RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Monsoons are not just rain and dance, or change of seasons. They are a time to seek one’s higher self, through moments of solitude. More so, when the pouring rain and dark, sombre clouds grant us a sense of seclusion, a welcome, ‘impromptu’ retreat at home — with a steaming cup of coffee. […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There is a dazzling biology at work inside the brain, including its colossal appetite to storing information. Agreed that information technology has made ‘relative’ the need for long-term memory in the brain passé, but as new research augurs, this may call for the greater use of our working memory — not so much […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There is a fascinating dictum that exemplifies an intriguing simile — that Westerners think with their left brain, the ‘seat’ of our conscious mind, while Easterners think with their right brain, the ‘hub’ of their unconscious mind. The ‘maxim’ is too composite, except for one’s own point of reference that separates and connects […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR All that is old need not be dated. Take for instance, our ecological heritage. It has been rightly proposed by scholars that countless enlightened ideas may be drawn from old precepts of previous civilizations, especially from ancient India. More than that, knowledge may also, in today’s context, be derived from the traditional individual […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR What makes us ‘hit’ the floor each morning and reach out from sleep to awareness, emptiness to existence and dream to reality? It is energy — of our mind and body. The equation is remarkably apparent. We need body energy to move in the physical sense and mind energy to ‘prompt.’ This is […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The idea of nanomachines was first postulated by Richard Feynman, the avant-garde physicist and Nobel laureate. He hypothesised that there was ample ‘Room at the Bottom.’ He also suggested that human beings were a marvellous biological system — adept at doing things ‘small as big.’ He was ahead of his time — he […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Comparisons are odious. But, comparisons are part of life. A cricket bat isn’t a bat without the willow for reference. Hence, the equation — a unique object, or organisation, halts assessment and comprehension, because it is singular. This explains for human aptitude to ‘inventing’ technologies. It’s not that animals don’t invent; they use […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Aristotle’s doctrine of the ‘seamless’ relationship that exists between mind, body and soul is being increasingly used in medical treatment today — because human health is primarily harmonious balance. This isn’t a biological evolution; it’s actually physiological advance. It bids fair to a whole, new awakening in medicine — viz., stem cell-based research […]