He double-clicked the icon: a faded yellow lotus with the word Durlabh arched above it. The software wheezed to life.
He saw it immediately. The 'Rahu' and 'Shani' conjunction in the 7th house. A difficult placement. Durlabh .
The screen of the antique desktop glowed a soft, familiar beige. Under the flickering tube light of his study in Old Delhi, Ramesh Chandra moved a wired mouse with the reverence of a priest handling sacred ash. The cursor, a blocky hourglass, spun on a deep sea-green background. Windows 98.
Ananya stared at the pixelated grid. "I've had every astrological app on my phone," she whispered. "They all told me to be a leader, to wear diamonds, to move abroad. But I felt... empty."