Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • 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…

  • 2IT=> IT (Indian Talent)+IT(information technology)=India Tomorrow?

    #digitalindia The government envisions a digital India, and e-governance is supposed to be the core of it. fine, this is because e-governance or I do not know if digital India will empower the Indian. Technology of course becomes the key to the digital india vision. Intel promises to support this because innovation would definitely drive…

  • Dealing With traffic offenders.

    Parking on the footpath. Vendors hogging the footpath Bullying auto drivers Are parts of the great Indian civic society.  We live and survive through it.  The next level of this is– the motorists who break the traffic rules.  Most of the offenders don’t stop when signalled, and then there are few diligent ones who do…

  • Doing our best Personal satisfaction.

    Doing our best Personal satisfaction. Sometime back someone told my mother, “if only your daughter would focus on one thing she would be a success.” I was quite put off by this. then came my students Ramleela performance,  my husband said, “this was good, but you have done better.” Then my mother told me, “once…

  • Thoughts– the creation ground of experience

    The creation ground of experience. Venugopal from the Landmark curriculum for living came up with an excellent experiment which he requested a few of us to try. It was just putting on reminders at key places stating “Yes! I am in the present” and then observe what happened. Just by being present to this and…

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