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.
When something outgrows this page it moves out and gets indexed at openstacks.dev — the data trackers, the research toolkits, the teaching material. What stays here is what is still being figured out.
Tools
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
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
Creative
Kundendu's Learn & Play Creative Tool
A playful Class 1 CBSE worksheet generator — English phonics and reading, Hindi, Maths, and EVS. Freshly randomised questions every time, three difficulty levels, on-screen answer checking with confetti, printable sheets with answer keys, and a practice-history tracker.
HTML · CSS · JavaScript · no dependencies
Agastya’s Study Lab Creative Tool
A CBSE Class 8 revision tool built around the Semester 1 science exam — revision notes for each of the six examinable chapters, then 304 questions across multiple choice, assertion–reason, matching, numericals and written answers, with instant marking and explanations. Printable worksheets with detachable answer keys, a 40-mark mock paper in the CBSE section pattern, and notes for the rest of Class VIII science and maths. Installs to a phone and works offline.
HTML · CSS · JavaScript · PWA · no dependencies
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
Graduated
Everything that grew up Index
Projects that started here and moved out: the SDG Progress Tracker, India Development Indicators, Climate TRACE India, the Industry Conglomerates Database, Bihar Parichay and the Bihar Electoral Dashboard, Some Perspective, WhoGaveTheOrder.in, Dev Case Studies, Development Discourses, How India Lives, and the research toolkits.
They have their own homes now and are indexed, with status labels, at openstacks.dev.
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