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Now is our opportunity https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/oasis/now-is-our-opportunity-1152763.html During a quick sift through my childhood treasure trove, I chanced upon my school autograph book. My class teacher’s note got me thinking: “Past is best forgotten, present is your opportunity, and future is your hope.”  In other words, the past is nothing but memory on a recall while the future is the act of conjuring up the next moment that is not here yet. They both come to our experience right now. The yesterday which is in memory brings both the good and the bad for us to brood over now. The tendency though is to gravitate in the bad experiences and bring it into the active pane of now. A death in the family then, an accident of  yesteryear that has healed, and so on makes us feel sad or insecure or angry now.   Unfortunately, the memory that operates in the past influences and shapes the current moment. The tomorrow i...

Lessons from an unlikely teacher https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/right-in-the-middle/lessons-from-an-unlikely-teacher-1149185.html   Sound of divine music and flute stopped me in my tracks during my evening walk, recently. I have lived in the neighbourhood for two decades, but never had I heard music this melodious. I was convinced that this was my imagination at play as I had my  earphones on and was listening to a live spiritual session as I walked. Going around on the same path, I heard the melody again on my second round. There was nobody else other than a goods auto, which was parked on a side road with its nose against the compound of a house. The rear of the auto had a tarpaulin cover.   The tiny window of the driver’s cabin had a brown shirt for a cover and windshield was covered with a make-shift screen. I could not see beyond those covers. On my third round, overcome with curiosity, I approached the parked auto. Yes, that was the source of the music. A...