Commentary
Every hill is a hill to die on.
You don't know yr social media friends. They don't know you. And it ...
Vanity
Gadgil. Kedar Gadgil.
It seems I am being targeted by scamsters and honeytraps (why? beats me) ...
Hypocrisy
The bow and shoot regime.
The hypocrisy of this regime is visible in every action of theirs, and ...
Warning
Huzoor. Janaab. Aadaab.
Stereotyping your enemy into a comic-book villain is never a good idea. It ...
Warning
If you stare into the abyss…
Hindutva today has basically become a list of everything that Hindus claimed that ...
Activism
My (imagined) speech as an MP.
Six young people protest in an unusual way in the Indian Parliament. Here's ...
Nostalgia
My Bhajiya!
I recount how my maternal grandmother got her interesting name. And wonder about ...
Violence
Israel is my Kryptonite.
Sometimes, I wonder if I am living in an alternate reality where there ...
Society
Unpopular opinion: ‘Animal’ film.
The film 'Animal' seems to have polarised opinion with liberals panning the maker ...
Debate
Tuada Kutta Tommy, Sada Kutta Kutta?
The privileged ignorant were up in arms about my satirical defence of NRN's ...
Insight
I live. And I learn.
I realise that we Indians have not yet arrived into the 21st century ...
Hero(es)
If you can keep your head…
We really must be careful of falling prey to celebrity culture and hero-worship.
Warning
Reaping the whirlwind.
Israel's attempted genocide in Gaza is not helping its cause. Indeed, if at ...
Insight
Conservatives and bullies. A hypothesis.
Right-wingers across the world seem to side with the oppressors almost as an ...
Philosophy
The weekend ritual.
The activity of polishing shoes gives me so much calm and peace that ...
Leadership
The myth of long hours.
The Infosys founder recently suggested that young people should work 70-hour weeks. Here's ...
![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)
