Suresh Subrahmanyan is a Bengaluru-based former advertising professional
It is widely accepted that while being overly aggressive, offensive or too clever by half is not an admirable personality trait, there can be no bigger pain than that of being a bore. Therein lies the rub. Bores can otherwise be pleasant to engage with, they may even […]
Suresh Subrahmanyan, Bengaluru-based former advertising professional
I have all but stopped watching news bulletins on television featuring noisy debates. As I am channel-agnostic, my disenchantment with the news cuts across all channels. There are two reasons behind this disenchantment. First the abysmal quality of anchors and their field correspondents, most of whom seem to be […]
Chairman of one of India’s largest corporate entities, S.N. Subrahmanyan of Larsen & Toubro, has riled a lot of people for making a couple of ill-advised statements recently. At the outset, I wish to make it clear that, notwithstanding that he spells his surname the same way as I do, we are in […]
While I cannot totally admit that the game of chess is a closed book to me, it can be safely stated that beyond being aware of how each of the pieces moves on the chess board, I will not be able to claim even the slightest degree of proficiency. On the odd occasion, […]
A housewife was arrested recently in Bangalore for attacking her husband with a pair of scissors. She was deeply upset over his refusal to eat dinner her mother had specially prepared for him. She is being questioned by the police — Press Reports.
‘Madam, do you realise you could have killed your husband? Why […]
Almost seven decades ago, the late Harry Belafonte released a melodious, calypso-tinged song titled Brown Skin Girl (‘stay home and mind baby’).
Teenagers then, we had no clue this was a song that obliquely commented on American soldiers who landed in Jamaica and other islands in the Caribbean (ostensibly to protect the local yokels […]
It has been barely three weeks since I returned home from my annual Carnatic music adrenalin rush — a non-stop, round-the-clock festival of musicians of every hue strutting their stuff across the length and breadth of Chennai. In earlier missives, I have dwelt at length with all the usual trappings, musical and non-musical, […]
– Suresh Subrahmanyan, Bengaluru-based former advertising professional
He lends out money gratis and brings down the rate of usance here with us in Venice — Shylock, Merchant of Venice.
Most of us have credit and debit cards these days, tucked away in bulging wallets and squeezed into back pockets. Not to mention driving license, Aadhaar card, medical […]
– Suresh Subrahmanyan, Bengaluru-based former advertising professional
There is a tendency among many of us hack writers to attribute any slick proverb to Shakespeare who came up with so many smart lines befitting any occasion, that one can be excused for giving him the credit for aphorisms he didn’t write. I diligently researched my proverb of […]
– Suresh Subrahmanyan, Bengaluru-based former advertising professional
One of the most exciting tasks that a married couple anticipates is the arrival of the proverbial stork with their first born, or for that matter, second or even third born. Rarely in our straitened times do couples go for more than two kids, three being a bit of […]
Carnatic musician T.M. Krishna has recently held forth on the perils, as he sees it, of music lovers leaning towards consuming the art form through a plethora of streaming OTT channels and eschewing live performances. Sitting comfortably at home, one can order entertainment, à la carte, often through state-of-the-art sound systems. Not to mention the […]
Parents and school principals in Delhi have welcomed the draft bill to regulate fees in all private schools. On Tuesday, the Delhi cabinet approved the .....Read More
West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose has granted sanction to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to prosecute former education minister Partha Chatterjee in a money laundering .....Read More
