Society
Syncretism? Bah!
The way Hindu liberals share Muslims partaking in and co-celebrating Hindu festivals as ...
Rant
Men will be men?
A rant about jokes that stereotype men & women, and the relationship between ...
Privilege
Chutzpah or Chutiyaapaa?
The astounding confidence that one's privileged position in India gives someone can be ...
Entrepreneurship
A new (horrible) way to ‘disrupt’ a space.
The FinTech 'revolution' in India seems to be riding roughshod over the freedoms ...
Cringe
A perfect Poe by the RW trolls.
The problem is that we refuse to read beyond merest superficialities. This results ...
Society
Mothers and war.
The problem with the myth that women are somehow more peace-loving than men ...
Question
Religion in the classroom.
Celebrating one's faith in a country where one is a minority while denying ...
Leadership
Celebrities on SM: How big a pinch of salt is enough?
How honest do you think the posts celebrities make on social media are ...
Feminism
Intersectionality in Udupi.
There is intersectionality in the hijab-in-school issue with male Hindu students sloganeering and ...
Leadership
Are you serious Mr.PM?
Modi is the kind of leader who'd say, 'You failed' and 'I succeeded'. ...
Society
Clerk. But not Kent.
Indians are not traders by nature. We are clerks. Not born as such, ...
Leadership
Why Modi is (or rather, always wanted to be) a Congressman.
While Modi could have been an excellent authentic Modi, he has ended up ...
Pseudoscience
Twitter being Twitter. Covid edition.
Why Twitter acts as such a nutcase-magnet will be a question that will ...
India
We are like this only.
No one book, article, or commentary by any expert will help you cram ...
Patriotism
The scoundrel’s last refuge.
The trolls don't give a damn about their country or patriotism. Patriotism is ...
Cringe
Left-liberals and the complications of consistent ethical stands.
Intellectual callisthenics of the liberals to defend the wrongdoings of their own even ...
![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)
