Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • True Love

      When we were at the age where we wore rose glasses we said “Let your love free if it comes back to you, it true if not it was never yours.” Maybe we need to know what love is, here’s what Shakespeare had to say: Love is a smoke made with the fume of…

  • Chaos and Creativity

    Originally posted on my theatre world: Creativity, Why indeed must god be a noun? Why not a verb….the most dynamic and active of all?—Mary Daly Theologian. Creativity is natural and spontaneous. A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Frank Capra If one comes down to the bottom line then cancer is also creativity…

  • On My Honor.

    The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.—Robert Frost. Two days back we returned from Dharwad, and I put my phone off, I had promised my friend something and I could not make it.  A little…

  • Truth

    The truth What is the truth? To hell with truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial as the lawyers say. The life of a pipe dream is what gives life to the world misbegotten madslot  of us drunk or sober—Eugene O’Neill says in the…

  • Reblog

    Originally posted on KAFILA – COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006: Given below is a list of websites blocked in India by one or more Internet Service Providers. This list was hacked from Reliance servers by the hacker group ANONYMOUS, which claimed in a web press conference that while most of this list of 434 is blocked…

  • A vanquished tribe

    Originally posted on My Bookshelf: Author:    Anand Neelakantan Publisher:   platinum Press. ISBN: 978-93-817577-05-2 First time author Anand Neelakantan, treads the murky waters of telling the tale of the Ravana, here neither Rama nor Ravana are heroes, Ravana is the protagonist. The book is a fiction based on the stock characters from Ramayana. The tale is…

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