C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 906 )

• 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

• Irresolute Resolutions?

  Every time, around the end of a year, I suddenly get the feeling that I should do something in my life. A strange feeling since, normally, I feel that living... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Year That Was

  I have seldom been the sort to feel any great expectations from the end of one year and the start of another. A cow placidly chewing cud is unlikely to be... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• School Reunion Again

  

  Reunion time again! P.Suresh, Subroto and Anand had organized the reunion at Alankrita Resorts in Hyderabad, with the backing of Suchitra Ella (Naidu, that was). Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sabha Rage

  I have always had a regret. Being a non-driver, I have sorely missed experiencing that adrenaline rush of road-rage. I have always had to sit in gape-mouthed... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Do I Like Writing?

  The more I deal with the world of writing, the less confident I feel about whether I really like writing. Somehow, I had always had this feeling that a love... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Artist's Creativity Vs Audience Expectation - T.M. Krishna

  Art forms flourish based on the creativity of the artistes. If the creative endeavors of artistes are too closely trammeled, it could end up stultifying the... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION