NYAYA
COSMOS

Every star is a judgment.

An explorable map of Indian jurisprudence — a curated sample of the most consequential decisions of the Supreme Court and High Courts from 1950 to today, arranged as a living galaxy that slowly turns.

✦ The grammar of the cosmos

• Stars are judgments. Size = influence. Colour = the doctrine it belongs to (pills below).
• Threads are lines of authority. Blue = cites, green = follows, red dashed (marching) = overruled.
• Red-ringed stars are dead law. Toggle the Graveyard to see only the fallen.
• Constellation pills isolate a doctrine — the camera flies into that cluster.
• The Era slider rewinds time — watch stars ignite as the republic grows.

◈ How to move

• Drag to pan (with momentum) · zoom with the left slider, scroll, or pinch on touch.
• The right rail holds quick actions — search, re-frame, fullscreen, graveyard, sound, help.
• Double-click to re-frame.
• Click a star → its life story opens: what it built on, what it influenced, what killed it.
• Press “Follow the light” in a star's card to ride a comet along its lineage — the comet hops from the selected judgment to the cases it influenced (or was built on), lighting each thread in gold as it goes.
• Search by name, topic or citation — the sky will fly to the star.
• The controls fade away when you stop moving — just move your mouse to summon them.

♪ The sound of the cosmos

A living soundscape — deep drone, slow chord tides, echoing plucks, deep pings, star chimes, and a boom when you enter the Graveyard of Dead Law. All synthesised live in your browser. Mute with the equaliser button, top right.

Tip: try Kesavananda Bharati — the golden sun of the galaxy. Its threads touch almost every doctrine in the sky.

Nyaya Cosmos — the Universe of Indian Judgments

“The law is not a pile of papers. It is a living sky — doctrines born, burning bright, and eventually falling. We built the telescope.”

The idea: 75 years of Indian constitutional and legal history contain one of the world's most extraordinary intellectual networks — yet we still read it as a list of PDFs. Nyaya Cosmos turns jurisprudence into a territory: every judgment a star, every citation a thread, every overruling a supernova.

What the Cosmos contains

• A curated sample of 139 landmark judgments (1950–2024) across 11 doctrines — real cases, real citation relationships, from public records.
• The Graveyard of Dead Law — 21 overruled or disapproved stars, each with the star that killed it.
• A time machine — rewind and watch doctrines assemble themselves, from Gopalan to Puttaswamy.
• A procedural soundscape — chord tides, plucks, pings and chimes, all synthesised live with the Web Audio API.

Where this could go

Disclaimer: An educational exploration by Legis Orbis. Case details are drawn from public records, curated and human-vetted, and summarised for illustration; verify citations from official sources before relying on them. Not legal advice. The full cosmos — like the law itself — is vaster than any map.

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