Leadership
Par-dada ko haath lagaane se pehle par-pote se baat kar.
Rahul Gandhi's journey from a politician's son to a true leader of people ...
Parenting
My cheerleader.
Kymaia is far kinder, more empathetic, and gentler than I can ever hope ...
Parenting
Her seventh tantrum. And her eighth.
Kymaia slowly grows up, and we all feel the pangs and try and ...
Anger
Punishment and penance.
My method of resolving conflict with those that I truly love and care ...
Morality
Good lie. Bad lie.
Kymaia learns an important moral lesson that lying isn't always bad. And guarding ...
Emotion(s)
Malapropisms, anyone?
This morning, Kymaia showed me the mirror on anger and managing my emotions ...
Language
Keral or Kerala?
Language chauvinists don't care whether they are fighting against something that is a ...
Morality
Sincere question about feet touching.
Liberals have been mocking a video that shows an employee touching Anant Ambani's ...
Society
Loag kya kahenge, anyone?
Why are Indians, otherwise so bothered with their appearances, not considerate to others ...
Social Media
Lonely Hearts Club, FB.
Why do otherwise sane, smart, rational-thinking people fall for honeytraps on social media? ...
Empathy
Our conscience-keeper.
Kymaia has emerged as the most empathetic bear in the Bear family. And ...
Empathy
We are all Mishrajis.
We Indians, and specifically privileged Indians, severely lack empathy.
Empathy
Social media. Icebergs. Elephants. And nuclear bombs.
I realise that the haste in which we bestow the status of a ...
Satire
One for the team.
Apparently, there's a contest regarding Narendra Modi's radio monologues. I feel sorry for ...
Bias
Vegetarians and cannibals.
Modi & Shah have polluted and spoilt the name of their home state, ...
Travel
Bharat Jodo Yatra 2022: The prep.
I chronicle my journey to Nanded and back to participate in the in ...
Insight
Same grief. Different perspectives.
I realise that there is no way to generalise grief. Indeed, to understand ...
![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)
