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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • creating a hindu

    Histography? Is a historian looking at history. When we look at history it is important to know who is telling the story. That is whose point of view are we speaking? History is also how people look at themselves.  How did the Indians write their history? They wrote is just the way British wrote it.…

  • Landmarks

    Birds migrate, their homing skills, using different techniques like smell, vibrations from the earth’s magnetic field and geographic clues. I never realized how much humans did it too, until we travelled down to Udupi for the week-end. When we left home for the anegudde temple, on the way would be smell of the drying fish,…

  • The story of the story teller.

    The story of the story teller. The buyer in posh air conditioned houses and offices worldwide, uses these art forms to create an ambiance of being earthy, sometimes exotic. The pieces carefully chosen by the interior decorators of the page 3 kinds.  But the artist who has created this unique artwork remains unsung and partially…

  • sati-parampara

    Like my standard refrain, the “sati” that seems to be the burning problem of India… so what is this all about… The Sati has come in honour of the goddess Sati, who jumped into the sacrificial fire as she could not bear her father insulting her husband Shiva. The word originally was used to mean…

  • In de ‘ot water.

    In hot water, I don’t know why everyone talks about a hot bath in the morning. An entire day of grime, and pollution. The body feels tired and abused. For me, it has been a hot water bath at night. When I was in medical college I would return at 5pm. Have a real hot…

  • what are women’s issues?

    An activist I am told emerges when a person’s butt is on fire. Mine is kind of getting warm. Do excuse me, for another day; I shall complain about intelligentsia and women’s day before tackling the issues. I remember a friend in travel and tours telling me that some destination, the survey was people travelled…

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