Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • World Farm Animal Day

    World Farm Animal Day

    Ever thought about this, before the first supermarket appeared on American topography, apparently in 1946 …and in India maybe a decade ago… where was the food? The food was at home, in the garden, local fields or forests, backyards, pantry, food bought from the vendor vending peddling it door to door, or at the weekly…

  • world vegetarian day

    world vegetarian day

    October is the month of vegetarian awareness. This was established by the North American vegetarian society in 1977, and the international vegetarian union endorsed it in 1978. The idea is promote joy, compassion and life-enhancing possibilities of vegetarianism, and whole halo of things. A vegetarian way of living is definitely beneficial. No I am not…

  • The Spice Route culinary festival

    The Spice Route culinary festival

    My first memory of the Bolgatty palace was in the early eighties when I visited Kochi with my father, we had been to the ophthalmology conference, while papa was busy with the sessions my mother and I did what we loved the most not shopping, sightseeing. We had been to fort Kochi, the Jewish settlement,…

  • Council of Canadians announces Economic Boycott of Nestlé

    CLICK HERE to sign Council of Canadians pledge to not buy bottled water or Nestle products. You’ll feel better and so will I. [Note: this is not the first Nestlé boycott. As a sociologist fri… Source: Council of Canadians announces Economic Boycott of Nestlé

  • Free Money Day?

    Free Money Day?

    Yesterday the 15th of September was the free money day. When I heard of it I saw visuals of currency bill flying around.  So I figured I needed to know more about it. The exercise was quite simple it was about handing two bills/coins to absolute strangers and requests the recipient to pass half of…

  • Mahabali cannot be Dwarfed.

    As we were driving down from Panaji, to Margao I saw this banner that said, 37%  Goan have votes AAP, 27%BJP, and some X% congress, the conclusion was AAP leads, what occurred to me, is it could also be interpreted as 63% Goans are clear that they do not want AAP. Ultimately every story is…

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