C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 832 )

• 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

• Love is Life?

  That must be about the most cliched of cliches in the world, this statement that 'Love is Life'. I mean, literature is rife with romances where people feel... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Done Unto You

  You get advised to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The presumption is, I suppose, that the way you behave with others is the way they shall... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Unworthy People?

  The easiest thing in the world is to identify unworthy people, isn't it? If someone holds opinions different from yours, he is obviously unworthy. Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Expectations and Morals

  There are rules, there are laws and then there are these unwritten mores of conduct. You sort of expect that the laws and rules exist to ensure that everyone... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Forbearance

  Virtue always seems to exist in only the most difficult things to do. Anything easy to do is very seldom accepted as virtuous much like anything good to eat is... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Greatest Wealth?

  The quest for wealth is never-ending for us humans but, you know, we depend of others to tell us what IS wealth. I mean, there would have been a time when a... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2023 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION