Cringe
Laxman and Sonia.
Indians seem to 'celebrate' every win for an Indian-origin leader as somehow vindication ...
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 ...
Justice
One generation, one inheritance, anyone?
The upper castes protesting reservations because they know some lower caste with a ...
Society
Textbook Fascism. Courtesy LinkedIn.
The very people one would expect to be the broadminded, tolerant, and moderate: ...
Society
The real khatra to Hinduism.
The recent controversy on a film poster on which Kaali is shown smoking ...
Dissent/Protest
Demolishing the idea of India.
Not even the colonial imperialist British government was as cruel and lawless when ...
Society
The American obsession with guns.
Gabriele Galimberti has travelled to every corner of the United States to meet ...
Culture
Indians and mythology.
Indians have such a rich tradition of storytelling to draw from that it ...
Leadership
Japan and the Indian PM.
The Indian PM does not need to invite paid performers to 'welcome' him ...
Rant
Incredible India. Incredible us.
We Indians really need to pull up socks if we have to live ...
Democracy
The limits of extreme capitalism.
I write about the win-win deal that Adani has signed with the FCI, ...
Society
Syncretism? Bah!
The way Hindu liberals share Muslims partaking in and co-celebrating Hindu festivals as ...
Leadership
Indian society – Mirror, mirror on the wall.
Today, it no longer matters who is in power in India. It will ...
![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)
