RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Wimbledon has come a long way — and, there’s a long way yet to go for the hallowed tournament. It’s, therefore, time for us to delve into nostalgia, down memory lane, after the curtains came down on yet another Wimbledon journey, last month. Here goes — When tennis players — 22 of them […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We are all trapped in a vice-like grip today — the deadly, toxic ‘hold’ of ethnic, emotional, or fanatical upheaval. A case in point — call it human deception, or the fluctuating progression of the nastiest of times. From the most sophisticated to the lowest of ‘low-tech’ advance. And, as the monstrous threat […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR You’d think of it as the most implausible miniature aircraft of all — with the unbearable ‘drum beats’ in your ear. You got the whole idea right — a hazard you’d not even ‘touch’ from afar, as it were. Now, the basics. With her brittle body, and spiky arsenal of wings, legs and […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Silk is Mother Nature’s extraordinary, also astounding, creation — more so, because the little spider, by a biological happenstance, was given the talent to making silk, a fabric like no other. As Robert Boyle, the renowned Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor, extolled, we are beholden to the petite caterpillar — along […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The free-market economy has made life comfortable for many of us; it has also opened up choices that did not seem to exist before. This sounds great, but it does not explain why we are bamboozled by a frenzied world that we have created for ourselves. Our computers keep us occupied, and while […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Decoding our life’s experiences, or perspectives, isn’t a problem so long as we are connecting them to comprehensible paradigms, contexts, or stated connotations that they convey to us. The whole idea, however, gets lost when we twist, or redefine them, while fitting them into totally new perspectives, or hooking them to a pedestal […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR His strength came from within. And, this was maintained by his love and understanding of the laws of the cosmos. Knowing that such laws are impersonal, and are at work in all things, he was, at once, a great success in his brilliant, artistic voyages. Besides, he was more than mindful that the […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We all have a ‘natural’ proclivity to express anger — a reaction that symbolises aggression. The response, juxtaposed by bellicosity, denotes a reflex intent to internal and external stimuli. It is also an ‘impulse sortie’ that connotes powerful, combative feelings and behaviours. You’d connect it to the ‘fight-or-flight’ response — a biological reaction […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Fast bowlers are often visualised as fiery, wayward, reticent and edgy characters. The inference is obvious. One of the most indispensable components of any cricketing strategy, fast bowlers, thanks to their proffered, menacingly fertile dual imagery of pyrotechnics and speed, have also been opinionated as difficult customers, or tough-to-handle folks. If their varying […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Nature clings itself together with the divine element, or dynamics, in us — to augment the dignity of our righteous and harmonious actions. “There is,” as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “a particular affinity between the processes of nature and the capabilities of man. Nature provides a suitably large and impressive background against […]