RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Hope insulates us against stress. It inspires us to overcome difficulties. It reduces the song of one’s burden — the excess baggage of surplus, negative emotions that we carry during tough times. It is not just that — when the going gets tough, the tough ‘get going.’ Everyone does that — in one way, or […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When Linus Pauling, the legendary chemist and two-time Nobel laureate, discovered that a specific heritable protein variation in a single component of haemoglobin protein complex resulted in sickle cell anaemia, it initiated a new era in biomedical sciences. Years later, the gene responsible for the haemoglobin variant was discovered — including an entire series […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When ‘His Airness,’ Michael ‘Magic’ Jordan, or just MJ, the King Arthur of Basketball, made his final bow from the game, his legion of fans was happy, elated, and, maybe, sad. Happy, because Jordan had given them a million moments to showcase memories of his true greatness; elated, because they’d now cherish recollections […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There was a time when modern medicine was primitive. There were no antibiotics, so every infection took its own course, leading to decline in health. Hypertension and diabetes were largely untreatable. X-ray was new, and remedies had changed but little from medieval times. No one ever embarked on the goodness of preventative treatment, […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Being conscious of ourselves and others is as simple as our everyday chores — if only we are receptive to hear the echo and experience things around us. Yet, the apparent thing is we tend to drift to a different level when we are aloof of our own self, or side-step our experience. […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When psychologist Abraham Maslow studied self-actualised individuals, it led him to the idea that such ‘stand-out’ individuals are above the pack, or a cut above the rest. And, that they are adept and skilful in surmounting numerous challenges of life and accomplishing their maximum potential through peak experiences. In the process, Maslow discovered […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There was something special, also magical, about Farokh Maneksha Engineer. Picture this. His handsome face, his Brylcream-dotted mane, his aristocratic, yet well-grounded face, his conspicuous sideburns, the walk with great aplomb, the riveting style he embraced and diffused, the transcendent poise he echoed, the commitment, flair and flamboyance with which he draped his […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Mansur Ali Khan ‘Tiger’ Pataudi was, doubtless, India’s leading batsman in the 1960s, and early 1970s. Yet, what takes precedence was his reputation as one of the best captains the country ever produced — the best, perhaps, of his type. As a batsman, ‘Tiger’ was cavalier and creative. The Atlas of Indian batting […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR “For a happy-go-lucky girl, who was fond of being a ‘tomboy’ and prankster of the top draw, I was diagnosed with Stage-I, or early, cancer of the ovary at age 23. The disease, I was told, was fortuitously limited to a small area. But, the word, ‘cancer,’ came like a wicked shock. It […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Notwithstanding our ‘clash’ with the times, also convention, there has been a huge transformation of position in our minds — from the old to the new. This has been engineered by our progress in science. Put simply, science’s success in explaining and predicting our natural world has now come to stay, be it […]