Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Rahul Gandhi :: Next Prime Minister of India?
65 years back when Pandit Nehru addressed the nation at the historical Red Fort and became the first prime minister, not a single person, who witnessed that golden moment, would have thought that the nation would be going to be ruled by him and his relatives for the next 4 decades. Unfortunately, it happened. My…
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Threats to Freedom of Speech in India
The entire nation is criticizing the Government for trying to control the flow of information in world’s biggest democracy. For a nation that has close to 120 million users, of which 43 million users are on Facebook, 3.6 million on Google plus and 3.5 million on Twitter, the move to screen user content is complete…
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Kapil Muni is watching You!
Once again, our honorable Telecom and IT minister Kapil Sibal has proved his loyalty to the Gandhi dynasty. He has urged social network companies including Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove offensive materials from their websites. However, according to the sources, Kapil Sibal is upset with a Facebook page that maligned ruling Congress Party chief…
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Dev Anand passes away
Dev Anand, one of the greatest Hindi Cinema actors has died because of heart attack in London. He had traveled to London for a medical check up, was not keeping well for the last few days. He was 88 years old. He started his career as an actor in 1946 in Hum Ek Hain. Ziddi…
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What is Mullaperiyar Dam controversy?
Mullaperiyar Dam has lately been hitting headlines for all the wrong reasons. The safety of the dam has become a great matter of concern and a point of dispute between Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Today we will see what exactly is Mullaperiyar Dam controversy. First of all, let’s know more about this dam. It is…
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Pakistani Actress Veena Malik shows everything
Veena Malik, a Pakistani actress and World Health Organization representative, has shocked the Islamic state of Pakistan by posing nude on the latest issue of FHM magazine, with a tattoo on her arm reading ISI 🙂 Fundamentalist organisations in Pakistan claimed she had destroyed Pakistani culture and had no right to be the citizen of…
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The life and times of Silk Smitha
Today is birth anniversary of Silk Smitha. She was an Indian film actress. She started her career as a junior actor but due to her talent and passion for cinema she became one of the most wanted heroines of the early 80s. The sobriquet “Silk” came in 1979, with her first Tamil film Vandi Chakkaram,…
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Rahul Gandhi vs Varun Gandhi
Both the brothers are busy in the election campaign for UP assembly elections. The result of this election will definitely has some impact on the future of these two brothers. But UP election is not point of my discussion. Today, I just want to compare Rahul and Varun on the basis of their style of…
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What is inflation and how it is calculated?
First let me tell you what is Inflation? Then I will discuss, how food inflation is calculated. You might have heard old persons talking about how different things were when they were of your age. For example, it used to cost 50 paise to buy a cup of tea 20 years back, which costs 4…
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