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 […]
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May
May
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 […]
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Apr
Apr
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There’s this fascinating video clip of tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain not getting worked up, or irritated, when one of the microphones got wobbly and was falling off. He holds it with his left hand and weaves his magic on the tabla with amazing dexterity — and, with a delightful smile. His poise, […]
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Apr
Apr
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The conscious self and the divine self are two sides of the same coin. When the two coalesce, it is akin to the mind acquiescing to itself, while relating to the whole self, or consciousness. In the process, it seamlessly integrates with self-awareness, but not so much with the unconscious self-awareness, or unconscious […]
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Apr
Apr
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. — Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE, was a great visual artist. He was also a supreme architect of anticipation. What’s more, he never believed in the ordinary. He held a magnetic, or hypnotic, charm too. Evil, for him, […]
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Apr
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Most of us cultivate, or foster, certain interests in areas that may, in reality, not fascinate, draw, or propel, us — because we have to somehow survive, while keeping the ‘financial wolf’ from the door. What we customarily showcase on our curriculum vitae, therefore, becomes a norm in the course of time — […]
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Apr
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Our brain is the control centre for conscious, unconscious and automatic life processes. The interesting part also is all of us have not one but, in effect, three brains in consonance with our evolutionary ‘construct’ — the ‘logical’ brain, the ‘heart’ brain and the ‘gut’ brain. Our brain abounds with neuropeptides. Neuropeptides, as […]
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Apr
Apr
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 […]
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Mar
Mar
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Friedrich Nietzsche was, doubtless, one of modern philosophy’s most influential thinkers. His philosophical touchstone, also motif, albeit warped with fantasy, not only provides the precept and percept to unmasking the root motives that contextualise conventional Western religion, morality, including theology, but they have also more than something in them to deeply influence generations […]
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Mar
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 […]