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. […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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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 […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Pablo Picasso was a genius among geniuses. He was, doubtless, the greatest painter of the last century, who embodied a daring sense of brilliance of form and essence. For a revolutionary artist, who was as iconoclastic as any conquistador can be, Picasso was a relentlessly ‘truant’ persona, always ready for new battles, what […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The English wordsmith Evelyn Waugh placed it all in the right perspective, “[P G] Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.” Perfect words; also, […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Circa 1932-33. The future, if anything, looked bleak for English cricket, thanks to the phenomenal, and extraordinary, capabilities of a one-man ‘nuclear taskforce’ — Sir Don Bradman. What’s more, it was also a time when the enormously endowed Aussie had looked most likely to carrying on with his ecstatic occupation of crucifying England’s […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s all in the gut is a commonplace precept. It narrates the possibility construct within and outside of our intuitive compass. This isn’t gawking at our star-signs — in simple terms, our gut is the contextual junction between us and our world. To picture a case in point — the earthworm scuttles ever […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR F Scott Fitzgerald was a remarkably gifted novelist, a writer par excellence with his own indelible stamp of dainty luminosity. Fitzgerald’s literary magic was not just rooted in his delectable prose, or his amazing range and versatility, but it also dwelled in his poetic imagination, dazzling vision and seemingly effortless — and, also […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Children, as psychologists contend, can offer amazing insights. As physicist Robert Oppenheimer articulated, “There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics because they have modes of perception that I lost long ago.” This is not all. If we think as most of us do […]