Insight
Conservatives and bullies. A hypothesis.
Right-wingers across the world seem to side with the oppressors almost as an ...
Activism
Strays. And dog-lovers.
A celebrated dog lover and a scion of a wealthy industrial house dies ...
Logic
मान न मान मैं तेरा मेहमान!
People (especially the Israelis and Americans) blaming Egypt for closing its doors to ...
Satire
Guess the country!
The similarities between what the right-wing bhakts hate and love are so little ...
History
The problem of self-appointed spokespersons.
Self-appointed guardians are seldom, if at all, guardians of anyone or anything except ...
Democracy
A systemic (and expensive) failure.
The complete smothering of the free press in India have long-term repercussions that ...
Future
The AI ‘pause’.
A host of celebrities have signed a letter asking governments and private entities ...
Violence
Rasm-e-Duniya?
Holi is simply an excuse to assault people and violate personal spaces. It ...
News
India: The Modi Question.
The recent documentary about Modi released by the BBC is simply telling us ...
Woo
Crypto, crapto.
Cryptocurrencies have been the subject of much chatter amongst my friends for the ...
Dissent/Protest
Free Umar Khalid. Now.
Umar Khalid is in jail for making a speech so Gandhian that Gandhi, ...
Hate
LinkedIn and Bilkis Bano.
Bilkis Bano's rapists are not just freed from jail, and they are not ...
History
My independence day radio interview.
A historian cancelled an interview on the local radio, and I was pulled ...
Society
Textbook Fascism. Courtesy LinkedIn.
The very people one would expect to be the broadminded, tolerant, and moderate: ...
Society
The real khatra to Hinduism.
The recent controversy on a film poster on which Kaali is shown smoking ...
Hypocrisy
FoE, Nupur Sharma, and the SC of India.
In a trial, both parties know who's at fault, as do their lawyers. ...
Power
The Gabbar Singh strategy.
Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create ...
![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)
