Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
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…
-
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,…
-
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…
-
A moment of choice
As I was recovering from the burns, one day, an elderly nun came by my bed. I am a sceptic an I thought to myself; here goes one more of apostle. The nun, came up to me and said, “your life so far is over, you are whole and complete and equipped to begin the…
-
surrounding yourself with love.
Aunt Vaidehi, is a great knowledge bank. She can also be amusing. Yet she is not really a very popular relative, the reason could be that she is quite judgemental and puts things rather cuttingly. It is kind of a compulsion for her to show the other in bad light. To think at one time…
Got any book recommendations?
Parwatisingari's Weblog 