Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Feeling lonely – an incomplete understanding.
Feeling lonely – an incomplete understanding. Conversations with God is a turn point book in my life. Where the author talks of souls being from the same fabric. And he actually likens it to the aroma of onions being fired in a room and the aroma diluting as it wafts away from the room. Sometimes…
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Community
As I was doing landmark curriculum for living, one thing that we did at the last stage was going into the community. We are so caught up in our personal lives that we forget that we have an obligation to be responsible members of our communities. There are people for whom expressing this responsibility is…
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Mind over matter.
Yesterday i was at a workshop conducted by NSD, and I caught myself, listening to experts not really paying attention t what they had to share, but how was I going to reply to their words. I also became aware that I was listening to them with this filter that okay these young turks from…
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Suffer and sacrifice—false belief?
Suffer and sacrifice—false belief? I have been watching much touted movies Mother India, Tapasya, and what not with the great all sacrificing protagonist. To me, somewhere it seems so full of self importance, and an subaltern flavour of you are incapable seems to exist. I could be wrong. There was time when abundance was celebrated,…
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Gandhinagar –Akola Maharashtra
On the way back from our community activity at the village of Dahihandi, the NDTV swacha Bharat abhiyan crew and I stopped by a river that is dying. A small town on the banks of river Morna in the Akola district of Maharashtra. It was initially part Madhyapradesh, and subsequently leased out the Nizam of…
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