Astrology - A Myth?

Hindu religion is one of the oldest religion leading to believe people in around 64 thousand crore God’s if at all. We have various traditions which we follow. Some of them are quite good, they help bring families together. But then we had others like sati, child marriage etc which had been put to, by being people with broader outlook towards things. But still there are a lot of customs and traditions which are still believed into and some of us still think they are valuable and should be preserved while rest find themselves a victim of the same. Belief in horoscopes/astrology is one such thing.



Before marriage Hindus tend to match the so called kundali’s of the potential bride and groom and then decide if the marriage should happen or not. The summary is a minimum of 18 ‘gunas’ should match, then only they are compatible else they are not fit for each other. These so called ‘gunas’ are decided based on the temperament , health and life prediction of the boy and the girl depending on their date of birth, time and place. But can someone really predict what is going to happen? If that be the case why are we living the life we have if we know what is going to happen? When the boy and girl were living separately then there were no conflicts but if they get married her ‘gunas’ may even lead to the guy’s death if she is manglik? Isn’t that bullshit? If something is supposed to happen then won’t that happen anyways? Just because a person is born on a particular day his/her partner will likely die? Isn’t that a ridiculous thought?



There’s a large race of educated people who firmly believe in all this, be it India’s superstar Amitabh Bachan or our leaders like LK Advani,Narendra Modi and countless others to name. We are still to move past these shackles inhibiting the real incarnation of our country from its ageold myths /misbeliefs.



I am certain that half of the population reading this might actually turn out to be a believer afterall. If not I would be pleasantly surprised. So what are you, a believer or you think it’s a myth?

Emotional abuse

Is physical abuse the only abuse? Isn’t the deepest of pain which stirs your soul and makes you immovable, emotional in nature? Physical wounds can heal in sometime and if not you die. But emotional wounds stay forever and are the hardest to heal. It always leaves a mark like the physical ones but on you as a person.


These thoughts came into my mind when someone close to my friend hurt her and when she said I am hurt, he questioned her and replied saying I didn’t cause you any physical harm. I couldn’t help but think is physical harm the only harm a person can cause? The biggest harms caused are always emotional in nature isn’t it so? Why we feel lost and devastated on a broken relationship. They didn’t beat us to death or anything, they just deserted you.

A person who’s physically challenged is not weak because of his physical incapability but from the realization and thoughts of things he can do and he can’t. If only we were mentally strong enough no problem would ever be a problem. We do exercises to keep our body fit and healthy and trimmed. But what is there for the mind? How do we train our mind to be strong too?

Physical hurt is much easy to deal with emotional hurt. We may not cry on biggest of physical injuries but on those of emotional ones. How can anybody not realize that? I wonder at times how can people be so insensitive to others? How can they be so selfish and self centered that they don’t even realize how much pain and harm they are causing to the other person. For them there’s no harm until physical harm is there. What if a person dies of his emotional trauma? Will then only be his wound visible?

F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

The forgetful person I am and plus the amazing friends I have got, often places me at tight positions too often. Well what happens is I tend to forget their Birthday’s occasionally , mind you they come only once a year so are very important. And at others you forget about their 5th anniversary with their boyfriend, about their facial appointment, about the recent shopping date they have fixed, about the new dress they bought recently and you couldn’t recognize and compliment them, or the new sandals for the matter and so on and on.


I accept that forgetting birthday’s of close friends is not acceptable at all and that too 2 years in a row is a horrendous crime. My apologies to my dear friend Lioness for that. So is there a way out of escaping such situations? I went with my plight to one of my dear friend and he suggested I should follow ’bole toh gandhigiri mamu’. Send a rose or a B’Day card daily to the dear friend who is upset that I forgot her B’Day and have decided to declare a cold war and isn’t talking to me at all. The idea was quite appealing but considering the budget and the meager salary I am bound for look for alternatives.

All of us often find ourselves caught in fierce problems like this when our loved one is upset because we were careless enough to forget an important day. What do you do then ‘gandhigiri’? :D Occasionally I have seen guys buying dresses, jewellery and other stuff for their wives often just because they forgot something important. :D Poor fellows I must say!

With my due condolences to the race of men I would like to end this post here as I have kind of lost the reason why I started writing this stuff! :D