RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Neuroscientists are probing our brain’s workings like never before, thanks to advanced scientific techniques. They have, in so doing, unravelled the long-hidden mysteries of brain physiology, including what happens during stress. Their new insights suggest that a predominance of stress hormones inhibits new brain cell growth, just as exact regions of the brain […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It was a rainbow synthesis of words that made Ernest Paul Lehman’s genius an integral part of his artful dexterity — more so, because his cinematic chemistry mirrored his silky-smooth and built-in delightful ability to entertain multiple pairs of seemingly opposite ideas simultaneously. In other words, of seeing the whole picture, while integrating […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Nelson Mandela remains a brilliant subject — a subject that is every biographer’s dream-come-true. His long life spanned the tribal rituals of rural Africa, the Anglicised tenets of the 1940s, the Gandhian ‘formula’ of anti-apartheid battles, a short guerrilla resistance, long imprisonment and, finally, power — power that brought majority rule to South […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Sir Ian Botham. The name’s the high-maiden of cricket — an epiphenomenon of classicism and the abstract. Of varied alternatives for every situation. Botham’s identity was such that it always shone, what with the great man’s several zones of potentialities. It also filled in the slots between what was done; at others, of […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When we think of awareness, or conscious receptiveness, most of us go through a state of perplexity. As we become attentive to our emotions, we also think as if we are subject to a plethora of warped emotive feelings. It takes time to understand such feelings — more so, to figure out what […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Abraham Maslow, the noted psychologist and celebrated visionary, once wrote, “Life is moving far more rapidly now than ever before… in the rate of growth of facts, knowledge, techniques, and inventions.” He also added, “We need a different kind of human being, able to live in a world which changes perpetually, who has […]
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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 […]
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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 […]