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!
MY BLOGS
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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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Self Portrayal
(A year that starts with repeated travel. Off-contact again for the next five days) The number of things I am mistaken in, if laid side by side, would probably... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Birders Again - Chilika Lake
I know you people have lost hope of being free of the bird-brain but you must have thought that you had, at least, finished with the Birders. Not really! There... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Bird-brain Among Birders
A trip to Sunderbans only evoked a pleasant feeling of going out into wilderness and, maybe, manage to see a few wild animals while I was at it. Read more
Posted on 20 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Monkey See Monkey Do
(I am off on a wilderness trip from tomorrow and shall be back only on 18th. Please read this piece before you start your joyous dancing! Read more
Posted on 06 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Influential People
I have always been fascinated by the things that people do not do because they are worried about "What people will say". Anything that I do not understand... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Me - An Author?
I know - the moment you people read the title you are probably expecting me to be telling you all about how my every attempt at making conversation was treated... Read more
Posted on 25 December 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Reunions
For all those who considered me an ass - and an exemplary one at that - I need to say that you were all wrong. I have reason to know that donkeys the world... Read more
Posted on 23 December 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
An Arrogant AAP?
I hardly ever talk of politics - primarily because I prefer not talking about what I do not know. (Eh! What do you mean that, if that were true, I should not... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Chakra by Ritu Lalit - A Book Review
Urban fantasy has myriad forms. At one level, it can be akin to horror tales - with vampires, werewolves and other such paranormal creatures - and, to my mind,... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
The Other Side by Faraaz Kazi - A Book Review
Tales of the paranormal are, almost invariably, associated with the horror genre. In other words, the reader expects to feel the delicious shuddery feeling of... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Handwriting
It is about time I enshrined the excellence of my handwriting. The time seems to be fast approaching when people will be saying,"People actually used to write... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Success Again
It is almost a truism that it is the 'unsuccessful' who have a multiplicity of reasons for their lack of success. The successful, almost invariably, have only... Read more
Posted on 25 November 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
An Envious 'Humorist'
If it is truly possible for someone who is normally colored brown - shading off to black in the sun-burnt parts - to really turn green, then I would disappear... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Pity
"What a pity that he was taking a leak when they were distributing brains", said a friend of me in the sort of sotto voce comment that is meant to be audible... Read more
Posted on 13 November 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Praise Me
I was probably born with a placard hanging around my neck saying, "Praise Me". Unfortunately, it was probably written in some language that no-one could read -... Read more
Posted on 11 November 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
A Martian Rage
It is seldom that I get truly enraged. But, now, I am hardly able to contain myself. Whenever I think of those ISRO guys my blood boils and steam shoots out of... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Making People Pay - A Book Review
It is ironic that I should be reviewing a book of Taxation, considering that I shut down my consultancy merely because I was putting in more effort in... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Eco-Diwali
I have always had a hatred of loud noises. A hatred accentuated by the fact that, just as I am lolling on my settee and avidly watching the Diwali movie on TV,... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Let Down by Feminism
When I first heard of Feminism, I doubt whether there were many in the world who rejoiced about it as much as I did. Here, at last, was a social movement that... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Shakespearean Philosophy?
There are those people, I am told, who read those tomes of the words of the greats and try to derive the philosophy whereby to lead their lives. Read more
Posted on 24 October 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION