Leadership
The myth of long hours.
The Infosys founder recently suggested that young people should work 70-hour weeks. Here's ...
Storytelling
Jawan. And the genius of SRK.
I see the cultural phenomenon called 'Jawan', an SRK film, and comment on ...
Caste
My last word on Sudha and her spoon.
Sudha Murthy, in her quest to get (either herself or her equally bigoted ...
Pseudoscience
E=mc² + AI, anyone?
It is tragic that such an ancient and glorious civilisation as India is ...
Reviews
My final word: Adipurush.
Adipurush, an interpretation of Ramayana, hit the box office last week. And was ...
Rant
Why are we so joyless?
Why are we Indians so resistant to letting other people have fun, or, ...
Language
Keral or Kerala?
Language chauvinists don't care whether they are fighting against something that is a ...
Violence
Rasm-e-Duniya?
Holi is simply an excuse to assault people and violate personal spaces. It ...
Morality
Sincere question about feet touching.
Liberals have been mocking a video that shows an employee touching Anant Ambani's ...
Ageing
Honest question.
I am constantly told to behave age appropriately. And now, I have started ...
History
The future. And Emperor Kedar.
Romila Thapar, the brilliant and respected historian of Indian ancient history, have a ...
Cringe
Sir(?) Ratan Tata.
It's been a while since I have been noticing people referring to Ratan ...
Bias
Vegetarians and cannibals.
Modi & Shah have polluted and spoilt the name of their home state, ...
Dissent/Protest
Arvind, I am out. You’ve lost it.
AAP and Arvind Kejriwal have demanded religious figures on the Indian currency. He ...
![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)
