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...

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!!  ...

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 ima...

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 peopl...

We all would have memories of our parents making us go to school and read so that one day we can become the masters of our destiny.  We had been told that once you acquire knowledge, you can have the world at your feet and live like a king!  Alas, nothing like that happens.  The knowledge that you acquire, and how you use that knowledge in your life is what makes your life. Destiny is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans.  You might have your interest in other things, but you have to constantly look out for the signs that destiny is showing you.  Of course, you still get to make your own destiny if you can see and act on the things that are happening to you.  If you and your destiny’s path-forward merges and becomes one, you get to lead a comfortable life.  If you do not agree with your destiny and ignore the signs that it is providing you, then get ready for a hell-ride of a life!! One of the best example is of a gentlema...

Men have been taught to hide their emotions since childhood.  And crying was strictly a no-no!!  All the emotions and crying were supposed to be done by girls.  Over a period of time, it has been agreed in society that men don’t have any emotions.  In case they show any signs of emotions, they are termed a sissy and left alone.  All of this have created a small divide over the current husband-wife relationship. We have often seen that men often feel the need to be self-sufficient and don’t share their feelings with their spouses.  Whereas the women openly express their feelings and quickly want the support of their spouse, family and friends, in any order they feel like!!  Just because men don’t show their emotions, it does not mean that they don’t have feelings.  They just don’t show it outside.  Those who have shown it have found it to be counter-productive.  Seeing the men’s emotions, many women have wrongly thought that the...

Ads are something that we sometimes eagerly look forward to, especially if we are seeing them the first time.  Since my childhood, I have been seeing ads at regular intervals, but I haven’t come across a period where I can spot mistakes in multiple ads being run during the same time!!  The other day, I was watching the India-Sri Lanka Test cricket in Star Sport and the ads that I saw were filled with mistakes (in my opinion) which made me sit and write this blog. The first ad was of iPhone-X.  The copyright claims that that it has the highest security in any phone.  The reason for this is that it can be unlocked with Face-ID.  For laymen/laywomen, it means you just show your face to the phone and it opens 😊.  Now imagine a scenario wherein you have been kidnapped.  The kidnapper does not have to bother asking you the password for your iPhone!! He just waves it in front of your face to unlock and use the date.  Ditto for CIA and other agenci...