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Exploring Governors’ Data

Ananay Agarwal and Neelesh Agrawal 06 August 2021 | 2 min read Governors are appointed by the President of India and are vested with somewhat similar powers at the state […]

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Using Dashboards to visualise data

Mayank Goel 30 June 2021 | 2 min read Going through rows and rows of data in any file can be a tedious exercise. Converting that data into visualizations helps […]

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State Assembly Terms and Chief Ministerial Tenures: Mapping Churn and Continuance Among Chief Ministers in India

Prachi Arya 23 June 2021 | 2 min read This column lays down observations on assembly terms and churns among Chief Ministers for state legislatures across India, and the data […]

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Surf: An Entity Mapping and Resolution System for Indian Names

Ananay Agarwal & S.V. Sai Vikas 02 June 2021 | 2 min read Why use Surf? Let’s say you are working with a  list that consists of names and addresses […]

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An Analysis of the Criminal Background of Political Candidates in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu

Prashasti Agarwal 25 May 2021 | 2 min read Criminalisation in politics is a growing concern in India. Instances of political criminal activities in a few of the largest states […]

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How do caste and religion affect the political representation of women in Kerala?

Shreya Shreya 18 May 2021 | 2 min read The female representation in the Kerala State Legislative Assembly has been between 5%-6%, over the past years (2001-2016) according to an […]

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Caste Demography of the Two Major Alliances in the 2021 Tamil Nadu State Elections

Pulari Baskar 11 May 2021 | 2 min read This piece will be a presentation on the caste-data of the Tamil Nadu elections (2021) collected by the team working on […]

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Battlegrounds: Analyzing national and state level parties’ performances in Assam and West Bengal in the 21st century

Aishwarya Sunaad and Shoaib Mirza 4 May 2021 | 4 min read The 2021 assembly elections attracted much discussion across the country, especially with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) trying […]

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Kerala: An analysis of newcomers, turncoats and the stable political class

Aishwarya Sunaad, Basim-U-Nissa and Priyamvada Trivedi 23 April 2021 | 4 min read In this piece we take a closer look at the experience of winners to the Kerala Vidhan […]

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Woman Power : Trends in the performance of women candidates in Assam and West Bengal over the years

Aishwarya Sunaad 12 April 2021 | 4 min read The last decade has witnessed an increased focus on conversations around women’s participation in the public sphere supported by calls to […]