Feng Shui Help in Marriage Corner

When I wrote `Single and Successful`, eight months back I received calls from over 40 women though eventually only 11 of them consulted me professionally. I’m happy to say that 7 of them have benefited so far. I will write about them in a couple of week and title it `The Seven Brides Again!`. In the meanwhile here is further info about Roma’s (name has been changed) case study. Ideas like appearing on Smirti Irani’s Diiiiiiiil Se don’t appeal to her, though. Women directors like Tanuja Chandra, Honey Irani, Aruna Raje or Aparna Sen - or for that matter my friend Shashilal Nayar can make it with Manisha Koirala in the lead, if she forgives him his Chhoti Si Kahani.
It is because Roma was the first person to call me on last Sunday at 9 am sharp that I’m writing this piece about her.
I had written her success story and had almost forgotten her. So had she till she got something more…
Her godfather got a mutual divorce and now Roma’s relationship has become legit. The mistress has become the wife! For the information of my new readers and to refresh the memory of the other regulars I am rephrasing the case.
Roma was the wife of an ambitious man. It was a love marriage and she had sacrificed her ambition on the altar of marriage. One child later she became frustrated.
She was being used. Her husband wanted her to smile winningly and even reveal her cleavage teasingly to win over a financer. She smiled and seduced. Ironically, he didn’t like her to meet an old male friend. Roma obeyed. At the same time, her husband was philandering.
Unable to take it anymore, leaving her ten year old with her husband she walked out.
“I don’t want to marry again. I want to be my own person. I want name, fame, money, success…”she told me. She wanted backing and a solid career. Feng Shui worked very well for her.
Six months later she was to tell me that it was as if someone was holding her hand and leading her to the right places. She found right people, the people who mattered and their response was better. Money started flowing in.
One of those contacts who have ended up being a pillar of strength was an old friend of her. She bumped into him while on her morning walk. It had been 7 years she had last seen him. He was now a married man.
“I don’t see anything wrong with it. I am single and footloose. I owe nothing to his wife. I am not responsible for her life.” Roma had become pragmatic and practical and she radiates happiness and confidence.
Roma’s godfather was Prakash (name changed for obvious reasons) and if I mentioned true names there would be a sensation even in the high society in which he circulates.
Prakash lived in a posh multistory building with Ranjita and their 11-year-old daughter. Like several successful businessmen and unhappy husbands he maintained Roma in a separate flat. He would spend 10-15 nights with her though Ranjita would think that he was out of Mumbai on a business trip. It was convenient for Ranjita who had a woman friend staying with her when her husband was away.
In the words of Roma, “Prakash often felt guilty for being disloyal to his wife though I had already suspected the truth about his marriage. His wife was a lesbian. Prakash too had started suspecting but he wanted to be sure. We acquired a sophisticated video camera, which was surreptitiously installed in their bedroom. Ranjita was really a lesbian. Prakash is a decent man and he offered her a very generous settlement for a mutual divorce”. I smiled.
“It is true that I didn’t want to marry again. But I believe that Feng Shui has given me a second chance. I don’t want to reject it,” grinned the lovely lady.