C. Suresh
I am an Engineer and a Management graduate from IIM-Bangalore. Accepting the definition that "Even if you win a rat-race, you still remain a rat" I have opted out of it in favor of trekking, travel and, now, blogging!
MY BLOGS
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Life is Like This
http://www.jambudweepam.blogspot.in/
A bit of trekking, a lot of travel, a dose of humor and a dollop of philosophy
LATEST ARTICLES ( 832 )
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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 -
Opinions
I really need someone to explain this opinions thing. I mean, yeah, it is not like I never had any, I have some but the problem seems to be that I am one of... Read more
Posted on 12 March 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Change
I hate change! Oh! I know, you guys will all come around preaching sententiously that change is the only constant and I should not be such a stick-in-the-mud an... Read more
Posted on 05 March 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Writer's Block
I kept hearing of this thing called 'Writer's block', which keeps writers from writing, and wondered exactly what it could be. Read more
Posted on 15 January 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Another Humorist
There is this problem with being a humorist. You keep guessing the punchline, expecting kinky ways of describing things and so on, to the extent that when... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2018 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Aadhaared
I thought technology would make life easy for me. "Aha! That's what YOU think", they say, and get to work to ensure that life becomes even more complicated. Tak... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
A Trek to Kudremukh
When you board a train for a trek and, within minutes find someone else claiming, "25 is MY berth" only to later find that his berth is 26, it can be smiled... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Parsimony
I have never understood why we are so unjust to some words. I mean, look, we have words meaning practically the same thing and one word we sort of consider... Read more
Posted on 13 November 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Dogged by the Discerning
Into everyone's life some rain must fall. The problem, though, is that when it comes to my life it falls continuously and with all the fury of a Bombay monsoon. Read more
Posted on 06 November 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Low Hanging Fruit
There are two ways to be considered learned. One is to know things that most people do not know. The other is to talk of things in a manner that people do not... Read more
Posted on 30 October 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
This Game Called Bridge
Ever heard of this card game called Bridge? One of the stupidest games I have ever heard of, let me tell you. I mean, yes, I know games need not necessarily be... Read more
Posted on 23 October 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Acronyms
You know, it is difficult to imagine what the world would be like without acronyms. Especially in the social sciences. I rather fancy that 90% of the work of... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Freedom of Speech
I wish I had been born a generation later. So many things have changed for the better for the child that it would have made a tremendous improvement to my... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Argumentum Ad Populum
THIS should certainly have got the academics into hot water. I mean, 'Vox Populi, Vox Dei' (The voice of the people is the voice of God) after all and these guy... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Survivorship Bias
You know, there are some things that seem so apparent when someone says it but never as clear when it happens in real life. Take this 'survivorship bias' for... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Argumentum Ad Baculum
Academics are such spoilsports. If you find an easy way to do things, they find a way to tell you why it is wrong and why you should not be allowed to do it. Read more
Posted on 11 September 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Tu Quoque
Have you wondered why common things tend to have uncommon names? Or get referred to by uncommon, rather hifalutin terms? Must be because telling it in an... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION