Hindu guru blames India’s financial gloom on rupee symbol
MUMBAI // Businessmen may blame global troubles or inept governance, but a Hindu guru has an alternative theory for the historic weakness of the rupee: the newly adopted symbol for the currency is inauspicious. Rajkumar Jhanjhari, an expert in the ancient doctrine of vastu shastra, has called for a new design, arguing that a line on the symbol has "slit the throat" of the rupee and sparked the country's financial ...