RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Integrating complementary and alternative medicine [CAM] with conventional medicine, which is termed integrative medicine, aims to combine the benefits of the two approaches to create a more holistic and effective healthcare system. This approach recognises that conventional medicine [viz., medications and surgery] and CAM therapies [viz., acupuncture, Ayurveda, homeopathy and herbal remedies] can work together, […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s a given that anyone who has been ‘initiated’ into the etymologies of science would know that the universe, at the beginning of time, was a blaze of radiation, too hot for any atoms to survive. In the first few moments, thereafter, it cooled down somewhat for the nuclei of the lightest elements […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Mindful awareness is the most persuasive therapeutic entity that exists within each of us. It supplements and propels every function and process of our body. It jazzes-up our normal healing processes with a gush of healing energy that directly influences every bit of illness. It works in tandem with medical treatment. This leads […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Sidney Lumet, the legendary American movie director, was, doubtless, a master of cinema. His statistical roll-call of films was not only remarkable, but fabulous. His films received more than 50 Academy Award nominations, while Lumet himself was nominated for ‘Best Director’ seven times. What’s more, Lumet, for the best part, was the focus […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth got together and published Lyrical Ballads, with A Few Other Poems, in an edition of 500 copies, over 225 years ago, the whole idea was exciting, all right. But, it wasn’t a tizzy, or an earth-shattering event, really. Rather, it was a humble beginning. Yet, beneath […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR David Lean’s magnum opus, The Bridge on the River Kwai [TBRK], made nearly 70 years ago, wasn’t just a movie; it’s an epic. Its award-winning cinematography, not to speak of a host of other breath-taking elements, so vital to making classy movies, was a landmark — a sentimental journey beyond the realms of […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Our brain is the seat of intellect. It regulates and maintains balance and stability in a zillion bodily processes and systems. To pick a few examples — the rhythmic beating of your heart, blood pressure, transfer of oxygen into the blood stream, the extension and contraction of your lungs and regulation of innumerable […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Individuality, as the dictionary puts it, is the quality, or character, of a particular person, or thing, that distinguishes them from others of the same kind. The fact also is — being an individual means being uniquely you, one that includes your unique qualities, values, beliefs, also idiosyncrasies, and articulating them self-assuredly and […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Symmetry is not just a word; it is a concept like harmony. It not only attracts our visual sense; it also plays a major role in our sense of beauty. It holds a paradox too. Perfect symmetry, for instance, is often repetitive and predictable, although our minds favour surprises. This explains why we […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When his father first showed Albert Einstein, the greatest of theoretical physicists, a receptacle compass, it was like what the falling apple was to his illustrious scientific ‘forebear’ Sir Isaac Newton. Einstein was barely five years old, but he felt an indescribable experience — his mind lit up with the gadget, in a […]