C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 832 )

• Marketing Battles – Part II

  (This was written in 1988 for the parting copy of the IIM-Bangalore hostel magazine IIMages as a spoof history of marketing management. Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Marketing Battles – Part I

  (This was written in 1988 for the parting copy of the IIM-Bangalore hostel magazine IIMages as a spoof history of marketing management. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Swimming Like a Stone

  I have always loved water. The moment I see a waterfall or a stream, it is off with the clothes (Well! Not all of them!) and into the water in a jiffy for me. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Gates of Hell

  Abdul was running for his life. Little Hussain, who was feather-light when he had started out, seemed to get heavier as he ran. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Espionage and Management

  (This is one of my hostel wall magazine write-ups when I (dis)graced the portals of IIM-Bangalore with my presence in 1986-88.) This is not a tale of guns and... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cooking Woes

  One of the dubious pleasures of bachelor life is that you can cook for yourself, especially if you have a stomach that does not take kindly to restaurant food. Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Guest Post for Alka Narula

  When I joined Indiblogger about four months back, I had been blogging extremely desultorily for a year and a half. I hardly ever read any other blog and the... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Two Minutes

  This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 29; the 29th Edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Yet Another Hair-raising Tale

  Once upon a time my hair covered my entire scalp like any good self-respecting carpet. Cross my heart! At least this time, I am telling the truth. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• River-Rafting – Shivpuri to Rishikesh

  I have little imagination when it comes to danger so it is relatively easy for me to contemplate doing things that could lead to injury. When it comes to... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Trek to Brahmital – Part II

  

  The next day’s trek was supposed to be about four hours to the next campsite at Gujjar Hut. The local guide, Pradeep, had a different name for the place –... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Trek to Brahmital – Part I

  

  Not having had any sort of physical exercise for nearly a year and having grown sideways in the process, I did not think that my trek to Brahmital was going to... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thrill and Spills

  I have this extraordinary knack of losing my balance under any circumstances. If ever any person was capable of finding a way to fall down and injure himself... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Blank Pages

  ! He stared down at them with the unaccustomed weight of a pen in his hands wondering desolately whether he had the words to get his life back. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Of Courage – Part II

  Courage has normally, and instinctively, been identified with physical courage. Physical courage is more common among people than what I choose to call Social... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Of Courage – Part I

  Courage goes hand-in-hand with fear. Where there is no fear there is no need for courage. Do you feel courageous when you walk across a two foot wide plank... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Atheism is Also Only a Belief

  Too often have I heard atheists proclaiming that Theism is unscientific and irrational. It seems to me that Atheism being an, as yet, unproven concept anyone wh... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Guest Post - How to Stay a Bachelor

  Ah! Me! Never thought I'd find anyone generous enough to inflict my writing through his blog and generally lower the tone of his blog. Pramod Lohia is either... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Season of Hope! A Season of Despair!

  This was our season of hope. There was an expectant buzz among all UVians. An undercurrent of uneasiness and even some quiet despair was apparent in some of... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Heaven in Hell - Part V

  “What is in it for me?” asked the Hell Warden.The Gatekeeper was in no pleasant mood. He was irritated with the Hell Warden for having put in place this... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION