Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • The Whiff of lost friend.

    My closest friends are books, in the human world it used to be Anupa. Jarod Kintz wrote,”flowers and fear are a lot alike, for one flowers and fear have a distinct smell, and two I’m currently trying to grow both in my garden.” Anupa my friend and I sat on the rocks of Manipal, they…

  • with Malice to ….

    People always talk don’t they? I think I shall start calling myself a witch. The wicked witch of the west.  I mean people have called me acrid, nasty, rude sarcastic whatever. so might as well have a blast and get benefited from it. And why not? Believe me it is orgasmic it liberates you from…

  • Bengali Buzurg Vs Gujju Guy

    Amartya Kumar Sen Indian economist, who lives in the land of Uncle Sam, writes on poverty, socialism and Indian culture sponsored by American cheques. He has made contributions to social choice theory, economic and social justices, and economic theories of famines and indexes of the measurement of well-being of citizens of developing countries. The fly…

  • YENNA RASCALLA!

    Originally posted on Mrigank Warrier's Blog: Yes, you who revel in South Indian stereotypes. You who believe that we ‘Madrasis’ actually say ‘Yenna Rascalla’ out loud. Read, and learn. 1. Geography: ‘South’ is a direction; Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu are states. Hubli is in Karnataka, Hooghly in Paschimbanga. Tirupati, Tirunelveli and Thiruvananthapuram…

  • Old man time,

    I am the old man by the river, if you think I am someone’s grandfather, or the village elder, I could be, but more important, I am the keeper of a memory of people and communities, “stories have changed my dear boy,” I told the man in the grey suit, “there are no more battles…

  • The rot within.

    Here we are watching the news 20 children in Bihar died of poisoning. Amidst this tragedy what we neglect to see is the greater tragedy at on end we see children with up end mobiles, and play station  here are kids for whom a morsel of mid meal means a relief to their parents. But…

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