Society
Syncretism? Bah!
The way Hindu liberals share Muslims partaking in and co-celebrating Hindu festivals as ...
Love
What have I done to deserve this child?
Nothing I have ever done in my life has made me worthy of ...
Entertainment
SlapGate at the Oscars?
Chris Rock made a bald joke about Jada Pinkett Smith (who has had ...
Society
Privilege and salaries.
The insistence of early-stage investors that founders take no salary (or so little ...
Films/Movies
The weaponisation of imagined oppression.
The cringeworthy fishing for sympathy by the Kashmiri Pandits does not behove them, ...
Films/Movies
My (non-)review of Jhund.
As a privileged Upper Caste, I ought to have no part in judging ...
Privilege
Chutzpah or Chutiyaapaa?
The astounding confidence that one's privileged position in India gives someone can be ...
Fun
A week of firsts. And an announcement.
A week of many firsts ends on a joyful note, with only one ...
Question
Religion in the classroom.
Celebrating one's faith in a country where one is a minority while denying ...
Debate
Registration fees, English, and privilege.
A conversation about how privilege-blind we can be, especially when it comes to ...
Debate
Clothes maketh a (wo)man?
How much do clothes matter in human-to-human interaction? A lot, I'd say. Here's ...
Morality
Tone policing and context.
There's a difference between being angry at a system and railing against it ...
Commentary
Denial and self-deception in Indian society.
Why are so many educated, well-heeled, well-spoken Indians in denial about how much ...
Parenting
Oh my darling, quarantine!
Life in quarantine, from the Bear household. Kymaia seems to be enjoying the ...
![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)
