Archive

All stories.
Every piece, in one place.

The full catalogue of scrollytelling pieces, visual essays, and data reports from Vizmaya Labs — geopolitics, technology, demographics, and the slow variables that explain the fast headlines.

31 stories
#01May 27, 2026

A Rocket Company That Became the Internet

SpaceX's S-1 reveals three companies inside one stock — and only one of them makes money.

Read →
#02Jun 11, 2026

US Strikes on Oil Tankers

A US precision strike on the MT Settebello in the Gulf of Oman killed 3 Indian seafarers, escalating tensions and sparking swift protests from New Delhi.

Read →
#03Jun 11, 2026

Oracle's $55.7B Bet on AI Infrastructure

What Oracle's FY26 Financials reveal? Peak inside the $55B AI Cloud Transformation

Read →
#04May 1, 2026

The Pressure Index

The 2026 World Press Freedom Index from RSF might seem like just a number, but the contrast is clear when you compare the extremes. Norway scores 92.7 and India 31.9. Both are democracies, yet one supports the press as a foundation, while the other sees it as a risk.

Read →
#05Mar 1, 2026

The Quiet Inflation

How a strait reprices a GPU hour.

Read →
#06May 4, 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.

Read →
#07May 11, 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.

Read →
#08Jun 10, 2026

A Conglomerate's Shadow Across India

Examining the policy shifts and regulatory exceptions behind the Adani Group's sweeping infrastructure expansion.

Read →
#09Apr 21, 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.

Read →
#10Apr 19, 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.

Read →
#11May 30, 2026

What a Litre Costs in India

India's pump prices are among the cheapest in the rich world's club. Measured against income, they are among the most expensive, and for eighteen months they did not move. In the last eight weeks, they finally did.

Read →
#12Apr 18, 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.

Read →
#13May 13, 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.

Read →
#14May 16, 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.

Read →
#15May 13, 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.

Read →
#16Apr 21, 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.

Read →
#17Apr 17, 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.

Read →
#18Apr 21, 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.

Read →
#19Jun 12, 2026

Zepto IPO Filing

Two Founders, One Trillion-Rupee Bet

Read →
#20Apr 23, 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.

Read →
#21Jun 8, 2026

Adani and the State: Pattern vs. Proof in India's Infrastructure Push

From airport privatization to renewable energy megaprojects, examining the evidence behind the Adani Group's sweeping government contracts.

Read →
#22May 22, 2026

Mapped: The Melodi Era

Ten Modi–Meloni meetings in three and a half years, a €3.8 billion Tata–Iveco megadeal, and a 26-year gap closed in Rome on 20 May 2026. Under Giorgia Meloni, India and Italy have built the most consequential bilateral upgrade India has made to any G7 capital in a decade — with a €20 billion trade target on the 2029 calendar to prove it.

Read →
#23May 24, 2026

A Kingdom on the Eve of Reform

The demography of Jammu and Kashmir in 1941 — and how war and 'Land to the Tiller' remade it.

Read →
#24May 26, 2026

India 2026: Four Shocks at Once

A record heatwave, the weakest monsoon forecast in 25 years, a Strait of Hormuz closure and a rupee at 96. None of these are unprecedented on their own. Arriving in the same fortnight is.

Read →
#25May 29, 2026

A New Ebola is Moving Through a War

Bundibugyo virus — only the third outbreak of this species ever — is spreading from a gold-mining town in eastern Congo into Kampala. There is no licensed vaccine, no licensed treatment, and no clean live data feed.

Read →
#26May 28, 2026

The Sky Closes for the Summer

Air India and IndiGo are pulling more than 250 daily domestic flights from June to August. Mumbai loses two hundred and eighty weekly departures. Eleven airports take the hit. The trigger is the price of a barrel of Brent.

Read →
#27May 8, 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.

Read →
#28Apr 28, 2026

The American Cost Divide

Americans are moving — fast. But the data on where they're going, layered against where they should, says the wealth migration is downhill on quality. 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.

Read →
#29Apr 23, 2026

Who Owns America's $39 Trillion Debt?

Domestic investors hold nearly $18 trillion. Foreign creditors hold $9.3 trillion. And the Federal Reserve alone holds more U.S. debt than Japan, the UK, and China combined. A breakdown of who finances America.

Read →
#30Jun 21, 2026

NSE IPO 2026

Read →
#31Jun 23, 2026

Jio IPO: The Numbers Behind India's Biggest Listing

A data walk through Jio Platforms' DRHP — revenue, margins, leverage, and who owns what

Read →