Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • 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…

  • word power

    The stories that my grandmother told me I understand, today was the collective experience and learning of my tribe, my community. The story-teller was the keeper of our history and knowledge, they gave us legends to inspire, and they gave us, fools to learn from. They showed us the path to achieve our potential. Whether…

  • Spiritual Journal

    Autobiography, the story of a person’s life as or written by the person. Yes I know the Gandhi one got on our nerves too, and Nehru’s does not ring true. Daphne du mauriers is right when she says autobiography is self-indulgent. On the other hand every artistic creation is a biography, an interpretation through our…

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