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 ...
Atheism
‘Why don’t you mock Islam or Christianity?’
The only 'retort' theists (mainly Hindus, in my case) seem to have to ...
Adventure
The Delhi Social.
I go to Delhi on an adventure, turning online acquaintances into offline friends ...
History
The Taj. And Newton.
We Indians need to realise that the West had started overtaking us a ...
Society
If money was no object…
I love hypothetical questions. But a recent one on Twitter about money being ...
Society
Loag kya kahenge, anyone?
Why are Indians, otherwise so bothered with their appearances, not considerate to others ...
Empathy
We are all Mishrajis.
We Indians, and specifically privileged Indians, severely lack empathy.
Civilisation
Washing your bum. And the colonial mindset.
As white men discover the hygiene faucet, I hope this will give the ...
Bias
Vegetarians and cannibals.
Modi & Shah have polluted and spoilt the name of their home state, ...
India
Bharat Jodo Yatra: My journey.
A journal chronicling my journey to and participation in the Bharat Jodo Yatra, ...
Dissent/Protest
Free Umar Khalid. Now.
Umar Khalid is in jail for making a speech so Gandhian that Gandhi, ...
Warning
Planet A. Planet B.
It isn't just the lack of infrastructure that seems to be the problem ...
![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)
