methodology
— what counts as analysis, what counts as data, what counts as record —
The Pulse is a continuing record. It does not invent facts; it reads other people's facts and arranges them. The hierarchy below names what counts as what.
Sources whose primary work is interpreting Indian legislation against the Constitution, against precedent, against the country's own past commitments. We quote them directly and disagree with them when we can defend the disagreement.
Sources we treat as the primary record — numbers, dates, vote tallies. When two differ, we name the difference rather than splitting it.
Where a court has read a statute, the court's reading is the reading we report. Disagreements between courts are surfaced, not resolved.
National daily reporting is treated as a record of events — what happened, when — and not as interpretation of impact. Where a paper offers an editorial reading, that reading is attributed.
Most laws have no measurable impact in public reporting. A bill page that admits "we couldn't find any reporting on what this law did" is rare and trustworthy. The "we don't know" state is designed; it is not a placeholder.