Interactive data journalism
A Playground For India’s Data — Not A Reading List.
No rhetoric, just data — we archive India’s story in visualisation: how the country is governed, financed and run, one chart at a time. A companion to Polity & Policy on Substack.
Every Vande Bharat in the country, drawn through its real halts on India’s rail network — with a live clock that shows which of them are moving right now, and a transport that plays the whole day.
Visualise Data Interactive storyA fifth of every litre of petrol is now ethanol — build the real cost of E20 yourself: what it does to the pump price, your mileage and the country’s oil bill, one number at a time.
Visualise DataWhat the Centre’s ₹171 lakh crore of debt is actually made of — every instrument, who holds it, when it falls due, and how a government bond really works. Build one yourself.
Visualise Data Interactive storyWhere every rupee the Centre spends actually goes — interest, subsidies, defence, capital — head by head across four decades. Type a year, study each line, compare periods.
Visualise Data Interactive storyFive years of daily data — what petrol would cost if the pump chased global crude, against what you actually paid, to the day, across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.
Visualise Data Scrollytelling story1.97 billion barrels a year, 88.6% of it imported, nearly half through a single strait — the anatomy of India’s oil dependence, told act by act.
Enter the story Scrollytelling mapHow India wired 35 nations into one grid for semiconductors, rare earths and critical minerals — a scrollytelling map, one country at a time.
Travel the map Interactive storyTrack every state’s economy from 2014–25 — levels, year-on-year growth and compound growth, side by side.
Visualise Data Interactive storyHow states spend — running costs versus building assets. Capex share, levels, share of GSDP and growth.
Visualise Data Interactive storyPit any two states against each other across ten fiscal measures that decide whether a government is solvent.
Visualise Data Interactive storyOne state against all 27 others across ten fiscal measures — the whole board in a single view, with a headline verdict.
Visualise Data Interactive storyTwo-thirds of those present and voting. Move every party For, Against or Abstain and watch the bar for the 131st Amendment move with them.
Visualise Data Interactive storyCompare states on any spending head — education, health, roads, police, welfare — in revenue or capital, total or per person.
Visualise DataThe same numbers — drawn. India’s public data turned into clean, shareable infographics you can read at a glance: one chart, one story, no clutter.
See the Infographics Coming soonThe next wing of India, in Numbers — on what the country is actually building. Under construction itself; the first pieces land soon.
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