Kedar Anil Gadgil

Kedar Anil Gadgil

Startup Strategist. Thinking Rationalist. Secular Humanist. Political Realist. Avid Biker. Committed Father. Doting Son.

Nostalgia

Mistakes. And humans.

I reminisce about more innocent times when one's mistakes were recorded for posterity ...

Rant

Lunatics and the asylum.

You are no longer looking at lunatics from outside the asylum. You are ...

Woo

Dive into dumbness.

How to convey you are stupid by simply spelling your name?

Social Media

The delta between online and IRL.

I am intrigued and amused by the delta between people as they appear ...

Rant

Why touch?

I have noticed that we Indians seem to have no concept of personal ...

Warning

Caveat Amicis.

If you know me and interact with me, chances are I will write ...

Hero(es)

A football fan is born!

My mother wanted to watch the FIFA World Cup 2022 finals between France ...

Ageing

Some revelations…

A winter's midnight in Pune + a drunk friend riding pillion = Epiphany ...

Technology

Theseus. And his AI-powered ship.

A recent post about a teacher using AI to catch AI got me ...

Bureaucracy

Babu, samjho ishare.

Indian bureaucracy is so stuck in the British Raj-era red tapism that even ...

Art

No accounting for taste!

I watch the controversial song that is making the Right Wing trolls froth ...

Civilisation

Washing your bum. And the colonial mindset.

As white men discover the hygiene faucet, I hope this will give the ...

Hypocrisy

Pata-my-back.

I buy a Patagonia product (a cap). And then declare (tongue in cheek) ...

Joy/Happiness

Freudenfreude.

Kymaia shows me that she is a better human that I can ever ...

Kymaia

Cheating.

Kymaia rightly sees any competitor throwing the match as cheating. But we haven't ...

Celebration

Christmas decorations with the Bear family.

Little Baby bear decorates her room for Christmas.

Empathy

Social media. Icebergs. Elephants. And nuclear bombs.

I realise that the haste in which we bestow the status of a ...

Question

A relaxing pedicure? My foot.

My ex-wife very kindly gifts me a pedicure, and I have a ball, ...

Books

Tsundoku?

I buy too many books and read too few. That bothers me.

Cringe

Sir(?) Ratan Tata.

It's been a while since I have been noticing people referring to Ratan ...

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