Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Healthy lifestyle over fad diets

    If you aspire to lead a healthy lifestyle, you should avoid shortcuts which come in a form of fad diets. The term fad diet is used for food or diet which is meant to reduce your weight for a short time. In fact these are considered unsafe and unrealistic method. However, you will still see…

  • Iran or Israel: Who should India ally with?

    Now the time has come for India to choose between Israel and Iran. Who is better, long-term friend for India? Who will stand for India in the hour of need? Whose interests are better aligned with ours? These questions are very critical to the Indian foreign policy. To solve this puzzle, we need to go…

  • Change Your Lifestyle and Psyche

    It is quite rightly said that all problems begin in the mind. Thus, looking after your mental well being is very important. Keeping the mind strong through highs and lows of life helps you manage the hardships that come your way. Most psychologists resort to giving medication to their patients when they are going through…

  • Letter from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

    Facebook is going to sell shares to the public in an IPO. It could value the social network between $75 billion and $100 billion. It will be one of the biggest U.S. stock-market debuts of all time. The company is expecting to raise as much as $10 billion when it begins selling shares this spring.…

  • Where is my red ink?

    Now a days, a heated debate is going everywhere on the issue of censorship of social media. The Indian Government has not forgotten the Anna Hazare movement which made brilliant use of social media to spread its anti-corruption messages. Now to curb the voice of people like Anna Hazare, the government it trying to censor…

  • The Satanic Verses Controversy

    Once again Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel has become the hot topic of discussion across the nation. It all started when the vice-chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband, an Islamic school in India, issued a demand that Rushdie be denied a visa for his scheduled appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival. The vice-chancellor claimed that Salman has…

  • Do you think it matters where our genes come from?

    A few days back a Chennai based rich couple has placed an online advertisement seeking a sperm donor preferably an IITian for artificial insemination. The compensation for this donation will be Rs 20,000. They are looking for IITian as the donor as they desire to have a child with very high IQ and intelligence.  The…

  • How Indian women should dress?

    Recently there has been spate of comments and discussions on how the women should dress in India to avoid sexual harassment, rape and embarrassing situations. According to Director General of Police of Andhra Pradesh, one of the main reasons for rising number of rape cases could be the provocative clothes being worn by women. The…

  • The biggest collection of Rajnikanth jokes

    With all due respect to one of the greatest actors of world, here is the collection of popular jokes on Rajnikanth: When Rajnikanth was a student teachers used to bunk classes. Rajnikant can make calls from his iPod to his iPad In the back of the book of world records, it says “All records are held by Rajnikant. The…

  • A sad day for Indian Democracy

    The Lokpal is again back into the cold storage, thanks to well managed Rajya Sabha show which intentionally sabotaged the Lokpal bill. Our so called champions of democracy completely failed in the fight against corruption. Now the entire nation is asking the question, who planned and plotted this midnight Lokpal fiasco? How the Rajya Sabha session was fixed? Cricket…

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