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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Crown Prince??

    Isn’t India supposed to be a sovereign democratic republic where people choose their representatives? Well the media and congress seem to take it for granted we are dynastic, after Indira the crown prince Rajiv, after him the widowed queen mother Sonia waiting in the wings the heir apparent. Salman Khurshid’s inundations in his politically correct…

  • we.. the people..corruption.

    Our No counts but do we say NO? We the people the sovereign democratic republic, are we sovereign? Well I guess the staff of Rajadhani seem to think so. I got into Rajdhani at udupi and got off at Margao, boarding was at 7 am, when I entered the train, the sheets of the previous…

  • Egg-less chocolate cake

    Eggless chocolate cake 2 cups Maida 2 tbsp drinking chocolate ½ cup melted ghee ¾ bottle any aerated soda. (I prefer thumbs up) 1 tin condensed milk 1 ½ baking powder Tsp soda bicarb 1 tsp. Vanilla essence Mix all the ingredients well and bake in oven for 10mnts. At 300 F and 15mnts at…

  • A Hairy-tales Fairy tale ending.

    … Truly, the end of my hairy tale. Indeed, all of 45years, and I am the walking hoarding that says, God made a few perfect heads and covered the rest with hair, of course the crab helped me achieve the perfection. Jokes apart, my hair-raising tale began as far away in time as my early…

  • kariwallah Bhindi

    Kairiwallah Bhindee Okra with raw mango Once upon a time, before TOI became euphemism for toilet paper, they ran a column called cook-in with Jiggs Kalra, some recipe’s were actually do able in a daily home kitchen once we mastered the basic recipe it took just as much time as our standard dishes did. This…

  • Post365 — book review

    Originally posted on My Bookshelf: Book review, Serpents shadow Author:              Rick Riordon Publisher           Puffin Books. ISBN                 978-0-141-33569-8 The third of the triology of Kane chronicles, that taps the Egyptian Mythology. Here the correlation between the sheut  the shadow of a person. Very interest concept that the author plays with a person with no shadow does…

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