Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Learning from a squirrel
Learning from a squirrel Prince rama was to cross over to Lanka, the monkey brigade was busy construction a bridge. A little squirrel rolled in the sand and shrugged the sand off on the construction. He was ridiculed, yet the Lord appreciated his contribution. Every little gesture helped. So much the squirrel has been iconized…
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shades of grey
One afternoon at canapé, It was our women’s evening out and the group consisted of women who are juggling young adult kids, busy career schedule, busier husband’s schedule, senior parents. It was meant to be an evening for us to relax and let our steam out. We had official husband bashing and issue bashing days.…
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Trained citizen journalism sites
Trained citizen journalism sites. For those of us who are into citizen’s journalism, here are some sites. Like Madison common, which launched in March 2006,draws content from three sources. The local publications, that partner by providing story links, the work of students trained in the citizen journalism program at the university of Wisconsin-Madison and citizens…
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Completing an unfinished agenda
Election 2014 Completing an unfinished agenda Understanding the basic structure of constitution in practise.– Before we listen to the ranting of Arnab Goswami or bakbak dutt, read what the media is feeding us. There is so much more to excising a franchise than elevating the middle finger as proof performing a duty. The constitution the…
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Lal batti.
The great Indian divide, I mean the debate about lalbatti the red light—before you smirk the red light on the vehicle of so-called elite. It’s the raj relic, Its elitist Whatever the comment, the way Arnab went on and on about how kids got delayed to school I am convinced that yesterday morning Arnab Goswami’s…
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Campus-kid
I met school friend after long-span of 5 yrs and 10kgs. She looked like she stepped out of one of those film fare magazines picturing Padmini Kolhapure or Poonam Dhillon and I was drapped in my cotton sari, suddenly I felt like a frumpy forty aunt taking her favourite niece out. But my friend squeals…
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