The November rain has exceeded the seasonal rainfall of North-East Monsoon in the southern peninsula of India. The state of Tamil Nadu in particular had received record rainfall which brought floods in its many cities particularly in Chennai. http://www.skymetweather.com/content/weather-news-and-analysis/tamil-nadu-floods-have-caused-damage-worth-rs-8481-crore/ The North-East monsoon is expected to give some more rain in the coming days as Sun, Mercury […]
Forbidden Marriages in Simhastha Brihaspati: Why such fear?
(Note: The content in this article has been taken from my published write-up “Solemnizing Marriages need not be Prohibited!” at Express Star Teller October 2015 issue) Hindu astrology has suffered from lots of superstitions in the last few centuries. One of the main reasons for the spread of wrong beliefs in astrology is the overemphasis […]
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Predicting earthquakes has always been the most trickiest area in mundane astrology. Not much research has been done on this subject due to lack of hints given in the classics. Neither Brihat Samhita nor any other classics of Medini Jyotish (mundane astrology) gives you any planetary combination which can be used in predicting earthquakes with […]
The PDP-BJP Coalition: An odd political marriage in Jammu and Kashmir
(Note: This article of mine was published in the May issue of Express Star Teller. I had originally written it for the Express Star Teller magazine and the same is being reproduce here) In a historic development the Bhariyiya Janata Party (BJP) become the part of a government coalition in Muslim-majority state of Jammu and […]
Transit of Saturn and spread of epidemics in modern India
(Note: This article was written by me early this year for Modern Astrology Magazine. It was published in the May 2015 issue of Modern Astrology. The same has been reproduce from there for the readers of my blog.) With its tropical climate and unhygienic conditions of living India has always been endemic to many diseases […]
