C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 832 )

• Old Fables New Morals - Hercules and the Wagoner

  So, there was this wagoner driving his cart on a rainy day when his wheels sank down in the slush and the cart would not move. Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Old Fables New Morals - The Wind and the Sun

  This comparison thing that I was talking of some time back seems to have infected everything. Like, there is this fable by a laddie called Aesop (who seemed to... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Comparison Game

  Like all of us, my first introduction to this comparison game was as a child. Of course, I had no idea that this is the game I was expected to play, and excel... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moral of the Story

  As a kid, the words I used to dread were, 'So, tell me, what is the moral of the story?' Invariably, whatever I understood from the story turned out to be... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Impressing People - the Easy Way

  You know, every time I see people looking at me, impressed with my intelligence or my sense of humor or whatever, I do not even have to pinch myself. I know I... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A License to Be Rude

  It is either that there is a strong streak of masochism in me or that I feel it is better to be criticized than to be ignored. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Only What I Owe

  "People are so demanding. They are never content", I burst out as soon as I sighted my friend. 'There he goes again', I hear you saying, and how right you are. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Communication Lessons III

  You know, this wiring diagram idea of human reactions really had something in it. I know, I have not had much success with my phrases but I think that there... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Communication Lessons II

  I have always been a people-pleaser. Or, more realistically, a people-pleaser-trier, if that makes any sense. You know, the sort of guy who always tries to... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Communication Lessons

  What is the one question that almost all human beings seek the answer for? For most of their lives? Yeah, I know, there are those strange beings who want "Who a... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bilbliophilic Elitism

  You know, the worst of claiming to be a reader is that people assume you are well-read. The problem is the books that they expect you to have read. Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Quantum Facts

  You know, as usual, I am behind the curve. If that is the right thing to say of my sort of person. You know, the guy who wears narrow trousers when... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Confidence Lessons-III

  The times, they are a changing. And, in the process of changing, they can rob you of confidence as well. Not merely as in finding that your nephew knows more... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Confidence Lessons-II

  Maybe my friend is right. I have not even taken the first step towards appearing confident. I mean, when I do not even think that I have a right to my opinion,... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Confidence Lessons

  This confidence thing always has me beat. Not the thing about 'being confident', that's relatively a simple affair especially when you stick to doing what you... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Empathy?

  I was reading this poem that kept popping up on my timeline on Facebook. I know, I know, I hardly ever read poetry because I never really understand it. But,... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• How You Ought to Live - IV

  There are those people who have a rather wholesale idea about thinking up ways for 'How you ought to live'. Most people are content dealing with people on a... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• How You Ought to Live - III

  This micro-managing of life, it is not all about 'How you ought to eat' though that has been the most vexing thing for me. I mean, yeah, I am of those who... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• How You Ought to Live - II

  I had no idea that there was so much micro-managing possible when people set out to decide how other people ought to live. I was sort of relieved once I got to... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• How You Ought to Live

  By now it is no surprise to anyone that the only two grey cells in my brain are not on talking terms with each other. So, I obviously have great difficulty in... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION