Democracy
My Republic Day 2023 wish.
I have never understood why history and civics are combined in Indian schools ...
Fun
Baba & baby bear’s day out.
Writing a story together, and then, giggling, dancing, and listening to loud music ...
Conversation
Baby bear’s sex education.
Little Kymaia reads Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens' and gets stuck at the classification ...
Opportunity
Quick gig for a librarian.
I have finally given up on trying to reorganise my library myself, maybe ...
Parenting
Monday pancake and consent.
Monday morning are for breakfast. And conversations. The bigger the breakfast, the more ...
Language
Fluency. And the ability to argue.
How do you define fluency in a language? My contention is that the ...
Family
An eventful weekend at the bear household.
Kymaia has a wonderful time with Raavi, her cousin, but then develops some ...
Adventure
We have ignition.
The countdown has begun. From Monday, 28 June 2021, Kymaia, and the stakeholders ...
Books
The little caterpillar
My almost-7-year-old has started devouring books at the rate of one per day, ...
Books
A suitcase full of books.
I have an interesting story connected to books and their initial lack of ...
Advice
Milind Soman, the RSS, and cancel culture.
On 10 March 2020, a magazine produced an excerpt from Milind Soman’s forthcoming ...
Letter
A blast from the past: All positions are equally valid? Really?
This is an excerpt from a mail I wrote in the last week of ...
Philosophy
Perspective: A tribute to Douglas Adams.
Knowing that my life serves no purpose, and that it is but extremely ...
![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)
