Parwatisingari's Weblog

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Resident of the Rashtrapati Bhavan

    Making of a president, 2012 Last week it was an interesting interaction with Retd. Major General Vinod Saigal of the Indian army. A well-known author and commentator on South Asian Politics. Was in town for the release of his latest book revitalising the Indian democracy. He really made us think in terms of our political…

  • From Pune

    Originally posted on recipes : Thalipeet is a northern Karnataka, Maharashtra breakfast dish. This works somewhere along the lines of sandwiches, and chaats where the cook can go berserk with imagination. Ingredients: ½ kg.        Raagi flour(millet) 2              onions 4-5           green chillies finely chopped. 1-2 tbsp    coconut scraping. 1 fist full of bay leaves…

  • personal universe

    We have all heard, of the atma and Paramtma. God made us in his model. For me these concepts manifested as the construction of atom and the parallel in the solar system. People of ancient faiths including Vedic Hinduism, lived in a spiritually alive from horizon to horizon where spirituality was a dimension of every…

  • 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…

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