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4 January 2025

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?

Kedar Anil Gadgil

@kedaranilgadgil ·

11 Oct

Now, the Indian capital is like Khyber Pakhtoonwala. Wah, Modiji, wah!

Sarvapriya Sangwan @DrSarvapriya

लोग नारे नहीं लगा सकते, कैमरे से वीडियो नहीं बना सकते, बिना किसी अपराध लोगों को घर से पुलिस उठा ले जा रही है, प्रोटेस्ट मार्च नहीं कर सकते, हज़ारों को हिरासत में लिया जा रहा है, मीडिया को हटाया जा रहा है, एक पूरे इलाक़े में कर्फ़्यू है.

बताओ, आज तो खैबर पख्तूनख्वा में इमरजेंसी

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Kedar Anil Gadgil

@kedaranilgadgil ·

11 Oct

What the fuck, @DelhiPolice ? Is it true your officers are allowing people to carry weapons openly at the protest site?

Mandeep Punia @mandeeppunia1

आज न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री के रिपोर्टर अवधेश ने दिल्ली पुलिस की कार्रवाई पर गंभीर सवाल खड़े किए. आखिर बार-बार कहने के बावजूद भी कार की चेकिंग क्यों नहीं की गई? @MnshaP

Video credit-Uday Bhatnagar, Dainik Bhaskar