BHARAT RAMESH GANDHI

Mr. Bharat Ramesh Gandhi has been a practicing architect and Interior Designer for the last fifteen years. His interest in Vaastushastra began about eight years ago when he found as founding correlations between Vaastushastra and Solar Architecture and magneto therapy. He decided to promote the subject in a scientific way. It was then that he hit upon the idea of computerizing Vaastushastra and standardizing the same, as unfortunately modern consultants are misinterpreting Vaastu and freighting common people. The reason behind developing this software was that it should benefit a common man, they should not be cheated by so-called Vaastu consultants who use fear psychosis as their main tool.

His software is such that once the detail of a house or an industrial or commercial unit is fed in; it gives a report on the merits and demerits of the premises as per Vaastu. The percentage of adherence is given first. Then a detailed recommendation follows. These recommendations keep in mind the problems like municipality regulations and constraint on space which urban houses and industrial sites face. At the end of the report the percentage of adherence after the corrections is given. What is interesting about the software is that it allocates weight age to different tenets. This is to say that the computer gives more importance and immediacy to few tenets while eminently ignoring others. The prescriptions are given in such a way that the positive and negative aspects of the house according to Vaastu are taken into account. The recommendations try to counter balance the negative aspects with additional positive elements.

Mr. Gandhi developed the software after an exhaustive survey of all kinds of houses and industrial units in the city of Mumbai. The details of the premises and the corresponding financial standing and health of the households were noted down. His conclusions (and recommendations) are based on the research he had done on the scientific basis of Vaastu and the survey of hundreds of premises, some of which had adhered to Vaastu in part and others hadn't in full.