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.
India's rooftop solar subsidy bill grew 3.7 times in a year. In the US the credit ended and a top installer collapsed. Who is left holding the bill?
Cabinet approves $79.7B for 2027-29, Riyadh airport stays shut, Oman's financial center opens in 2027: today's MENA+ tech headlines as charts.
A record 189.7 million bags of coffee will be grown in 2026/27, yet the benchmark price rests on under 1 million certified bags. Here is why.
Private market funds promise cash back every quarter. A 2026 case at Partners Group shows the 5% gate, not the cash on hand, decides what clients get.
Anatolia's oldest known written records are about 23,000 clay tablets of foreign merchants' letters and loans at Kültepe, not a local king's chronicle.
The Pentagon signed a noncompetitive SM-3 missile deal on Oct 8 that runs to 2031. A rule on sourcing parts starts 85 days later, on Jan 1, 2027.
BWXT's BANR was picked for New Brunswick this week. Its HALEU fuel has one licensed Western maker, which had made about 1.9 tonnes by mid-June 2026.
Finland still has as much forest as ever, yet its land went from absorbing 13.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 1990 to releasing 9.8 million in 2024.
Firmus pulled its ASX IPO two weeks before listing, citing market volatility. The buyer order list that could test that reason is not public.
Jet fuel nearly doubled in eight weeks. Budget airlines held extras flat and cut fares, but easyJet quietly removed 1.4m winter seats.
Bill Gross says timing matters most for startups. We checked his claim against public data on broadband, jobs and failed companies.
Naval Ravikant says judgment matters more than hard work. Here is what he said, where it comes from, and what research says about it.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine went to optogenetics. Here is what the winners actually did, one experiment at a time, in plain English.
America's 100% tariff on drug ingredients hits patented medicines and skips cheap generics until 2028, yet nearly half of this year's new shortages are medicines with one maker.
Two thousand years ago money sat where roads met water. In 1947 a railway cut through Montenegro's Roman capital, and today the sea gets 92.6% of tourist nights.
SK hynix gave up 8 points of AI memory share in one quarter while its total sales rose 51%. Here is how the market works, from the ground up.
An estimated 4,000 to 6,000 people once lived on Palau's Rock Islands. UNESCO now lists all 445 islands as uninhabited, and the sources still disagree on when the people left.
Count the same borrowers lender by lender and BDC non-accruals run 1.6 to 2 times the reported figure, while payment-in-kind lending has crept up.
Money you have already spent is gone, yet it still pulls on your next decision. Here is why founders get stuck, and what the research says to do about it.
America tried to pull shipbuilding away from China by taxing Chinese-built ships. The fee was live for 27 days, and the pause ends on 9 November.
Vismaya is a two-person data-storytelling studio. Pattern, then meaning, then form; a randomizer that picks what to look for; and HTML stories any agent can write. The whole studio, pinned to one board.
Peru brought in about 100,000 Chinese workers in the 1800s. In 2017 its census gave their descendants no box to tick. Follow the trail, place by place.
In the Sanskrit we can read, the Buddha's awakening happens at a river, a tree and a seat near Gaya. The Bodh Gaya on today's map came from later layers: Pali retellings, a campaign that began in 1891, and a 1949 law.
Ayodhya’s development programme and the 2024 Faizabad result reveal why investment, devotion and votes need separate evidence.
Eight timbers from a Vietnamese estuary date to 566-352 BCE, not the 1288 battle the press linked them to. Seven places show who gets to say what the ground means.
A 2,000-year-old poem sends its hero to a cave in Italy. The park that shows visitors that cave says it cannot be the one in the poem.
In Australia, so many big batteries arrived that owners earned AU$73M less in three months. In the eastern US, power is so short that its biggest grid hit its price limit for the third time and still came up 6,831 MW short.
An ASI release calls Delhi's Purana Qila the identified Indraprastha, while the excavators' own paper calls it a possible location and dates its earliest sample 360 years later.
Until 1974 a Liechtenstein woman who married a foreigner lost her citizenship while a foreign bride gained it, and men only let women vote in 1984, by 119 votes.
CFTC staff paused CME's first GPU rental futures until at least 9 November, while the agency's own notice says most GPU value trades in private deals.
Taxpayers are absorbing multi billion dollar costs to intercept cheap offensive drones as defense budgets scramble for modular solutions.
An ancient dedication verifies worship of Odysseus on Ithaki, while the location of his Homeric home remains contested.
Iceland's first national day, 2 August 1874, lost its place at home after 1918, yet it still sets the timing of Iceland's August festival weekend and of a Manitoba festival held every year since 1890.
Shareholder suits, appeals rulings, bankruptcy petitions and FCC safety reports flagged the satellite internet race's problems before the headlines did.
Container rates have more than doubled since February, and in an industry built to hide who owns its ships, ownership has started to carry a price.
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.
SpaceX's S-1 reveals three companies inside one stock — and only one of them makes money.
Odysseus's homeward trip from Troy to Ithaca is a real ~565-nautical-mile route — a week or two under Bronze Age sail. Homer stretches it into ten years, and the map dissolves the moment he rounds Cape Malea.
How a strait reprices a GPU hour.
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.
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.
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.
Examining the policy shifts and regulatory exceptions behind the Adani Group's sweeping infrastructure expansion.
The demography of Jammu and Kashmir in 1941 — and how war and 'Land to the Tiller' remade it.
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.
From airport privatization to renewable energy megaprojects, examining the evidence behind the Adani Group's sweeping government contracts.
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.
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.
A data walk through Jio Platforms' DRHP — revenue, margins, leverage, and who owns what
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.
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.
When the world's biggest military belongs to a country most people don't think of as a military power.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Two Founders, One Trillion-Rupee Bet
Memory, carbide, EDA and AI clusters. China is announcing all of them at once.
Materials, power, packaging, cooling and land. Nine bets on where AI infrastructure gets built.
Not a gazetteer — a walkthrough. The map holds on one place at a time, in the order the story actually visits them, from Ayodhya's palace to a garden in the Sri Lankan hills and back.
The Korean War's frontline swept the length of Korea twice in seven months, then barely moved for two years. This is the whole war, drawn as one line.