The old priest shook his head. “The stars do not obey your silicon chips, my son. A tithi is not a date. It is a relationship between the sun and moon. It changes with longitude, latitude, and even the ayanamsa (precession of equinoxes).”
On a humid May morning, Arvind walked into his father’s pooja room. The old man was chanting, half-asleep. annual tithi calculator portable