Nostalgia
Mistakes. And humans.
I reminisce about more innocent times when one's mistakes were recorded for posterity ...
Advice
Answering Nirmala Sitharaman.
Recently, the FM, Nirmala Sitharaman asked industry leaders why they don't invest in ...
Video
We want to learn German.
Kymaia asks me to record a message for my friends, Alisha and Abhiraj, ...
Films/Movies
The weaponisation of imagined oppression.
The cringeworthy fishing for sympathy by the Kashmiri Pandits does not behove them, ...
Letter
The Kashmir Files. Again.
Someone I deeply respect on social media seems to have missed something he ...
Kymaia
Love letters from my daughter.
Kymaia writes me (and her mum) emails on a regular basis. These are ...
Kymaia
A conversation about and in a funny language.
Baby bear has many questions about why English is such a funny language ...
Parenting
Letter to homeschooling groups.
I write an introduction to several group of homeschooling forums on Facebook and ...
Advice
Lectures on Press Freedom from the USA and other curiosities.
High-sounding talk of press freedom, democracy, freedom of speech, and other such moral ...
Love
Appreciation Post: You’re beautiful.
You, and the life you lead, however far it may seem from your ...
Advice
Political Promiscuity: A letter to Kymaia
Dear Kymaia, People switching political (and I mean this in a very broad ...
Family
A letter to a child of privilege.
Dear Privileged Child, The problem isn’t that you are an Arjun, or an ...
![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)
