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Ankit Sahu

Founder notesFounder of bhagol. Writes about why the platform exists, what it refuses to build, and what an honest reading owes the person paying for it. Neither devotee nor debunker: his quarrel is with the business model of fear, never with the believer.
The Brihat Samrat Yantra at the Jantar Mantar observatory in Jaipur, a sundial the size of a building. On the right a st founder-notes Why we are building bhagol Bhagol is an astrology platform for India: computed charts, screened readings, fixed prices, refunds in writing. What we are building, and what we refuse. Ankit Sahu · 24 January 2026 A pierced stone screen from Mughal India, photographed against a plain museum wall. The sandstone panel is cut right thr founder-notes How we screen astrologers The check an astrologer has to pass before bhagol lists him: what gets read, what closes the file, and the failures no screening can catch. Ankit Sahu · 1 February 2026 An eighteenth-century line engraving of Śani, the Hindu deity of the planet Saturn, shown four-armed and seated cross-le founder-notes Fear is not guidance The scripts fear-selling runs on, taken apart line by line: the free report, the unnamed dosha, the manufactured clock, the seller who argues against the sale. Ankit Sahu · 7 February 2026 Looking down into one of the Jai Prakash Yantra bowls at Jaipur. A hemisphere sunk into the ground is lined with curved founder-notes Computed, not composed Determinism, append-only ledgers, screened readings, metered credits. Honesty in software is better engineered as an invariant than promised as a virtue. Ankit Sahu · 17 February 2026 The Misra Yantra at the Jantar Mantar observatory in Delhi, a large masonry instrument standing in the open air. A centr founder-notes Against engagement What brings a reader back to an astrology product is usually whatever the last visit failed to settle. So bhagol counts opens and never aims at them. Ankit Sahu · 1 March 2026 An Indian miniature painting inside a red and yellow border. At the right a teacher in a dark shawl sits on a low platfo founder-notes Where are the intellectuals? Educated Indians consult astrology privately and disown it publicly. The field lost its scholars to embarrassment, and the floor went to the loudest sellers. Ankit Sahu · 10 March 2026 A horizontal Pahari miniature divided into painted compartments: at the left a seated man holds up a two-pan hand balanc founder-notes What an honest reading looks like An honest reading starts with a sentence the customer says out loud and ends with a line on what the chart cannot tell them. The rules we enforce on ourselves. Ankit Sahu · 11 April 2026 A nineteenth-century photo-lithograph of a sixth-century Indian copper-plate land grant, printed on cream paper. The pla founder-notes The refusal list Everything bhagol will not build or sell, written down while refusing costs nothing: each refusal, the incentive that would break it, what we do instead. Ankit Sahu · 18 April 2026 A folio from an undated Hindi astrological manuscript, its two sides photographed side by side on pale paper: one person founder-notes Your birth details What bhagol holds today is an email address, if you subscribe. Why a birth date, time and place identify you, and the rules fixed before we collect any. Ankit Sahu · 2 May 2026 The Rashivalaya Yantra at the Jantar Mantar observatory in Jaipur: a group of twelve small stone instruments, one for ea founder-notes Why there is no daily horoscope The most requested thing bhagol will not build, argued instead of waved away: what a daily must become to fill its slot, and what twelve boxes can compute. Ankit Sahu · 8 May 2026 Three small weights from Mohenjo-daro set side by side: plain cubes of chert, a hard dull-coloured stone, with flat squa founder-notes How we set a price Why bhagol will price time, teaching and written work, never a fault or its cure, and where the numbers came from: a target divided by people, in public. Ankit Sahu · 26 May 2026 A brass astrolabe hanging by its ring in a museum case, photographed from the front. Above the disc sits a pierced openw founder-notes Why the arithmetic is open What open computation means in practice: ephemerides named with their build, conventions stated exactly, and steps a stranger can redo without our help. Ankit Sahu · 27 May 2026