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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.
Latest writing
Tamil Nadu by-elections 2026: results, comparisons and vacant seats
Results of Tamil Nadu's 2026 Assembly by-elections. October 2026: TVK won Madurantakam by 20,040 votes and Dharapuram by 9,471, both seats the AIADMK won in …
Two AIADMK defectors won their seats back on TVK's ticket. The AIADMK came third in both.
Both AIADMK MLAs who switched to TVK won their seats again in the October 2026 bypolls: K. Maragatham Kumaravel in …
Dei, Just Give Me A Place For My Pictures
One like on a parotta picture took over my feed. Here's how social media algorithms trap you, why bad news always wins, …
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 …
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Sources, models, what each test proves, and every claim withdrawn along the way.