C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 873 )

• Quotation Bias

  Way back in school, I was taught to pepper any speech with quotes to lend weight to whatever I was speaking about, especially when it came to public speaking.... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2021 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 2021

  This new year 2021 comes around in strange circumstances. Up to now, by and large, wishing for a happy new year came tripping off the tongue. Optimism never... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2021 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Show Time at the Office

  It's rather funny how things that you tend to think of things learned for some purpose to be exclusively of use for that purpose. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hate the Sin First?

  It never pays to assume that you have mastered something in the practice of philosophy. Never. It, perhaps, is fine as long as you are hugging the thought to... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Golden Silence

  "Silence is golden", they used to tell me in my youth. I used to be duly impressed and think very highly of silence even at that age when I had no clue why... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• What People Say

  "But what will people say," used to be one of the bugbears of my youth. And, of course, I used to be pretty much contemptuous of the 'oldies' for bothering abou... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Keep It Simple

  You know the sort of advice that has everyone nodding in acceptance when it is handed out? That, generally, is precisely the sort of advice that people find... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Maturity

  I never really managed to understand what the heck this 'maturity' really means. I go around checking out what various people think about it and, from the... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Of Discontent and Progress

  Say anything and there is always someone who will find something wrong in it. Even if he has to analyse it nano-meter by nano-meter. And, so, when I say... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Change All, Change Nought

  "I did not quite get what you meant by working within the other person's bview of the world. You know, when you were talking about convincing people," I... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Arguing and Convincing

  "You wrote a series on logical fallacies some time back, didn't you?""Hmmm...", I said, apprehensively. This sort of start to a conversation almost always... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Conditional Happiness

  You know, this happiness thing is really strange. Most things in life that you truly want, you are willing to bend over backwards to get them. Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Multi-purpose Tasking?

  "I read your blog about what this chap was saying," said a friend, gesturing to the other chap in the room, "about purposes and all."I actually did not hear muc... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Milestones

  "So, what did you understand from what I said the other day about ambition and purpose?"Huh! So, now I have to pass an exam on what I thought was an idle... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Of Ambition and Purpose

  "You know, people never really understand the difference between ambition and purpose."Why me, Lord? Why do people think I am not only interested in this sort o... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Comparisons

  "You know, you missed the point when you were talking about expectations."The world has two types of people. The ones who just paste a smile on their faces and... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Great Expectations

  I never realized how what actually happened matters comparatively little to how happy we can be. Till the day I walked out, sore in mind and body, after I had... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Judging by the Cover

  When they said, "Don't judge a book by the cover," I nodded enthusiastically. I mean, yeah, it was a wonderful feeling that, for once, there was a piece of... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Then and Now

  Yeah, I know that the moment you see that title "Then and Now" and put it together with my age, you will add it up to a post on how in the 'good old days' we... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Man of Few Words

  Almost any person who has met me in person, and most especially those with whom I have felt comfortable about riding my hobbyhorses, will recoil in indignation... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2020 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION