Brokers at the Bombay Stock Exchange are clamouring for vaastu experts to be brought in to change the direction of the bronze bull statue that has been erected at the footsteps of the BSE building on Dalal Street, reports the BBC. They say that the posterior of the five-foot-tall bull, installed on January 12, points towards the traders which makes it inauspicious. The installation of the statue has coincided with some of the worst falls in stock prices.
Photograph: courtesy Hindustan Times
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“Angry when hungry”, AMAR NARAYAN forwards a picture of the Wall Street bull and brings some heartwarming, well, handwarming news:
“The New York bull’s rear end doesn’t seem to affect these happy tourists. I’ve even seen some over-enthusiastic tourists posing for photos with its brass balls in their hands.
“Directly behind this bull’s behind is a small park, beyond which is the beautifully constructed Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian (red ones, not brown). Earlier, it used to house the US Customs office. But I have no idea if they are/were suffering losses.”
What is so funny about this? There are Yaksha/Yakshini Murtis before Reserve Bank of India HQ. A significant majority of Indians, particularly the middle class believes in religion, Vastu. Even Arjun Singh does wear 10 rings.
There is a bengali saying which roughly means- Mullah’s writ runs upo mosque. Similarly, Indian english media can poke fun only if sensitivites of Hindus are involved.
To say installation of statue is responsible for woes or inauspicious is Bull..
Asolutely true, what is wrong in Getting the consultation.
Jus visit the site vastuconsultancy.com and read.
I am no expert in vaastu, but I think that turning the Bull around in any direction means its posterior will be facing some other set of unfortunates, most likely some South Indian running a Udupi. Tongue firmly in cheek, are these Gujju stock brokers so selfish that they don’t care if misfortune lands on some less worthies in their mad quest for profits?
OTOH, we have had all manner of cow “experts”, owing allegiance to the BJP/RSS/Bajrang Dal/Hindu Sena/ Ram Sena, conclude gravely that virtually everything in the darned animal was a godsend. Are we to conclude from the stock brokers’ protest that their benefactors are wrong for a change about the bull?
And is this really an Indian bull?
its just a copy of the same in NY i think….actually if u think, our ( K’taka) depiction of the bull was nice, remember the ones in Chamundi Hills, Basavanagudi …the posterior didnt face anyone
If SEBI is so powerful, it should crack the whip and make the bull turn around.