Somewhere there is a desire to be an ‘achiever’ in the society of success worshipers but his life is sinking into irredeemable ordinary life like millions of people around him. He knows English, is in the thrall of the values of the post Christian West and its thinking, though himself he is an Indian. The question of his questions is will he become an “achiever”. How does an astrologer tackle his question? A young Indian once asked me whether he could become the Bill Gates of India and a young Pakistani whether he could be Mukesh Ambani of Pakistan. A high ranking police officer with a wry sense of humor used to say some years ago, when we discussed astrology, “young men these days want to become millionaires by next Monday.”

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