Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Accepting an Intern.

    Since I am a medical student and had do internship, I never really thought much about it. About two years ago when I decided I will take my NGO more seriously, we are into community for self employment, I realized I could not handle it alone and I needed help. Around that time Nandini Sahai…

  • Internship — A Rite Of passage.

    When we joined medical college there was this standard joke, we called it the evolution of the medical student. The swagger and I am on top of the world kind of attitude. The kid would walk into the movie hall with bunch of other equally boisterous and ill-behaved kid and brag, ”pre-med man” of course…

  • Walking Through An Open Plan House.

    Our friend Jairam Acharya, who is an astrologer at Parkala; (he is also the in-house astrologer for ETV and runs a shows with them.) Built a house at Percale, his nephew from Bombay had been every upset that Mamaji did have a big house, with lot of rooms but no bathrooms. Now we were a…

  • Getting Technical

    I have been requested by a group of young doctors, who are into public health to help them communicate better in the health education sector, Both my areas of work that is dentistry and theatre fortunately are hands on subjects. So there is no dictate the notes happening. What I realized is that people tend…

  • The Community Garden at Taleigao

    It is such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth to feel at one’s finger tips the possibilities of the new seasons. Growing up in rural west coast, between fields and kitchen gardens we pottered around, it helped us connect and the single greatest lesson that we learnt was that our relationship…

  • international Jugglers day.

    Originally posted on my theatre world:  Breakfast, wash load, kids off to school, hubby off to work, now you dash. On the way back pick grocery, not to mention PTA, school day and office meetings aren’t we juggling things. Well april 18th is also the international juggler’s day so we can pat ourselves on the…

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