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About Me: Kedar
This is my space. To ramble, rant, or ruminate. You are welcome to join me. You can see more of me here. I am an IAF+Air India brat (my father and my kid brother, both have donned the wings of the Indian Air Force) growing up in cantonments across the nation, and attending 12 schools before graduating as an Electrical Engineer from Pune University in 1994.
I speak, read, and write English, Hindi, and Marathi (in that order of proficiency), and am very active on social media (mainly Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and lately, Threads and YouTube too), though I do not engage beyond first or at most second level comments. My philosophy for writing can be found here.
Professionally, I am consulting with young people heading their own startups. If you are a startup and need an impartial Entrepreneur-in-Residence to bounce your ideas off, get practical advice from, and basically have around for the 33 years of hard-earned experience in starting up, running, and even shutting down companies, then I am your man. To start a conversation, mail me here.
Personally, I am deeply and passionately engaged in educating (and learning with) my daughter (who was born on my 42nd birthday!) in a non-formal setting and chronicling her (and my) journey. Indeed, unlike most kids who want to become pilots and firemen, actors and doctors, and so on, during my childhood, when I was asked what I’d want to be when I grew up, I’d always answer, ‘Father.’ So, in a way, I am living my dream. I consider myself the luckiest man on Earth (until life is discovered on other planets).
In my spare time, I love to ride/drive, travel, try different foods, watch movies (I love murder mysteries, war movies, and heists), read (mostly non-fiction), debate, and sometimes play golf or squash, or if it’s low enough stakes, poker.
I am politically promiscuous, in the sense that I do not follow a specific political or social party or leader but, from instance-to-instance, choose the argument (and hence, the side making that argument) that best suits my ideological stance of secular humanism. You can find my posts about politics here.
I love dogs and horses (though it’s been a rather long time since I rode one) and am an avid biker with a Royal Enfield 650 Interceptor, who I call BattleCat III. Follow my travels and travails on the bike here.
About my opinions, they are how I like my morning tea: extra strong, piping hot, somewhat dark, grounded in earthy aromas and spices, something that instantly wakes you up, and served without standing on ceremony.
Try me. Start a conversation! What have you got to lose?
This government truly is FA with the wrong generation. They are about to FO. The uneducated louts thought the educated are patient, and will remain so. The trouble is that when the volcano erupts, no one is safe from the lava flow. Beware the revolution of the educated!
Once again, I say it: Does the ruling party know if won't be on the treasury benches forever? That the precedents it sets can and will be used against them by their successors? Every single time they do this, it might look small. But cumulatively, this is dangerous to democracy.
The CBI probe was ordered by Dr Manmohan Singh himself.
“Let the truth be known to everyone”, he said after giving orders. Some of us in the PMO were worried about the negative headlines next morning.
But his wisdom - and integrity- has stood the test of time.
My take: In this pro-test protest, the old pro-state side has the weaker prostate; it will be the first to prostrate, because the youth can hold out far longer than the state can hold it in.
Every media person is being mocked, shouted down by the protestors, while amateurs are going viral. It's not just the end of the current regime but also the end of mainstream media. Rest in hell. Welcome, new media. It's gonna be a shaky ride. But we live and learn. I hope.