Satire
Guess the country!
The similarities between what the right-wing bhakts hate and love are so little ...
History
The problem of self-appointed spokespersons.
Self-appointed guardians are seldom, if at all, guardians of anyone or anything except ...
Rant
Why are we so joyless?
Why are we Indians so resistant to letting other people have fun, or, ...
History
The Taj. And Newton.
We Indians need to realise that the West had started overtaking us a ...
Future
The AI ‘pause’.
A host of celebrities have signed a letter asking governments and private entities ...
Question
Why is Google laying people off? No, really.
Sundar Pichai's emotion-laden letter to his employees regarding the layoffs rings hollow in ...
Question
Investing? Or gambling?
Apparently, after the post-pandemic investing winter and market meltdown, the VCs have learnt ...
Bureaucracy
Babu, samjho ishare.
Indian bureaucracy is so stuck in the British Raj-era red tapism that even ...
Civilisation
Washing your bum. And the colonial mindset.
As white men discover the hygiene faucet, I hope this will give the ...
Storytelling
Kymaia <> Anita (Travel)
Kymaia learns about travel and travel writing as part of a special series ...
Caste
The garib Brahmin and the Ivy League.
The myth of the 'garib Brahmin' and how reservations are the cause of ...
Warning
Planet A. Planet B.
It isn't just the lack of infrastructure that seems to be the problem ...
Cringe
Laxman and Sonia.
Indians seem to 'celebrate' every win for an Indian-origin leader as somehow vindication ...
History
My independence day radio interview.
A historian cancelled an interview on the local radio, and I was pulled ...
Dissent/Protest
Caste at Google.
Apparently, highly educated, highly paid employees at Google think that caste is something ...
Society
The American obsession with guns.
Gabriele Galimberti has travelled to every corner of the United States to meet ...
Leadership
Japan and the Indian PM.
The Indian PM does not need to invite paid performers to 'welcome' him ...
![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)
