RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The free-market economy has made life comfortable for many of us; it has also opened up choices that did not seem to exist before. This sounds great, but it does not explain why we are bamboozled by a frenzied world that we have created for ourselves. Our computers keep us occupied, and while […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Decoding our life’s experiences, or perspectives, isn’t a problem so long as we are connecting them to comprehensible paradigms, contexts, or stated connotations that they convey to us. The whole idea, however, gets lost when we twist, or redefine them, while fitting them into totally new perspectives, or hooking them to a pedestal […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR His strength came from within. And, this was maintained by his love and understanding of the laws of the cosmos. Knowing that such laws are impersonal, and are at work in all things, he was, at once, a great success in his brilliant, artistic voyages. Besides, he was more than mindful that the […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We all have a ‘natural’ proclivity to express anger — a reaction that symbolises aggression. The response, juxtaposed by bellicosity, denotes a reflex intent to internal and external stimuli. It is also an ‘impulse sortie’ that connotes powerful, combative feelings and behaviours. You’d connect it to the ‘fight-or-flight’ response — a biological reaction […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Nature clings itself together with the divine element, or dynamics, in us — to augment the dignity of our righteous and harmonious actions. “There is,” as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “a particular affinity between the processes of nature and the capabilities of man. Nature provides a suitably large and impressive background against […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Being ‘grounded’ is to be at ease in one’s environs. It purports to a sense of inner calm amidst discord and turmoil. On the flipside, it is, for certain folks, not a ‘good’ attribute. This is primarily because not all of us have the sprawling ‘space’ to feel grounded. It does not relate […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Shyness is often thought to be a behavioural glitch. New research demystifies the idea. Shyness is not a medical disorder, a cause for parental anguish, or societal prejudice. It is a personality ‘type’ — one that is unique to each individual as their fingerprint. In other words, the problem of shyness is not […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR To know the world around us, as our ancient philosophers espoused, was analogous to a personalised, or ‘bespoke,’ connect — with our mind, senses and intellect. Modern science suggests that the whole portrait of such a reality is cerebral, also conceptual, although its basic purport is unlike the reality web that we all […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Claudio Monteverdi was one of music’s greatest composers. He was his own symphony, and magnum opus. A martinet classicist, Monteverdi, quite simply, never ever compromised on what he thought was exact — be it a note, or a theme. He is fondly remembered, today, as the primal composer of L’Orfeo, albeit his most famous composition […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Audrey Hepburn’s philosophy of life was direct: never in flight before contemporary difficulties. Her vision was straight and simple — that of a humble utopia that began and percolated in her psyche, for a noble cause: the children of our world. If gentle nature and great courage rarely manifest in one individual, she […]