RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The philosopher Socrates believed that one should find buoyancy in one’s own beliefs without getting ‘swayed’ by others. Well, the point is we just can’t learn if we are not open to other beliefs — yet, it is important that we form our own beliefs by viewing situations objectively, while eliminating most of […]
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 Our life is like the seasons. It is simple; it is complex; it is also, at times, prickly. Yet, in the midst of happiness, or chaos, it is as exciting as a nail-biting T20 cricket match. It also seems like everything in life is happening at the same time — health, career upheavals, […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There’s this celebrated story of a patient, with flu, who went to his physician with the illness. The latter quickly scribbled a prescription in his customary difficult-to-decrypt handwriting. The patient put it in his pocket, but forgot to go the chemist. Each morning, for two years, he displayed it to the conductor as […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When Kahlil Gibran published his magnum opus, The Prophet, a hundred years ago, he wouldn’t have, perforce, realised the true, perennial import of his work: a structure with a timeless appeal. All the same, his insuperable work was a roseate contribution to literature — one that has in it just about every ingredient a […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR First things first: an elderly woman in China, who became seriously ill after getting infected with the COVID-19 virus, made an uneventful recovery following stem cell therapy. Similar treatments were undertaken elsewhere — the outcome was reassuring. However, the fact is — it is early days in the chronicle of stem cells foretold. The […]
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 The universe may not think it’s all-intrusive, according to the Vedas. Hence, its relationship with nature and us is substantial — even when one is not familiar with their teachings. The Vedas celebrate the environment for each of us, whatever our belief, or ideology. This is, by itself, the Vedic foundation of truth […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We live in the best and the worst of times, to use a Dickensian phrase, albeit the great English novelist may not have pictured the gloomy COVID-19 hurricane. To cut a long story short, the foremost thing that each of us could do is making, not just attempting, a constant and resolute effort […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Graham Greene — the legendary novelist, playwright, short story and screenplay writer, critic and journalist of the top draw — was always a mobile writer, never ever easy to pin down. His narrative quest was criminal-centered. His novels enveloped dissent, and his journalism championed disliked causes. His comedies were sad and his politics […]