C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 834 )

• Of Sour Grapes

  There is this fable (Aesop’s) about a fox that found a grape vine with luscious grapes hanging from it. It tried every means at its disposal and found that it... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Black is Also Good

  How much of our attitudes owe themselves to language and how much of language owes itself to our attitudes? For example, we extend people a warm welcome. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ad Agonies, Again

  I seem to be developing a lot of irrational fears thanks to ads. For example, when I am out on the streets, I am always looking warily around for people who... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Road Trip to Kanchi

  ‘What??’ I said, horrified. I was in Bangalore for a vacation and alone in the house for a couple of days when my friend proposed that I accompany him on a... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Change the Way You Value People

  Hmmm! Should I be honest in expressing what changes I really want in Society? That I would want the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to confer $1 billion on... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Touch of the Divine

  Ever looked up at the sky to see a sky like black velvet with a glorious multitude of diamond-bright stars strewn all over it? Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Of Nature and Human Nature

  It was a whole different world in the sixties and seventies in Neyveli and the memories of those days are still green for me. Vignettes of those days still pop... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cricketing Gentlemen

  Cricket is not only a game of the cliched 'glorious uncertainties' but also a game of glorious irrationality. I know of few other games where you have rules of... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Of Journalistic 'perfection'

  I have always had this blind spot about people not bothering to aim for perfection in what they do. The 'chalta hai' attitude is not only the bane of our societ... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ads - The Best of Programs on TV?

  Ads are a never-ending source of entertainment. Even when I cannot make any sense of a few of them, they do engage my mind like a crossword puzzle that I never... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Stress and Achievement

  Hari, a software engineer turned organic farmer, was saying that a mango tree yields fruits when stressed. Deprive it of water for a few days or expose it to... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Brahmagiri Trek

  My previous trek to Brahmagiri was in the rains and the moisture not only soaked you to the skin but brought out every leech in the state – or so it appeared. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Tip-of-the-tongue Syndrome

  Yesterday I found myself groping for the name of a person in the middle of a conversation. Considering that I had visited the blog of that person not more than... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Trek in Goa

  My previous visit to Goa, in my long gone youth, was the usual touristy affair replete with feni and a prurient young Indian male’s enjoyment of the fabled... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2009 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION