Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • 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…

  • Elephants can remember,

    Ah! I am only elephantine, and not an elephant. It was a family get together a cousin of my mother had come down after donkey’s years, okay I’ll cut the excuses I could not recognize her. How many times have we been there and paid the price for it? When it is a name it…

  • Round the world

    Round the world. At the toastmaster we are very fond of the story of bill burrows of massachusets’s, well , the story goes that he put a note into a bottle and threw into the high sea. The note was a request that the finder should send him a message. Forty-five years later he heard…

  • speechless

    Speechless… Ever been at that meeting where someone babbles  continuously, at the end of the speech the person says with this finish my few words, god if that were few words what would be a whole deal? The conferences where people eat into the next speakers time, how many of us have been there. The most…

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