Ashok Subramanian
Ashok Subramanian is a Poet and Fiction Author based in Chennai, India. Ashok has been writing blogs and content since 2011. From technology and management articles, and to website content, Ashok has written articles on businesses, finance, funding, capital markets, management, strategy, and sustainability over the years. His poems and articles, which were published in blogs got a publishing turn when he had time in hand to put together his poetry and short story collections. He publishes short stories and poetry reviews regularly in his medium.com blog. His published works so far: a) Maritime Heritage of India - Contributing Writer - b) Poetarrati Volume 1 &2: Self-published on Amazon in Kindle and Paperback; Ranked #8 in Amazon Hot Releases in May 2020. c) A City Full of Stories: A Short fiction Collection based on people and events of Mumbai: Self-published in Amazon in Kindle and Paperback. d) Poetarrati Ponder 2020 - A collection of Poem Reviews He is currently working with his creative advisor and publisher on his next poetry collection. His second short story collection about Kolkata, India, and his first novel are in the manuscript stage. He is a graduate in Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University, India, and a post-graduate in Management from IIM Calcutta, India. He currently runs Strategic Advisory and Investment Banking companies headquartered in Bengaluru. He lives with his wife Gayathri and son Anirudh in Chennai, India.
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The Twitter Travails
"The dream at the dawn of the internet age that giving everyone a platform would birth a new Enlightenment seems cringe-worthy today, now that we are living with bots, trolls, flame wars, fake news, Twitter shaming mobs, and online harassment." ...
The Binary Human
"There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time." ...
The Convocation Speech
"What sort of guy needs such protection that about ten thousand students, on the biggest day of their lives, are held hungry, thirsty, and bursting bladders against their will?" ...
Accepting Criticisms
"Art and love are the same things: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." ...
The Walks
"What begins as a random walk often ends up taking you somewhere, somewhere that you later realize was exactly where you wanted to go." ...
Freedom at 75
"Of all elements of freedom, it is the freedom to make mistakes that gives an individual and society the ability to experiment and learn without fear or consternation." ...
Patience
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them." ...
The Other Keyboard
"I walked towards the music keyboard and unpacked it. And for the first time in my life, I pressed the keys of a different keyboard. No words appeared on the screen, but the sound of music came out in response." ...
Inner Calm
"There is a state of inner calm or peace of mind in everybody. I know most of us cannot find it on the go, but when you slow down enough or stop, you can feel and experience that inner calm. Or call it ‘peace of mind’." ...
Our Little Bit of Good
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." ...