Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Pravasi Divas
To me Pravasi always meant traveler So ideally Pravasi Divas should be about Tourists, or if we are talking Indian here, it should be about the travelling Indian, well close enough, Pravasi Divas is about the migrant Indian, who has either given up or on the verge of giving up his/her Indian Citizenship. Oh! he/she…
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On NH66
I love driving down the stretch from Goa to Udupi. On this stretch despite the dug up roads, crazy diversions and sliced old houses, which to me are slicing up of an old way of life there are some salient point. One of them is a small eatery which is tucked in a village called…
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Making My Trip
Welcome to muckmytrip.com… press 1 for current booking…press 2 for whatever, Required number pressed… “goomoningiyamRakeshfrommuckmaiytrip.comhowmayIhelpyoutoday” Pause…deep breathe “Good morning Rakesh, My name is Rastapopulous Mindyourbusinessova, and I have a booking for Timbuctoo on the 30th of February I need to make some changes” “Mr.MIndyouhbisnissnowa…do aih h’av da permission to call yah Rastapopulous?” “okay, but it…
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Walking into the sunset
Listen well while I tell you a story Of a boy and girl in the spring When the first flowers bloom into glory Every bird begins to sing… I am talking of the eighties, the baby boomers, girls taking up careers was accepted in the middle class families, and when I say careers, I mean…
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Grade sheet 2016
#life lessons The year begins with the deafening sounds of crackers over Mandovi and we realize life is drudge when a normal 10-mnts zip down the drive turns into a 100-mnts stake out. Every channel goes berserk with proposals and projections and choose to call it hopeful prediction. Then comes Loveria the valentine’s madness the…
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Arguments on Argument
Arguments the dictionary defines as, A reason given as proof or rebuttal. It could be a disclosure intended to persuade. It could be a coherent series of statements leading from a premise to a conclusion. It was quite an eye-opener for me here I was using a word without real clarity of what it meant.…
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