C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 827 )

• Action and Words

  I was traveling by a SETC bus in Tamil Nadu and the bus passed by a political meeting where the speaker was promising Heaven on Earth once he came to power. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Medicare Unnecessary?

  You near the time when you are respected (OR, to be realistic, discarded) as a senior citizen, you tend to worry more about health than anything else. Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Avoid the Unknown?

  The general trend in advice is that it tends to be conservative. As, indeed, it ought to be especially when it is general advice meant for public consumption,... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Useless Effort?

  There is this thing which has always struck me as quaint. I have heard it quite often, especially when it comes to movies that failed. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Risky Investment?

  One of the most popular things you can do on social media or, indeed, media of any kind is to offer investment advice. Though, to be sure, it is more the kind o... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Everybody Knows?

  I made the mistake of saying "One of my friends..." in a conversation and the group 'Grammar Nazi' (G.N. for short) was all over me about how the right usage wa... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ephemeral Fame?

  It is not what you think, drat it. It's not effing sour grapes. I'm not dissing fame because I have no way of getting even a modicum of it in any manner... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Recency Bias

  There is this strange thing about who people choose to call the G.O.A.T (Greatest Of All Times, in case you are still under the rock from where I just recently... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Superlative?

  I had always assumed that 'better' was better than 'good' and 'best' was the best of them all. Stands to reason, does it not? I mean, what is being merely 'good... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tempering Temper

  When it comes to anger, almost everyone who dispenses advice seems to be against it. I mean, yeah, some are quite fine with it, provided you do not act on it... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Deliberate, Then Decide

  This beast called management, and all its associated importance, may well have been defined as such, segregated as a separate field of study and taught in the... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Analysis Before Action?

  I have not been a great fan of picking on the Bhagavad Gita, say, and drawing management lessons from it. I mean, really, there are some texts that are meant... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Multiverse?

  The idea of a multiverse has always been fascinating to me. Don't ask me why, though. I mean, like, it is not as though I have a complete experience of the... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Never Wrong?

  "You remember making fun of subtitles in movies and shows? The one where you were joking about 'Eerie music' etc?""Of course I do," I said. Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sengol?

  Ah! No, no, no! If you walked in here expecting me to either talk of the importance of the Sengol or to lament the iniquity of its treatment in the past OR to... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Music Has No Language?

  I did not understand this 'Music has no language' thingy to start with. I mean, music meant essentially film music for me and I could hardly enjoy it unless I... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Intermittent Fasting

  You know how it goes. You have never heard of a thing and are quite blissful not knowing about it. Someone mentions it once in your vicinity and, suddenly, it... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Delegation

  You think you have been granted some rare esoteric and cutting edge knowledge and then discover that it has been common know-how for hundreds of years. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Smelling Roses

  "Roses stink!" said my friend.There was a gasp of surprise from the assembled lot of friends at this blasphemy. Me, I nodded knowingly.You see, you get this... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• What is Reality?

  Ever since the advent of social media, especially everyone's favorite alma mater - WhatsApp university, I have been forced to wonder about the nature of reality. Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION