Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Hey—Maa it’s a crash

    It is rather sad that the BJP MP Hemamalini’s car rammed into another car and a girl named Sonam was died on the spot. I am deliberately omitting the age of the kid at this point in time. People have been pointing fingers that HemaMalini should have been around longer, helped out everything fine. The…

  • Pride March…?

    Will I accept if one day my child announces that he or she is gay…? I probably belong to Methuselah’s generation but I am a little confused about what the stink is about, after all relationships are personal and that’s way they should stay. First and foremost where do I come into the picture? The…

  • Breathless,

    We looked at the physiology, the biology of breathing, but what we usually don’t bother with is the fact that breathe is the connect between the within and without. Many times when we escape the mundane the best way to return to the present is through breathe. When we actually think about it, breathing is…

  • Graphite loons ay mah life.

    Graphite loons ay mah life.

    The prompt of the week – if my life had a background score which songs and music will be in it.. When I read this prompt without reflecting, the first thing that came to me was, then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXQ9pvy024c   I realized this was my comfort song, something that helps me cross the stream. To me a…

  • Disapproval

    Disapproval

    Does this dress look good? I think LBG relationship is okay… but what will people say… So many variations of this, I have harboured this for god knows how long. I did apparently rebel but at my honest moments I had accept that I found it difficult to handle disapproval. I knew not everybody will…

  • As the birds fly.

    Travelling companions, This is something that happened when I was choreographing for Swapna Vasavadutta. There is a particular dialogue where King Udayan looks at the flying birds and comments on their formation and companionship. To choreograph this, I had to observe the flight patterns of the birds. The birds I realized exuded beauty and serenity…

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