RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Children, as psychologists contend, can offer amazing insights. As physicist Robert Oppenheimer articulated, “There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics because they have modes of perception that I lost long ago.” This is not all. If we think as most of us do […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Functional foods are natural foods that provide health-promoting and disease-preventing benefits in the body. Functional foods include whole, fortified, enriched, or enhanced foods, and dietary, or food supplements. The term, ‘functional foods,’ is used to signify foods and their components that offer health benefits beyond the scope of basic nutrition. Put simply, functional […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The art of mentally ‘living’ your desired state — or, the state of positive confidence is in you, not outside. Picture this. Why is it that you can speak quite easily, and freely, to some people, but not others? Answer: it’s all a question of your communication style, or a matter of knowing […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR According to Philip Goff, a professor of philosophy at Durham University, UK, understanding our consciousness goes beyond exploring brain chemistry. In a perceptive article, published in Scientific American, Goff explains: “In my new book, entitled Why? The Purpose of the Universe, I take head-on the question of why it is so hard to […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s all in the gut is a commonplace precept. It narrates the possibility construct within and outside of our intuitive compass. This isn’t gawking at our star-signs — in simple terms, our gut is the contextual junction between us and our world. To picture a case in point — the earthworm scuttles ever […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It is rightly said that self-made individuals who know their path guide themselves — and, they cannot lose their way, or goal. This is primarily because the path they love to tread presents itself below their feet. The picturesque boulevard they choose may just as well twist, or turn, and impediments would emerge, […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Each of us is blessed with wholeness — to hold the divine essence in our being. This corresponds to a mirror with just one reflection — of our soul in the context of our vision, or eyesight. It quantifies the infinite expanse of our eyes — the sum of the parts, or part […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Humanity, according to Michael Zey, a noted sociologist, has the wherewithal to controlling its own destiny, owing to sensational breakthroughs — a new-fangled launch-pad that initiates a sort of hyper-progress for reshaping our planet. You name it: gargantuan macro-engineering projects, artificial islands, transatlantic tunnels, underground cities, mammoth irrigation schemes etc., including a bold, […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The philosopher Socrates articulated that love is not lacking in anything — it is much more than approximation, also proximal to yearning and, therefore, not fixated with itself. He expressed, no less, that love does not possess, notwithstanding its plethora of beautiful things, including wisdom, and of everything that is divinely, also exquisitely […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Wimbledon has come a long way — and, there’s a long way yet to go for the hallowed tournament. It’s, therefore, time for us to delve into nostalgia, down memory lane, after the curtains came down on yet another Wimbledon journey, last month. Here goes — When tennis players — 22 of them […]