This is the End.

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 5/4/2013 9:46:00 AM

'I feel beginnings are always easy, yes, some amount of planning may go into starting something, but generally once the first step is taken the rest comes easy. One step leads to another, you begin to trundle, then you slowly walk, as you familiarize with the pace you begin to march, and then when you reach a stage where you can control it, you begin to run. But when do you stop? Or more importantly how do you stop? How do you end it?Endings have always fascinated me, it takes the sm(...)'

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They Left Me With No Choice, Okay?

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 5/1/2013 2:37:00 PM

';;; It’s not like I wanted to come back, but I had no choice. Every other site I needed to log in to was asking for a Facebook account. Creating a custom account for that particular site would take time, and in some cases even money, whilst an option was open where you could use your facebook account to log in directly. Don’t waste time in filling forms, don’t waste money in creating an account. Just log in with your facebook account, and attain temporary Nirvana. I smell a conspir(...)'

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Somebody That I Used to Know

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 4/9/2013 4:31:00 PM

'Bitch. Fucking bitch. (Did I get your attention?)Well, that would have been the precise words I would have used to describe her at that moment, but I did not. I am not a 19-year- old anymore, at one point of time she used to mean the world to me, I cannot treat her like yesterday’s garbage just for stating the truth. The truth she told me had to be accepted with grace and calm, the response was to be frank, yet not curt, practical yet with a dash of fantasy here and there. In times (...)'

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Forces of Nature

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 3/30/2013 7:20:00 AM

';;; I have my dreams, I have my fears, I have my hopes, I have my plans, yet all of it was rendered inconsequential when I stared at Nature’s creation right in the eye. It is strange how meaningless life is reduced to when it faces a greater power, a force that cannot be contained within boundaries. Your plans of getting that job with a higher salary, that dream of getting a room with a view, your fear of failure, is all rolled into a ball like it were some old torn newspaper and th(...)'

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The Vendor

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 2/11/2013 2:46:00 AM

';;; The effects of a hearty meal are well documented, lunch–the most important part of the day is also when we get to reload the tank, fill the empty stomach making us prepare for the long day ahead. Since that would be the last time you would be eating a full meal for another eight or nine hours, it is also the break that is much looked forward to, where you get to share your home cooked food (if it is any good, or in my case especially when it isn’t). Dining out has its own thrill(...)'

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No thank you, I prefer being at home.

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 2/2/2013 1:47:00 PM

'; My friends always coax me to come out of my home during the weekends for a movie at the mall, or for lunch somewhere in any of the fastfood joints that reside there. Strangely, as excited as I sound when the plan is in its nascent stages on a Thursday afternoon, all the excitement seeps away when Friday evening announces its presence. By then all I would love to do in the weekend would be to curl up in the couch, and read a book, or watch television. This probably has been one of (...)'

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The No Head or Tail Post

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 12/25/2012 1:58:00 PM

';;; It has been three months since I had last posted a blog, I could apologize for going AWOL from my blog to my readers,  but hey…… “Readers”? Who am I kidding?It has been a long time since I framed a coherent sentence in a word processor, it feels like getting back to the gym after a long break. You don’t hit the treadmill running right away, you just pace yourself slowly. This post shall be like that too, pacing myself, word by word.I feel like I am back in the nineties sinc(...)'

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NO MATTER FROM WHICHEVER ANGLE YOU TAKE, YOUR FACE WILL REMAIN THE SAME ONLY

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 9/8/2012 1:19:00 PM

';“The way to a man’s heart may be through his stomach, but the way to a woman’s heart is through a DSLR” -          Oscar WildeStudies have shown that there has been a rise in the sale of cameras since the advent of Facebook (A fact I’ve made up to add more weight to this post). A camera, that gadget which takes a picture of you while you are living the moment. It could be you sharing a laugh with your loved ones, delivering an acceptance(...)'

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The Art of Sending Friend Requests

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 9/2/2012 12:22:00 PM

';;;; Timing plays an essential part in our lives, be it the timing to punch the ball through the covers, or the comic timing to crack a joke to diffuse a situation, or the timing to pop up that question to the woman we love– “Will you please return the money you borrowed from me?” Timing is also a very crucial factor in sending friend requests to pretty women online­, something which I had learnt the hard way over the years. One has to build a proper rapport with a woman before clic(...)'

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No Space in Heaven

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 8/27/2012 4:44:00 PM

';;; It was a clear blue sky when the first one hit the ground with a thud, and then there was another.Thud!As the seconds passed the tick of the clock was punctuated with many more thuds, which were getting heavier by the minute. Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!The bright skies were engulfed with dark raging clouds that were spitting thunder and spewing lightning, signaling that the deluge had begun.Soon the streets were filled with what was falling from the sky, they were falling on th(...)'

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Purani Jeans

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 8/20/2012 3:13:00 PM

'“Hello there!”“What do you want?”“Wow, somebody seems to be in a bad mood” “I lost a pair of jeans on the trip”“Big deal, what’s the point of going on a trip if you haven’t lost anything during one? That way the trip becomes more memorable”“These are very costly jeans I am talking about, they must have cost 1500/- each ! You cannot expect me to be cool about losing a pair of jeans.”“When did you realize that you lost them?”“On my way back, yesterday on the train when I was goi(...)'

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Pointless Conversations

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 8/12/2012 5:52:00 PM

'“So did you call her up?”“I did”“What did she say?”“It started off well, I apologized and she accepted it…”“But…”“How did you know there was a “but” in the conversation?”“There is always a “but” in the conversation when a man tries to apologize to a woman.”“But the conversation became a bit too violent in between.”“Doesn’t matter as long as it ended amicably.”“It didn’t.”“That doesn’t sound good.”“I started off saying that I shouldn’t have treated her the way I did when I was with (...)'

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From a Hero to a Legend

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 7/21/2012 8:54:00 AM

'The Law of averages applies to everyone doesn’t it?  Everybody screws up at some point of time just to even out the frequency of their successes. Sportsmen have had a lean patch, actors have had movies that have bombed at the box office, and even the greatest of directors have floundered after having promised much. It is acceptable since we are human after all, but yet that dreaded Law seems to avoid one man in particular (much to our relief)–Christopher Nolan. He has never cea(...)'

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OHAI ! YOUR KID IS CUTE BUT WHY DON'T YOU LEAVE EM AT HOME!?

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 7/8/2012 4:31:00 PM

';;; The buildup to watching a movie begins when the teaser is released, then a few months later the trailer is released. The excitement reaches a fever pitch when the release date nears and the bookings open, you want to be among the ones to watch it in the first weekend that it releases. You wake up at 2 am and book the tickets, you take a printout and you brag about your achievement on facebook and twitter on how you have plans for the weekends. You get into the theatre early and (...)'

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Batman Begins – The Ascension

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 6/24/2012 7:18:00 AM

'I still remember that Sunday morning when I was a ten year old, Sunday mornings were something we eagerly awaited, but that was a day I was looking forward to with much anticipation for that was the day when Batman – The Animated Series was to be premiered on National TV at 10.30 am if my memory serves me right. When compared to other comic book heroes that we have grown up watching and reading, Batman comes with a darker tone much like his Bat Suit– a brooding crime fighter, with a(...)'

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The Price of Being Wise

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 6/17/2012 7:26:00 AM

';;;;;;;;;Wisdom comes with age, and it is built with failure. Every time we fail, we feel disheartened but the takeaway is that you get a tad wiser, you learn from your mistakes. Every time you stumble, your judgment becomes better. We pay a heavy price for experience and wisdom, one that cannot be measure monetarily, Life after all is a fair trader, what can’t be paid with money is paid with time.  As you near your thirties there comes this added pressure of sounding wiser, in(...)'

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Shanghai - Movie Review

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 6/10/2012 6:01:00 AM

'Bollywood has always found it tricky when it comes to crafting a film based on political themes, political dramas in the past have been either too preachy or have all the over-the-top ingredients of a commercial potboiler, Prakash Jha’s “Rajneeti” was an example of a director who wanted to make a political thriller but ended up making a movie which was heavily influenced by The Godfather and Mahabharat and ended up being loud and ridiculous. Just when it seemed that one cannot expec(...)'

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Max Payne – Kill Kill ! Faster Faster !

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 6/4/2012 6:04:00 PM

'Don't Angry HimAs the end credits of Max Payne 2 fade away to Poets of the Fall’s “Late Goodbye”, Rockstar Games had promised us that Max Payne’s journey into the night will continue. Max Payne­ – that angst ridden cop who in the previous two editions was in search of the ones who had murdered his wife and child, gunning down villains and their goons, mouthing off dialogues that word by word took us deeper into his troubled soul, and took us closer to his world whilst in Max’s body (...)'

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Those Little Moments of Victory

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 5/20/2012 4:59:00 AM

';;;; When in school we were always made to believe that what we study now will hold us good in the future. It’s been ages since I had passed out of school and college, and I am still waiting for that moment when I can use integral calculus or Einstein’s theory of relativity in my job of transferring data from one cell of the excel sheet to another, or even using trigonometry to find the angle of elevation of my office building at 3 P.M on a hot afternoon. I was an average student in(...)'

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Don Ko Bardasht Karna Mushkil Hi Nahi…..

Author : Anuraag Seshadri      Blog : Raag's Random Reflections      Date : 5/7/2012 4:30:00 PM

'The Khan full of Corn  I used to be a huge fan of SRK in school and in college, and then I grew up. While many of them still swear by his “powerhouse” performances it only makes me wonder if they watched the same movie as I did.  I had the misfortune of watching Don 2 the other day, at the end of which I thanked my stars that I had not wasted my money by watching it in theatre. The only good thing that had anything to do with Don 2 was its trailer, because you don’t get to(...)'

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