I present a public beta of the Constitutional Observer that was in the works for a few months now. It brings together a corpus of the Constituent Assembly debates and questions from the LS. It is envisioned as a comparative interface to understand the historical context of a constitutional argument. You can ask it seemingly simple questions, and it will semantically understand and return relevant responses from both datasets. The conceptual framing of these questions is meant to poke curiosity at a primal level, outside of explicit notions of political questioning.These were first exhibited at SMI Collective 2024, a show case of Srishti Manipal final semester projects at MAHE, Bengaluru

I write in brief about the making of the questions that were exhibited along with the Constitutional Observer, and a little of the vision for it.

This paper will establish Bengaluru as a plural city with many lingua-cultural identities that have a distinct geographic spread. It will then delve into an attempted analysis of the linguistic demographics of the electoral roll of Bengaluru, thus building a pathway to measure representation electorally. It also attempts to understand language linked trends in Education.

We present Research Narratives that came out of a vision to have an environment that encourages responsible use of data for research and communication. It is a tool that provides a collaborative environment for multidisciplinary research or writing projects that communicate patterns from data.

I came across Maps of Uncomfortable Boundaries / Atlas of My World by Zarina at the Kochi Biennale. I would like to narrate my immediate set of thoughts, or observations, as a way to argue that maps are not simply representations but also vessels that contain, the visual nature by nature. Atlas of My World, 2001, six woodcuts with Urdu text printed in black on handmade Indian paper, sheet size 65 x 49....

The HW database is a collection of news articles, tweets, and other sources of information about the activities of Hindutva groups in India. I geocode the database and integrate it into a prototype narrative explorer.

A speculative intervention to improve activity, cohesion and safety in Yelahanka New Town

A short recount of my experiences teaching sections of the ‘Light’ chapter from standard 8 text books for Parikrma School Students.

I use acne as height maps to generate and play with terrain

Empathising with the reduced social mobility of the elderly and designing accessibility devices to allow them to participate in games

An ongoing project that is looking into capturing data on harassment inside Yelahanka, Bengaluru

This is a blog on my explorations with Generative/Procedural structures in Structure Synth

Why Panoramas For starters, its a pretty good feature on my Fuji. For the main course, its wide format allows me to capture a uniquely framed landscape which is just another landscape on a regular aspect ratio. And for dessert, since it has to be stitched in-camera from multiple shots, movement is preserved as an artifact on the photo. It embolises that stagnant scene with the artifacts that blow an air of ‘edgy’ mystery into it....

This is a blog on my experiences from exploratory trips to the river basin and places around the Arkavathi

There is an entire world of data visualisations in the form of graphs and animations out there. Cleverly crafted, helping us to discover beautifully nuanced patterns and happenings. Check out the DataIsBeautiful subreddit to peek into the world of amazingly insightful visualisations that are produced everyday across the world. summary: An ongoing project that is looking into capturing data on harassment inside Yelahanka, Bengaluru Utilising the interstices between what we consider true, worthwhile and what we see as being abstract uselessness, I’ve begun to play around with popular and the standard forms of visualising data: Maps, Network Graphs, anything-graphs....

How do you visualise line of sight on a 2D map? This is an exploration into doing that by visualising rays of vision. Street signs are mapped. The layout of a neighbourhood is also drawn. The cursor is you moving around in the neighbourhood. If it is a readable street sign, your vision turns green, if not, it turns red. The readability of street signs had been manually documented by me....