C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 832 )

• Open Letters

  As in most things in life, I had a very mistaken impression about these 'Open Letters'. (Yeah! I know - You think I am the world's leading exponent of... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Words of Importance - Learning Curve

  I am sure you must have experienced this. There are those times when a word keeps jumping up at you. You hear it from one friend and, then, it pops up in an... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Trek to Chandrashila Peak

  

  There is an old joke from my youth about a Russian, an American and an Indian. Russian: We have submarines that go down to the sea-floor. Indian : All the way t... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Panchatantra with a Twist: The Bird and the Monkeys

  When winter came to the mountain, the gang of monkeys were unable to bear the cold. They collected the wild red berries, thinking they were embers, and blew... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Words of Importance - Team-Player

  This word (Phrase?) 'Team-player' is actually one of the well-meaning words in the management lexicon. It was originally intended to denote a person like a... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Panchatantra with a Twist : The Turtle and the Swans

  It was a drought year and the water in the pond was disappearing. Two swans, Sankat and Vikat, were worried about their friend - the turtle, Kambugriva - who... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Words of Importance - Downsizing

  The importance of jargon, in any science or social science, is normally to serve as a shorthand for concepts that would consume too many words to put across. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Panchatantra with a Twist - The Blue Jackal

  A jackal, Chandaraka, driven to seek food in a town by hunger is chased by a group of mongrels and hides in a vat of blue dye and ends up getting dyed blue. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Have Opinion, Will Speak

  You know what? There are really surprising people in this world. People who really think that, even if you have an opinion, it is not always necessary to spout... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Words of Importance - Synergy

  I have been lax in just assuming that the meaning I know for words IS the correct meaning for those words ('HOW could you? When was the last time you were... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Panchatantra with a Twist : The Bug and the Flea

  A bed-bug, named Mandavisarpini, had made a home in the bed of a king. One day it saw a flea, named Agnimukha, coming in and tried to shoo it out. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Words of Importance - Strategy

  I really do not know what we management types would do if we did not have this word 'strategy'. Without it, we would feel much less important, unenthusiastic... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• All About Arnab

  I have been suffering from an overdose of Arnab Goswami thanks to a news-addicted friend's visit. The experience has come close to being life-changing, insofar... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Culture - Fragile, Handle with Care

  It is shocking to realize that I have all along been totally oblivious of what is happening around me. Worse still, I have been living in a fool's paradise... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Words of Importance - Scenario

  "We are planning to increase our production in anticipation of higher demand for our products." "If people do not actually buy more, we may lose a lot of money. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Panchatantra with a Twist - Netted Pigeons

  Now, there was this flock of pigeons whose head was friends with a mouse. One day, the pigeons found a lot of grains scattered in a field and descended to peck... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Approval

  'Practice makes you perfect' or some such thing, they say, and it is probably true. Whatever else I practiced or not, the one thing I know that I practiced... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Body Modesty

  

  'Where every prospect pleases and only man is vile', is probably your first reaction to this photograph from my recent Kothagiri trek. (Yeah! Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Maundering About Laundering

  So, I am mucking around trying to find something to write about, and someone sends me a prompt about laundering men (actually, non-laundering men). Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Advising - Inadvisable?

  This business of advising is so dangerous. There you go, happily mouthing off wisdom and then, suddenly, you discover that you have dug a pit for yourself and... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION