RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR You are what you are isn’t as simple as it sounds. This is because who we are is based not just on our identities, but also our dreams, hopes, intelligence, memories, the world around us, and neurobiology. Neurobiology is the study of the nervous system and how the brain works, its anatomy, physiology, […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We should not — in a few things — outgrow the ‘child’ residing in us when we grow up. Kids, for instance, have an unfettered gift to expressing their emotions. Psychologists say they possess a distinctive ability to react to actors’ emotions on television. They also seem to instinctively recognise facial expressions and […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR For a man who did not relish writing, Octavio Paz, Mexico’s most renowned poet, simply savored and enjoyed its result, be it plaudits, or brickbats. He never used the good old typewriter, the word processor, or computer. He always wrote by hand — the creator’s most simple, yet powerful tool — the oracle […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s obvious that vitamins and minerals ought to be a part of our wellness cover — like life insurance — in health and illness. Here’s why — vitamins are a cluster of organic nutrients found in plants and animals. They are called essential vitamins. They are vital for regulating the chemical progressions that […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Aging is inevitable, albeit its cadence is not. As the American writer Betty Friedan rightly said, “Aging is not lost youth, but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” While we all know that our bodies age, the whole internal experience smacks of ambiguity, also mystery — although new research explains the aging […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Most of us regard the self, or our deepest hub, as subtle. Just think of it. We all communicate with our mind, body, tongue and ear. Else, we would not have spoken, or heard another’s voice nor verbalised anything, or reflected, and sensed them — because, there would be no contact, or ‘bumping […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR “We must always bear in mind that despite the most beautiful agreement between the facts and our ideas, explanatory principles are only points of view, that is, manifestations of the psychological attitude and of the a priori conditions under which all thinking takes place.” —Carl Gustav Jung, On Psychic Energy [1948] When Carl […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR His name conjures up images of pure art, also science, of batting at its best — a canvas that Rembrandt van Rijn would have painted with relish. He integrated aesthetic judgment with truth and justice, no less: a theory of knowledge of what is merely artistic is also simply articulate. Not only that. […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies. March 17, 1962. The match — Barbados versus India. The atmosphere is electric as Charlie Griffith, a demon of a paceman, gets ready to launch his next thunderbolt. There’s an element of suspended animation, all around — more so, in the Indian dressing room. For no small […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The legendary Greek philosopher-mathematician Pythagoras often echoed that good music was allied with the varied rhythms and cadences of life. He also employed his findings in music to the ‘conduct’ of cosmic objects — in other words, the smallest intervals in the musical scale — that added up to seven whole tones that […]