Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Cut Me Loose

    Cut Me Loose

    We spend decades parenting our children, then our parents, and finally our spouses. Keep your performative Mother’s Day cake. At sixty, I want my life back.

  • The Restless Leg Syndrome.

    The Restless Leg Syndrome.

    So,your legs itch when you sleep, or you kick. That is your conscious mind begging for sleep and Sensorimotor brain shouting ‘Stay alert!Keep running.

  • The Third Act that failed.

    The Third Act that failed.

    There is an ocean between absentmindedness and Alzheimer’s. Beyond lost keys and kitchen mishaps lie silent grief, critical prevention, and the unspoken toll on caregivers.

  • Uttishta Tamra-Kita.

    Uttishta Tamra-Kita.

    A blistering open letter to India’s snoozing opposition: how the ruling regime weaponized the Uniform Civil Code and delimitation while you slumbered through the republic’s restructuring.

  • The Trophy Mukund’s Boys Picked.

    The Trophy Mukund’s Boys Picked.

    We sacrifice our children’s sunlight and souls for colony bragging rights, then blame their collapse on gaming. Disappointing your parents is survivable; dying for them isn’t.

  • The Auntology

    The Auntology

    Uncles saunter in the periphery, but the true theater of family life belongs to the formidable aunts who run the world on strong filter kaapi.

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