C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 832 )

• 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

• Contradictory Proverbs

  As though it is not enough that proverbs are difficult to understand, they also turn out to be contradictory on occasion. Then, it is up to you to choose what... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Proverbial Lessons?

  One of the main reasons why I never learnt what people chose to call the 'lessons of life' is because people never talk straight when they are giving such... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Much Ado About 'Nothing'

  When you have nothing to say, say nothing! Easy to say, but whoever said it was not a blogger. I mean, if I started remaining silent only because I have... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The BIG Picture

  "I am afraid you are not seeing the big picture here. Your suggestion is all right from your standpoint but does not fit into the big picture. Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Less Than Three

  When I first encountered “< 3” in Social media, I am afraid I thought it was some esoteric mathematical formula. The problem with having spent your collegiat... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Out of the Box

  There is this old Tenali Raman story about how the King once told Tenali Raman to never show his face to the King again. TR, apparently, then wore a pot with tw... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION