About

MangoPOV explains complex Indian subjects from the documents that record them. The method is the identity here, not the subject: the same approach applies to an examination body, a law, a scheme or a statistic.

Where the figures come from

Behind these pieces is an archive that fetches a source document, stores the bytes it received, and records a SHA-256 of them with the date. A figure reaches an article only after the exact wording that supports it has been located in those stored bytes. That is why the source list at the foot of a piece gives a retrieval date: the copy a claim was checked against still exists, even when the government link stops resolving, which on Indian government portals it regularly does.

Sources are ranked. A gazette notification, a court order, a Cabinet decision or an answer given in Parliament is a primary source. A news report is a lead to chase rather than a citation, and where a piece has to rest on one, it says so in the source list rather than quietly.

Alleged means alleged

Where something is under investigation or before a court, it is written that way until a court concludes otherwise. An allegation recorded in a first information report is a fact about the report, not about the person named in it. Private individuals are not named at all.

Fact and opinion are kept apart

What a document says and what MangoPOV makes of it are different things and are stored separately in the archive underneath. In an article, a reader should be able to reject every conclusion drawn here without disputing a single figure around it.

Corrections

Documents get misread, a figure gets transcribed wrong, and a reading of a record can be arguable even when the record is not. Where something here is wrong, it gets corrected and the correction is recorded rather than quietly swapped in. If you can point to the document, that is the fastest way to have it fixed.

The standard being aimed at is that every stated thing can be traced to something quotable. Where a piece falls short of that, the honest response is to say so on the piece rather than to widen the definition of what counts as a source.