Family
Children’s Day 2023.
We celebrate a Bear family tradition of spending a day together on Children's ...
Love
Kya chahaa, kya paaya?
I mistake insipid herbal tea for the freshly made hot trotters soup. And ...
Parenting
Jog-and-talk-with-Baba-Bear day.
Baba and Baby Bears enjoy a nice run & workout, before going off ...
Entrepreneurship
A new experiment in Pune.
We visit a cafe a friend started in Pune, an innovative experiment combining ...
Caste
My last word on Sudha and her spoon.
Sudha Murthy, in her quest to get (either herself or her equally bigoted ...
Fun
A marathon movie day!
I spend an entire day, watching three movies and drinking in the interval ...
Advice
Advice to a budding chef.
As Kymaia takes up cooking as her next hobby/interest, I write to her ...
Parenting
Her seventh tantrum. And her eighth.
Kymaia slowly grows up, and we all feel the pangs and try and ...
Biking
Not a sea shell. A rocket shell!
In which I discover the power of V-Power from Shell Petroleum! And have ...
Emotion(s)
Heartbreak, motorcycling, and strawberries.
Some online friends worried why I haven't written for a while. And we ...
Adventure
The Delhi Social.
I go to Delhi on an adventure, turning online acquaintances into offline friends ...
Food/Alcohol
The MasterCard life!
I wax eloquent about the life-changing idli-rasam and coffee I had at Wadeshwar ...
Humour
Death by spice!
I recover from an illness and immediately plunge my digestive system into the ...
Adventure
Ride to Belagavi.
An account of my third lead with BCI, doing a Pune-Belagavi-Pune run for ...
Biking
Chasing the sun. And the wind.
I went on a very eventful ride this Saturday and had a great ...
Life
Ms May. Wodehouse. And a melancholy cup.
As I wait for a friend and sip my excellent coffee at this ...
![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)
