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The Post-Valentine’s Day Special.

16 February 2025

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Intimate conversations at the pool.

21 April 2023

Activism

Washing your bum. And the colonial mindset.

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

Adventure

A relaxing pedicure? My foot.

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

Biking

Incredible India. Incredible us.

We Indians really need to pull up socks if we have to live ...

Advice

A smooth operator.

A Father's Day gift introduces me to the joy of shaving. Again.

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?

BJP Jhoot Ki Dukaan

Verified account @jhoothkidukan ·

31 Aug

🚨 WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT 🚨

We are a team of young volunteers who launched to debunk fake fact-checks and fake news by BJP.

Our work hit a nerve. The BJP IT cell is so rattled that have launched coordinated attacks, spamming our website to crash it and

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Kedar Anil Gadgil

@kedaranilgadgil ·

31 Aug

"There, but for the grace of God, go I." is really an argument against an omnipresent, omnipotent, and benevolent God. It is also a very shitty perspective. What sort of supremely powerful being would fuck someone else up and then expect you to be grateful to Him because...grace?

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Kedar Anil Gadgil

@kedaranilgadgil ·

30 Aug

Brilliant flying! Courage, precision, and professionalism, putting the lives of others over their own, the hallmarks of the Indian armed forces. So proud.

@firefurycorps_IA @firefurycorps

Daring High-Altitude Casualty Evacuation 🇮🇳

In a daring rescue mission at 18,600 ft near Nun Kun, Indian Army Aviation pilots evacuated a casualty from an extremely challenging slope with no landing space and strong winds.

With the helicopter lightened by removing non-essential

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Kedar Anil Gadgil

@kedaranilgadgil ·

27 Aug

Wow!

Braj Shyam Maurya @brijshyam8

पत्रकार:- आदित्य कल आपकी मौजूदगी ने पूरी बिहार सरकार को हिला कर रख दिया

आदित्य:- तो छात्र की मांगो को पूरा कर दे

और मेरे माता पिता को मारने का क्या जरूरत था 😳

पत्रकार:- किसने मारा आपके माता पिता को

आदित्य:- SP साहब ने खुद ही मारा 😳

पत्रकार:- डीटेन किसने किया आपको

आदित्य:-

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Kedar Anil Gadgil

@kedaranilgadgil ·

26 Aug

One more of those visual that if someone had described them to me, I'd have dismissed it as scaremongering and impossible in India. Yet, here we are.

Prof. Mukesh Kumar @mukeshbudharwi

इतना डर, इतना ख़ौफ़?
छह साल के बच्चे को पुलिस ले जा रही है क्योंकि उसने प्रधानमंत्री से इस्तीफा मांगने वाला पोस्टर पकड़ा हुआ था।
इस तरह का भय अक्सर सरकारों की विदाई का संकेत होता है या फिर इमर्जेंसी राज का।