C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 838 )

• 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

• Smash Thine Enemy?

  It is sort of normal for me to see people exalting Tamil in Tamil movie posters but that exaltation very seldom carries over to actually excerpting anything fro... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Austerities Lead to Wealth?

  Ilar Palar aagiya kaaranam norpaar silar palar nolaadhavar - TirukkuralMany are poor and few rich because the few do austerities and the many do not - Loose... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Sharpest Weapon?

  When anyone talks of ancient wisdom, you automatically assume that the chap is going to spout off about how 'Love conquers all' and how money is the root cause... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Who Needs Reality?

  There is this scene in one of the Matrix movies where a character bites into a hamburger and says something like "I know this is not real. But who cares? It... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Replaced by Bots?

  There was this sudden flurry of people putting up poetry (mostly what poets would dismissively call 'rhymes') and essays and whatnot, leading me to wonder... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Squeeze the Juice

  My earliest memories of this juice-squeezing were of home made lemon juice. Back then (oh, yeah, were you not expecting this phrase to pop up sooner or later? Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Post-Opinion Psyche

  "Remember you wrote something about the various uses of 'My'? You know - My hand, My house, My city, yada yada?"..."Why are you looking like a moronic sheep? Yo... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Becoming a Groupie

  I recently came across someone using what amounts to an archaeological artifact. What, for want of a better word, is called a dumb phone. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Propriety and Success

  The strange thing about Success is that it has many fathers. In more than one way. Yup, once you succeed there will be a lot of people who will claim their... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION