first Thursday of November is the international Stout day and stout is a dark beer made of roasted malt or barley. Like Frank Zappa puts it, you can’t really be a country unless you have a beer and an airline, it helps if you have kind of football team or nuclear weapon, but at…

  • Culture in the Supermarket

    Culture in the Supermarket

    The terrors of the future will not come from the drab repressions of an encroaching bureaucracy, but from the neon lights of a thousand supermarkets, the sounds of a million automobile accidents and from the public cremation of the dead astronauts as they return to earth.” ― Christopher Riche Evans, Mind In Chains This was the opinion…

  • 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…

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