Sunday Thoughts By Kunal Roy

THE STREET ENTERTAINERS

It is the sense of profound insecurity that leads you to them! You will find them sitting comfortably either at the street corner or on the open pavement and the pedestrians are having a curious look at them as they pass by and they too seem to be ready to paw them without a second thought! They are none but the street astrologers like that of the street hawkers. At times the forehead is also smeared with vermilion, which is in fact a master stroke to create a make believe world! Moreover, accompanied by caged parrots and a few illegible scripts in front of them, they claim to be good future card readers and thus indulge in a kind of brisk business and that too without any oppose from anyone. But the question is who has given them the permission for this? Do they have licence or any other legal document to prove themselves? Do they have adequate knowledge on the subject? Certainly not. It is in fact a persistent act to vilify astrology. Besides most of us are ignorant of the facts and figures of the subject and eventually suffer a lot! Astrology is a vedic science where intricacies of risk and calculation are involved and is a pretty tough job to carve out a niche in this domain. Still people visit those quacks who are defaming the subject, despite being warned several times. We want to make them realise that do not belittle yourself, have faith in yourself and if u really want, you must visit some one worthy of your trust, someone of repute in this field. But never forget, ‘Fortune is not the ruler but the servant of Providence’!!