Hypocrisy
About Arvind Kejriwal. And PLU.
We keep whining and complaining about why people like us do not enter ...
Hate
Hollywood. Hindu Nationalism. And controversy.
I comment on the recent controversy involving a rather bigoted and ill-informed celebrity ...
Society
Just Indian things.
Why does cognitive dissonance not blow our brains out from the inside, given ...
Economy
Is there that really much “black” money in India?
Have you grown up being told that there is trillions of dollars worth ...
Warning
The Idiocracy Escalation Matrix.
I predict the way silly stuff like the 'Taj Mahal is a Shiva ...
Society
A misplaced sense of Schadenfreude.
Humans seem to tolerate any pain if it means someone else is also ...
Advice
They will come for you.
For all those sitting in their privileged homes, thinking they’ll never come for ...
Rant
The Constitution of India. And Indian society.
I am angry at those that think the Constitution of India is some ...
Friendship
I confess.
I read this beautiful article by Siddharth Varadarajan, the founding editor of The ...
Politics
Smriti’s opportunistic feminism.
A ghost-written reply to an embarrassing faux pas by Smriti Irani cannot make ...
Economy
Should we abolish income tax (and most others too, while we are at it)?
I pitch for the abolition of income tax and an introduction of expense ...
Abhijit Gadgil
Lexus 1 and his legacy.
The legacy of Lexus 1 is that he touched the sky with glory ...
Dissent/Protest
Why I am not with Anna Hazare.
I do not want Jan Lokpal to be as powerful as Anna wants. ...
Debate
The future of sovereignty.
When the worlds (and needs) of capitalist enterprises collide with the needs (and ...
![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)
