Superstition or fact?

By HT Correspondent

Updated On Dec 26, 2013 10:58 am IST

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Shri Mahakaal Siddhi Jyotish is one among the many palmists who sit outside the Hanuman Mandir in Connaught Place. Palmists are widely revered in India. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 26, 2013 10:58 am IST

Shri Mahakaal Siddhi Jyotish is one among the many palmists who sit outside the Hanuman Mandir in Connaught Place. Palmists are widely revered in India. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

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Forehead reading, Rajendra Swami claims, comes to him intuitively. He looks at a person and starts writing instinctively in his notepad. Astrologers, he says, are dependent on stars. He isn’t. “I was born with this gift.” (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 26, 2013 10:58 am IST

Forehead reading, Rajendra Swami claims, comes to him intuitively. He looks at a person and starts writing instinctively in his notepad. Astrologers, he says, are dependent on stars. He isn’t. “I was born with this gift.” (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

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Prerna Khanna practises angel healing, which involves communicating with angels as the key to healing. She laughs at how people have weird notions based on what they have seen in movies. “They imagine dark and smoky rooms with candles burning, but are disappointed to see an ordinary ambience” (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 26, 2013 10:58 am IST

Prerna Khanna practises angel healing, which involves communicating with angels as the key to healing. She laughs at how people have weird notions based on what they have seen in movies. “They imagine dark and smoky rooms with candles burning, but are disappointed to see an ordinary ambience” (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

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Divya Khanna is a crystal healer. Crystals are mainly used when "balance" needs to be brought to a person’s life. There are people, she says, who are innately attracted to them, which tells her a lot about them. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 26, 2013 10:58 am IST

Divya Khanna is a crystal healer. Crystals are mainly used when "balance" needs to be brought to a person’s life. There are people, she says, who are innately attracted to them, which tells her a lot about them. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

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