RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It is rightly said that mindfulness — a cognitive skill and practice — helps us to identify our hidden emotional patterns. It brings to the fore the light of awareness to freeing ourselves from their stranglehold, especially in today’s context, where our constant battles have little to do with actual situations, but much […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Picture this. Over 23 million copies of James Redfield’s debut novel have sold worldwide, since it was first published, over 30 years ago. Not only that. It was for a spiritual novel, capitalising on Americans’ quest for the sacred, and topping the fiction list — the true barometer of the cultural marketplace —really […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Tales of ‘miracle’ cures, or spontaneous healing, that emerge on the basis of faith, where the visually- challenged see, the hearing-impaired hear, or the disabled walk, are legion. The fact is: science has no respect for miracles. Yet, it is everyday knowledge that science has delved into the existence of such, as yet, […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The philosopher Aristotle never thought in threes. From his law of contradiction, also labelled as the law of the excluded middle, to the binary logic of our modern computer programmes, our mind-set focuses its compass and radar on certain pros and cons and vice versa. The mediaeval philosopher René Descartes, however, offered a […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Great batsmen often suspend the reverted eye, the whooping past, and the anticipated future. They are wont to enter a timeless present, just perfect in their manner and idiom, and open a sphere that time could forget. Their generous art reminds us, in the process, its content, by what it does in us […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Sir William Osler, a luminary of internal medicine, rightly said that one should treat as many patients as possible with a new drug while it still has the power to heal. This is because there is wisdom in it since most of us would also believe that the medicine prescribed for a given […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s, to use a Dickensian phrase, the best of times, and the worst of times. And, as we navigate in our society where instinct is given a free ticket, we are paradoxically not willing to grow up. We are growing up, all right, in a way, but only as ‘half-adults.’ Besides, we are running […]
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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 […]
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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 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, […]