C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 828 )

• The Ability to Quote

  God must have been having an off day (AND the mother of all off days) when He made me. The number of things that He seems to have left out in the process is... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Impressing People

  I know you must think that I am a glutton for punishment because I keep going to friends for advice when it has never really worked well for me but what would... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Writerly Rant

  If only I had known that they had totally changed the job description of an author, I may never have set foot into this area. From childhood onward, I had alway... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Love Tech

  I know I am of the age where I am supposed to go, "In the good old days..." and progress from thereon to how the world is going to hell in a hand-basket now. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fishing for Compliments

  I have never been any good at fishing, except when I fish for compliments. THEN I am all enthusiasm, baiting my hook and dangling it into the stream of Society... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• I, the Orator

  As an orator, I make an excellent gymnast. Better by far than any of the gymnasts winning Olympic medals, since they only seem to do one feat at a time. Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Master of Big Issues

  I have figured out why I have not set the world on fire, getting people to run around after me waving selfie sticks. The problem, as usual, is luck - the luck... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• What's in a Name?

  I never really did bother about names and, if I ever had stopped to think about it, I would probably have shrugged my shoulders and said,"What's in a name?"... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Do It Well?

  Seivana thirunda sei - Tamil Proverb Translation(sort of) : What is worth doing is worth doing well I would love it if, just once, there is one of these proverb... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Olympian Regrets

  Goal of Team India at the Olympics: Rio jao. Selfies lo. Khaali haat wapas aao. What a waste of money and opportunity. I know that there is this almost insane... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• This Day and That Day

  It IS getting a bit monotonous, yes, but here I am, again, not being able to understand something that the whole world takes for granted. Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Great Kashmir Lakes Trek - III

  

  This was the first time I was dropping out of a trek halfway. But, then, this was the first time I was about to do a High Altitude (OR any altitude) horse ride... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Great Kashmir Lakes Trek - II

  

  There is nothing that frightens me more than to go on a trek and have people exclaim, 'Oh! You are a veteran trekker!" Somehow, human beings seem wired to try t... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Great Kashmir Lakes Trek - I

  

  Just as I was thinking that this Nemesis that was stalking me on every trek had turned its attention to someone else, up it pops again and says that it was... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Familiarity Breeds Contempt

  Now! Now! Is that polite of you? I start off with 'Familiarity breeds contempt' and is it nice of you to say, "With some, the first sight counts as familiarity... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Bad Workman Blames His Tools

  It is so nice to come across one of these wise phrases that cannot injure me in the ego. Everyone in the past seems to have spent his time in coining phrases... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Nothing Succeeds Like Success

  There I go, searching for the route to success and someone pops up with this one - Nothing succeeds like success. Indeed! So, if I want to succeed, I must have... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Letting Go

  I cannot be held responsible if you automatically thing of the peculiar adhesiveness of people in power and their respective posts, the moment I say 'Letting... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Controversy

  I am a rather strange person, as most of you know by now. When I see a wasps' nest, for example, I am not seized by an irresistible impulse to pick a stick and... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Bachelor and a Baby

  "Ngyamaooonyamaeee" "Look! Look! He is calling you mama." I hastily wiped that incredulous look on my face and put on a suitably impressed look, as my... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION