• Learn about your Constituency with Meradesh.org

    Learn about your Constituency with Meradesh.org

    A Simple Intuitive Mobile app to access Electoral Data Lord Of The Rings GIFfrom Lord Of The Rings GIFs The next cycle of the great Indian Elections. A celebration of our vibrant democracy. Some citizens are joyous, and some are despondent. And soon they will get a chance to exercise their franchise, to select their…

  • Point to Ponder- Are Online Platforms Permanent?

    Point to Ponder- Are Online Platforms Permanent?

    As a data engineering platform, we think about permanence and social media platforms. Questions like, are the platforms perennial? Is the embarrassing picture I posted a decade ago last till the end of time? Or the page I created to promote an issue in danger of disappearing without a trace. In regards to these questions, I…

  • API- First Journalism

    API- First Journalism

    The relationship between journalism and data has been studied extensively, but its natural extension- API-driven structures and the future of Journalism has hardly been glanced at.  At Meradesh, our interest is not limited to data technology and its distribution. We are also intrigued by data-led technology and its ability to shape society and governance.    Application Programming Interface (API) are, primarily, clearly defined computing interfaces programmed to enable software programs to more readily ‘talk’ to each other. As…