Kedar Anil Gadgil

Kedar Anil Gadgil

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

Kymaia

A conversation about and in a funny language.

Baby bear has many questions about why English is such a funny language ...

Language

Fluency. And the ability to argue.

How do you define fluency in a language? My contention is that the ...

Fun

A week of firsts. And an announcement.

A week of many firsts ends on a joyful note, with only one ...

Sport

Our first evening workout.

Kymaia uses the treadmill for the first time ever. And loves it!

Question

Religion in the classroom.

Celebrating one's faith in a country where one is a minority while denying ...

Humour

My pet peeve.

Amongst my pet peeves is the stubborn refusal to take off my footwear ...

Leadership

Celebrities on SM: How big a pinch of salt is enough?

How honest do you think the posts celebrities make on social media are ...

Question

The NSE imbroglio: Curiouser and curiouser.

How is a decision-maker of a private entity believing that she needs to ...

Travel

Baby bear picks strawberries in Mahabaleshwar!

Little Kymaia vacationed in Mahabaleshwar and picked strawberries with her Masi and Mamma. ...

Debate

Registration fees, English, and privilege.

A conversation about how privilege-blind we can be, especially when it comes to ...

Parenting

Why Baba bear is proud of things we don’t know.

Kymaia seems to know nothing of religion, and while she may have to ...

Woo

How kooky is kooky, really?

How is a decision-maker of a private entity believing that she needs to ...

Logic

How can you tell?

When religious people speak of 'superstition', how really can they tell the difference ...

Regulation/Law

Religious symbols and fairplay.

My stand on the hijab controversy, in light of the Indian brand of ...

Commentary

Before and after. The Indian story.

A second-order effect of cheap bandwidth and ease of publishing, sharing, and consuming ...

Democracy

A vote of confidence.

Democracy in India lives on because of the supreme, and sometimes irrational, confidence ...

Music

My little piano player.

I am so lucky to be the father of this happy and carefree ...

Future

A simple problem to solve?

What problem do I see as ripe for the market and no one ...

Fallacy

The ‘Make (Pakistan) in India’ gang.

Neither a hijabi woman is automatically my hero nor a uniformed soldier. My ...

Satire

Divide (and rule?)

The CM of the 35th ranked Indian state (only Bihar is worse) in ...

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