Malgudi Days Lesson Plan

What role does chance play in "An Astrologer's Day"? How does it change the astrologer's life?

The narrator says that the astrologer never intended for astrology to be his career and knew no more of the future than any others. He was forced to leave his village unexpectedly and simply stumbled into this line of work. One night, as the astrologer is packing up, a last-minute client requests his services. It turns out that the customer is a man from the astrologer's village - the man the astrologer believed he had killed and had subsequently fled the village to avoid punishment. This encounter is significant because the man does not recognize the astrologer and thus the...