Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Writing Right Retreat
Noololyako chenni, noololyako the base voice of the singer was crooning. Asking his glamorous lady love, why doesn’t she spin? “ratiyillelo jaana ”she replies, that she needs a spinners wheel…the dialogue goes on in the nasal twang of the folk singers. Once upon a time these singers would never enter Durbar-e-khaas. But the song is…
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A Crappy Affair
World toilet day The UN has declared Nov.19th as the world Toilet day. We have lived and grown up with toilets, of course during our younger days when we travelled we never used public toilets since we were worried about hygiene with the advent of pay toilets those are taken care off too. The impact…
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Back Before the Credits Rolled.
The story decided to rewrite itself. My clinical notes, did not seem aligned with the soul journey. Radhika wanted her authentic voice.
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The Discarded.
She returned not to answers or escape, but to breath, warmth, and the quiet insistence of remaining.
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To Pant is Human, To Purr is Essential.
A cat empress asks questions humans forget to ask, while sweatpants, uniforms, and quiet wisdom remind us that essence, not excess, is where dignity curls up and purrs.
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Of Idlis, Inner Space and Squirrels with Title Deeds
We buy houses to escape loneliness, forgetting the body is already home, the soul its resident, and squirrels manage belonging without paperwork or approval.
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Fear As Identity
This piece reflects on how repeated narratives of fear and grievance shape the collective emotional climate in India. Drawing from social psychology and yogic perspectives, it explores how survival-based thinking can weaken mature agency, narrow empathy, and lead to reactive patterns in everyday life. Rather than focusing on politics or personalities, the essay looks at…
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Self-Care With Crime
On difficult days, soup and crime fiction regulate the nervous system, externalize danger, restore order, and remind us why resolution feels deeply, psychologically necessary.
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