Dr. Purushothaman

While the mind activates the body, the body plays the master Mobility is the trait that segregates the animal-kingdom from the Plant-kingdom. Man is the only creature that moves with a thoughtful purpose. Evidence is available that man, in 1.75 million years, walked his way from...

Humans alone are capable of dreaming, be it in sleep or while awake. Dreams during sleep could be pleasant or nightmarish where we may remember it when awake. It is because the brain does not sleep while the body does. But dreaming during wakeful hours is...

Plans are for the future and the futility of planning for tomorrow and unpredictability of tomorrow is best pictured by Omar Khayyam, a Persian tent maker, through his 21st Rubayath. The moving finger writes and having writ moves on; Neither all thy piety nor wit can...

“Food is a right; good food is a privilege; safe food is a responsibility”. This needs to be the dictum that dictates our food habits and nothing else. Man, for survival, requires adequate food to satisfy his hunger. Nations that leave, knowingly or unknowingly, even one...

With a place to sleep, food for sustenance and a companion to satiate libido, I am in the group of the vast number of beings that instinctively move in search of these to survive- the animal kingdom. When once the thought of clothing, to hide the...

Man is a product of habits and habits die hard. Habits speak on the type of life one leads. Some of our habits can provide for a better way of life, while some can be detrimental. Habits are acts one has practised way down life. They...