RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR He first left Avignon, a city in Southern France, at age 14, exactly 500 years ago, and travelled across the countryside exploring and ‘researching’ herbal and other native, or natural, remedies. He embarked on a career as an apothecary, eight years later [1529], following which he enrolled at the University of Montpellier, for […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The quintessential discovery of hypnosis is attributed to Franz Anton Mesmer, MD, the ‘non-conformist’ 18th-century Viennese physician. Mesmer, it is now evidenced, used a method similar to modern hypnosis, or hypnotherapy, with the sole intention of removing neurotic symptoms. Mesmer discovered that when he applied magnets on some of his patients, their psychological […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Mathematics is abstract, objective and brusquely devoid of sentiment. Right? Wrong. Maths divulges to have the astonishing power to teaching us how things work and what the universe could reveal if we would only listen. It is agreed that mathematical tools cannot substitute for creative insights, but they can certainly provide fresh perspectives […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There are two core branches of thinking: creative thinking and analytical thinking. Creative thinking pertains to thinking for new ideas and products — of seeing a new pattern of relationship between things that weren’t obvious before. This extends to finding new ways to expressing things and combining existing ideas to producing new and […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Language arises from our frame of reference: of how we position what we want to communicate. The deduction is apparent. If our chassis of referral is to become all the more efficient, our language needs to reflect that — like a mirror. The matrix of reference, in the past, was that of a […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It was Gavaskar De real master Just like a wall We couldn’t out Gavaskar at all… not at all You know the West Indies couldn’t out Gavaskar at all. — Lord Relator, the calypso singer When Sunil Manohar Gavaskar was born on July 10, 1949, he was like any other child. But, what […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s over five+ decades ago that the one and only John Wayne accepted the role of Major John Reisman in The Dirty Dozen [1967], a spectacular, runaway blockbuster. He asked Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] for certain script changes, albeit he pulled out of the project to make The Green Berets [1968]. He was replaced by Lee […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR All of us are a plethora of emotions and feelings that represents a ‘smorgasbord’ of consciousness levels — akin to the onion with its several layers. Such levels correspond to a host of patterns that mirror our day-to-day life just as well — viz., alertness, or wakefulness, sleep and dreams, including our essential […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Science has especial intentions; and, therefore, specific comprehension and/or readership profile for books—of a protocol not merely confined to the world of facts, but also literary embellishment, unlike standard, popular opinion. In actuality too, science is creativity personified and vice versa. This is not all. Science, like its writings, is, doubtless, the exploration […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The philosopher Aristotle never thought in threes. From his law of contradiction, also labelled as the law of the excluded middle, to the binary logic of our modern computer programmes, our mind-set focuses its compass and radar on certain pros and cons and vice versa. The mediaeval philosopher René Descartes, however, offered a […]