India, Feb. 2 -- My secretary ushered in a seemingly gangster character to my chamber, making me wonder what he had come for. "How can I help you?" I asked. "Sir, I have come for an astrological consultation. I don't have my actual birth time. It is somewhere between 13.30 to 14.00 hrs. Your secretary tells me that you need to figure out the exact time of birth, before she can draw my chart," the man replied.

Having ascertained his particulars, I made a ruling planet chart at that particular moment. Based on that, I fixed his time of birth at 13.29 hrs. "How could you arrive at my exact time of birth so quickly? And how authentic is that?" asked the young man. "My friend, there remains continuum in time. Remember, what you encounter this...