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Show HN: Torko – Search Indian parliamentary debates by topic, member and place

Posted by oitihjya on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:28AM
from the show-hn dept.

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...

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Re:Moving from Heroku PostgreSQL to YugabyteDB on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:44AM (#34311556)

Recently, I was forced to migrate an old personal project (a URL shortening app) from Heroku to Google Cloud Platform. Why? Because Heroku terminated their free plans and there is no plausible way to pay for their premium plans from India. While at it, I decided to use YugabyteDB as the database instead of PostgreSQL. Here's a detailed account of how I did this: https://otee.dev/2023/01/08/migrating-heroku-to-gcp-and-yuga...