Conversation
Just another morning at the Bear household.
Kymaia and Baba enjoy a walk-and-jog while discussing business plans and estimation.
Warning
Huzoor. Janaab. Aadaab.
Stereotyping your enemy into a comic-book villain is never a good idea. It ...
Warning
If you stare into the abyss…
Hindutva today has basically become a list of everything that Hindus claimed that ...
Hypocrisy
Heepo-crassy ki bhi Anju hoti hai…
Anju Bobby George, an accomplished athlete talks of how she was mistreated during ...
Activism
My (imagined) speech as an MP.
Six young people protest in an unusual way in the Indian Parliament. Here's ...
Nostalgia
My Bhajiya!
I recount how my maternal grandmother got her interesting name. And wonder about ...
Violence
Israel is my Kryptonite.
Sometimes, I wonder if I am living in an alternate reality where there ...
Nostalgia
The story of a meet-cute with my B-1.
The story of how I met my Breitling B-1, and how we both ...
Society
Unpopular opinion: ‘Animal’ film.
The film 'Animal' seems to have polarised opinion with liberals panning the maker ...
Debate
Tuada Kutta Tommy, Sada Kutta Kutta?
The privileged ignorant were up in arms about my satirical defence of NRN's ...
Satire
Shame on us, Mr NRN.
Mr N R Narayana Murthy of Infosys (once again) said something tone-deaf and ...
Education
Introducing: Flourish School
Kymaia has been attending a new experimental school over the past 8 months, ...
Satire
A grateful nation writes.
I thank the honourable Prime Minister Modi for his great service to the ...
![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)
