Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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How much Bollywood Film stars earn?
When you see a Bollywood star in an expensive foreign car or when pictures of their homes are shown in TV channels and film magazines. Just how much must they be taking home as the compensation, you wonder. Bollywood, the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, is the largest film producer in India and one…
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See the English version of Anti-Mamata cartoon
Today, a Jadavpur University Chemistry professor was arrested for allegedly posting a cartoon on the internet lampooning West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Mukul Roy. This action is highly atrocious and a big assault on the freedom of expression. Later, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also defended the arrest and blamed the opposition for raising…
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Shahrukh! Who the hell are you?
Let me complete this question, Shahrukh! Who the hell are you in US? Now come to the point. Yesterday Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan reached New York to visit the Yale University but was detained for over two hours at the airport. In 2009 also, before the release of his much-hyped “My Name is Khan”, he…
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3 Reasons why Facebook bought Instagram
Facebook has bought Instagram, a free photo sharing application that allows users to take a photo, apply a digital filter to it, and then share it on a variety of social networking services, for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. This deal has cost Facebook about a quarter of the cash-on-hand they had as…
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90 percent of Indians are fools!
Once again, Justice Markandey Katju, Chairman, Press Council of India and former Supreme Court Judge, seems to be playing with fire with his controversial editorial in Indian Express. In his latest article, he has claimed that 90 percent Indians are fools and they are full of casteism, communalism, superstition. He gives the example of Indian…
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Top 20 Best Selling Mobile Phones on Flipkart
One of the reasons that Flipkart is getting huge success in India is that it provides books, mobiles, computers and other accessories at comparatively lower price then offline retailers. I have been regular customer of Flipkart from last three years. It provides extremely efficient and reliable service at door step with flexibility of cash-on-delivery. Flipkart.com…
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How to fix Forum redirecting to url2short.info?
Few hours back I discovered that my google traffic had been hijacked and redirected to some url2short.info website. I googled it and found out this is something which is happening on many vBulletin forums. After spending some hours on vBulletin help websites, I came to know that there was a server configuration and security issue…
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Most Popular Hindi Film Actors part 1
The Hindi Film industry is more than 100 years old. The centre of Hindi Films, Mumbai erstwhile Bombay, got its first exposure to motion pictures when the Lumiere Brothers’ Cinematographe unveiled six soundless short films, on July 7, 1896, at the Watson Hotel in Mumbai. Among the audience for these first shows was a photographer…
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An Indian military coup story, a flop story!
Allow me to tell you a story. A coup story, a flop story. On Jan 16, an entire unit of mechanised infantry based in Hisar with its fighting vehicles began moving towards Delhi. It parked near Najafgarh. Sizeable section of the Agra-based 50 Para Brigade also moved to near Palam but both were stopped and…
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