C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 873 )

• More Inimical Than Enemies?

  There is this thing about poet-philosophers. The poet tends to exaggeration to make his point. The philosopher delves into various facets of human nature. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Troubling Trouble?

  It is quite possible that someone achieves success without having to struggle in the process to achieving it. Possible, yes, but probable? Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Laudable Ability?

  As I have had reason to say, various human abilities are given pole position in different contexts by philosophers, especially if they are also poets. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Get Good Consultants?

  There is no dearth of advisers in the world. Get onto social media and ask ANY question and you will find scores of people ready with advice. Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• HR Cannot Be Always Right?

  Assembly lines may come and mess up the tenets of production; Computers may come and kill the need for arithmetic abilities; AI may come and muck up things for... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Society's Foundation?

  There is this general opinion that India has been the society of mystics and monks; a place where renunciation has been set at such a pinnacle that there is no... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Happy Forgetfulness

  One tends to think of joy as an undiluted benefit. And, yes, when you are happily celebrating the last thing you want is someone disturbing the mood with... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Useless Eyes?

  No, no, this is not a diatribe about how eyes are useless if used only to binge-watch OTT series. Nor, indeed, is it a push for the latest online tutorial... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Your Money is My Money?

  There are these times when a philosopher's advice seems so attractive to you merely because it allows you to interpret it to suit yourself. Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• To See Through

  There are these things that are told over and over again, so much so that you dismiss them as cliches. Apparently Goebbels said (AND thereby fathered... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Knowing Limits

  There are times when you need to be told the most obvious things. Advice is not always the esoteric or the deep things that only the wise may know. Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fortune Magnet?

  Who does not want to attract good fortune? It is all fine to tout the merits of sacrifice and the benefits of renjunciation. BUT, even when it comes to that, yo... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Worst Sin?

  There are times, though, when you would feel that philosophers are not alway blathering fools; that what they say can, every now and then, make sense. Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Chasing the Ephemeral

  There are times when philosophers actually seem to live in a totally different universe from the one you inhabit. (I have said that before? Privilege of age to... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Maximising Success?

  Now and then, philosophers pay attention to the fact that men may not possess immense talent. You lose hope about their ever paying attention to people like us... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Silence Can Be Really Golden?

  Yeah, yeah, it is true that when someone is riding his hobbyhorse he would prefer that his audience keeps quiet. After all, nothing pleases a speaker more than... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• More Fearsome Than Fire?

  There are times when what the philosopher says is too tough to follow. AND there are these other times when the philosopher seems to consider as tough what you... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Patience Wins?

  The problem with advice is that it, almost invariably, runs counter to what you want to do. (I have said it before? Well, then, the other problem with advice... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Blame Yourself?

  The one thing you can be sure about philosophers is that they will find a way to make YOU the reason for your problems. Not for them the sympathetic posture whe... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• True Wealth?

  Sometimes, you end up not understanding philosophers simply because you tend to see those issues from a different vantage point than the one they intended. Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2025 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION