Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • send a blessing.

     This is a very interesting thing I read, I plan to experiment with it, and am inviting  as many of you to do the same. It’s the days of affirmation and sending love ahead to your day. Most of us tend to wake up with focusing on fear or dislike; it is easy to unwittingly…

  • Cook Black Money

    Cook Black Money

    In 2013 there were 14 crore LPG consumers. That is about 60% of the population. Jan 2016 subsidy for taxpayers who earn over 10 lakh annually will not receive subsidy.  Since most studies are Delhi-centric or at the maximum Cow belt centric it is believed that the annual saving from Delhi alone would be 1,167…

  • Ruminating

    Ruminating

    The muse Muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.. Like they did today, Manda stood listening to all the eulogy that the parish had created for Mukesh her estranged husband; it was like they were speaking of another person all together. More she pondered about it, maybe they were right, maybe he had moved…

  • A Zensational Discovery

    A Zensational Discovery

    Wolfgang and Karen want take us out to a stylish place that serves Dosa and it is in Candolim   my husband said. Well, a dosa place… stylish…in Candolim. Well I had already nailed the place as a tourist fleecing “hospitality trained” kind of place. Which would have tomatoes and onions in various combinations and call…

  • Voice of silence

    Voice of silence

    Silence… thought Amba was amazing and versatile, like the wonderful silence just before dawn, or the quiet and calm just as the storm ends. There was the silence when we haven’t the answer to a question we have been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a…

  • The Silent Achievers 2015

    This was one of those evening events that I attended because my mother wanted me to. The Manipal Mahila Samaj meeting. Room full of bustling women, noisy kids and garish clothes. Then the secretary came up to read the activity report. There was an interesting story. About a woman called Sitamma, who went about replanting…

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