Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Has the Global Economy’s Center of Gravity Shifted?
For almost two centuries, the driving forces behind the global economy have been Europe and the US. Their momentum however, seems to be sputtering and a new picture of a polished world economy is about to erupt whose driving engines would be developing nations like China, India, Brazil. As far as the global financial system…
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Prahlad Jani :: A Man who has not eaten for 70 years
There is a man called Prahlad Jani, an 82-year-old Indian, who claims to have eaten not a single grain of rice or consumed a drop of water for the past 70 years and still is healthy and alive. This breaking news has surprised doctors all over the world who have found that the monk’s body…
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Most followed User Accounts on twitter
Twitter is world’s most popular social networking and microblogging service. It enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are basically a text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Currently twitter has more than…
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10 things you should know about Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Mukherjee is one my favorite Hindi Movies director. He is famous for being the pioneer of the ‘middle cinema’ of India. Most of his social and family movies reflected the changing middle-class ethos. Actually he carved a middle path between the extravagance of mainstream cinema and the stark relism of art cinema. His middle-of-the-road…
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Ajmal Kasab :: Death Sentence or Life Imprisonment?
Now a day, Ajmal Kasab has become a hot topic of disucssion in Indian Subcontinent. He is a Pakistani Muslim terrorist who was involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. He is the only terrorist captured alive by police and is currently in Indian custody. A day before yesterday, the Indian court convicted him of murder,…
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How Apple sell their products?
It is Steve Jobs who sells products for Apple. Yes, Steve Jobs, the best salesman in world. He is the man behind Apple and Pixar and the largest shareholder of Disney stock. He knows how to sell his products? His model for business is The Beatles. He says “they were four guys that kept each…
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Time 100 most influential people of world
Lady Gaga is shocking the art world, Sarah Palin is leading a political movement and Steve Jobs is the talk of the tech town and that’s why they are in the Time Top 100 most influential people of world. Time 100 is an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, as…
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World Earth Day :: Save our planet
Today is World Earth Day. Earth Day is celebrated throughout the world to generate awareness among the people about the planet earth. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22, 1970. This date marked the beginning of the modern environmental movement. More than 20 million Americans participated…
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What is Meri Dilli Meri Yamuna Campaign?
Meri Dilli Meri Yamuna is a project for saving the Yamuna river in Delhi-NCR region. It was started by The Art of Living foundation. The Art of Living Foundation is one of the world’s largest volunteer based, humanitarian and educational Non-Governmental Organizations, founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar with the vision of creating…
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Shashi Tharoor resigns as External Affairs Minister of State
It’s all over for Shashi Tharoor. At last, the minister of state for external affairs has resigned from his post. Mr. Tharoor submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Prime Minister has forwarded his resignation letter to President Pratibha Patil. According to senior Congress leaders, Tharoor had become an embarrassment for the party…
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