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Death anxiety.

Triggered by a questionnaire sent to me by a friend, I ruminate about ...

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Death by spice!

I recover from an illness and immediately plunge my digestive system into the ...

Advice

Great actor vs Film star: Unpopular Opinion

People, in their enthusiasm, and love for a deceased artist, tend to use ...

Commentary

Speeding? Or killer roads?

What will it take for this regime to realise that the larger problem ...

Death

Livin’ on the edge.

In which I have a near-death experience. And come out even more confused.

Death

When I’m gone…

I wonder what will happen to all the writing I do when I ...

Adventure

Death. And me.

Pink Floyd sang, 'The sun is the same in a relative way, but ...

Zeitgeist

Life’s too short for cheap deo.

I realise that hoarding the good stuff and using the bad stuff is ...

Life

The luckiest kid in the world.

How bland and dull our online lives actually are compared to our real ...

Advice

How to survive in a pack of alphas.

A Sunday well-spent doing risky shit amongst others like me is a day ...

Society

The American obsession with guns.

Gabriele Galimberti has travelled to every corner of the United States to meet ...

Life

Worth kidnapping?

I found a will I made back in September 2005, and now I ...

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?

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Entrepreneur, business shrink, political strategist, diarist, risk-taker, dog-lover, rationalist, humanist, biker, son, father, in love, in no particular order.

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Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_pt ·

30 Oct

Modi's lasting success has been the creation of a powerful 24x7 propaganda machine that creates an "overpowering illusion of achievements", and not actual achievements on ground. That illusion is what silences a majority of citizenry into believing the lies, against their…

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Siddharth @svaradarajan ·

22 Oct

Harish Khare warns of the "demonstration effect" of CJI Chandrachud's appeal to God. "Every district judge will now feel emboldened to weave his or her religiosity into judicial pronouncements. As it is, very many members of lower judiciary any way feel inclined to anchor their…

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Raju Parulekar @rajuparulekar ·

22 Oct

HELLO 🚨

Dear INDIA parties,

As you undergo the elections to the very important State Assembly Elections in Maharashtra alongwith Jharkhand, please ensure the following.

1. Train your polling agents very very well. You cannot afford to send unaware polling agents this time.…

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Kedar Anil Gadgil @kedaranilgadgil ·

22 Oct

There's this gentleman @dieworkwear who is one of those you read online and instantly wish they were friends with you!

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Kedar Anil Gadgil @kedaranilgadgil ·

20 Oct

I always ask kids what they'd do with unlimited power (wealth, fame, etc.). And I receive different answers, some of them very different from the idealistic ones I would have answered at their age. I asked some friends to parse them. This is the result.