A former student of mine who is a diehard supporter of the BJP and its radicalism wrote on Facebook: “So some of the political parties in my country has (sic) a stern view that 'Astrology' is no science.” I don’t know if the political parties in India have really stern views about anything, let alone astrology. Isn’t politics, particularly the kind one finds in India, all about opportunism? Even the BJP, my student’s own party, would have made all kinds of flip-flops had it not won the absolute majority in the Lok Sabha elections, hugging strange bedfellows and cooking up a bizarre coalition. The drama that unfolded in Maharashtra after the Assembly elections is a mild indicator of the nature of politics in India. The stars in the heavens do not alter their positions a bit while such dramas unfold all over the world. Do the stars affect our lives in any significant way? When the Earl of Kent said in Shakespeare’s King Lear , “It’s the stars, / The stars above
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