Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Upcoming Trends in Society: A lucrative business without much Capital Investments

Upcoming Trends in Society: A lucrative business without much Capital Investments

Well friends I am back after almost a month. Well I am happy that at least I am not Ganguly who was made to rest.

By looking at the topic, I guess probably you would have started thinking what happened to Mahadevan all of a sudden. Has he started a business? Has he started a magazine like “Nana yam Vikatan” where people shell out their rich experiences in their respective fields of operation? If all these are running in your minds, probably then you are wrong.

Ennada society business athu ithunu over talk podaraane nu paakkareengala? Perisa onnum sollida porathillai. (People who don’t understand please excuse me).

Arun and Santhosh are good Friends. They are having conversation which I happen to hear Rather overhear ……………..


Arun: Suttum Vizhi chudare suttum vizhi chudare... and then starts smiling...
Santhosh: Hey come on Arun what’s all this? So even you have fallen in love with someone?
Arun: Don’t be silly Santhosh. I am not Sanjay Ramasamy.
Santhosh: Then what’s special today? You seem happy today.

Arun: I am going to fly to US soon da.
Santhosh: That sounds interesting machaan. So at last your Project Manager came to a compromise of sending you to the onsite assignment.
Arun: Not yet da. I am yet to speak to him regarding my interests in Onsite assignments.
Santhosh: So you have plans of making a shift to a new Organization?
Arun: Santhosh would you stop it? Before you coming with all your speculations let me tell you what’s it all about?
Santhosh: That should be fine with me.

Arun: Recently my parents went to astrologer to show my horoscope and he has assured of an onsite assignment soon.
Santhosh: Good to hear that. Is he going to start a new organization at US? Is it Software
Consulting Company? Or a franchise for his business there?
Arun: Hey come on Santhosh. Don’t be that childish.

Santhosh: Then what do you want me to do? What do you mean by assurance?
Arun: As per the astrologers, planets are in my favor and they are moving in the right direction and pace.
Santhosh: So will they reach US on time? Will they take you there once they reach their destinations?
Arun: Stop speaking rubbish. Always there is a limit. So please be patient. Let me complete.
Santhosh: Sorry.

Arun: Never Mind. As per the predictions of my astrologer, positions of planets are good as per my horoscope. So he predicts there is bright chance for my abroad visit soon within 3 months.
Santhosh: It’s ridiculous. Who is he to decide on your chances of your movement or onsite assignments? Then where do the Project Managers of your Organization or US Consulate Visa Officer’s Stand? Is he running the organization? Don’t go stupid by hearing to all those absurd predictions. It’s all fate that determines your chances.

Arun: May be you don’t have belief on it. That’s the reason why you speak like this. May be you can stay from it.
Santhosh: By the way Arun, Astrology is a science of Prediction. It may happen or may not happen. But nowadays people have started making use of this as a business to make money without much capital investments. So better get away from that.

Arun: Santhosh! One more thing. How did I forget to tell you this? Guru Palan has come!
Santhosh: Who’s that man? Where from has he come? Is he your relative from India, US, UK or Singapore? In what way is he related to you?

Arun: You don’t have faith in astrology.
Santhosh: Of course not. Then he must be an astrologer.
Arun: Please for God sake don’t come up with your wild guesses.
Santhosh: What do you want me to do then?
Arun: Let me tell you what it is.
Santhosh: I appreciate. That would be fine with me.
Arun: Strong belief as per astrological science is that Marriages turns out positive only if a in boy/girl's horoscope Guru is in right Dasa i mean position
Santhosh: Hey its funny man. So you mean to say whoever is not married yet is waiting for guru palan...Feel sorry for people like you...That’s what I could do utmost.

Arun: Santhosh... You know one thing. Her name starts with K, L, M, N...
Santhosh: (Interrupting Arun in the middle) U mean the astrologer? 22 alphabets left more to go.
Arun: It’s my fiancée name...
Santhosh: Hey man kewl...You must be lucky enough to have four fiancées then!!
Arun: Stop the nonsense. My fiancée name will start with either K or L or M or N. And he told me one more thing that she will have brothers and not sisters.
Santhosh: Oh! What else? Didn't he tell her father's name or place where she belongs to? Is she the daughter of astrologer?

Arun: Let me stop here...I have wasted my time explaining you all these....


Hey Arun this is Mahadevan here. At least by having a conversation with Santhosh, you have clearly provided me chance to bring out the recent trends in the society. People go crazy with Josiyam (Astrology). I still agree there were people who were really good at these predictions based on the position of planets earlier in the society. But these days’ people have started exploiting people making this a business. As long as people like Arun are there in the society, we are definitely going to contribute to the growth of this trend in the society.

Got to live with it. Even though I speak this much, even my parents have belief in Astrology. I keep insisting them to come out by bringing in the points in favor of me. But still they don’t. I don’t force any body.

Based on the predictions given by the astrologers, Parents start looking for spouse working in US, UK, Singapore for their daughter/son. In fact probably if every one starts thinking like this, i will not get one!!!! But still I cannot blame parents. They want their daughter/son to be placed well in society after their marriage. But as long as they don’t go merely for the sake of predictions given by their astrologers it should be fine. As well provided they give more importance to “Mana Porutham” rather than “Jaathaga Porutham” its better for their boy/girl’s life. I don’t mean to say Love Marriage here. Hope you people understand what I am trying to say.


Arun and Santhosh are just some imaginary characters being used by me to bring out the points that I want to share with you all in this context.

Disclaimer

The content posted here is not to hurt any one. Excuse me if I am wrong in any of these aspects. These are purely my views.

But I would appreciate if you people come up with your suggestions/views if you have a different perspective that will help me understand the society well.

6 Comments:

At 7:55 PM, Blogger Krishna said...

Dear Mahadevan,

I agree with your thought. But, not in all the cases. I do have the same opinion like you before I met one astrologer. We have to meet the right person, that's important. I met one astrolger because of my mom's interest.I realy surprised how he know about my past life. He is explaining my whole life and also predicts my future. If you are meeting the right person, you can trust his words.

Anyway, it's realy an interesting write up and keep update your blog with more interesting stuff.

 
At 11:42 PM, Blogger Yesgee said...

your best blog by far da... and you are very much right in saying that people who claim to know atrology nowadays know little about it and astrology itself may be true... exactly my feelings

 
At 9:37 PM, Blogger gokee said...

Good one da. But is there any special reason on asking me to read it. I mean Santhosh suits me good just not because he is not blindly accepting the Joshiyams :-)also because of the pestering questions through out the conversation.
Nice one again.

 
At 4:55 AM, Blogger srivatsan said...

I dont understand this science of future. Suppose for arguments' sake lets say your astrologer tells you are going to die tomorrow. Lets say suppose you took all the precautions and did not die at all. This proves that the astrologer was a blatant liar rather than a saviour. And suppose inspite of all the precautions you took you die, you could not do much either even after knowing before hand that you are going to die. At least you would have lived a day's life normally. Knowing future is much less fun than creating the one i want.

 
At 10:45 AM, Blogger Sweetvenom said...

Astrology may be a science but living entirely by its predictions is not life. Life is to live the way we like and the way we are.
I agree with you but still I don't want to comment on astrology cause I have no idea about it. As you feel, it may be mis-interrupted as it passed on from one generations to another.Rahu-kalam, Yama gandam, Kuli-velai and what not. There are some scientific explanations but others they lack proper explanations or they do not belong to our time. Read my post of superstitions that still exists in Ireland.There are lot more but I came to know a couple of them.

 
At 10:47 AM, Blogger Sweetvenom said...

Nice blog buddy! The way you got into the topic was good.

 

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