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: ...
Dissent/Protest
Kar shapath. Agnipath.
The Agnipath scheme will be rolled back, unfortunately, only because of the pressure ...
Video
We want to learn German.
Kymaia asks me to record a message for my friends, Alisha and Abhiraj, ...
Rant
Privacy and respect.
Consent and privacy are concepts to alien to subcontinental culture that one wonders ...
History
A warning from Pakistan.
If we teach our children the wrong history or bad science, it will ...
Life
Adulting and me.
Should we be expected to mature automatically by the time we become grandparents? ...
Kymaia
Swimming. Again.
Kymaia is super-excited by the start of the swimming season as she starts ...
Leadership
Indian society – Mirror, mirror on the wall.
Today, it no longer matters who is in power in India. It will ...
Kymaia
How to tell a story.
Apparently, being able to tell a story and being able to tell someone ...
Language
Hindi imposition? Where?
Why is it so difficult to find native Hindi speakers who can teach ...
Opportunity
Scholarships for Homeschoolers!
Dr.Aniruddha Malpani wishes to give grants to young homeschooling parents to evangelise the ...
History
Snake oil. And history.
History is often messy and complicated. We must speak of the Kashmiri Pandits ...
Science
Curiosity and scepticism.
Indian children are not imbibed with curiosity and scepticism in school and that ...
Ideology
The Nordic Model and Venture Capital
Is there a way to find a capitalistic solution to a social problem? ...
Cringe
A perfect Poe by the RW trolls.
The problem is that we refuse to read beyond merest superficialities. This results ...
![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)
