Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Traditionally Yours

    Traditionally Yours

    “It is a family tradition” Radhika looked up, every damn thing here seemed to be tradition, which end you eat the mango from to who dices the melon. It was rather irritating.  But guess that was what traditions are all about, the Deshpande family has been thinking, behaving and doing things this particular way, considering…

  • city lights

    city lights

    Our stories dictate the city that we like the most. I met a bureaucrat last month and she has lived in Delhi for approximately 45yrs of her 60yrs of life and somewhere is so comfortable with city that she is looking at continuing to live in Delhi even after her retirement. Actually I am trying…

  • Mes(si)merizing Zico Fantastico

    I am not a car driver, I am a biker. Actually closed doors and loud music are issues with me. About a week back my inner self was playing host to the archetype Cinderella, and I was actually going through this poor me gamut when Anoop from Indiblogger called me up and asked me if…

  • A terrorist called the tourist

    Travelling  has currently become a fashion, from travelling to work, and slow paced movement to learn about history, go back in time we have become the aggressive globalized tourist. Tourism today is the great soporific. A huge confidence trick and gives people the dangerous idea that there is something interesting in their lives. Their musical…

  • The Deluge At Coramandal

    “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by…

  • the other…

    In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger’s embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid,…

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