YOUR HOROSCOPE TODAY
Hence proved! What? Well, the fact that you have decided to read this piece among many others is itself a testimony of the attraction you felt towards the topic. How the world nowadays is lured by the tarot cards, horoscope predictions, numerology, star positions, palmistry and the likes seems strange. Why so? On one side we have landed on the moon and are vying to reach the stars and on the other we tend to believe that all the planetary objects conspire to direct the lives of the humans living on this planet Earth. Isn’t this an interesting paradox?
There was a time when the contemporary thinking was catching up…ah! Rather it seems more appropriate to say.. once upon a time India was getting educated and abandoning the superstitions it had lived with for ages. However, those times of rebel, revolutions and scientific temprament are long gone. Today the parrot readers have given way to much sophisticated Pundits and Devis who claim long time slots on our channels and huge space in our newspapers. And here, the mention of media infuriates me further. The fourth estate, the watchdog, the gatekeeper…woo what names ... but are all these addresses justified for the media of today, which seems to have forgotten its function of forming the public opinion in the mad craze to raise TRPs and readership. The more you make the people fearful of the uncertainties of their future, the more will you be able to pull them to the solution offered by the Vastu and Kundali experts is the Mantra of the media today.
Solar and Lunar eclipses take shape of opportunities to offer ideas of how your lives shall get affected by the heavenly bodies today; earthquakes and Tsunamis are predicted by the Pundits; performances of players and box office conditions of films are calculated by the numerology experts; Tarot card readers tell us whether a government shall win a no confidence motion…. Oops, what great science! Loose the charm of living in every moment to the efforts of knowing the future is the idea being propagated. The ripples of mysticism and fallacy are forming and rising with no near possibilities of an end.
Influenced by the high class Bas and Bahus of Balaji, the Indian middle class had turned back to Kundalis and horoscope matching as foundations of a healthy marriage. Names of new borns have again come to be suggested by palm leave readers. This is an uncanny alteration when compared to the modern thought that ruled our society in the mid 70s and 80s. The age of liberalization has again come to be dominated by traditionalism. I say again because four decades back India and Indians had started to learn to believe in themselves, but now the trust has gone back to the stars. The power that we had has shifted back to the planets.
Ah, all you believers who started reading me with some expectation of knowing your lucky colour and lucky number for today, I shouldn’t disappoint you. So here is your horoscope today: You will believe any Tom Dick and Harry who writes any horoscope column in any newspaper. Correct?
3 comments:
But, whats the harm in believing in those predictions. I mean, its like you believe in the word God irrespective of the fact that he listens to your prayers or not you still puts your effort in the work, if it comes off you think its due to God's grace if it isn't you felt he is just a stone.
The harm is that you trust some random person predicting the events of your life more than you trust yourself to mould your own life
Now you tell me, is it worth?
But, that random person may be like Bejan Daruwala who is (a) very popular, (b) he actually change many life with his stones. Moreover, most people actually trust them because they loose trust over themselves or their hard work or efforts is not paying off. So, they need a change or try different things and interestingly many times these baba's and tarrot card readers actually works.
Remember Octopus Paul during Fifa World Cup, people gone mad over him and seriously if nothing works for you it is worth a try before you actually awarding yourself a title of Looser. What say??
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