Data journalism · Geopolitical storytelling

We turn complex data into stories
impossible to ignore.

We build scrollytelling pieces and visual essays that hold the rigour and the explanation together, where the map does the argument and the prose does the meaning.

#01May 2026

A Leaky Future

On 3 May 2026, 22.7 lakh young Indians sat for NEET-UG. Forty-two hours earlier, the paper was already on WhatsApp. The market behind it is fourteen years old, and the law passed in 2024 to stop it has yet to put anyone in jail.

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#02May 2026

The Last Forest Before the Strait

India is building a ₹95,000-crore port, airport, power plant and city on Great Nicobar — forty nautical miles from the world's most contested shipping lane, on top of one of its rarest rainforests.

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#03Mar 2026

The Quiet Inflation

How a strait reprices a GPU hour.

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#04May 2026

Stargate's Real Constraint

OpenAI is building 9 gigawatts of AI infrastructure across seven US sites. Three years in, only one is running. The map of where Stargate is being built is really a map of where you can plug in fastest.

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#05Apr 2026

The American Cost Divide

Americans are moving out fast. But out of the country's 10 most livable states, only one is gaining wealth at scale. A map of who's trading up, who's trading down, and the two states that break every rule.

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#06May 2026

The Pressure Index

RSF's 2026 World Press Freedom Index ranks 180 countries on five pressures applied to journalism. The map didn't move evenly — Syria leapt 36 places, Niger fell 37, and most of the world's traditional leaders kept slipping.

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#07May 2026

What the World Drives, What the World Burns

A new ranking shows the best-selling car brand in 61 countries. Lay it over the IEA's electric-vehicle data and a sharper picture appears: where Toyota wins, oil still wins. Where local champions win, electrons usually do.

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#08May 2026

The Atlas of the 2026 Field

FIFA's expansion to forty-eight teams turned the World Cup roster into a representative slice of the world. Sort the squad sheet by something other than ranking, and a different tournament emerges.

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#09Apr 2026

Where the Next Billion Are Born

The UN's medium-fertility projection says the world will add 1.4 billion people by 2050 — and almost all of them live on one continent.

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#10Apr 2026

The Year the Dollar Lost

Ten large-country currencies have gained double digits against the U.S. dollar in the twelve months to April 2026. The ranking is less a story about them than about what the dollar is no longer doing.

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#11May 2026

Bengal Falls

On May 4, 2026, the BJP won West Bengal for the first time. Two stories explain how, and both are partly true.

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#12Apr 2026

The Army That Isn't There

When the world's biggest military belongs to a country most people don't think of as a military power.

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#13Apr 2026

The Shrinking European House

Across 30 European countries, the share of people living in houses has bent downward for a decade. On the current trajectory, apartments overtake houses as the continent's default home sometime in the 2030s.

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#14Apr 2026

The Growth That Moved East

In 2026, the IMF's ranking of the twenty largest economies is sorted almost in reverse order of how the world was ranked fifty years ago, and the old powers are clustered at the bottom.

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#15May 2026

When the Strait Closed

Ten weeks into the Middle East war, more than fourteen million barrels a day of Gulf supply sits behind the Strait of Hormuz. The IEA's May Oil Market Report is the first full accounting of a shock the global market has been absorbing in real time.

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#16Apr 2026

Mapped: Europe's Two Digital Waves

Norway leads AI use at 56 percent. Cyprus leads social media at 98. Two digital waves spread at very different speeds — but they share the same map: Northern Europe and the Balkans on top, Germany and Italy at the bottom.

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#17May 2026

They Checked the Test Scores

Two million Americans moved between states last year. They looked at the schools, at least the part that fits on a real estate listing. They checked the test scores. They didn't check the learning rate. The first map of where the wealth migration is heading reveals a quiet trade nobody priced in.

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#18May 2026

The World Is Watching

On May 14, 2026, Xi Jinping told Donald Trump: 'The whole world is watching our meeting.' He wasn't posturing. The data behind this summit tells you who walked into that room stronger, and on which dimensions it actually matters.

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#19Apr 2026

India's Redrawn Map

On April 17, 2026, the Lok Sabha voted on a constitutional amendment that would have redrawn India's electoral map for the first time in fifty years.

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Process

Three things. In order. Every time.

01 — Data

Pattern

TWe start with the dataset, not the story. The pattern has to exist before we decide what it means. We find it, and we refuse to distort it.

02 — Narrative

Meaning

We find the question the data answers. The thing a reader can carry away, repeat, and use to see the world differently.

03 — Design

Form

We find the format the insight actually needs. Sometimes a fifteen-section scrollytelling piece. Sometimes a single annotated map and four sentences. The form serves the story, never the other way around.

Our mark borrows from Roger Penrose's diagram of reality's three mysteries — the leaps between pattern, mind, and form. None of them makes sense alone. Vismayais Sanskrit for wonder: the feeling when something you couldn't see becomes suddenly, undeniably visible. We added the zfor viz. That's the job.

What we believe

Rigour and beauty are the same demand.

The world is full of important things nobody can see — not because they're hidden, but because nobody has bothered to make them legible. The supply chain that keeps your phone alive runs through six countries and a chokepoint most people can't name. The policy shift that will reshape your industry in five years is sitting in an appendix, unread. The slow variable that explains the fast headline is right there in the dataset, ignored.

“Either things stay buried in jargon, or they get compressed into hot takes. Both fail the same way.”

We don't start with a format — we start with a question: what does this insight actually need to land? Sometimes it's a ten-minute scrollytelling piece. Sometimes a single chart with a headline. Sometimes a forty-five-second reel. We'd rather kill a good story than publish a wrong one, and we'd rather make one person think differently than impress ten thousand who scroll past and feel nothing.

Who we are

A two-person studio

Shashank A. Pandey

Data storytelling · Visual journalism

He started as a journalist who couldn't stop designing, and a designer who couldn't stop researching. Nobody hired that combination, so he taught himself. Not out of strategy. Because the obsession left no choice. He believes clarity is an act of generosity. That every number is someone's lived reality compressed into a digit, and most of the time that life gets flattened into a chart no one reads. He exists to give it back its shape: to sit at the border between what is true and what is understood, and to refuse to let the distance between them be someone else's problem.

Suprabho Dhenki

Product design · Creative technology

Product designer and creative technologist. Founder of Promad, where he builds design tools and workflows — Figma plugins, parametric systems, AI-assisted production pipelines — that address the fragmentation of modern creative work. Previously designed at Microsoft, 1mg, ClearTax, Merkle Science, and Kidzovo; early work on interaction design at IIT Guwahati was featured in a CHI publication. Bridges design and code through motion, data visualization, and modular frameworks for creative production.

Work with us

Have data that deserves a better story?

We work with B2B data companies, research institutions, and think tanks who have findings worth publishing but need the storytelling and design layer to make them travel. A typical engagement starts with a data brief and an editorial call. We produce scrollytelling pieces, map-led visual essays, standalone infographics, and data reels. Turnaround is two to four weeks depending on scope.