Woo
The chickenpox virus and religion.
Kymaia is allowed and in fact encouraged to mingle freely with the religious, ...
Debate
The azaan, loudspeakers, and religion in public life.
My stand on the use of loudspeakers is clear. Either ban them all, ...
Question
Religion in the classroom.
Celebrating one's faith in a country where one is a minority while denying ...
Atheism
Religion is a private affair. Not.
Religion is a socio-politico-military-economic ideology, not much unlike nationalism. It is born in ...
Atheism
Religions good, followers bad?
If religion has any redeeming features, it is bit because of it, but ...
Zeitgeist
Religion and My Heroes
I realised my problem: My heroes cannot be religious. Not even in the ...
Zeitgeist
does terror really have no religion?
terror has NO RELIGION …right. but terrorists do. there is no terror without ...
Zeitgeist
religion: a meme on its way out
“I am fascinated by religion. (That’s a completely different thing from believing in ...
Debate
Science answers the ‘how’ questions and religion, the ‘why’. Really now?
Apparently, science answers the 'how' questions and religion answers the 'why' questions. Really? ...
Atheism
I do not need religion.
Henceforth, I shall stop wishing people on religious festivals and stop replying to ...
Satire
Advising Rahul.
Everyone, their uncle, and their dog seems to understand politics better than Rahul ...
Commentary
Every hill is a hill to die on.
You don't know yr social media friends. They don't know you. And it ...
Warning
If you stare into the abyss…
Hindutva today has basically become a list of everything that Hindus claimed that ...
Warning
Reaping the whirlwind.
Israel's attempted genocide in Gaza is not helping its cause. Indeed, if at ...
Satire
Guess the country!
The similarities between what the right-wing bhakts hate and love are so little ...
Storytelling
Jawan. And the genius of SRK.
I see the cultural phenomenon called 'Jawan', an SRK film, and comment on ...
Activism
From one Brahmin to another.
I write to Brahmins like me about the safety of privilege, and how ...
Activism
The Overton Window. And us.
The Overton Window has shifted right sharply in the recent past and while ...
Democracy
A systemic (and expensive) failure.
The complete smothering of the free press in India have long-term repercussions that ...
![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)
