Hi, I'm Varna.

I'm a development economist and maker of all things at Idealog Works. This is where I keep my tech experiments — small tools, proof-of-concepts, and side projects built to scratch an itch or test an idea.

Not everything here is polished. That's the point.

How India Lives Data

205 state-level choropleth maps showcasing India's diversity across demography, health, gender, economy, education, and environment. A pedagogical tool for understanding why India's states are so different — and why it matters for policy.

HTML · CSS · JavaScript

India Development Indicators Data

Interactive dashboard tracking GDP, life expectancy, literacy, electricity, internet and CO₂ with live World Bank data — plus a state-wise HDI ranking and policy timeline. Part of the ImpactMojo ecosystem.

World Bank API · Chart.js · Iconify

Climate TRACE India Data

Greenhouse gas emissions across India, sourced from Climate TRACE — satellite-verified, facility-level tracking covering power, manufacturing, transport, agriculture, fossil-fuel ops, and waste. Includes the top-emitting coal and steel plants.

Climate TRACE API · Chart.js

SDG Progress Tracker Data

India's progress on all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals — colour-coded goal grid, year-on-year index trend, goals ranked by score, and a Sankey flow showing how each category lands across on-track / stagnating / off-track outcomes.

Chart.js · chartjs-chart-sankey · Iconify

Industry Conglomerates Database Data

Open-source geographic database of 325 major Adani and Ambani infrastructure projects (2001–2025) — searchable, filterable, with government support classification.

HTML · JavaScript

Some Perspective Research

Data-driven analysis of India's political economy (2014–2025) — policy impact, fiscal trends, and governance indicators with interactive visualisations.

HTML · JavaScript · Charts

Bihar Electoral Analysis Research

Analysis of Bihar electoral roll anomalies — voter deletion patterns, demographic shifts, and election data integrity research.

HTML · Data Analysis

Hyderabad Voting Patterns Research

Analysis of Hyderabad voting patterns and public infrastructure (1999–2023) — comparing AIMIM constituencies vs others across 5 assembly seats, with party-wise vote share trends.

HTML · Data Visualisation

Bihar Parichay Research

Interactive bilingual resource on Bihar — society, economy, caste, migration, climate, and culture across 17 sections and 18 research tools. Single offline-capable HTML file with D3 Sankey/chord diagrams, Leaflet maps, and Chart.js visualisations.

D3 · Leaflet · Chart.js · offline-first

Development Case Studies Research

200 real development case studies from 117 countries — searchable, filterable, and fully cited. A reference library for practitioners and students.

JavaScript

Development Discourses Research

A curated open-access library of 500+ research papers, books, and grey literature for development practitioners in South Asia.

JavaScript

Court Petition Translator AI Tool

Translates Hindi Supreme Court and High Court petitions into formal legal English. Handles the legalese — yaachikaakartha becomes "Petitioner", anuchhed becomes "Article" — so the output reads like it was drafted in English.

Sarvam AI · Llama 3.3 70B via Groq · Netlify Functions

Candidate Dossier Generator Tool

CSV → LaTeX → PDF dossier generator. A privacy-first tool for creating uniform, masked candidate dossiers — useful for blind recruitment and evaluation panels.

LaTeX · Netlify Functions

The Real Middle Data Tool

Interactive game revealing where you really stand in India's income distribution. Think you're middle class? Most Indians overestimate their position — find out if you do too.

React · JavaScript

Drive PDF Extractor Tool

Headless-browser CLI for downloading view-only Google Drive PDFs. Scrolls the Drive viewer, captures each page from the rendered canvas, and reassembles them into a fresh PDF — no Drive auth required.

Node · Playwright · jsPDF

Dev Economics Toolkit Tool

11 interactive apps for development economics — impact evaluation, poverty analysis, programme design, and data exploration. Built for ImpactMojo.

R Shiny · Python Shiny

Nilaya E-Pothi Creative

A small family library, kept in this house. A parchment-styled e-library with searchable catalogue, themed browsing, reading tracker, and a network map of books linked by themes, keywords, and authors.

HTML · Tailwind · D3 · FlexSearch

The Very Last Superhero Creative

A fully illustrated speculative fiction novel set in a climate-collapsed India, blending AI, memory, and resistance through the journey of a 14-year-old girl.

HTML · Illustrated Web Novel