C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 903 )

• 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

• Vicarious

  I have always been a big fan of living life vicariously. Real life is so damned messy. I mean, it is much easier to do things vicariously - people behave in... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Life is Like This!

  

  Fate does play some scurvy tricks on you. I mean, you do know that sort of thing. You visit someone's house along with friends, the meal is...err... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Unsung Geniuses

  There is a story that once the Goddess of good fortune - Sridevi - and the Goddess of misfortune - Moodevi - appeared in front of a Brahmin asking him which of... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Catharsis

  It's a strange world we live in. Very happy, almost deliriously so. Log onto to Facebook and you see people leading such brilliantly happy lives. Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• If Then Else

  Now that the IT sector is swamping us all, it seems like people also love the 'life' of a computer/digital device. I mean, it is a rather stress-free life if yo... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Vendetta

  There was this exciting sport which used to be practiced by Italians, more specifically attributed to the Sicilians, called the Vendetta. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• e-Narcissism

  I am slowly realizing that if something does not have an e-avatar it might as well not exist. That, though, is not likely to be a fate that Narcissism will... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Flummoxed by Reviews

  You know, I never really wanted the world to look up to me. I was quite content if it did not look down on me...well, even if it did, as long as it kept the... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ladders Everywhere

  I must have some sort of vertigo, though it does not seem to be the conventional kind. I mean, I can climb up ladders, literally, and even look down upon the... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION