Letters: Study in contradiction

That Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T B Jayachandra (pictured) excluded vaastu and astrology from the new anti-superstition Bill is not surprising. After all, those who stay in glass houses cannot throw stones at others.
 
Although professing a rational and progressive mindset, Congress ministers across India often consult astrologers and act according to their advice, right from filing their nominations to campaigning to assuming office.
 
Why, even Jawaharlal Nehru took the help of astrology in his final days, as journalist Durga Das recounts in his book India from Curzon to Nehru and After. In 1964, at the