New Delhi’s political circles are rife with gossip about a former prime minister who was guided daily by a godman, and a former finance minister whose decisions were influenced by astrology (though tempered, it seems, by a former cabinet secretary who passed himself off as an amateur astrologer). The leader of Bihar state’s Rashtriya Janata Dal party, Laloo Prasad Yadav, reportedly filled his swimming pool with mud and garbage because a pandit told him it would stop the “leak” of defecting members.
新德里政界充斥着有关前总理每日接受仙人指导的闲言碎语，还有占星学影响了前财长的决策（虽然这名业余占星家是由前内阁秘书长冒充的）。比哈尔邦人民党领袖Laloo Prasad Yadav据报导在自己的泳池里填满了泥浆和垃圾，因为有位梵学家告诉他这样做能够防止叛逃党员对消息的“泄漏”。