Other Musings | Ravindra Kondekar

Living Fully While Knowing Death Is Inevitable

One need not be sad about death simply because there will be so many things left undone or experiences left unlived. After death, there is no one there to experience that sense of missing out. The person who has died does not sit somewhere regretting the journeys not taken, [...]

orderlyadmin2026-09-30T08:35:38+05:30

The Stoic and Tukaram on Dealing with Difficult People

When we encounter a difficult person—a rude colleague, an irresponsible family member, a manipulative acquaintance, or someone who repeatedly behaves unfairly—we often find ourselves caught between two extremes. One voice says, "Keep quiet. Be kind. Let it go." Another says, "Enough is enough. Take action." The challenge is knowing [...]

orderlyadmin2026-05-31T11:53:46+05:30

तू जहाँ जहाँ चलेगा, मेरा साया साथ होगा – GNSS/GPS उपग्रहांची प्रेमकथा

प्रस्तावना कधीकाळी, काही फार वर्षांपूर्वी नाही, एखादे नवीन ठिकाण शोधायचे म्हणजे, रस्त्यावर कोणालातरी विचारावे लागायचे. मग त्यांच्या हातवाऱ्याइतकेच त्यांच्या आत्मविश्वासाचेही वाचन करावे लागायचे. कारण तुम्हाला माहीतच आहे. लोकांना तुम्हाला भलत्या दिशेला पाठवणे चालते पण "माहित नाही” म्हणणे चालत नाही. आपण पण नेमके अशाच व्यक्तीला पत्ता विचारतो जो कि त्या [...]

orderlyadmin2026-05-25T12:28:20+05:30

मशीन लर्निंग म्हणजे काय? — एक संवाद

रविंद्र: तू बऱ्याच दिवसांपासून मला विचारते आहेस की हे मशीन लर्निंग म्हणजे नक्की काय? अंजली: हो ना! म्हणजे, जेव्हा आपण AI किंवा कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता आणि अशात चॅटजीपीटी (ChatGPT) वगैरे बद्दल बोलतो, तेव्हा थोडीफार कल्पना येते, पण मशीन लर्निंग म्हणजे काय हे मात्र माहिती नाही. काहीतरी संबंधितच असेल असे मात्र वाटते. रविंद्र: अगदी बरोबर. कृत्रिम [...]

orderlyadmin2026-05-06T15:43:20+05:30

P.S: Please don’t bang your PC. Treat it like a fragile lil baby :)

Last month, I was struggling with a strange problem with my computer keyboard! It's a wireless Windows keyboard connected to my laptop. All of a sudden Ctrl+C shortcut stopped working. Interestingly, Ctrl+V worked fine. The C key also independently worked fine. It was frustrating as instead of copying text, [...]

orderlyadmin2022-02-13T11:50:42+05:30

New Year Revelers at the Gateway of India

Every new year also reminds me of the revelers that I had seen on the night of 31st December 1991, for it had made a lasting impression on me. The Gateway of India is one of the popular places in Mumbai to visit on the eve of the new [...]

orderlyadmin2022-01-29T20:40:08+05:30

Charity

I opened Wikipedia yesterday to check a few facts about Web3 (whatever that is) and saw an earnest donation request by Wikipedia. I am not a philanthropist on any scale and I had shared an interesting story of one of the few of my noble deeds. But I never [...]

orderlyadmin2021-12-04T20:30:55+05:30

What’s more important? Generating Ideas or Executing them?

Recently, I read a wonderful quote by Shane Parrish, "Ideas are cheap. Execution is expensive. The ability to execute separates people, not the ability to come up with ideas." So ideas are vital but have no meaning till you execute them and thus the rhetoric! I couldn't agree more and in fact, [...]

orderlyadmin2021-11-07T09:06:17+05:30

What’s in a Name? That Which We Call a Rose…

Could a title be more cliched than this! But the story indeed is of names. Think about it. Naming things is not an easy task. Most of the time it is problem of plenty, but it is a problem for sure. Think of geometry when you drew diagrams, you [...]

orderlyadmin2021-10-24T07:49:55+05:30

Seashells

Although I now live in the coastal area of India, I had not seen the sea till the age of 20 years. I grew at a place that may appear at the center of the Indian peninsula, in a careless look. So there was no chance of sighting the [...]

orderlyadmin2021-10-10T08:14:39+05:30