But when the discussion is about the future, the national mood darkens.
Even as most economists are still confident about India's long-term future, the optimistic mood that once prevailed is now tempered by growing doubts.
Tenses such as the present, past, and future, and the moods such as the imperative and optative are also traditionally included in the arthas signified by a verb root, or an affix.
This will mean having a consistent strategy and relevant policy agenda, one that looks to the future and captures the mood of the country.
And, as New York struggles on after the atrocity of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, some in the media business are doing their part by once again wetting a finger to the cultural winds and attempting a guess at the future mood in their grief-stricken city.
One employee, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid risking future job possibilities, described the mood in the newsroom as bad.
About 6 p.m., when the Voice of Israel announced that the talks between Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, had failed over the future status of Jerusalem, the mood became triumphal.
Nixon, who had just resigned as president, faced an uncertain legal future but was in the mood to face his challengers in court and prove that, as he once put it, "I am not a crook".
The visual impact of her presence is reflected simultaneously in the past and the future, in symbiosis with the mood of her music". .
