RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It goes without saying that we are in the midst of what futurist Alvin Toffler called “the rattling and shaking.” And, with no let-up in sight, and no end to the cultural and economic upheaval, interspersed with the COVID-19 scourge, or ‘earthquake,’ we are witnessing a fundamental ‘shift’ in our lives at work […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Great batsmen often suspend the reverted eye, the whooping past, and the anticipated future. They are wont to enter a timeless present, just perfect in their manner and idiom, and open a sphere that time could forget. Their generous art reminds us, in the process, its content, by what it does in us […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Sir William Osler, a luminary of internal medicine, rightly said that one should treat as many patients as possible with a new drug while it still has the power to heal. This is because there is wisdom in it since most of us would also believe that the medicine prescribed for a given […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s, to use a Dickensian phrase, the best of times, and the worst of times. And, as we navigate in our society where instinct is given a free ticket, we are paradoxically not willing to grow up. We are growing up, all right, in a way, but only as ‘half-adults.’ Besides, we are running […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Hope insulates us against stress. It inspires us to overcome difficulties. It reduces the song of one’s burden — the excess baggage of surplus, negative emotions that we carry during tough times. It is not just that — when the going gets tough, the tough ‘get going.’ Everyone does that — in one way, or […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When Linus Pauling, the legendary chemist and two-time Nobel laureate, discovered that a specific heritable protein variation in a single component of haemoglobin protein complex resulted in sickle cell anaemia, it initiated a new era in biomedical sciences. Years later, the gene responsible for the haemoglobin variant was discovered — including an entire series […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When ‘His Airness,’ Michael ‘Magic’ Jordan, or just MJ, the King Arthur of Basketball, made his final bow from the game, his legion of fans was happy, elated, and, maybe, sad. Happy, because Jordan had given them a million moments to showcase memories of his true greatness; elated, because they’d now cherish recollections […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There was a time when modern medicine was primitive. There were no antibiotics, so every infection took its own course, leading to decline in health. Hypertension and diabetes were largely untreatable. X-ray was new, and remedies had changed but little from medieval times. No one ever embarked on the goodness of preventative treatment, […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Being conscious of ourselves and others is as simple as our everyday chores — if only we are receptive to hear the echo and experience things around us. Yet, the apparent thing is we tend to drift to a different level when we are aloof of our own self, or side-step our experience. […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When psychologist Abraham Maslow studied self-actualised individuals, it led him to the idea that such ‘stand-out’ individuals are above the pack, or a cut above the rest. And, that they are adept and skilful in surmounting numerous challenges of life and accomplishing their maximum potential through peak experiences. In the process, Maslow discovered […]