A former colleague is writing a thesis on how DMK members raise federalism-related themes in the Lok Sabha, such as state autonomy, regional solidarity and opposition to the Union.

To do this, he was reading the official transcripts one debate at a time. sansad.in gives you no way to search or filter by topic.

So I built Torko. It parses Indian parliamentary (Lok Sabha) debates from 1999 onwards and attributes each speech to its speaker. It also tags each speech with topics. You can:

• filter speeches by topic, member, party or place

• see how often a topic is raised over the years

• see which topics each member raises most

• see which speeches mention a given place

Each speech links back to the original sansad.in page, so you can check the source.

Numbers: 173,225 speeches, 2,165 members.

Do check out. Open to feedback!