An index of open-source work on development research, data, and policy. Built in India, shared for impact.
20+Public Repositories
10Live Sites
5Research Toolkits
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An index of open-source work on development research, data, and policy. Built in India, shared for impact.
If you want the reader-facing version of this work rather than the source code, begin with these.
Teaching and practice platform for development economics and social research. Courses, case studies, and open teaching material.
A citizen-led national archive of India’s air quality crisis — data, stories, and sensor readings.
Companion site to the forthcoming Routledge book on India’s eight decades of counting itself.
This site is an index, not a product. It points to the open-source repositories behind work in development economics, evaluation, and public-interest data.
It began in 2025 as the hub for a family of eight interlocking “stacks.” Some of those turned out to be genuinely useful and are still here, still working. Others were scaffolding for an ecosystem that never needed to exist, and have been retired.
Rather than leave that ambiguous, every repository below carries a status label that means something specific.
Grouped by what they are for, with an honest status on each.
Auto-updating tracker of Indian government policy across development sectors. The maintained successor to PolicyStack.
205 state-level choropleth maps and 10 visual stories on India’s diversity across demography, health, gender, economy, education, and environment.
Analysis of Bihar electoral roll anomalies — voter deletion patterns, demographic shifts, and election data integrity.
India’s progress on all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals — scores, trends, radar charts, and category breakdowns.
Interactive dashboard across economic, health, education, infrastructure, and environmental indicators — pulling live from the World Bank Open Data API.
Satellite-verified, facility-level greenhouse-gas emissions for India — power, manufacturing, transport, fossil fuels, agriculture, and waste, including the top-emitting coal and steel plants.
Open geographic database of 444 major Adani and Ambani infrastructure projects, 1999–2026 — searchable and filterable, with government-support classification.
Citizen-led accountability archive asking who authorised the use of state power against citizens. A six-state evidence grammar, a chain-of-command map, and an RTI register with a live reply-due clock.
Unfunded empirical study of India’s political economy, 2004–2026. Three constructed indices, full dataset, replication code, and a working paper.
Hyderabad voting patterns and public infrastructure, 1999–2023, across five assembly seats with party-wise vote share trends.
Interactive bilingual resource on Bihar — society, economy, caste, migration, climate, culture. A single offline-capable HTML file.
200 real development case studies from 117 countries — searchable, filterable, and fully cited.
A curated open-access library of 500+ research papers, books, and grey literature for practitioners in South Asia.
Realistic practice datasets for development economics — 10 generators producing 350k+ rows for teaching and training.
11 interactive Shiny apps for impact evaluation, poverty analysis, program design, and data exploration.
Development-sector glossary and companion to Impact Mojo — 390+ terms merged from 20 course lexicons, with 5 case studies, 10 worked formulae, and cross-references to where each term is taught. Offline-capable PWA.
The largest of the set. MEL calculators, visual frameworks, research documentation templates, and a full econometrics module (DiD, PSM, IV/2SLS, RDD, sensitivity analysis).
The applied fieldwork lifecycle — survey design, sample size, sampling weights, complex survey analysis, cost-effectiveness, qualitative coding, and batch Quarto reporting.
Development data workflows across health, gender, education, and climate equity. Impact evaluation module and a data cleaning pipeline with automatic logging.
South Asia policy tracker — 15 flagship schemes, 4 years of budget data, and performance indicators. Superseded for new work by PolicyDhara.
Companion archive for the Research Rundown newsletter — issues, featured tools, method spotlights, and curated resources.
Companion site for the forthcoming Routledge book on India’s quest for social progress through eight decades of measurement.
An illustrated speculative fiction novel set in a climate-collapsed India, following a 14-year-old girl through AI, memory, and resistance.
CSV to LaTeX to PDF generator for uniform, privacy-masked candidate dossiers. Runs via Netlify Functions or Overleaf.
Hindi → English translation for Supreme Court and High Court petitions. Sarvam AI handles translation; Llama 3.3 corrects legal terminology.
The sandbox the prototypes above are built in, plus smaller tools. Where ideas live before they graduate to their own repository — or get quietly retired.
SQLite and PostgreSQL schemas for the shared data layer
FastAPI backend serving RootStack to frontends
React dashboard for exploring the data
These three formed a database → API → dashboard pipeline. It was the most expensive part of this project to maintain and the least used — and the research toolkits never depended on it. Nothing has been deleted: the code stays public, forkable, and citable.
ImpactLex is not on this list. Its old repository is archived, but the project graduated into Impact Mojo rather than winding down — it is listed under Teaching and practice above. An archived repository and a finished project are not the same thing.
Four further stacks — ClimateStack, EduStack, SocialStack, and InfraStack — sat on a published roadmap for a year without a line of code written. That roadmap has been withdrawn rather than left standing as a promise to readers. The needs behind it are better served by How India Lives, PolicyDhara, and JanVayu.
Development practitioners working across health, education, gender equity, climate, and governance — primarily in India and South Asia.
Ready-to-use analysis tools for MEL, impact assessment, and program design across health, education, gender, and climate.
Reproducible scripts, sample data, and evaluation frameworks grounded in real South Asian fieldwork.
Python, R, and Stata templates that work with the data formats and analysis patterns you actually use.
Practice datasets, guided notebooks, case studies, and real-world examples for development economics and public policy courses.
Development economist, social researcher, and licensed social justice worker with 20+ years of experience across public health, education, gender equity, and climate resilience in India and South Asia.
Has led programme design, MEL strategies, and research with Oxfam, UNICEF, Gates Foundation, PLAN India, and BBC Media Action. Founder of StoryWell Books.