Insight
I live. And I learn.
I realise that we Indians have not yet arrived into the 21st century ...
Language
Kehna kya chahte ho?
The lawyers and judges are the new Brahmins, the high priests and priestesses ...
Sport
The NDA marathon experience.
We finish well at the first-ever NDA marathon, but the experience leaves a ...
Question
The fallacy of the ‘Proud Nationalists’.
What exactly are today's 'Proud Nationalists' proud about? Or even nationalist about? Which ...
Activism
The Overton Window. And us.
The Overton Window has shifted right sharply in the recent past and while ...
Democracy
A systemic (and expensive) failure.
The complete smothering of the free press in India have long-term repercussions that ...
Pseudoscience
E=mc² + AI, anyone?
It is tragic that such an ancient and glorious civilisation as India is ...
Parenting
Her seventh tantrum. And her eighth.
Kymaia slowly grows up, and we all feel the pangs and try and ...
Anger
Punishment and penance.
My method of resolving conflict with those that I truly love and care ...
Commentary
Weaponising snark.
The Modi regime's ministers seem to be perpetually angry. We know power corrupts, ...
Emotion(s)
Malapropisms, anyone?
This morning, Kymaia showed me the mirror on anger and managing my emotions ...
Violence
Rasm-e-Duniya?
Holi is simply an excuse to assault people and violate personal spaces. It ...
Cringe
The Pappu media.
The Indian press seems to have lost all sense of proportionality, propriety, or ...
News
India: The Modi Question.
The recent documentary about Modi released by the BBC is simply telling us ...
Empathy
We are all Mishrajis.
We Indians, and specifically privileged Indians, severely lack empathy.
Commentary
Speeding? Or killer roads?
What will it take for this regime to realise that the larger problem ...
Hypocrisy
Liberals. Sigh!
Indian liberals are a strange tribe, who fight not to include others, especially ...
Rant
Lunatics and the asylum.
You are no longer looking at lunatics from outside the asylum. You are ...
![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)
