Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Accommodating AND…
When the folk singer and story teller Sarah Kay Lee was young she wanted to be a “princess , ballerina astronaut” but she eventually realized she could not. When I am in a bitchy mood I would say all that she had to do was to adopt an Indian mother from Bay Area, she would…
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Missing an old habit.
When I was thirteen my father gave me an alarm clock, it has is with since then. It has been fixed for 5 am and I have been waking to the alarm. The knowledge that the alarm will not let me over sleep allowed me sound sleep. With the advent of the mobile, even the…
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Sheroes – Tavleen’s Smartizens in a Smart city.
Citizens— can now morph to Smartizens. Tavleen Mehendiratta was a speaker at SHEROES who has a lot of passion for what she does, so much so, it has changed her entire course of life. Her anthem has now turned to the future is not cars but mobility. Sounds quite paradoxical for an automobile engineer to…
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Quicker moving and settling
“I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” ― Judith Minty, Letters to My Daughters Looks, like Indiblogger has decided, that the New year should bring fresh beginning that includes a new location. Moving to a new city…
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Rains when Nature cleanses
Speaking tree When nature cleanses “The rain to the wind said, You push and I’ll pelt.’ They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged–though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.” ― Robert Frost Every rainy season, one site or the other puts up a prompt asking people to…
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