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After I proved that I totally rock the vowel matras, yesterday my Hindi tutor and I had a discussion about - what else - filmy stars. She told me there are news stories going around that Mr. Bachchan strongly encouraged Aishwarya to marry a tree in order to level out some of the bad news in her horoscope.
This kept me up at night. Honestly.
I have no idea how to express how absolutely ridiculous and insulting I think this is (and illegal, according to some reports) without being disrespectful to a belief system I know very little about and do not share. So instead I'll say this: if Aishwarya had wanted a tall wooden husband, she would have married Arjun Rampal.
This kept me up at night. Honestly.
I have no idea how to express how absolutely ridiculous and insulting I think this is (and illegal, according to some reports) without being disrespectful to a belief system I know very little about and do not share. So instead I'll say this: if Aishwarya had wanted a tall wooden husband, she would have married Arjun Rampal.
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I'm baffled by the whole tree-marriage thing, myself. I've sort of taken the "until I hear otherwise I'll assume it's a rumor" stance.
I believe the correct (!) astrological term is Manglik. You can find more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangal_Dosha
While I in NO way think this is cool, I would like to point out that men also have married trees/inanimate objects if they are born Manglik. Equal gender humiliation, if you please!
ps - Who would the wooden female equivalent of Arjun Rampal be? Aishwarya Rai IMHO (hehe, how ironic)
Blohot - I can see the thinking, I'm grateful to have the explanation, and I admit this is a clever and relatively tidy solution to a problem in that it does not involve more people in the scheme. And if you have to marry a non-person, I guess a tree is as good a partner as any - they're generally benign and are friendly, shady forces in the world. However, "superstitious as any man" is a little bit problematic, since not everyone is superstitiuos.
pinke_v - I am delighted that it isn't just for women. As you say, these things are far less disconcerting to me when it's not only women who have to do them. As for the female Arjun Rampal, I might have to go with Priyanka, though I bet I could come up with someone even less skilled if I tried. I actually really like Ash, actually, though I know I'm basically alone on that.
You're making fun of Asambhav again, aren't you? And you know what I say to that? Boom!
well...the things people do to ward off unpleasant things on their astrologic charts.
Interestingly, quite a few famous personalities around the world have been influenced by astrology and tarot cards..I think one of the first ladies, Princess Di (???not sure about it) and others...we don't know what kinds of things they did or continue to do.
kamla