Highlights:We are happy to welcome Dipanita Malik to the
team as Junior Research Fellow. Dipanita holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Ashoka University.

Highlights:We launch the TCPD Repository with the
Urban Local Bodies Dataset, a collaboration
with the Center for the Advanced Study of
India (CASI), University of Pennsylvania. The
dataset contains the municipal electoral
records of 8 states

Highlights: The 2022 summer internship programme received an overwhelming response with over 400 applicants. Our cohort of 25 interns began work in May, spanning projects revolving around minority representation, social media, urban local bodies, mapping electoral
boundaries and more.

Highlights: The Centre announced its 2022 Summer Internship Programme

Highlights:Read about our team’s election coverage and check out our updated datasets in our March 2022 newsletter. We would like to thank everyone – interns, collaborators and staff – who made this work possible.

Highlights:The Trivedi Centre for Political Data at Ashoka University seeks to hire a full-time software engineer/data scientist to help build new infrastructure, data and technology for research on Indian political data.

Highlights: Submissions to TCPD Columns is open to all, the Centre gets a new newsletter template for this year

Highlights: The key highlight of this month is that Lok Dhaba, TCPD’s political data collation and visualisation tool was updated with new visualisations on re-running candidates, re-running turncoats, incumbents and first-time winners.

Highlights: The Centre published press articles exploring recent political developments around the repealing of India’s contentious farm laws while also touching upon topics such as the BJP’s election strategy and issues around data privacy. Panel discussions included examining the political motivations behind repealing the farm laws with former CEC SY Quraishi participating in a panel which discussed whether MLAs convicted of criminal offences should be banned for life from poltics.

The centre also announced its 2021 Winter Internship which received an overwhelming response and will commence from December 2021.

Highlights: The Centre published press articles exploring recent political developments in Uttar Pradesh while also participating in a range of discussions–from examining the Lakhimpur violence in Uttar Pradesh to the communalisation of Delhi and the debunking of the myth that the Muslim population is strategically set to overtake the Hindu population in India. A key highlight is also the Centre’s panel discussion with the Centre for Policy Research on Law and Order as imagined and exercised in Uttar Pradesh from various perspectives.