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 […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR What is the most ideal, resplendent mosaic of our global economy today, notwithstanding conflicts, wars, dissonance, hatred, racism and whatever there is for one to think of — viz., the other word for suffering, or destruction? The answer is — the globalisation of economic activity, the reshaping of economic life from the personal […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR While music has been a historical hit parade, since ancient times, modern science testifies to the fact that some of the networks in the human brain seem to be solely dedicated to music. This has prompted neuroscientists to rethink their ideas on the nature of intelligence. To highlight a common example — listening […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The good old philosophers Plato and Aristotle intoned their ethical standpoint, or metaphysical thought, within Greece, where they lived. Yet, the best part was their universal intellectual reach, or expanse. They moulded a vast, all-embracing philosophical epitome, never before personified — in ancient Greece, or elsewhere — although they may not have had […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Our mind is just not limited to subjective and objective feelings. It is also not just the seat of intelligence. It loves amusement as much as rest, juxtaposed by habitual periods of activity. Get the point? People, especially night workers, who deprive themselves of adequate sleep show signs akin to psychosis. This demystifies […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It is rightly said that mindfulness — a cognitive skill and practice — helps us to identify our hidden emotional patterns. It brings to the fore the light of awareness to freeing ourselves from their stranglehold, especially in today’s context, where our constant battles have little to do with actual situations, but much […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Picture this. Over 23 million copies of James Redfield’s debut novel have sold worldwide, since it was first published, over 30 years ago. Not only that. It was for a spiritual novel, capitalising on Americans’ quest for the sacred, and topping the fiction list — the true barometer of the cultural marketplace —really […]