Hero(es)
If you can keep your head…
We really must be careful of falling prey to celebrity culture and hero-worship.
Language
Kehna kya chahte ho?
The lawyers and judges are the new Brahmins, the high priests and priestesses ...
Sport
The NDA marathon experience.
We finish well at the first-ever NDA marathon, but the experience leaves a ...
Skill
Learning to present.
We learn how to visualise, research, structure, make, edit, and finally present on ...
Advice
Advice to a budding chef.
As Kymaia takes up cooking as her next hobby/interest, I write to her ...
Advice
Great actor vs Film star: Unpopular Opinion
People, in their enthusiasm, and love for a deceased artist, tend to use ...
Question
Investing? Or gambling?
Apparently, after the post-pandemic investing winter and market meltdown, the VCs have learnt ...
Rant
The circular firing squad. Again.
The stark contrast in the response by the Right-wing and the liberals to ...
Theatre
The Greatest Show On Earth? Nah!
I go to see an English play in Mumbai soon after I watched ...
Rant
Bar-bar dekho?
Why are liberals so hypocritical when it comes to applying standards to their ...
Opportunity
Homeschooling: Calling for interesting people.
We take the next step in homeschooling and call for interesting people doing ...
Advice
Governance by announcements.
Why do the people in power in India think that 'knee-jerk' and 'ad-hoc' ...
Expertise/Professionalism
‘Experter’ than the experts.
This government seems to think no one but them knows about things, even ...
Hypocrisy
About Arvind Kejriwal. And PLU.
We keep whining and complaining about why people like us do not enter ...
![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)
