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The Temple Filter.

28 February 2026
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Muddying the waters.

1 February 2026
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Band-Aid Republic?

21 June 2025
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The Integrity Discount: Pricing in the Rot.

19 May 2025
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The real scam.

A decade later, the only real scam wasn’t corruption. It was hope. And ...
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Devotion to delusion.

My breakdown of blind political devotion: from idolising leaders to resigned acceptance, exposing ...
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Indian Businesses. A Trilogy in Four Parts.

I conduct a cultural autopsy of Indian business: from inherited deceit to systemic ...
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A Feminist’s Silent Ache.

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Pick a lane, bro!

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How to Influence People and Win Friends. By Doing Absolutely Nothing.

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Gangadhar hi Shaktiman hai.

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What Is the Brand Value of a GigTech Brand?

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Politics. And the blind men of Hindoostan.

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The Hindutva caste project.

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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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ancienthistorry Ancient History Hub @ancienthistorry ·
7 May

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.

An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:

They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.

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30 Apr

In other news, 'Goli maro salon ko' has been declared non-offensive by their honours even as Umar Khalid rots in jail for 2,055 days for calling for Gandhian resistance. #NewIndia

RAHUL @RahulSeeker

Today the Bombay High Court granted bail to Sharad Kalaskar, convicted in the murder of Narendra Dabholkar.

Dr Dabholkar was the leading face of Maharashtra’s rationalist movement & also the first in a series of four assassinations.
1. Dabholkar,
2. Comrade Govind Pansare,
3.M.

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30 Apr

Has anyone read the speech Umar Khalid gave, in which he called for Gandhian resistance, and based on which he has been in jail without bail for over 2,000 days and counting? Because I have.

Bar and Bench @barandbench

Not an offence: Supreme Court dismisses case against Anurag Thakur over 'goli maaro saalon ko' speech

https://www.barandbench.com/news/not-an-offence-supreme-court-dismisses-case-against-anurag-thakur-over-goli-maaro-saalon-ko-speech

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kedaranilgadgil Kedar Anil Gadgil @kedaranilgadgil ·
30 Apr

The last refuge of the scoundrel.

Amit Schandillia @Schandillia

Man goes to America.

Does PhD. Stays back. Gets job. Starts family. Starts business. Builds fortune. In that order.

Years pass. All well. All perfect. Until not anymore.

Problems in marriage. On the verge. Desperate to separate. Only one hurdle.

California is a “community

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kedaranilgadgil Kedar Anil Gadgil @kedaranilgadgil ·
27 Apr

You are wrong @darab_farooqui

They didn't destroy minds. The destroyed minds put them in power. Modi isn't responsible for the hatred. He is a product of it.

Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui

India is reaching a point where if you try to talk sense, people will abuse you, threaten you and virtually lynch you in the streets.

And that is one of the greatest achievements of Modi and the RSS.

They didn't just destroy institutions. They destroyed minds.

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

I am at a loss of words... literally don't know wh I am at a loss of words... literally don't know what to say. This is wrong on so many levels that I don't know where to start. Or what to say. And to whom. If there was any sign of where our ancient civilisation is headed in the short and medium term, this video is all you need to see.
The BJP would do well to remember that when they l The BJP would do well to remember that when they lose power to whatever new dispensation that replaces them, these very laws and precedents will be used against them. And we, the citizens, must also remember that such abuse of power is party-agnostic. Tables turn. Regimes change. Abuse remains constant.
#ThatIsConfirmed #GoForToilet #NASA #Artemis #ThatIsConfirmed #GoForToilet #NASA #Artemis
पोट आणि चित्त, दोन्ही तृप्त आणि प्रसन्न झालं! खूप पोट आणि चित्त, दोन्ही तृप्त आणि प्रसन्न झालं! खूप दिवसांनी.
We are on a diet. Here is our diet lunch and diet We are on a diet.
Here is our diet lunch and diet dinner for today.

#LiveToEat #SeasonsFirstMangoes
What is this life if, full of care, We have no tim What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

#Escape #Sunflowers #LiveTheShallowLife
Yeh...tumhari meri baatein... Yeh...tumhari meri baatein...
Motorcycle Lover Fish Rice Sand Sea Trees Birds S Motorcycle 
Lover
Fish
Rice
Sand
Sea
Trees
Birds
Silence
Peace

P.S.: I know 'Beer' is missing. But I am off alcohol till 26 April. So, Soul Kadhi has to suffice for the moment.

P.P.S: Yes, that's the view from our room (balcony) and from the dining and lounge area. Yes, we can step off onto the beach. And yes, we will be sitting there at sunset holding hands. Hopefully, that answers all your questions.

Thank you, @anyacinemawala for letting me bikesit the motorcycle. It has saved me therapy money. And saved my therapist the therapy they need after I am done with them. So, all in all, everyone's a happy camper.
And after sixteen months without a motorcycle, by And after sixteen months without a motorcycle, by the grace of whoever gave Marathi theatre such glory days after Bal Gandharva again that my dear friend @anyacinemawala could have shows across seven cities over a month in the US of A and need someone to bikesit his beautiful Honda H'ness CB350, we are now, once again, astride and mobile. The gear took a while to clean (disinfect?) and air, and despite our apprehensions that we had grown, uh, 'healthier' in the interim, we managed to squeeze ourselves in, find our old packed stuff, check for expiry, mould, and other miscellaneous issues that keeping something locked up in India for over a year does, dust it off, make bookings at a resort some 500-odd km away ("Are you family?" "Huh?" "Mhanjay married ahaat na?" "No" "Oh" "We are a 54-40yo uncle-aunty." "Ah, mag theek ahe") on the Vengurla beach, finish off our professional commitments, drop the kid off at her granny's, sleep late (unfortunately), wake early, get ready, and take the customary selfie before leaving the house. And now...off we go. Open roads. Here we come.

#ReadyToRide #RideToLive #LiveToRide
What use is Q-Commerce if we must sort Chironji by What use is Q-Commerce if we must sort Chironji by hand on a busy Eid morning when 8 couples and children are coming to lunch in another 3 hours, and we could spend this time in getting ready in our traditional finery instead of slaving away at tasks modern life has made unnecessary for the sophisticated gentleman of the twenty-first century?

I could order this from Blinkit and get it in 8 minutes (or less). I have run 1000-people organisations turning over $100 million with less effort, to be perfectly honest.

Sigh. Eid Mubarak, folks. How's your morning looking? Hopefully, less labourious than mine.
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