Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Sultan Batteri

    Sultan Batteri

    At Boloor Mangalore stands on the mouth of the river, it overlooks the confluence of the Gurupura River with the sea. The monument was built by Tippu Sultan after destroying a large number of churches’s built by the British.  Though a watch tower it was armed, so that the British did not enter into the…

  • Vishwakarma and me.

    Originally posted on Cantadora – The keeper of stories.: Sorry Plinky in my part of the world it is Vishwakarma and not Michel Angelo Vishwakarma, the sculptor, is busy carving; he wants to carve a person, thing or event from the last month of my life into the glistening marble of immortality. What makes the…

  • The Thirst Quenchers of Hyderabad

    The thirst quenchers.. It is wonderful to see how rituals associated with an event alters with the need of the terrain, then there is further modification with call of time.  One of the simplest joys of life, “water” it does not resist, it flows, when we plunge our hand into it, all that we feel…

  • finding the next step in life.

    Here I am at cross roads, with a need to find the next step in life. i have made quite a few decisions without really listening to my inner self. but this time listening and acknowledging myself has not only become essential and  but the past three years of working on myself has also made…

  • Shifting roles—supporting my partner.

    Shifting roles—supporting my partner. The past few days every body seems to going through this great debate about an irrelevant video made by an irresponsible movie maker. On the other hand training the women at Oriflame I see women who are truly emancipated, women who have nurtured their families and now stepping out to another…

  • Taking our turn to give people in Need

    Taking  our turn to give people in Need Dr.Prahalad is a good friend, when he was in town we went to visit another friend .Asha, who was a kind person, but though she did not mention it she subtly kept track of various kindness she doled out, if some one helped her daughter it was…

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