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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It is a fact of modern life that you and I are somewhat disconnected from nature. Picture this — how many of us keep a track of the seasons, the blossoming of flowers, or caterpillars turning into butterflies, or a child’s fulsome laughter? If you were to ask your friends the last time […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Tales of ‘miracle’ cures, or spontaneous healing, that emerge on the basis of faith, where the visually- challenged see, the hearing-impaired hear, or the disabled walk, are legion. The fact is: science has no respect for miracles. Yet, it is everyday knowledge that science has delved into the existence of such, as yet, […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It goes without saying that we are in the midst of what futurist Alvin Toffler called “the rattling and shaking.” And, with no let-up in sight, and no end to the cultural and economic upheaval, interspersed with the COVID-19 scourge, or ‘earthquake,’ we are witnessing a fundamental ‘shift’ in our lives at work […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Great batsmen often suspend the reverted eye, the whooping past, and the anticipated future. They are wont to enter a timeless present, just perfect in their manner and idiom, and open a sphere that time could forget. Their generous art reminds us, in the process, its content, by what it does in us […]