RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Kōnosuke Matsushita was not a great speaker. His voice was evidently frail. He never displayed quick-silver intellect. And, even if he did, it was all too rare — never in public view. He also never warmed his audience with hilarious anecdotes. But, he did what all great leaders do. He motivated large groups […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Music, as Plato said, is highest philosophy. It fills us with the purpose of the noble and the sacred. It invigorates us with the notion of the good. Soft, soulful music is soothing to our senses. It helps us to create a milieu that is favourable to philosophical and spiritual reflection. In other […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR All of us struggle with moral dilemmas. Such quandaries define and affect our lives and of the people around us. What’s more, most moral dilemmas are difficult, complex and demanding. They involve not only risk, but also discomfort, even when we are convinced that we have conducted ourselves in an upright manner. Remember […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Many of us indulge in self-talk. Self-talk guides us from our own emotional responses to a more conscious level. You’d call this state a learning plateau reflecting our needs and attitudes. When you process experiences and emotions associated with self-talk, you begin to filter not just your experiences, but also beliefs. Beliefs are […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Most of us feel that our observations are often a precise interpretation of things. We also believe that such annotations are outcomes of verified interpretations. Picture this — for a person with no knowledge of using the stethoscope, the consequence of what each heart beat conveys is inconsequential. It takes a physician to […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It was and is suave for certain folks to be bald, yesterday and today; yet, there’s no reason why the idea cannot ‘work’ for tomorrow too. It is a simple equation really — with no sweat. It does not call for ‘plumbing’ your grey cells — or, the other way around. This is […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Just think of the amazing dynamics of your thinking processes — of how they function collectively. You will feel blessed. When you think further, you’ll also be enthused by the presence of nature’s finest cognitive gift — your sense of timing. You too are endowed with the gift of ‘timing’ your ‘strokes’ in […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We ‘age’ the moment we are born. It is not that we begin to ‘grow old’ soon after we ‘come of age’ on planet earth. The fact is everyone ages slowly, or insidiously, or more quickly than the others, owing to illness — a poignant upshot. It begins at birth; it ends in […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR No yesteryear Bollywood hero — to state the obvious — held as much appeal as Shammi ‘Yahoo’ Kapoor, when he was at his peak, giving just about every star a run for their money. That Shammi, as he’s fondly known, established a sublime niche of his own, like no other, in the 1950s […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR I’ve been, right from my formative years, witness to elders in the family attending discourses on philosophy, also scriptures. I’d, however, never ever gauge the tenor of their impact on anyone. I’d be aloof without being officious of their ‘hold’ thereto in the perimeter of my nascent, albeit expanding inquisitiveness. This was, doubtless, […]