Future frenzy

Chartered accountant Anil Sharma visits a tarot card reader to confirm the ‘well-being’ of his boss. Monicca Adlakha tells more.

Chartered accountant Anil Sharma visits a tarot card reader to confirm the ‘well-being’ of his boss.

Richa Kumar* and her colleague, both employees of a five-star hotel, always have more questions about their immediate seniors than themselves when they meet their astrologer.

If you think they are the new breed of boss bhakts, you’re mistaken. Fortune tellers claim that these employees are driven by insecurity or frustration or simply a need to know which way the office weather vane will turn tomorrow.

Getting ahead
Kumar, for whom this has been a ritual for two years now, is not suffering from schadenfreude, defined as an “unanticipated delight in the suffering of another.” Her plan, she says, is simply to “use the information to my advantage.” As in a marriage, this improves compatibility at work, she feels.

Her colleague Pragya*, however, confesses that she feels “tortured” by her boss and has every right to know when she will be rid of him. She wants to see him transferred or in a new job, and has even got a puja done to help things along.

Numerologist Niraj Mancchanda reveals that certain people approach him for ‘shortcut methods’ like tantra or black magic. If you are the boss? Vadehra suggests that you should keep a clear quartz.

*Names changed