Advice
Governance by announcements.
Why do the people in power in India think that 'knee-jerk' and 'ad-hoc' ...
Hypocrisy
FoE, Nupur Sharma, and the SC of India.
In a trial, both parties know who's at fault, as do their lawyers. ...
Leadership
And we all fall down…
The man who wishes to replace Nehru in the national (and international psyche ...
Dissent/Protest
Demolishing the idea of India.
Not even the colonial imperialist British government was as cruel and lawless when ...
Dissent/Protest
Caste at Google.
Apparently, highly educated, highly paid employees at Google think that caste is something ...
Films/Movies
Can you spoil history?
You know they've faked history when they worry about spoilers. Can you imagine ...
Rant
Privacy and respect.
Consent and privacy are concepts to alien to subcontinental culture that one wonders ...
Life
Adulting and me.
Should we be expected to mature automatically by the time we become grandparents? ...
Military
A controversial opinion on LinkedIn.
I see so many veterans speak of 'the military life' on LinkedIn with ...
Rant
Incredible India. Incredible us.
We Indians really need to pull up socks if we have to live ...
Society
Syncretism? Bah!
The way Hindu liberals share Muslims partaking in and co-celebrating Hindu festivals as ...
Government
Vaccine prices and national interest.
My problem isn't with the vaccine makers for making money. That's their job. ...
Society
Privilege and salaries.
The insistence of early-stage investors that founders take no salary (or so little ...
Rant
Men will be men?
A rant about jokes that stereotype men & women, and the relationship between ...
Justice
TL;DR: Burn, you bastards.
Truly, as Rahat Indori saab had said so memorably, 'लगेगी आग तो आएंगे ...
Question
Religion in the classroom.
Celebrating one's faith in a country where one is a minority while denying ...
Culture
The Indian love for spectacle.
Why is everything a 'festival' in India? One may mourn a loss without ...
![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.'
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