Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • God must be an accountant.

    I believe in god, But I don’t think god will be involved in petty things of our life particularly not money!! Our relationship with money is so weird. We look at disdain at wealth. We normally translate moneyed to powerful, crooked, and illegal, even say that our goddess of wealth rides on an owl and…

  • October 16th

    16-Oct-2012 Todays meeting started of with a Bang! The theme was “Ice Breakers” and we did have all 3 speakers Tm. Swaran, Tm. Adrian and Tm. Viresh doing their icebreakers. We opened the session with a Game. The objective was to share Nicknames with the person sitting to the left. All the toastmasters participated and…

  • Arnav plays Mark Anthony

    Arunav goswami, the toughest competitor Ms.Bak-Bak Dutt has! And all his colleagues running the national debates have to be congratulated. Look at this the country is rampant in corruption; Mallya is still the gallant hero!! Kalmadi get caught with his pants down, but his re-entry is side-stepped Well let me not go there; let’s look…

  • citizens Journalism

    The internet opens a vista, adventure, Why do I say it? It caters to every need, and every vacuum, of course it does take a toll, put the activity happens. Look at the world of citizens’ journalism, which manifest as the vibrant Blog spheres. We have our readers, our fan following and our advertisers. My…

  • Introducing a speaker

    As the toastmaster of the day, my challenge had been to find an appropriate theme, and then introduce the speakers and their topic in relation to my theme. I also noticed introduction were an afterthought hastily thrown together, at the last-minute by someone who really did not know the speaker, the speech or its value…

  • charisma

    What does the word charisma evoke? The dictionary defines it as 1 : a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (as a political leader) 2 : a special magnetic charm or appeal <the charisma of a popular actor> Many people believe that it is a gift either one is born with.  To me charisma…

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