Suresh Chandrasekaran's Blog, page 48

Analog man in a digital world

I was bubbling with excitement as I entered my friend's house. The sight of a few other mutual friends gave me pause but did not dampen my enthusiasm, as it normally would. Yeah, it is true, that when more than one of my friends congregate, the consensus on my IQ is a full 50 points below what it would be with a single person thereby putting my IQ in the single digits but today...ah..today, I

Of heroes and villains

Now that all the minor issues that can engage humanity's brains have been taken up - with Hawkings and his ilk bothering about 'Why and what is the universe?'; Trump and his ilk ably handling how to help people live with each other; and any number of gurus fighting to tell you the truth of what happens to you after death, burial or cremation or being fed to the vultures apart - I can

Early to rise?

(Just to keep you guys posted, my book's review was carried in Business Standard here http://www.business-standard.com/arti... If you read it and are overcome by a passion to buy the book, you can always click on the image to the right and go to the book-links :) ) "Early to bed and early to rise

What if...

This process of making legislation seems to involve a lot of thinking up What ifs. Lawyers seem to revel if thinking up possibilities which need to be covered by the law. You know how it goes - "What if this happens? Put in a clause for that. What if that happens? Put in some condition to cover that..." My first brush with this was when I had to put up the implications of the ordinance that the

Pictures

There I stood, restlessly shifting from leg to leg, as my aunt and uncle browsed through the family album. Why the sight of my sulky face glaring into the camera should hold any more fascination than the same sulky face glaring live at them I will never know, but so it was. Or, rather, maybe it was not MY face but the faces of the rest of my family that held their attention. If only they would

The Law of Equality?

I hate math much like most of humanity. (I know! I know! The very idea that you may share any trait with me makes you want to crawl into a hole and pull it in after you. But, before you start digging, just think. After all, you too probably have a couple of eyes, only one nose, one mouth etc. and so do I...) The funny thing, though, is that I shy away from it when it IS required but insist on

Lost and floundering

"All you Brahmins are like this." I heaved a sigh of relief. So, I was not responsible for my actions, then. After all, if what I am was genetically coded into me from birth, could anyone hold me responsible for being who I am or acting as I did? Apparently, they could. It was one of the earliest lessons in human relations for me and one I have still not fully internalized. If I had

Bemused

In my long gone youth (not exactly prehistoric times and, no, I never had to shoo off any dinosaurs), I used to be frightened of comedy movies in English. You know what I mean - these Americans and British do not know how to speak proper English like us Indians. They have such peculiar accents and use such quaint phrases that it is difficult to understand exactly what they are saying, so how is

Satire in India

How can someone be funny and serious at the same time? It is like asking me to see a respected guru in a capering clown. But, then, that is exactly what a satirist aspires to be and do. Satire seeks to make you laugh and make you think. The point of all satire is to show up the foibles of individuals, leaders, social systems, history or even society at large in a funny – even ridiculous –

Being Single

"Marriage – A process of finding out what sort of person your spouse would have preferred to marry” It is not merely because I disliked learning that I stayed single. True, I am allergic to learning, especially about myself, since most of what I learn about myself is SO uncomplimentary. Still, it was not that at all. To cut the long story short, it was my aversion to WORK that decided me