C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 828 )

• 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

• Timely Help

  Kaalatthaal seidha udhavi siridheninum gnalatthin maana peridu - Tirukkural Timely help, however low in value, is worth more than all the world - Loose... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Becoming Modern

  You know, as you keep aging you keep getting dated. The bell-bottoms, which were the acme of fashionable dressing, make people think that you are a clown escape... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Discussions

  I may have mentioned this before. I really do have very peculiar notions of most things in life. No wonder whenever I am in a group of people, there is this... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Homo Contradictus

  God must have been in a particularly capricious mood when he created us humans. Or, perhaps, like all of us, he left everything to the last moment and, when he... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION