Online pujas | God on speed dial

From long-distance prayers to AI-powered kundlis, Gen-Z's anxiety is creating a new market for digitally-enhanced worship and astrologyPhoto by Chandradeep KumarISSUE DATE: Nov 16, 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 19:28 IST At 29, Kavya Sethi, a banking professional from Gurugram, has begun consulting an AI pandit before major decisions, including a job change and planned PPF withdrawal. When a difficult planetary phase was flagged in her kundli—a Vedic birth chart calculated from a person’s date, time and place of birth—she chose a prayer tailored to it. “There is already so much anxiety around work and money,” she says. “If I know a difficult period may be coming, I would rather prepare for it. It makes me feel I have done something instead of just waiting.”