Seshadri's Musings

These days you come across so many people, in all walks of life, who will have the gall to do or say anything and then try to get support from others to either justify their saying or saying that they meant something else.   For people living in social media, everything that you say or do is to get attention and then look for ways to convert it into regret in case it does not match with people’s expectations. Recent case is of Priyanka Chopra.   She had known that the episode in Quantico titled, “The Blood of Romeo” was the story of thwarting of a terrorist attack by Indian nationalists and putting the blame on Pakistan for it.   She would have studied the script and then only would have acted in it.   Maybe at that time it was more of how much money she was getting paid rather than concentrating on what she was doing.    As expected, when the show went on air, she got such a voluminous backlash which led her and the producer ABC to apologize for th...

In continuation to the Games series, here are three more games that I have played in the past and are quite interesting.   Playing these games make you fit and also quite enjoyable to play. Long Jump – This is generally played in a ground with some 2-8 people.   We used to make the 2 lines of hurdle by using our slippers!!   The idea is to jump over the space, between the arrangements of players’ slippers!!   See the diagram below You start with three feet of distance between the two rows of slippers, which everyone will cross, from one side to another.   If anyone’s foot touches the slipper while crossing, he is declared out and is out of the game.   Once when everyone has crossed, you increase the distance between the two lines to 5 feet.   Keep on repeating this process of jumping and increasing till such time only one player is left who has not been declared out.   He is then declared the winner.   Why we need to play thi...

I know that seeing a place like Delhi and enjoying its uniqueness will not suffice in 2 days.   But, since nowadays, people have less time to do things physically and do more things online, this will come as a handy tool for seeing some of the important places in Delhi and tick-marking this place in their bucket-list!!   I know that this can be done as I have just done this last month. First identify the list of places that you need to visit in Delhi.   Since I was a Delhiite once upon a time, this trip was for my daughter who had never been there before.   I had done a similar trip with my son some 2 years back.   Once the places are identified, you have to know where you will be staying in Delhi.   With this 2 information, open Google Maps and put the list there as destinations.   Give the time of travel as half hour between the places and give about half hour to one hour for visiting the place.   With this you should be in a good positi...

Don’t get surprised by the heading as to whether I have turned religious!!   The time has still not come!! I recently had a chance to visit this temple in Delhi and just wanted to share my experience with you.   In fact, this temple was not in my itinerary during my Delhi trip.   By chance, one of my friend’s wife mentioned about this when she was enquiring about my schedule for the day.   I thought in case I am able to finish the other sight-seeing’s on that day, maybe I could visit this too.   It so happened that the other visits got over quickly and I went on to spend some 6 hours in this place!! I had a misconception that this is a temple of Gods.   This is actually a temple for one Mr Swaminarayan who lived from 1781 to 1830 in India.   Of course, his followers consider him to be their God.   The main deity in this temple is of Mr Swaminarayan.   The temple is spread over a vast area and you would require some 3-4 hours to com...

Nowadays there are so many money-making machinery available, that we do not even think about how much is made by these institutions/companies/organisations.   I don’t know if these “extra” money is suitably taxed or they just end up making someone’s pocket fatter.   I am just illustrating a few of them below.   I have not mentioned any names as this is a generalized malaise across all the industry. First on the list are the Schools and the Colleges.   In schools, many of them have started their own store where you have to buy the books, uniforms and other materials related to the school work.   Since the school is availing one vendor for sourcing all these items, the schools will be getting some “huge” discount on these items.   But the parents are sold all “these” items at the MRP!!!   The discount that the school has worked out with the vendor, goes to fatten its own pockets!!   It is another matter that most of the items are available ou...

Continuing with the games that I had played during my childhood, here are 2 more that I enjoyed! Pittoo – This is played outdoors in a park or a ground.   You need 7 stones, preferably flat ones that can be arranged one above the other.   Marble stones are preferable as they are flat.   And one tennis ball.   This is a team game. You can have any number between 3-7 in a team.   In the center of the ground, the 7 stones are placed one above the other, as displayed below. A toss is done to determine which team gets to hit the stones first.   The hitter of the team stands some 15 feet away from the stones and throws the ball to hit the stones.   A player of the opposition team stands some 15 feet away from the stone, on the opposite side, to catch the ball in case the player is not able to hit the ball.   In case the player is not able to hit the ball 3 times, he is declared out and does not participate further as long as his team is ...

I have deleted my Facebook account.   Of course, the catalyst was the knowledge that Facebook data has been compromised and my data might be lying anywhere from Chechnya to Chinchpokli!!   I am not sure what they can do with my data as I was not using the account to post anything.   Well, maybe about 10 odd posts from the time I had opened the account!!   I was only logging in when I will get a mail from Facebook that someone had messaged me.   Or if someone wanted me to like their post.   Or if someone wished me on my birthday.   With closure of my Facebook account, anyone wanting to wish me would have to actually call me.   Else they can keep their wishes to themselves!! I am amazed that there are lots of people out there whose life only revolves around how many “likes” they get on their posts.   These people don’t have any other life and most will get into some kind of depression if they don’t get sufficient “likes”.   If you a...