Seshadri's Musings

This was during my vocation in Delhi.   I had a very smiling boss, who would keep on smiling whatever the occasion.   I have never seen him getting very angry over anything, except once, which is outside the scope of this blog 😊 !!   Whenever he used to admonish someone, he used to do in such a way that it seems he is requesting them not to do that!! He always used to carry the Business India Planner and used to diligently remove previous years pages and refill it with the new ones, once the new year came.   Since I will be mostly visiting clients and prospects and would be roaming around Delhi, I would be assigned the task of buying the refills each year 😊 . Of course, he only paid for it 😊 . During that time, year 1992 to be exact, Basic Instinct, the Sharon Stone movie, had come to the Chanakya cinema hall.   The movie was a superhit and I had already seen it once with one of my office colleagues.   The movie was a highly-censored version that was...

Another blog on my childhood memories 😊 . This is about one of my uncles.   The earliest remembrance of him is a scar that I am destined to carry for life 😊 !! I think I was very young then, maybe 4 or 5 years old.   My family had gone to Chennai for the summer vacation and were about to start back for Delhi that evening.   While my parents were busy packing, my uncle suggested that we play air-cricket.   I was supposed to be the bowler and he would be the batsman.   We were in a courtyard and had sufficient space for running around.   For bat, he took on a crowbar-like object which was quite heavy and made of iron and the length of a cricket bat.   I had to do bowling action and he would do the batting action 😊 . We both retreated to different ends.   And then, I came in running to bowl and he kept on coming forward to hit the “ball”.   As soon as I finished my bowling action, I did not remember anything 😊 .   I came t...

For a long time, I was planning to delve on the subject of my childhood reminisces, but every time something else would pop up and this subject would take a backseat.   Today, however, I forced myself to think of this topic and wrote down all the points that I would be using 😊 .   I don’t know how many blogs the childhood memories would take, but well, here is to a walk down memory lane 😊 .   I would not be naming anyone as I don’t know how that person would react.   For people who know me and my family, you can easily identify the person(s) 😊 !! This blog is on my cousin sister.   She is the eldest in our big family.   As her parents were mostly out of the country, she used to spend a lot of her time at our grandfather’s place.   The occupants of my grandfather’s house being my grandparents, my father’s family and his brother’s family.   During this time, my cousin got closer to my father and she was the default first-born of my father!...

Some more web-series to see during the lockdown 😊😊 The Keepers – The Keepers is a seven-episode American documentary web series that explores the unsolved murder of nun Sister Cathy Cesnik, who taught English and drama at Baltimore's Archbishop Keough High School, and her former students' belief that there was a cover-up by authorities after Cesnik suspected that a priest at the school, A. Joseph Maskell, was guilty of sexual abuse of students. A fascinating long series about of a group of courageous and tenacious women, who refuse to let slide the brutal murder of a young lady who was important and highly influential in their lives and whom they all loved and respected, a case which the local police had run aground about almost 50 years ago, or seemingly. An admirable and effective documentary that encourages its audience to look deeper and keep on questioning. The bravery of all those facing their demons here is tangible, provoking us to take action ourselves...

Some more documentary reviews…. Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez – As a gifted young football athlete from Bristol, Connecticut, Aaron Hernandez had capitalized rapidly on his promise, playing for a top tier college program before being drafted into the National Football League at the age of 20. But in 2013, fresh off of a newly inked five-year, $40 million contract with the New England Patriots, Hernandez would become a household name for the most infamous murder case involving an American athlete since OJ Simpson. Hernandez's trials for the brutal killing of Odin Lloyd and two Boston-area men yielded a Pandora's box of secrets: a tumultuous and often abusive upbringing, a growing fascination with gang life, and other discoveries that painted a maelstrom of motivations behind his violent behavior. A three-part documentary series featuring exclusive courtroom footage, Hernandez's phone calls from prison, and interviews with those who knew Hernandez and Ll...