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  Wake up in wonder*     “Look! I hold up this envelope, I look at it … a whitish patch of colour…you also see the same envelope…but a different whitish patch of colour different from me…and …all of you have a different whitish patch of colour …your distance from me is different, according to differences in your eyesight and place of sitting …so is true for shape also…some of you have rhomboidal…others have rectangular…(and some others can see a part of it only) the wonderful part is …had you all seen me commit a murder….your evidence will be accepted in any court of law as conclusive evidence.… to hang me …but you could not swear in a court of law that you had all seen the same whitish patch of colour …” And thus the teacher went on:   Coming back home I was looking at my table…though I have seen it hundreds of times but today I felt I was looking at it as if it is the first time. I wonder whether my eye-sights are changed or the object has assumed a new ...