Debate
NRC: What is the end game?
All the talk of illegal immigrants and the importance of having an NRC ...
Films/Movies
The weaponisation of imagined oppression.
The cringeworthy fishing for sympathy by the Kashmiri Pandits does not behove them, ...
Fallacy
Your feelings ≠ National pride.
The mistaking of one's personal feelings for a representation of the entire nation's ...
Debate
The azaan, loudspeakers, and religion in public life.
My stand on the use of loudspeakers is clear. Either ban them all, ...
Democracy
Politics and the military: A contrast in two videos.
The separation of military and political matters is the hallmark of a functioning ...
Society
Mothers and war.
The problem with the myth that women are somehow more peace-loving than men ...
Hope
We Shall Overcome.
Kymaia learns, and rather likes, the protest song, We Shall Overcome. Maybe it ...
Nostalgia
Age and the (theories of the) Universe.
I remember the currently universally accepted theories of the origin of the Universe ...
Woo
How kooky is kooky, really?
How is a decision-maker of a private entity believing that she needs to ...
Commentary
Before and after. The Indian story.
A second-order effect of cheap bandwidth and ease of publishing, sharing, and consuming ...
Democracy
A vote of confidence.
Democracy in India lives on because of the supreme, and sometimes irrational, confidence ...
Fallacy
The ‘Make (Pakistan) in India’ gang.
Neither a hijabi woman is automatically my hero nor a uniformed soldier. My ...
Ideology
Oppression is my enemy.
We must take Periyar's excellent (and practical) advice for calibrating our moral compass ...
Feminism
Intersectionality in Udupi.
There is intersectionality in the hijab-in-school issue with male Hindu students sloganeering and ...
Politics
The constant struggle to gain a place at the political table of power. And other curious observations.
There are no right/wrong sides of the hijab conflict from a purely political/historical ...
Debate
Clothes maketh a (wo)man?
How much do clothes matter in human-to-human interaction? A lot, I'd say. Here's ...
Commentary
A morning thought about religious texts.
Why do religious texts go into such depth & detail about how to ...
![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)
