RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Sickness of the mind, or the body, reveals how our systems work — and, why loss of equilibrium often leads to a breakdown. To bring a sense of cadence, or measure, to this element, we’d draw on a wealth of information related to the latest biological and medical findings, especially in our age […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Pablo Picasso was a genius among geniuses. He was, doubtless, the greatest painter of the last century, who embodied a daring sense of brilliance of form and essence. For a revolutionary artist, who was as iconoclastic as any conquistador can be, Picasso was a relentlessly ‘truant’ persona, always ready for new battles, what […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The English wordsmith Evelyn Waugh placed it all in the right perspective, “[P G] Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.” Perfect words; also, […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Circa 1932-33. The future, if anything, looked bleak for English cricket, thanks to the phenomenal, and extraordinary, capabilities of a one-man ‘nuclear taskforce’ — Sir Don Bradman. What’s more, it was also a time when the enormously endowed Aussie had looked most likely to carrying on with his ecstatic occupation of crucifying England’s […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s all in the gut is a commonplace precept. It narrates the possibility construct within and outside of our intuitive compass. This isn’t gawking at our star-signs — in simple terms, our gut is the contextual junction between us and our world. To picture a case in point — the earthworm scuttles ever […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Children, as psychologists contend, can offer amazing insights. As physicist Robert Oppenheimer articulated, “There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics because they have modes of perception that I lost long ago.” This is not all. If we think as most of us do […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Functional foods are natural foods that provide health-promoting and disease-preventing benefits in the body. Functional foods include whole, fortified, enriched, or enhanced foods, and dietary, or food supplements. The term, ‘functional foods,’ is used to signify foods and their components that offer health benefits beyond the scope of basic nutrition. Put simply, functional […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The art of mentally ‘living’ your desired state — or, the state of positive confidence is in you, not outside. Picture this. Why is it that you can speak quite easily, and freely, to some people, but not others? Answer: it’s all a question of your communication style, or a matter of knowing […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR According to Philip Goff, a professor of philosophy at Durham University, UK, understanding our consciousness goes beyond exploring brain chemistry. In a perceptive article, published in Scientific American, Goff explains: “In my new book, entitled Why? The Purpose of the Universe, I take head-on the question of why it is so hard to […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It is rightly said that self-made individuals who know their path guide themselves — and, they cannot lose their way, or goal. This is primarily because the path they love to tread presents itself below their feet. The picturesque boulevard they choose may just as well twist, or turn, and impediments would emerge, […]