Thinking… I was just thinking… Two years back when a student in the university, I used to withdraw 100 bucks from the atm whenever I wanted money. With that 100 rupees my whole day would run comfortably. I could have food at the campus food courts, do phone recharges and be happy. Now I withdraw […]
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Guest blogger Divya Nambiar writes…
That strange thing called memory… It’s terrifying, the thought of not being able to remember anyone or anything that has been an important part of your life. It scares me more than the thought of dying alone. I was randomly reading online yesterday, when I suddenly remembered something I wanted to read about, and by […]
Book reading. Want to host us?
Many of you wanted to know how they can call us over for an evening of book reading. Here we are with our simple proposal. Just give us three tentative dates and times, so we can see how the three of us can make it. We would prefer book clubs, colleges, libraries, finishing schools, and […]
Refreshing, intimate and entertaining, says Flipkart
Here is a review and interview by Flipkart’s Sailen Ghosh. Dubbing the book’s new format (blog to book) as a “new movement” in publication, he found the book, refreshing, nostalgic, intimate and entertaining. “Each segment is short and sweet just as blog posts are meant to be,” Sailen writes on Flipkart’s book blog. “Sometimes the […]
Guest blogger Heera Nawaz writes
Where there’s a will, there’s a highway After I finished reading ‘Mindblogs1.0’ by Christina Daniels, Nirmala Govindarajan and Zahid H Javali, I was euphoric. Here was a down-to-earth, well-crafted book by three well-known bloggers on topics one likes to read about. After reading that there was a section for readers to contribute, I decided to […]
Mind Blogs 1.0 has a cute story to go with every cup of coffee: Prem Koshy
Over the past 60 years, the walls of Koshy’s have listened to millions of stories narrated to one another – from great-great grandfathers to great-great grandsons. They have encompassed all religious, social, national, ethnic boundaries and backgrounds. Many a book on different subjects has been born here. But, this special book, with its brilliant stories […]
Mind Blogs 1.0 is pioneering a new art form: Peter Colaco
Peter Colaco (extreme right) Now It Can Be Told. The Gang of Three who have been recently observed around a table in Koshy’s, evening after evening… (in concentrated silence, with an occasional Mexican Wave of giggles passing through the group…). They were not just our usual happy, Koshy’s regulars, drinking tea for timepass… They were […]
The people behind Mind Blogs 1.0
For more on us, visit http://mindblogs1.wordpress.com/about-the-authors
An idea, a mind blog
When I look back, the journey on Mind Blogs began as an idea in Nimmi’s mind discussed over endless cups of coffee at Koshy’s. Why not bring together all those little bits and pieces of writing that we had on different themes in the world around us? The development of this idea into a book […]