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Astrological Miscellany


Is it luck, or Providence or simple Destiny?

By Kshitij Sharma, June 3, 2011

An interesting perspective on luck (or just maybe destiny) that I read in the Economic Times today on luck and corporate success. Just want to bring to your attention, and let you yourself make something out of it, rather than me going on a rant about Astrology 🙂

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Some mere mortals

By Kshitij Sharma, February 25, 2010

Even in Satyuga, there was a washerman (dhobi) who doubted Rama and Sita and Sita had to prove herself through agnipariksha

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What are the odds?

By Kshitij Sharma, January 28, 2010

There was a comment made seemingly by Mr. Amitabh Bachchan here

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Classical Books on Astrology – Availability

By Kshitij Sharma, January 26, 2010

One of the readers of the website, Santosh Kulkarni, pointed me to this wonderful information on books on Vedic Astrology. One of his relatives, Shri Virupaksha Rao Kulkarni, who is a practicing astrologer, found out about Chowkambha Publications in Varanasi. Almost all of the classical texts on astrology are published by them. Some of these books are available in e-book format on

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Continuity and Differentiability

By Kshitij Sharma, January 17, 2010

High school mathematics introduces the concept of continuous and differentiable functions as the first steps of calculus.

For a continuous function, if someone were to compute the value of a function at a point and at another point just besides it, then there would not be a lot of change in the value. In the language of mathematics, consider a function f(x), then f(x+d)-f(x) –> 0 as d –> 0. Continue reading


Makara Sankranti

By Kshitij Sharma, January 14, 2010

Surya moved into Capricorn around 12 noon (for a chart cast for Bangalore) signifying the festival of Makara Sankranti. The Sun is also uttarayana (moving towards north) from today.

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Email Subscriptions

By Kshitij Sharma, January 10, 2010

Email Subscriptions are back !

Please use the form on upper left hand side corner to subscribe to content to this site – you will get an email once I publish new content on my blog.

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Exaltation, Debilitation and Moola-trikona Chart

By Kshitij Sharma, January 1, 2010

A very happy new year 2010 to all the readers. May it bring all the happiness and prosperity in the world to you.

Another calendar year has passed and I must be getting old. Last week, while looking at a chart, I could not, for example, remember the exaltation sign of certain planets. Therefore, as the first article of 2010, I decided to post this table as a ready reference. It is more for my benefit and less for yours. Please allow me so much liberty.

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Stories around Astrology

By Kshitij Sharma, October 9, 2009

All of you must have gone through 100s of comments on astrology posts here by Basab. Here is one more example of how clear a thinker he is. He has a blog on Sulekha that I read whenever he posts a new story and I would like to share with readers of this site.

Thanks Basab bhai, an absolute pleasure this is…


Sanatana Dharma

By Kshitij Sharma, August 20, 2009

Newsweek reported this article – We Are All Hindus Now written by Lisa Miller. This may come as a surprise to many and give a talking point to the ignoramus lot of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, but believe me, this is nothing new. Any person who has read the Vedas will shrug it off saying “big deal”.

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