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 […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Each of us is blessed with wholeness — to hold the divine essence in our being. This corresponds to a mirror with just one reflection — of our soul in the context of our vision, or eyesight. It quantifies the infinite expanse of our eyes — the sum of the parts, or part […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Sir Garfield St Auburn Sobers. What a name — and, description. A gallant knight and the game’s ultimate all-rounder. Sobers, who made his Test debut, against England, at Kingston, over 60 years ago [1953-54], was a total cricketing phenomenon. A three-, or four-in-one, marvel. He’s a Lara with the bat, an Alan Davidson […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It is not unusual for most of us to suppress our negative emotions for whatever reason. Suppressed emotions are like ‘bottled-up’ feelings, or a superfluous steam in the pressure valve, waiting to rupture. Suppressed painful emotions are, likewise, similar to a time-bomb ticking — or, waiting to explode. It is only when you […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Claudio Monteverdi was one of music’s greatest composers. He was his own symphony, and magnum opus. A martinet classicist, Monteverdi, quite simply, never ever compromised on what he thought was exact — be it a note, or a theme. He is fondly remembered, today, as the primal composer of L’Orfeo, albeit his most famous composition […]
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 […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR So far as the audience was concerned, he’s as meritorious a master of ceremonies anyone ever saw. A prodigious batsman with the princely touch, he’s nonchalant, where many would hurry; and, utterly regardless, where many would defend. His effortless presence denoted just one thing: computerised efficiency, something that could, at times, fail. A […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR All of us are a plethora of emotions and feelings that represents a ‘smorgasbord’ of consciousness levels — akin to the onion with its several layers. Such levels correspond to a host of patterns that mirror our day-to-day life just as well — viz., alertness, or wakefulness, sleep and dreams, including our essential […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When P B Shelley wrote, “Weave harmonies divine, yet ever new,” he would, perhaps, not have thought that success comes from strength, strength comes from harmony, and harmony requires consistency in all things, especially in a sport-centric context. Jack Nicklaus exemplified such a metaphor; also percept. When Nicklaus, the Midas man of golf, […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Sir Jack Hobbs was a purists’ purist. He brought to batting a new dimension, a rare canvas of perfection: something that is as yet unmatched. Hobbs’ art was full of profound expression, a fount of wisdom. Of subtle refinement and classical definition — a celebration of cricket syntax and grammar. Hobbs [December 16, […]