RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It is rightly said that our brain is our own inhabitant physician — gifted with the ability to ‘write’ prescriptions for our mind and body in health and illness. This is, first and foremost, the reason why scientists, and not just philosophers, observe that when we understand the power of our mind and […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There’s chaos, racial prejudice, economic upheaval, not to speak of political and religious turmoil, all around. Picture this — the shocking civil unrest in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, among others, aside from the most recent, astounding Gen Z-initiated ‘perestroika’ in Nepal. When one thinks of the theory of chaos, one can’t help but […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When football legend and the only three-time FIFA World Cup [1958, 1962, and 1970] player, and winner, Pelé stated he was feeling ‘better,’ after surgery for colon tumour, he also lost no time to quip — thanks to his archetypal humour — that he could not wait to get back to playing the […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Adapting to uncertainty, or ambiguity, is a fact of life, because evolution, or nature, does not design immortal beings — this is best represented with and through the surrealistic magic of movie-makers. Balance, or homeostasis, relates to physiological stability, or adaptability. It is also linked to mechanisms for maintaining internal viability and defence […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR You know its import, don’t you? Or, so you thought. Either way, whether you are a parent, or an educator, you are right. It’s all about a new, or old, phenomenon that is gaining ground everywhere. A case of an entire subculture, without boundaries. What’s more, science, with all its good intentions, continues […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying,” Woody Allen once wrote in his inimitable purple prose. The fact is — modern biomedical research has made palpable progress in deciphering the mystery of aging. Yet, the fact is physical permanence may not be immediate, […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Our soul is not just a thing. It is more than a qualitative aspect of our being — the insignia for understanding our mind. It celebrates life from deep within and connects us to the external dimension of our being. The soul mirrors our values and beliefs, or the core of our existence. […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The lives of great achievers have always had a conventional simile: rags-to-riches aetiology, abusive childhood, poverty beyond hope, violence, and, in some cases, manic depression — a sort of Freudian element that runs through such ‘epic’ stories like blockbuster movies. You’d also think of it as a requisite element directly, or indirectly, responsible […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Picture this gloomy headline of a few years ago: “500 man-made chemicals found in a single cell of a ‘healthy’ 30-year-old.” It may not have stirred your mind one bit, coming as it did, perhaps, as just another entry in ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not.’ There was, however, a striking paradox in the […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Sickness of the mind, or the body, reveals how our systems work — and, why loss of equilibrium often leads to a breakdown. To bring a sense of cadence, or measure, to this element, we’d draw on a wealth of information related to the latest biological and medical findings, especially in our age […]