RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Many of us indulge in self-talk. Self-talk guides us from our own emotional responses to a more conscious level. You’d call this state a learning plateau reflecting our needs and attitudes. When you process experiences and emotions associated with self-talk, you begin to filter not just your experiences, but also beliefs. Beliefs are […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Most of us feel that our observations are often a precise interpretation of things. We also believe that such annotations are outcomes of verified interpretations. Picture this — for a person with no knowledge of using the stethoscope, the consequence of what each heart beat conveys is inconsequential. It takes a physician to […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Just think of the amazing dynamics of your thinking processes — of how they function collectively. You will feel blessed. When you think further, you’ll also be enthused by the presence of nature’s finest cognitive gift — your sense of timing. You too are endowed with the gift of ‘timing’ your ‘strokes’ in […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We ‘age’ the moment we are born. It is not that we begin to ‘grow old’ soon after we ‘come of age’ on planet earth. The fact is everyone ages slowly, or insidiously, or more quickly than the others, owing to illness — a poignant upshot. It begins at birth; it ends in […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR No yesteryear Bollywood hero — to state the obvious — held as much appeal as Shammi ‘Yahoo’ Kapoor, when he was at his peak, giving just about every star a run for their money. That Shammi, as he’s fondly known, established a sublime niche of his own, like no other, in the 1950s […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Irritable bowel syndrome [IBS] affects more than one-fifth of the world’s population. It is more widespread in women than men. It appears to be somewhat predominant before age 35 — but, is infrequent after age 40 — in half of the affected individuals. Statistics too suggests that IBS affects an estimated 10.5 per […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The tropical rain forest is mankind’s lungs. Though the Earth cannot live without the rain forest — nature’s ‘automaton’ that turns carbon dioxide into oxygen — one alarming fact is apparent. About 50,000 hectares of rain forest are destroyed each day by burning to making way for beef farmers and fields for arable […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It is a matter of routine; also, clockwork. From the time we get up each morning until the time we go to bed each night, we are like a parched mop. We are constantly taking in far too much information than required, thanks to a glut, or never-ending tags of information out there. […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It all emerged, quite amusingly, from an unlikely pioneer, who, as a kid bearing a fragile, delicate frame, was, otherwise, perky in school with his relentless inquisitiveness. While not much is known of Sigmund Freud’s early life, because he purged his personal writings, twice over, his subsequent papers were strictly embargoed in the […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We live in an era of paradoxes — of sometimes pleasing, usually passable, and most often ear-splitting music, aside from the typecast ‘stamp,’ or raucous remix[ed] digressions, thanks to hi-tech glitz. This isn’t all. There seems to be a growing penchant for Punjabi-accentuated songs in Hindi films today — rather than perceptible Hindi numbers. […]