Seshadri's Musings

Nowadays there are so many companies in India who offer online classes that cater to your requirements right from class 1 to giving you training till you joint Engineering or Medical!  And they bombard you with so many messages that you are bound to see them and really think that just by attending these courses you stand a very good chance in succeeding to get into these institutions 😊! I had asked my daughter to attend a trial class of one company.  After the class, based on the feedback of my daughter, I had told them that we would not like to continue as my daughter was not interested.  After that, every month I would be getting a call from them asking as to how to proceed further.  Finally, I had to tell them that my daughter is not interested in the field they were teaching in and asking them to delete my name from the future calls.  Touchwood, so far, I have not received any call from them 😊.  You can never tell when this will start again!! I am...

Having watched Inspector Morse and Lewis, I had to watch Endeavour.   Inspector Morse started in 1987 and ended in 2000.   Lewis started in 2006 and ended in 2015.   As I have already mentioned, the full name of Morse is Endeavour Morse.   The Endeavour series is set in the 1960’s and 1970’s and depicts Morse’s early days while working as a detective.   The series started in 2012 and is still continuing.   So, for the last 33 years, this detective series is being shown and the reception has been too good! Each episode is of about 1.5 hours and can be taken to be a complete movie in itself, based on runtime alone!  Inspector Morse has 33 episodes and an approximate total runtime of about 50 hours 😊 !  Lewis has also 33 episodes totaling to about a runtime of same 50 hours 😊 .  Endeavour so far has a pilot movie and an episode count of 30 making it a total of about 47 hours.  For the last 50-60 days I have spent about a total of 147 ho...

More web-series reviews… Lewis – Another excellent BBC series, which is a continuation of the Morse series.  Now the character Lewis (Kevin Whately)has been promoted to Detective Inspector and solves murder cases with his junior James Hathaway. From Wikipedia… Lewis is a sergeant on the staff of the Thames Valley Police in Oxford, England, and in Inspector Morse, is assistant to the eponymous Detective Chief Inspector Morse. Although Lewis's given name is Robert (Robbie), he was rarely referred to as anything but "Sergeant Lewis" or "Lewis." The background and personality of Lewis – a working class, easygoing family man with a Geordie accent – is frequently contrasted with that of Morse – Oxford educated, RP-accented, lifetime bachelor. Morse frequently uses these differences to insult or demean Lewis, perhaps from Morse's point of view in a playful manner, but Lewis is often not amused by the jabs. In his frustration, Lewis is often more in step wi...

With the lockdown in place and with knowledgeable people avoiding queues, online grocery purchases are the way forward.  With the goods being delivered right at your doorstep, you don’t have to unnecessarily go outside you home for making grocery purchases.  With so many people crowding in the streets, it is better to avoid them and stay away from risking your health 😊 . I am a member of Metro Cash and Carry and used to visit the outlet once a month for buying all the grocery requirements of my house.  Here you get a variety of stuff and also at a lesser price than what you get at your local kirana shop.  I used to purchase the month’s grocery requirements and used to stuff them in my car’s “dikki”!! Sometimes I used to visit here twice a month in case more grocery was required for the month.  I was also purchasing vegetable from Ryuthu Bazar where the prices were less than anywhere else.   These 2 places were the only ones I was using to get the da...

More Web-Series reviews…. First a look at Season 2 of some series… Hostages 2 – This was released in September 2020 and consisted of the same people from the earlier season with some more additions.  This time, the people who took hostages in the first season, are themselves holed up in a building with the police having surrounded them from all sides.  Ok kind of a series.  As usual, in the end, pointing to a 3 rd season.  Depending on this season’s success, they might bring out a next season. Aashram 2 – This was released this month.  In this season, one comes to know the real badness of Bobby Deol!  With his deadpan face, Bobby Deol keeps doing what he wants to do.  The serial gets slow at some places.  Ok kind of a series, but a shade lower than the first season.  There is no definite ending and one has to wait for the 3 rd season to come out. Stranger 2 – The second season of the Korean series.  A gripping series, as enter...

 More Series reviews…. This week I am writing about a Series that has been running since 1987 😊!   Yes 1987!!.  The series started in 1987 as Inspector Morse and the 6th series ended in 1993.  Then from 1995 to 2000, one episode per year was released.  Mind you, each episode is of around 1 hour and 40 minutes in length, an actual film itself!  So, there were 33 episodes of this series from 1987 to 2000.  In the last episode, the protagonist dies.  In 2018, this series was named the greatest British crime drama of all time by Radio Times readers.  All the stories are set in Oxford, UK. In Inspector Morse, a character named Lewis was the Sergeant to Inspector Morse.  In 2006, Lewis debuted featuring the same Lewis character, now promoted to Inspector.  This ran till 2015 for another 33 episodes.  ITV announced that the show would end after its ninth series, following the decision made by Kevin Whately (Lewis) and Laurence...

More web-series reviews… The Killing – The Killing is an American crime drama television series that premiered in 2011, based on the Danish television series Forbrydelsen (The Crime). The 4th season was commissioned for Netflix and it was the last season. In Seattle, Det. Sarah Linden is on what is supposed to be her last day on the job. She and her son Jack are supposed to leave that evening to join her fiancé in Sonoma. Her replacement, Det. Stephen Holder, is ready to take over but they answer a call from a patrol car who have found a bloodied sweater in a field. When the missing girl, Rosie Larsen, is found in the trunk of a car at the bottom of a lake it turns out the car is registered to the campaign committee for councilman Darren Richmond, who is running for mayor. Linden delays her departure for what she hopes will be only a few days. The first season covers the first two weeks of the investigation of Rosie Larsen and has three main storylines: the police investigation ...