Adventure
Mumbai trip via the Vistadome.
Mamma bear planned and executed a trip for the entire Bear family to ...
Rant
Lunatics and the asylum.
You are no longer looking at lunatics from outside the asylum. You are ...
Travel
Bharat Jodo Yatra 2022: The prep.
I chronicle my journey to Nanded and back to participate in the in ...
Dissent/Protest
Free Umar Khalid. Now.
Umar Khalid is in jail for making a speech so Gandhian that Gandhi, ...
Hate
LinkedIn and Bilkis Bano.
Bilkis Bano's rapists are not just freed from jail, and they are not ...
History
My independence day radio interview.
A historian cancelled an interview on the local radio, and I was pulled ...
Hypocrisy
FoE, Nupur Sharma, and the SC of India.
In a trial, both parties know who's at fault, as do their lawyers. ...
Power
The Gabbar Singh strategy.
Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create ...
Justice
What’s sauce for the goose…
Isn't anyone speaking of demolishing the homes of the Hindu rioters? Should we ...
Dissent/Protest
Demolishing the idea of India.
Not even the colonial imperialist British government was as cruel and lawless when ...
Dissent/Protest
Safety valves and democracy.
If you shut all safety vales and increase the heat to a pressure ...
Society
Syncretism? Bah!
The way Hindu liberals share Muslims partaking in and co-celebrating Hindu festivals as ...
Warning
The RW trap for liberals.
By choosing its subjects shrewdly, the RW is setting a trap for liberals. ...
![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)
