Rant
Why are we so joyless?
Why are we Indians so resistant to letting other people have fun, or, ...
Commentary
Weaponising snark.
The Modi regime's ministers seem to be perpetually angry. We know power corrupts, ...
Emotion(s)
Malapropisms, anyone?
This morning, Kymaia showed me the mirror on anger and managing my emotions ...
Future
The AI ‘pause’.
A host of celebrities have signed a letter asking governments and private entities ...
Vanity
The old man and the bike.
I go from being a middle-aged man having a midlife crisis to being ...
Insight
Stink bombs as strategy.
Lying as a political strategy has always been a favourite of the RW, ...
Society
If money was no object…
I love hypothetical questions. But a recent one on Twitter about money being ...
Violence
Rasm-e-Duniya?
Holi is simply an excuse to assault people and violate personal spaces. It ...
Advice
Great actor vs Film star: Unpopular Opinion
People, in their enthusiasm, and love for a deceased artist, tend to use ...
Society
Loag kya kahenge, anyone?
Why are Indians, otherwise so bothered with their appearances, not considerate to others ...
Morality
The Second Law.
The products of the future may come with the politics of the manufacturer ...
Social Media
Lonely Hearts Club, FB.
Why do otherwise sane, smart, rational-thinking people fall for honeytraps on social media? ...
Activism
Shaking hands with Fascists.
Some celebrities met Modi, and the liberal Internet went berserk cancelling them. I ...
Ageing
Honest question.
I am constantly told to behave age appropriately. And now, I have started ...
Cringe
The Pappu media.
The Indian press seems to have lost all sense of proportionality, propriety, or ...
![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)
