Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Disarming the Know-it-all.

    Disarming the Know-it-all. My husband’s Guruji was explaining something, I kind of butt in to add on or comment or god knows what, that I have forgotten but what stayed with me was the feeling that I am becoming an God Damn Know All . I felt so ashamed of myself.  that I tried to…

  • Disapproving faces

    And the child that’s born on the Sabbath day is fair and wise and good and gay. In dental clinic I see a lot of kids wanting to have the perfect dentition, the perfect skin, and couple of them even came to check if their tongue attachment was right so that their speech was perfect.…

  • 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…

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