Morality
Good lie. Bad lie.
Kymaia learns an important moral lesson that lying isn't always bad. And guarding ...
Food/Alcohol
The MasterCard life!
I wax eloquent about the life-changing idli-rasam and coffee I had at Wadeshwar ...
Society
If money was no object…
I love hypothetical questions. But a recent one on Twitter about money being ...
Question
Why is Google laying people off? No, really.
Sundar Pichai's emotion-laden letter to his employees regarding the layoffs rings hollow in ...
Empathy
Our conscience-keeper.
Kymaia has emerged as the most empathetic bear in the Bear family. And ...
Question
Investing? Or gambling?
Apparently, after the post-pandemic investing winter and market meltdown, the VCs have learnt ...
Woo
Crypto, crapto.
Cryptocurrencies have been the subject of much chatter amongst my friends for the ...
Theatre
The Greatest Show On Earth? Nah!
I go to see an English play in Mumbai soon after I watched ...
Dissent/Protest
Arvind, I am out. You’ve lost it.
AAP and Arvind Kejriwal have demanded religious figures on the Indian currency. He ...
Advice
Answering Nirmala Sitharaman.
Recently, the FM, Nirmala Sitharaman asked industry leaders why they don't invest in ...
Entrepreneurship
Breakfast at Café Blossom.
Kymaia is learning how to cook. Today, she pretended to run a café ...
History
My independence day radio interview.
A historian cancelled an interview on the local radio, and I was pulled ...
Hope
Brihanmumbai and Leningrad.
Will BMC prove to be BJP's Leningrad. Or will Uddhav let it walk ...
Prediction/Forecast
Agniveer, The Officer’s Choice Edition. Coming soon.
The Agniveer scheme is more about saving a bankrupt government than true military ...
Anger
A question that needs answering.
Why do only the poor have to bear the brunt of every national ...
Opportunity
Aerospace and the future.
An airline is a vanity business, and cannot be expected to make a ...
![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)
