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July 14, 2005
The blog I never wanted to write!
I admire Bejan Daruwalla for his astrological skills, English vocabulary, and the way he transfers all the credit of his predictions to Lord Ganesha. Putting down astrologers isn’t my objective, but then I am just trying to bring few truths to light.
Here is a mail I got from one of my blog readers a couple of weeks back.
“For the last one year, I have been browsing through many astrology related websites mainly since I have been going through a very difficult period in my life. I noticed that there are some world famous astrologers providing consultation on almost every site. I always wondered how someone as high profile as Bejan Daruwalla had the time and energy to attend to every single order from all these websites, when he also writes in newspapers, works with politicians, sportsmen and other celebrities etc.
Then, a couple of days back I saw an announcement on the one of the websites - "Free chat with Bejan Daruwalla's Team". So it was not actually him, but probably his students and disciples answering questions. But the chat transcript made it look like it was actually Mr. Daruwalla doing free consultation. This then, might probably be true for all kinds of consultation (not just free chats) advertised on these websites.
What do you think about this.... - Is it fair...to have clients think that the astrologer they request is attending to their questions, while it is actually someone else (even if they might be trained by him and might follow the same techniques).
When you become famous (which I am sure you will) would you have any reservations about doing this or do you think it is acceptable.”
I would compare this particular episode with one of the incidents that took place in my life and leave it there.
It was the in mid-80s when Southern Sex Bomb Silk Smitha was at peak of her success. People used to flock the movie theatres just to see her dance in minis skirts & explicit tops. Lots of Malayalam soft movies were also made on her – which were super duper hits.
I recollect watching a Malayalam soft porn movie then – and the title of the movie was ‘Silk Silk Silk’. The movie ran full houses for 2 weeks, and then it flopped! The reason was - only the title had Silk in it, and there was no real Silk Smitha in the movie. In fact looking at the title her fans thought Silk was playing a triple role in the movie. It was a marketing gimmick to make some quick money.
Posted by Kenni at July 14, 2005 07:56 AM