Atheism
‘Why don’t you mock Islam or Christianity?’
The only 'retort' theists (mainly Hindus, in my case) seem to have to ...
Empathy
We are all Mishrajis.
We Indians, and specifically privileged Indians, severely lack empathy.
Caste
The garib Brahmin and the Ivy League.
The myth of the 'garib Brahmin' and how reservations are the cause of ...
History
My independence day radio interview.
A historian cancelled an interview on the local radio, and I was pulled ...
Rant
Stockholm Syndrome and us.
What is lacking in Indian society is for the oppressed classes to see ...
Society
A single wish.
On India's independence day, we must also introspect on the millions who are ...
Justice
One generation, one inheritance, anyone?
The upper castes protesting reservations because they know some lower caste with a ...
Society
The real khatra to Hinduism.
The recent controversy on a film poster on which Kaali is shown smoking ...
Dissent/Protest
Caste at Google.
Apparently, highly educated, highly paid employees at Google think that caste is something ...
Biking
Morning Ride to Koregaon Bhima.
I dropped Kym off at Bund Garden with her team and took off ...
Advice
The oppressed and their leadership.
Standing with and empathising with the oppressed does not automatically translate into liking, ...
Society
Privilege and salaries.
The insistence of early-stage investors that founders take no salary (or so little ...
Films/Movies
The weaponisation of imagined oppression.
The cringeworthy fishing for sympathy by the Kashmiri Pandits does not behove them, ...
Morality
Where I stand. And where I do not.
It is important to take stock of where one stands and what one ...
Democracy
UP results and the people’s verdict.
People get the government they deserve. And the recent results from what seem ...
![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)
