Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Welcoming Spring–Hozhi Habba
“I’m pledging to #KhulKeKheloHoli this year by sharing my Holi memories atBlogAdda in association with Parachute Advansed.” Shivrathri is over, the mists begin to clear and the days get hotter. Some Years it is the month of February, when everything around is dead, the trees are dark and chilled, that appearance of green shoots seems preposterous, the ground…
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On Sparrows and Crows
A cluttered balcony, I am rushing through to dry the laundry and fix breakfast I feel the quiet presence of the crow, it perches on the ledge until I have dried the clothes and then caws, then there is the other one, which perches on the tree across and caws as if to make conversation…
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Blame it on Bhaang!
“I’m pledging to #KhulKeKheloHoli this year by sharing my Holi memories atBlogAdda in association with Parachute Advansed.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPMjKIUNGDI Parchute and BlogAdda and media have declared Holi as one of India’s happiest festival. Well, that depends, on Your concept of India Your concept of Happiness. For me Holi is a festival of dread. One reason being it is the…
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On Murthal
by Meha Khanduri This article nearly never got written because as I start to write on the issue I start seeing red. When India was raptly watching students of a prestigious university go through a long drama of whether slogan shouting students had committed sedition or not…rampaging mobs were burning, looting, and ransacking the cities…
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Traffic Woes — the other side of the story.
#Sushant Forever,#GoaCan When I first saw the poster I was kind of sceptic, I mean what’s the big deal. When GoaCan invited me for a panel discussion on road accidents I went there since it is a bugbear in my space. The event for sponsored by Sushant forever. I discovered that Sushant Naik was a…
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In the Quest of Happiness
#Happiness, What does happiness mean to me? do I go looking for happiness? Let me answer the second question first, no i do not go looking for happiness. There is an interesting quote from Abraham Lincoln which I really like “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”…
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