Nadi astrology

Nadi Astrology ('நாடி ஜோதிடம்' in Tamil), (nāḍi jyotiṣa) is a form of divination, "…concerned with central religious issues such as man’s relation to the world, moral responsibility, and the revelation of a coherent divine order underlying human experience".^[1]

Naadi astrology in popular culture

Prince of Malacca

In the film Chandran Rutnam is set to direct, Prince of Malacca, the olai-chuvadi (palm-leaf) reading which Raj Rajaratnam sought to forecast his future is influenced.^[2]

After Johny reads an article in the Newsweek magazine by a professor at the University of New York, he becomes interested in olai-chuvadi reading or Naadi 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 famous worldwide. That he had to close his business down. Rajaratnam revealed in the article that he doesn't generally believe in fortunetellers 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 had also divined that his wife was born in "some Southeast Asian country." His wife Asha was born in the Philippines.^[2]

References

Bibliography

• Shashikant Oak, Naadi Predictions A Mind Boggling Miracle (2010), ISBN 81-7182-948-1
• Sanjay Rath, Collected Papers in Vedic Astrology (2006), ISBN 0-9765177-1-X, chapter 9, pp. 247–276.
• Thomas Ritter, Die Palmblattbibliotheken. Und ihre Prophezeiungen zur Zukunft Europas (2006) ISBN 978-3-938516-20-1.
• Thomas Ritter, Die Geheimnisse indischer Palmblattbibliotheken Dem Schicksal auf der Spur: Dem Schicksal auf der Spur. Das Vermächtnis der Sieben Weisen. Schicksalsbibliotheken auf der Spur (2002) ISBN 978-3-89094-350-3.
• Shashikant Oak (Wing Commander), Naadi Predictions A Mind Boggling Miracle (2010), ISBN 81-7182-948-1