About Modern Panditji

What this site is

Modern Panditji is a free Vedic astrology site for readers in India. It draws your janam kundli, scores a gun milan for a marriage, keeps today’s panchang and rashifal for forty cities, lists the wedding muhurats the panchang allows, and answers questions in chat. Every page is written in English and in Hindi, because half the people who need this read Hindi first.

Who runs it

Modern Panditji was founded and is run by Utkarsh Agarwal, a software engineer in India. It is a small operation and there is no support department: the mail sent from the contact page is read by a person, and a chart that comes out wrong is a mistake with a name attached to it rather than a ticket number.

Why it exists

Because the free astrology on the Indian web mostly is not free. You give a birth time and get back a teaser, a countdown, an ad break, and a paid astrologer waiting on the other side of it. The arithmetic underneath is frequently approximate — a birth in 1943 or in 1951 is quietly given today’s clock, and the whole chart shifts. A kundli is the first thing a family looks at before a wedding; it should be correct, it should load fast, and it should not cost anything. That is the entire idea.

How the charts are computed

Every chart is computed by Modern Panditji’s own calculation engine, from a real ephemeris — sidereal positions with the Lahiri ayanamsa and whole-sign houses, with the historical timezone in force at your exact date and place of birth. That last clause is the one most tools get wrong: India kept wartime daylight saving between 1942 and 1945, and ran on local mean time before 1955, so applying today’s offset to an older birth silently produces a wrong chart that still looks plausible. Nothing here is a lookup table, a rounded almanac or a guess — the method is written out in full, step by step, on the methodology page.

What we will not do

We do not predict death or terminal illness, we do not tell you a marriage is doomed, and we do not sell remedies that promise to fix your fate. Fear is the easiest thing to sell in this trade and we will not use it. The charts, the panchang and the horoscopes stay free; only a long conversation with Panditji is paid, and what it costs is written down in one place. What a reading is and is not is set out in full in the disclaimer.

A chart that reads wrong, a birthplace the search cannot find, a page that breaks on your phone — write to contact@modernpanditji.com or use the contact page. Your data is handled as described in our privacy policy.