Passion cannot be reduced to a dry, dictionary definition. It can only be experienced. Suresh Subrahmanyan discusses some luminaries who have excelled in the fields of cricket, music and art because of their passion. He also takes us through situations where this indefinable emotion overwhelms us.
Suresh Subrahmanyan narrates a true life experience which puts him in mind of a P.G. Wodehouse novel where a similar train of events has been brilliantly captured by the ‘Master of farce.’
Suresh Subrahmanyan explores the complex subject of guilt, freely drawing from his own experiences as well as mining from the fertile field of English literature.
Suresh Subrahmanyan takes an amusing, if exasperated, look at exhibitions and fairs in our country. Do we come out of them enlightened or merely bone weary?
Suresh Subrahmanyan takes a quirky look at the redoubtable Shashi Tharoor’s verbose conversational methods.
Suresh Subrahmanyan looks longingly at the addictive power of words and how the arduous craft of writing ‘the perfect sentence’ becomes a magnificent obsession.
Suresh Subrahmanyan examines the dubious pleasures of surfing channels on the television, and opines that the multiplicity of choice in today’s home entertainment is more of a curate’s egg, only good in parts.
THE LOUNGE | SLICE OF LIFE Suresh Subrahmanyan revisits the city of his childhood, university education and the cradle of most of his professional career. He finds that much has changed in Calcutta, not all for the better.
Suresh Subrahmanyan dusts off and presents an unpublished article he wrote 41 years ago in 1976, little realising the prescient and portentous implications this humorously imagined piece was to have on the world of cricket, a few decades later. Or to put it another way, instant replays and the third umpire were still a distant dream in the ‘70s.