THE “BUSH THRILLER” OF 2004 NOVEMBER

KN Rao

Indira Gandhi and George W Bush Like Indira Gandhi of India, George W Bush, the president of USA, is world’s most “thrilling” politician Compare their horoscopes. Read my piece on this website under “US ELECTIONS 2004”.

Both have Karka (Cancer) lagna with Saturn in it and both have Mars, the tenth lord, vargottama in Simha (Leo). Interestingly while Indira has Rahu in the sixth house good for overcoming enemies, Bush has it in the eleventh house which is equally good.

The “thrills” that Indira Gandhi created for our generation in India between 1966 and 1977 when she fell and again from 1980 to 1984 when she was assassinated can be relived if one
looks at the “achievements” of George W Bush.

(1) In the year 1975 there was a cartoon in a Bengali newspaper of Calcutta in which a lower middle class householder was shown dangling a huge live fish which he brought home, gave to his wife and asked her to cook it.
“But where is the oil ?” his wife asked.
“With the money I had I could either buy the fish or oil, not both.” replied the husband. Out of disgust the housewife threw the fish into a pond outside her kitchen.

Feeling happy at not being cut to pieces, the fished shouted, before diving into the pond,”Indira Gandhi ki jai”. Indira Gandhi who justified enormous corruption during her rule, was the grandmother of Indian inflation which was ruining Indian households. Bush can claim credit similarly for breaking the backbone of American middle classes and benefitting the top rich man, those “haves” and “have mores” he is said to praise and surround himself with.

(2) Bush won Florida in a controversial way in 2000 through a verdict of the US Supreme Court which is Republican dominated. Indira Gandhi overcame an adverse Allahabad judgement judgement, by amending the People’s Representation Act and putting all her opponents into jails to get the required majority in the Indian parliament in 1975. She won her case finally in the Supreme Court of India on the basis of a retrospective amendment.

(3) Indira Gandhi became a national heroine in 1971 by winning the war against Pakistan by opening TWO fronts and by severing it from East Pakistan which became Bangladesh. George Bush too opened TWO fronts, one against Afghanistan and the other against Iraq and has started declaring himself “a war president” to become something of a national hero though John Kerry tried to prick the bubble ineffectively in the presidential debates.

(4) Indira Gandhi imposed National Emergency in June 1975 and nearly killed democracy in India and Bush came out with his Patriot Act to frighten many Americans into placing national security above their democratic rights.

(5) Indira Gandhi was surrounded in her later years by a coterie of advisers which made her arrogant and authoritarian in a very dictatorial way. Can Bush say that he is any different ?

(6) Indira Gandhi raised the slogan “Garibi Hatao” (eradicate poverty) and ended up by nearly eradicating the “garib” (the poor) in the inflationary years 1974-77. Ask the jobless in the USA are they experiencing similar pangs ?

(7) The Congress Party of Indira Gandhi created Bhindrawale, the Sikh preacher-terrorist for electoral advantages, giving rise to Sikh terrorism. She got him killed and created more terrorists as a result of which she was killed by one of her own Sikh bodyguards. CIA created Osama bin Laden to fight the Russians of the communist era in Afghanistan and now Bush demands “Osama dead or alive” creating more terrorists.

(8) Indira Gandhi was described as I.G.”ANDHI” (tempest.) Bush has become “BUSHFIRE” .

(9) Both Indira Gandhi and George Bush address crowds and press conferences making better educated people look guilty. But Indira Gandhi could never have matched the uproarious “Bushisms”.

(10) And must I tell you that both Indira Gandhi and George Bush are born with “silver foot in the mouth” ?

(11) Indira Gandhi had two children and George W Bush too has two.

12) Indira Gandhi, lastly, was born in November and Bush is creating so many thrills for the world in the month of November, once in 2000 and now in 2004.

I was busy fighting the great case of astrology in the Supreme Court of India , a lone fighter, when all other astrologers chickened out and did not even come to the court to hear the proceedings. Then I got busy with my book JYOTISH, OUR LEGACY as a result of which I did some slipshod analysis of Indian elections 2004 and gave a second or the third most atrocious
prediction in a story of thirty years of spectacular successes.

Then I woke up and wrote about US election (see the pieces on US ELECTIONS 2004 and VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN US ELECTIONS 2004 after some careful analysis with only a fragment of my methodology which is very scientific.

It is not to say that I plead guilty to the charge of predicting the victory of Bush and Cheney in the elections of 2004. I will stick to that because Bushfires must invite whirlwinds is what I see astrologically But then we will have to wait because in USA they have a state called OHIO so let us wait and say in the meantime OH !

(Written as the electoral votes were being counted in US elections ruining the sleep of a seventy three year old man like me on the Indian midnight of 3 November 2004.)