Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • The Lake view Restaurant

      There are days, and days, This was one day that we decide to just drive down where without a travel agenda, and we landed onNH17. Somewhere as we reached Insuli  again on an impulse we decided to go to Sawantwadi. For years the road was familiar along the Bombay-Goa road route but with the…

  • Can We Be Mini’s father for a change?

    My niece Saraswati and sister Shyamala are negotiating a sari, it costs 26.000Rs. And here I am standing beside them. I am reminded of Marie Antoinette, here is a debate on blowing up 26000/Rs. on a sari to be draped once in the life time, and on the other hand Saraswati Mandir, would be satisfied…

  • Mam’s Day Gift.

    May 11th the much touted Mother’s day, I even wondered if I should gift my mother Margarita after all I would have driven her to it if we were in another social context. But what intrigued me is May 10th, where uncle Sam’s land actually had dedicated a day to see that every mother gets…

  • between the newslines.

    The net is screaming from the roof tops about the intellectuals, someone is ridiculous enough, no I have respect for the author who is a senior journalist he refers to Chetan braggart as an intellectual!! Well woe to my countrymen. Yet as we read the declarations, and statements the underlying truth is scary. We are…

  • ‘Oo Needs Buckshee Press Anyway?

    May 3rd heralds the world free press day. The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines and the honour of a police…

  • Priyanka Vadra — Partum Papyrus

    Partum Papyrus…  born of the paper “bhude bharat mein aaye hai phir se nayi jawani hai”—the ode of Rani of Jhansi by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, she heralds Rani of Jhansi as the hope of a dying movement. That is what Priyanka …( lets not debate  over the name) heralds for the press.. bhude congress ke nayi Jawani…

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