Hi, I’m Anand.
Software engineer and data analyst by day. Photographer, football fan, and occasional builder of random things. I write about tech, travel, and everything in between.
Dashboards & tools
Interactive things I've built from public data.
TN 2026 Explorer
All 234 constituencies, winner, party, vote share and margin, searchable and grouped by region.
All 234 seats
Seat-by-seat record with a 2021 comparison.
The dataset
Every candidate, CC BY 4.0.
Seat calculator
Change the census, House size and rounding rule, and watch the Lok Sabha move.
How it is made
Sources, models, what each test proves, and every claim withdrawn along the way.
Latest writing
I benchmarked India's official statistics server, and got twelve things wrong
India's statistics ministry shipped a server that connects AI assistants directly to official data. I spent two weeks testing it. Nothing I checked contradicted …
How many Lok Sabha seats will Tamil Nadu get?
Tamil Nadu has 39 seats. Under the options now being discussed it ends up with anywhere between 32 and 64. The phrase …
The rule India wrote down in 1963
India divides Lok Sabha seats among its states using a method a Commission wrote down in 1963. It has a name, a 175-year …
How I worked out India's seat rule: sources, code and corrections
The method note behind the delimitation piece. Every source with a full citation, every model choice, what each test …