  The TCPD-IPD dataset is a collection of questions and answers discussed in
the Lower House of the Parliament of India during the Question Hour between
1999 and 2019. Although it is difficult to analyze such a huge collection
manually, modern text analysis tools can provide a powerful means to navigate
it. In this paper, we perform an exploratory analysis of the dataset. In
particular, we present insightful corpus-level statistics and a detailed
analysis of three subsets of the dataset. In the latter analysis, the focus is
on understanding the temporal evolution of topics using a dynamic topic model.
We observe that the parliamentary conversation indeed mirrors the political and
socio-economic tensions of each period.
