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!
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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 ( 798 )
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Bertrand Russell and Politics
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this", says Bertrand Russell and that is... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Bertrand Russell and Dogma
Of all the philosophers I have read, I love Bertrand Russell the most. Of course the first reason is his sense of humor. To give but one example, when nuns... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Keynes - Interesting?
The idea of an economist being interesting - other than to other economists - must be fairly difficult to swallow. The common perception would be of a man, who... Read more
Posted on 16 June 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
The Entertaining Einstein
I love Einstein. For a genius, he was a pretty down-to-earth chap. He endeared himself to me with his explanation of Relativity - "When you are courting a nice... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
There is a lot of fun in messing up with existing stories. To be sure, though, I am not too sure that I can do it here on my blog. "Time to book a place in the... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Me? Lazy?
I am a much misunderstood man. Oh! I know! I know! Everyone is so busy running around to find someone to understand them that they cannot spare the time to... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Positively Rich?
Clad in a colorful wrapper, that luscious bit of chewy bubblegum beckoned me with a siren call. Alas, it was not charm that would draw it to me but only filthy... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Meet and Greet?
It is not enough that you have to learn your so-called three 'R's (And, no-one has given me a satisfactory explanation for why they call Writing and Arithmetic... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Dressing Decently
Give me an instruction manual with clearly defined rules and I am comfortable. Something like "If he kicks you in the pants, he does not like you' and I know... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Boys Will Be Boys?
The world is a perplexing place to live in, as more intelligent people than me (which is about all of the rest of the world's population) have found. Read more
Posted on 26 May 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Winning
Did I ever tell you the only time I ever voluntarily entered a foot-race - as opposed to the times at school when you were coerced into doing all sorts of... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Confused
I have always been a very confused sort of person. (You knew that always? The things you already know, after you have been told! Read more
Posted on 19 May 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Scratch My Back, Please
As it often happens with me, I was in dire need of advice. There was this friend who was supposed to be wise in the ways of the world and I went to him. "I... Read more
Posted on 15 May 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Proverbial Cliches?
The problem with people is that they label some things as cliches and think that, therefore, they are useless. A cliche becomes a cliche ONLY because it is... Read more
Posted on 12 May 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Truncated Proverbs?
What a proverb actually has communicated can only be ascertained from the results upon Society. If a proverb purports to describe Society, then what it describe... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Proverbs Requiring Interpretation
Then there are those proverbs that really yield no meaning unless you spend time on interpreting them. Probably invented by the sort of people whom we all know. Read more
Posted on 05 May 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Proverbs of Convenience
Sometimes, it seems to me, that a person pushing his case using a metaphor ends up creating a proverb. Like a certain Goebbels is reputed to have said, 'Keep... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
More Contradictory Proverbs?
It seems to me that some things, which are said for effect, tend to become proverbs and end up giving an impression of being in contradiction of other proverbs. Read more
Posted on 28 April 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Contradictory Proverbs - Again?
I had a few other contradictory proverbs handed to me on a platter in the comments to my previous posts. On in-depth analysis (Yes! I know! Read more
Posted on 25 April 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Discarded Proverbs
Talk of proverbs and good old Bill pops up like a bad penny, every time. This time, though, I must admit he popped up as a consequence of that '.. Read more
Posted on 22 April 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION