Papers that carry their own census. On the cover, not in an appendix.
Each publication states how much of it is verified, how much is somebody's claim and how much is our estimate — before you read a word of the argument.
Eighteen institutions, four disclosures
We checked what eighteen Indian policy institutions publish about their own funding. Four publish usable figures. The rest of this paper is about what that means for anyone quoting them.
The announced-to-deployed discount
Why a headline investment figure for any Indian state should be read at 20–40% of face value, and how to compute the discount from public filings alone.
District is not destiny — yet it predicts almost everything
Ranking Tamil Nadu's districts on eleven outcome measures held to one definition, and asking which of the eleven a state government can actually move within a term.
Milk, Mountain, Moonshot: our own 2026 self-diagnosis
We ran our own instrument on ourselves and published the result, including the two rungs where we scored ourselves as failing.
AITN baseline: what Tamil Nadu can measure about its own AI capacity
A capacity baseline built only from data that already exists, so it can be repeated annually by anyone, including people who disagree with us.
Watching brief: the Chennai water balance
A standing brief we update rather than republish. It carries a change log because the underlying figures move monthly.