The moment the BMC is ‘conquered’ by the BJP, it’s game over for Shiv Sena, regardless of whose Shiv Sena is at that time, Shinde’s or Thackeray’s. I wonder which one of them has seen through this. I wonder who’ll stop them. I wonder if they can be stopped. I also wonder if BMC is seen by others as rich enough and symbolic enough by those that matter to fight for it. I wonder how much the BJP will bet on it. I wonder if it proves to be their Leningrad. It just might. The reverse could begin here. If the Sena plays its cards right. At least I hope so.
N.B: At this moment, I am not pro-Shiv Sena. I am pro-anyone-who-is-standing-up-to-Amit-Shah because anything, literally anything is better than him. I am pro-decency (which, in a surprisingly pleasant volte-face, the Shiv Sena Pramukh has shown…as of date) because without it, are we even homo sapiens? I am pro-India because I am an accidental Indian, but I am also pro-the-idea-of-India because it is objectively worth preserving as a human. I am pro-Maharashtra not just because I am an accidental Maharashtrian, but also because it is rich in culture, history, art, education, literature, progressive thought, and the fount of almost every modern political (and some social) ideology in India (indeed Nagpur, Pune, Mumbai, and Nasik are so entwined with the idea of India that it would be difficult to envisage a history of India without contributions from these cities and towns). And I am pro-Mumbaikar, for reasons unknown, even if I may not exactly love the city. Most importantly, I am pro-diversity in politics (and otherwise) and I am a strong believer in local parties and local politicians being concerned with local politics, state politicians concerned with state politics, and national politicians concerned with national and international politics. I am pro-coalition and anti-single-party-governance because this nation is less a country and more a loose federation of many countries and it cannot be run from the centre unilaterally; so, anything that diffuses power and makes it more difficult to do that, I am pro-that. Hope that clarifies things.
![Mr Baba: 'Would you like to take off the backpack now that you've been downstairs for like 30 minutes?'
Ms Kym-Kym: 'I like it like this. You should try it. It's very comfortable.'
Mr Baba: [Pulling on his backpack] 'Hmmm, you're right. That's rather snug.'
Ms Kym-Kym: 'Twinning! Yay!'
#LuckiestManAlive #BearFamily](https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/416920031_3373151642830342_6696851954454537274_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=ZMLmjPdSAEUAX8nnJex&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfB0olvUVmnenPKd2wCllMDehg5gzDgAbc4BDsGLqIm6pA&oe=65BA4561)
![Kym: 'Mr Baba, can I tell you something wierd? You can actually get tired from doing nothing!!'
Me: 'It is called boredom.'
Kym: 'Noooo. I mean, like physically tired.'
Me: 'One can get tired and sleepy due to boredom. I remember reading about it somewhere. Let's find out.'
[Some Googling later]
Me: 'It says here that "A new paper published in the journal Nature Communications finds that a part of the brain that is associated with motivation and pleasure - the nucleus accumbens - also can produce sleep. The new findings may explain why we have the tendency to fall asleep in the absence of motivating stimuli, i.e., when bored." Isnt it interesting?'
Kym: 'I already knew that. Why do you need to research things we already know?'
Me: [Finding a subject worth talking about now]: ' Ah well, that's what we'll talk of tomorrow on your morning run. It's very interesting the way science is done and our understanding of the universe is expanded.'
Kym: 'Can we talk of unicorns instead?'
Me: 'Sure. How do you know they exist? That's an interesting question too that you can use the scientific method to answer.'
Kym: 'Do they have to exist for us to talk about them? We can just pretend they do for an hour and have fun.'
Me: [Laughing] 'Yes, sure. We can do that too.'
#BabaBabyConversations #BearFamily #KymAndI](https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/416410840_383105434396466_2267910263456009774_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=LIozs445JFcAX_48wGC&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfDQ2qbb0yO_wUmLj_L0ZxF61eDdwlIN-vyrd8GZe_pBMQ&oe=65BAFA57)
