Question
What light does Shastri’s and the narrator’s stage-managed acting throw on astrology as it is practised by the astrologers like Shastri?
Solution
It presents astrology in a poor light. Astrology may be science but astrologers don’t indulge in it honestly. They don’t study the stars but base their predictions on hearsay and conjecture. Moreover, they can be influenced and tutored. Shastri did what he was tutored by the narrator to do and say.
