Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Bike dairies.
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it. Gael Garcia BernalB Bikes and Bikers Whats the image that comes up? Tattooed young men with the teen-Queen on the pillion? Or a Goth clad young woman…
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the duality of Lakshmi.
The duality of Alakshmi fascinated me. For if the Amritha or the nectar of immortality emerged when the Ocean of milk was churned so did the pollutant Halahala or the cosmic poison. The Vaishnava legends claim that Alakshmi the twin of Lakshmi is the embodiment of Halahala. She is the goddess of misfortune and strife.…
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Moneylife
Actually I never understood the importance of financial literacy, until quite recently. Somehow our education system despite talking of compound interest, simple interests, and make us calculate all, it does not educate in the area of finance, in fact we all tend to treat it like a disease. Working for a salary, and retirement is…
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Plinky prompts– books/anum
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read. Abraham Lincoln The number of books that I read, well I am not sure. I guess about a 36. A spread of fiction, non-fiction and educative texts, After all books are quietest of and most…
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The armchair traveller
Plinky wants me to make a list of all countries I visited! Well thats tough Countries I visited through the course of life travel, Our skill that we use sends us to different markets. These markets make the towns we traverse, and towns travelled create countries. Only when we get old and can no longer…
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about change
About Watson, in the words of Holmes himself, “I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.…
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