Seshadri's Musings

This blog is different as I am writing about a dance reality show which has fascinated me for the past 5-6 months or so.  Normally I don’t see any channels on TV other than news and sports.  Some months back I saw the promo of this Super Dancer 2 show on Sony TV, while flipping channels, and wanted to see the episodes featuring the dances showcased in the promo.  Needless to say, when I saw the episodes, I was really hooked.  The dancers on this show such grace and skills that they put even the experienced dancers to shame.  For the past 5-6 months, I have seen them blossom from novice performers to professional performers.  Apparently, the auditions were done across the country and top 25-30 kids were selected.  Out of this, 8 were shortlisted and each of the kid was given a “guru” who is an experienced choreographer, to teach them and make them perform on a weekly basis.  The guru also performs with his/her disciple in the show.  They record it in one day and then broadcast it

Anger is something that we see almost on a daily basis.  It can come anytime.  During the morning rush while going to office, while in office, coming back from office, or even after coming back home from the office.  For people who don’t go to work, it can come during their interaction with the neighbors, with the vegetable vendors, with the grocery shop salesman/saleswoman or interacting with the family members. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, for every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind!!  If we look back at all the instances when we were angry earlier in life, it would seem we were a different kind of animal then!!  What we don’t realise that given the circumstances we will behave the same way as before!!  Until we try to look at the situation in a different way, we will again end up being angry and losing our sixty seconds of happiness. Anger runs in my family, as it does in every family in this world!!  My father was a very different per

Sometime back, my wife had asked me to write about this topic as many people in her office were not aware of how to go about doing this.  At that time, since I had already thought of some other topics for the blog, I ignored it.  Now, having thought of at least 7-8 more topics for future writing, I am writing on this topic. The “Young” in this topic would range from “people who have recently started working” to “people who recently got married” to “people with kids below 5 years”.  Normally I consider myself also to be young as it is the state of your mind.  Others can also make use of this in case they find it useful and follow-able. As soon as you receive your salary, just remove about 25% of your salary and put it for savings. Have an automatic debit set-up so that you need not worry about forgetting to do it on a monthly basis. Try to live within the 75% of your salary.  It has been done before and would be doable in the future also.  Just imagine that your salary got red

Welcome to that part of the year, when we all think out a host of resolutions to keep for the year!!  This is the time when our optimism is at its peak when we think of all the things that are waiting to be done by us, which we did try to implement last year and failed 😊. We compile a list of things that we would be doing for the coming year, add a sophisticated looking title to the list and pin it up on the fridge door with a magnet.  We feel, now that the list has been made, it will be very easy to keep track of it. Over the period of the next 10-15 days, some of the items in the list will get stricken out, some would be postponed to be done anytime during the future months and the rest would seem very impractical to do and would hence be cut off the list.  By the end of the month, we would end up where we started.  Doing whatever we were doing last year 😊 As per a recent study on the Psychology of keeping New Year Resolutions, the main reason why people don’t stick to th