It is good that a a man in Karnataka has decided to approach a district consumer forum for redress after a Vaastu agency he consulted made false claims, which included “warding off the evil forces that were preventing the wedding of his daughters” (“Vaastu fails, man drags agency to consumer forum”, October 17). People are reposing blind faith in Vaastu which has some pretensions of being an exact science and takes people for a ride. Though it could be based on some scientific principles, it borders on superstition and reposes blind faith in such calculations. It has also become fashionable nowadays for real estate agents to advertise property on sale as being “vaastu compliant” which “adds to the sale value”. Commercial agencies exploiting people’s faith and emptying their pockets in the process need to be reined in.
Matthew Adukanil,
Tirupattur, Tamil Nadu
