Advice
How to survive in a pack of alphas.
A Sunday well-spent doing risky shit amongst others like me is a day ...
Opportunity
Aerospace and the future.
An airline is a vanity business, and cannot be expected to make a ...
Nostalgia
Top Gun Maverick: A (very short) review.
Top Gun holds a special place in my (and my family's) heart. I ...
Hero(es)
My father’s son.
Baba's attention to detail and obsession for record-keeping was matched only by his ...
Humour
Do you believe in God now?
There was a time (in 2018) when Indian and Pakistani embassies used to ...
Privilege
Chutzpah or Chutiyaapaa?
The astounding confidence that one's privileged position in India gives someone can be ...
Adventure
We go flying.
Kymaia's first ever non-powered flying experience was an absolute delight, not just because ...
Commentary
The ‘cultural’ parade.
The Bollywoodisation of Indian culture is cringeworthy. Even if it may be good ...
Aviation
The jet engine. Explained well.
While prima facie, this may seem funny, if my late father (who taught ...
Aviation
A joyful write up of a not-so-joyful ride.
This is from April 2020, and is about an extremely unfortunate event ...
Advice
My father’s 70th birthday speech: Tread softly!
My father turned 70 this day 3 years ago (actually, his birthday was ...
Abhijit Gadgil
Those Magnificent Men.
They don't make 'em like that any more. A story of a father ...
Leadership
Clothes make the man.
Do clothes matter? My late father's (and my) view. Tell me what you ...
Obituary
Baba (1947-2019).
Wg Cdr (later Air India Capt) Anil Amarendra Gadgil (Retd), MSc, FRAeS13, born ...
Aviation
WYSIWYG – 3yo edition.
Kymaia asks a question about jet engines that even her Ajoba, a pilot ...
Emotion(s)
Speech given on 25 April 2006 at launch of AASF.
AASF was founded on 25 April 2006, in the memory of my kid ...
Abhijit Gadgil
Lexus 1 and his legacy.
The legacy of Lexus 1 is that he touched the sky with glory ...
![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)
