Suresh Chandrasekaran's Blog

These are days when the desirability of being soft-spoken is considered highly over-rated. So, the very idea that you need to put in effort in order to become soft-spoken is...risible. AND yet...consider who you would want to surround yourself with? A bunch of loudmouths OR...Therein lies the quandary. You think of yourself as the chap who decides who will be in your company and assess the

There is no end to the trouble that comes with aiming for being a person of good character. It is difficult to shed the bad in you. If you strive to do that by keeping off temptation, there will always be people who will make fun of you for not having the strength of mind to kill temptation in the mind. If you do manage to become a person of good character by eventually shedding the temptation to

You have all heard often enough about all journeys start with a single step. Before ever you start, you also need to make up your mind that you can do it. AND after starting you need to have the determination to persist with it. Whether it is journeys or projects or learning...it is important to make up your mind to do it; to start doing it; and to persevere to the finish.Tiru, of course, has

There is this interesting quote that says 'When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it' or some such. Paulo Coelho, I believe, is credited with having written it in 'The Alchemist' or some such book. Made me think of the Universe as some sort of Blinkit which delivers what you ask for, you know. Just throw the wish out there and, presto, it gets delivered to

There is this thing about poet-philosophers. The poet tends to exaggeration to make his point. The philosopher delves into various facets of human nature. When you combine the two, you get things like, 'There is no worse enemy to success than impatience" and, later, "The worst enemy to success is anger" and so on. If you take it all literally, you get into debates about which characteristic is

It is quite possible that someone achieves success without having to struggle in the process to achieving it. Possible, yes, but probable? (Oh, yes, I have had people misquote Holmes, saying "When you have eliminated the improbable, what remains, however impossible, is true." Really? 'Impossible' means probability of occurrence is ZERO; 'improbable' means probability of occurrence is LOW. What's

As I have had reason to say, various human abilities are given pole position in different contexts by philosophers, especially if they are also poets. And, so, here we are with the most laudable ability of them all in today's post. Whether or not you agree is left to you.Ah, no, no, no, I am NOT the poet-philosopher that I am referring to. Tiru is.Enaiththitpam eidhiyak kannum vinaiththitpam

There is no dearth of advisers in the world. Get onto social media and ask ANY question and you will find scores of people ready with advice. People never let pesky little things like lack of knowledge get in the way of giving advice to other people. There is, therefore, this difficulty in knowing whose advice to take.Tiru has this to say...Utra noi neekki uraa-amai murkaakkum petriyaar

Assembly lines may come and mess up the tenets of production; Computers may come and kill the need for arithmetic abilities; AI may come and muck up things for all and sundry; but, for as long as man management exists, the basic principles of man management may probably not change. (What if ALL you employ is AI? Well, then, would the need for man management still exist?)And so it proves with Tiru

There is this general opinion that India has been the society of mystics and monks; a place where renunciation has been set at such a pinnacle that there is no respect for work. In a way it is true, since the ultimate goal of life is seen to be to renunciation. But that is not the whole truth, is it?After all, this IS the society that splits life into four parts - Brahmacharya, Grihastha,