Nadi Astrology in Popular Culture
Prince of Malacca
In the Chandran Rutnam set to direct film Prince of Malacca, the ola-leaf reading which Raj Rajaratnam sought to forecast his future is influenced.
After Johny read an article in the Newsweek magazine by a professor at New York University, he becomes interested in ola-leaf reading which is known as Nadi astrology. The article reveals, "Rajaratnam had gone to the ola-leaf readers." It is said there was a government case against Raj, that he was in the stock business, that he was world-known. That he had to close his business down. Rajaratnam revealed in the article that he doesn't generally believe in fortune tellers and astrologers. "But the ola leaves were written thousands of years ago. In those days there was no share business. I found it interesting." The leaf reader also divined that his wife was born in "some Southeast Asian country." His wife Asha was born in the Philippines.
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