Advice
Romantic advice for youngsters.
A friend asks for advice I'd give to young people about love. Here's ...
Rant
100 dates in. And no joy.
After 100 dates, I am disappointed and frustrated in my search for an ...
Biking
The most intimate thing I did lately.
I have an intimate moment on a smooth blacktop near Purandar.
Love
A letter from Team Kymaia.
As Kymaia grows towards puberty, we, her parents, remind her that while she ...
Social Media
Lonely Hearts Club, FB.
Why do otherwise sane, smart, rational-thinking people fall for honeytraps on social media? ...
Sex
Public Service Announcement: My sexuality.
I asked for people to send me messages anonymously. Seems some of them ...
History
My independence day radio interview.
A historian cancelled an interview on the local radio, and I was pulled ...
Conversation
Baby bear’s sex education.
Little Kymaia reads Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens' and gets stuck at the classification ...
Rant
Privacy and respect.
Consent and privacy are concepts to alien to subcontinental culture that one wonders ...
Films/Movies
Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui – (Spoiler-free) Movie Review.
I review 'Chandigarh Kare Aashqui', a sensitive movie starring one of the most ...
Advice
Generalising? Don’t.
Do not generalise when it comes to relationships and/or emotions. You are most ...
Debate
Are TG Women Women? I ask my friends.
Caveat Lector: I am learning. This is not a post about my ...
Violence
We are animals. All of us.
Anyone who claims women are the gentler sex must observe them when holding ...
Letter
A blast from the past: All positions are equally valid? Really?
This is an excerpt from a mail I wrote in the last week of ...
Relationships
The marriage contract and infidelity: Lessons for Tiger.
I write to Tiger, rather presumptuously, about his infidelity. This is more about ...
![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)
