Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Ayyappa Didn’t Need a Flag.

    Ayyappa Didn’t Need a Flag.

    “While modernity argues over flags, Mohini shape-shifts, Ayyappa shrugs, Bahuchara Mata blesses, and a disgruntled rainbow hires a copyright lawyer.” 🌈

  • Adoption

    Adoption

    We worship bloodlines because they simplify inheritance, not because they explain love. The child’s deepest question remains stubbornly simple: not who created me, but who stayed.

  • Audacity Of Hope

    Audacity Of Hope

    On June 4, the audacity of hope reminds us that hope is not wishful thinking but disciplined faith—the quiet courage to persist despite uncertainty.

  • Authorspeak

    Authorspeak

    Two old men. Two little girls. Two nineteenth-century novels. What if loneliness is not cured by insight, but by becoming necessary to another human being?

  • Essence of Andaal

    Essence of Andaal

    Andaal bicycled through life wearing an intellectual mask, hiding a delightful mad-hatter soul that craved solitude, coffee, complicated love, and permanent escape routes.

  • The Sholay Toss

    The Sholay Toss

    A coin spinning in the air reminds us that life is part choice, part chance. In surrendering outcomes, we discover acceptance, kindness, and unexpected wisdom.

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