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  Web, iPhone, and Android platform applies classical Parashara and Jaimini astrology to real-life questions on career, marriage, health, wealth, and more BANGALORE, INDIA — July 19, 2026 — Retrograde, an AI-driven Vedic astrology platform built on the astrology engine at Jothishi.com, is now available on web, iPhone, and Android, offering users personalized, chart-based answers to the questions that shape a life: career moves, marriage timing, health, wealth, business decisions, relocating abroad, and more. The platform was co-developed by Pranav, a 16-year-old in the 12th grade at National Public School, Bangalore, working alongside Anand Vadakepat, founder of Jothishi.com. Jothishi's engine applies the classical framework of the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (BPHS) together with Jaimini's sutras — the traditional foundations of Vedic astrology, or Jyotish. "I kept seeing people put off decisions because they couldn't get a straight, personalized answer from an...

How a Bengaluru family is carrying five thousand years of Vedic astrology into the age of artificial intelligence — led, in part, by a sixteen-year-old. https://retrograde.co.in It is two in the morning and someone cannot sleep. A job offer that means moving cities. A marriage proposal that feels right and wrong at once. A parent's illness. For as long as anyone can remember, the response to questions like these in millions of Indian households has been the same: consult the stars. Traditionally that meant an appointment with an astrologer, a printed chart, a fee, and a wait. Increasingly, it means reaching for a phone. RetroGrade, an AI-powered Vedic astrology platform built in Bengaluru, is a bet that the oldest questions deserve a modern interface. Behind it is Jothishi, a family enterprise that has decided the way to honour a centuries-old tradition is not to freeze it in amber but to rebuild it for the way people actually live now — impatient, mobile, and awake at odd ho...