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The Post-Valentine’s Day Special.

16 February 2025

Conversation

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?

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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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newslaundry @newslaundry ·

30 Jun

UP’s Rs 33.5 lakh crore investment story is propped up by dubious MoUs. For example, Rs 1.65 lakh crore deals with a ‘company’ with no traceable corporate record.

@basantrajsonu tracks them down in Part 1 of The MoU Mirage.

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Amit Behere @_amitbehere ·

30 Jun

#repeat - When we were young, when experts told us "don't worship real cobras" during Nag Panchami, we didn't call it an attack on our religion. We understood, and we changed. In a fucking year.

When we were young and we were lectured that "firecrackers cause pollution", we

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Kedar Anil Gadgil @kedaranilgadgil ·

1 Jul

To all those who are regretting voting for the BJP, the good doc has the perfect message (to be fair, it's Kabir's, but doc gives it meaning in this context).

करता था सो क्यों किया, अब करि क्यों पछताय।
बोये पेड़ बबूल का, आम कहाँ से खाय।।

Dr. Ruchika Sharma @tishasaroyan

@dishasatra "Feeling betrayed and helpless" Boya ped Babool ka toh Aam kahaan se hoy?? Stúpid is what stúpid gets.

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Gaurav Pandhi @gauravpandhi ·

27 Jun

I sincerely hope Suniel Shetty's granddaughter grows up to be a free-thinker who doesn't worship humans; especially politicians.

A 15-month-old baby may be fond of Modi's photo today, and tomorrow she may be fond of Peppa Pig. That doesn't mean the cartoon has magical powers. It