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K. N. Rao needs no introduction, he runsthe biggest school of astrology in the world,

has produced the highest number of top

quality books which has cult following, and

is known for his outstanding predictive

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T endulkar's H oroscope:

C onfusion and A pologiesByK.N.Rao India

nqualified apology is what I

must offer. The fault is mine and

totally mine because I acceptedwithout hesitation the birth data of Sachin

Tendulkar given by Pinki Karve in 2001.

Before I elaborate it all, read about the

background.

1980 and my enthusiasmMy interest has been in more than

twelve games, indoor and outdoor I played

and read about and wrote on, more as a

sport journalist during my student days. I

later kept alive my interest in these more

as a sports enthusiast than as an astrologer.

Cricket replaced all other sports in India is

well known. Here too I watched matches

never from any astrological angle. Withage that zest was reduced. I rarely made

predictions about sportsmen except more

about RogerFederer the great tennis player

recently.

The story of the suppression of thedata Sometime towards the end of theeighties of the last century when Sachin

Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli had made

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history as rising cricket prodigies, a producer of sports programme of the Doordarshan

coming to Delhi from Bombay almost once a month promised to get me their birth details.

My interest in the horoscopes of sportsmen has always been well known to people coming to

meet me. But that was in the eighties of the last century. Now it has almost vanished.

Few weeks after, this producer again met me and apologized saying that the families of

both SachinTendulkarand VinodKamblihave been advised by someone never to reveal their

correct birth details ever to anyone. Then and there stopped the search of the horoscopes of

these two cricketers.

Loss Of Interest In 2001Like so many, I watched cricket matches but was never interested in the horoscopes of

cricketers as with advancing age such interest declined. In some decades earlier I wanted to

produce a big research on sports and even distinguish, astrologically, between cricketers andtennis players. I could not do it as I could not get enough correct horoscopes.

Then match fixing scandals of the earlier years of the first decade of this century led to

steep decline in the interest I was taking in the lives and performances of cricketers.

Established as a cricketer in the year 2000, Sachinbecame a living cricketing legend with

his achievements and some qualities journalists found in him. It was the Sachin era of

Indian cricket and he was compared only with BrianLaraand none others as these two stood

above the rest of the top class cricketers of the world.

The Year 2001During this period YogiKarve, his wife and daughter PinkyKarvehad come to Delhi and

stayed with us in the flat we had hired for a fortnight for them opposite to ours. It was a

delightful twenty four hour interaction with the Karvefamilyall those days with the usual

burden of controlling rush of people wanting to meet them.

One day while we were discussing cricket and Sachin, Pinky told the story we have

narrated often and gave us what she claimed were the only authentic details of Sachins

horoscope describing the planetary position which she does like her father and gave us hisdate of birth as 21 April with Kanya lagna.

My Fault AgainRemembering what the producer of Doordarshan had told me, I accepted the version of

Pinki Karvewithout least hesitation. Again my fault.

I must say that the fault is mine because I accepted the data given by Pinky who had

always given me very correct data of many others. At no stage it occurred to me that there

could be some aberration of her mind here.

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My Greater FaultMy greater fault is that I passed on this data to others and asked them to verify Sachins

life events which they did and I accepted.

We accepted it, used the horoscope but had no occasion to make any major prediction.

Twelve years after: 2012In 2012 when Karveji visited Delhi and was staying with a member of parliament, he

came to my house and on someone asking him about the birth details of Sachin Tendulkar

he gave it as 24 April 1973 at 12 59 Mumbai with Karka lagnarising with Lagna with seventeendegrees and thirty two minutes and with Moon in Dhanu with twenty four degrees and

thirty five minutes.

My EmbarrassmentMy embarrassment was immense. In the presence of all sitting I could not have told

Karveji that this led to a piquant situation. One of them had to be wrong either he or his

daughter both of them with supernormal ability to find out correct birth time of people. I

avoided it and tried to contact Pinki Karverepeatedly through telephone but failed.

In any case, the mistake is mine and I apologize for it.

Vaughn Paul ManleyThen came an email of VaughnPaulManleywhom I address as Pavitranthe name given

to him by his guru. He forwarded an email from some reader of his website asking him to

forward the details of the birth data of Sachinwhich was again what Karvejihad given to me

in 2012 and was different from what Pinky had given in 2001.

The Birth Certificate Of Sachin Tendulkarhttp://www.dnaindia.com/sport/1826338/report-sachin-tendulkar-the-multi-million-

dollar-babySo it means that I fell into series of blunders in this matter and I therefore offer my

unqualified apology.Musharraf 1999

Earlier it had happened with me in 1999 in the case of PervezMusharrafwhen a woman

journalist passed on to me wrong year of his birth and time which I corrected ofcourse later.

In the case of Sachin Tendulkarhe not being a political figure influencing the destiny of a

nation, I was only watching his batting and not wanting to write about him astrologically.

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1980 Princess Diana and Jagjivan RamIn 1980 a journalist friend of mine had collected the birth details of the British royalty

from the British High Commission and it proved partly wrong particularly the birth details

of PrincessDiana. I had no occasion to correct it.

Another friend had given me the horoscope of Babu Jagjivan Ramthe famous politicianagain in eighties of the last century and it proved disastrous. I have no interest in getting the

correct horoscope ofJagjivanRamas I never used it.

But the Sachin data proved most trickily wrong and I again apologize for it.

( 2 June 2013)