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THE CALCUTTA FIELDBOOKIdeas, experiments & things worth noticing.সুভ্র ঘোষ

From Calcutta, with curiosity.

Suvro Ghosh

Independent entrepreneur, maker and writer

I make things, explore how they work, and write about what I find along the way.

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Blue and ochre pigment spreading across textured paper, the cover artwork for Living Pigment Studio.
Living Pigment Studio
A red and gold Durga sculpture from Mrinmoyee, the browser-based sculpture atelier.
Mrinmoyee

Open an experiment. Follow an idea.

01 / Made & explored

Curiosity, put to work.

Some ideas need more than a page. Here are three ways I’ve given them a life of their own.

  1. The Strange Attractor Orchestra poster, with overlapping teal, amber and violet orbital paths on a dark field.
    01From the library / The Strange Attractor Orchestra

    Educational experiments

    Interactive Visualization Library

    Science, mathematics and computing, made explorable. Change a variable. Follow an unexpected result.

    Enter the interactive laboratory
  2. Textured blue, teal and ochre pigment washes spreading across warm paper.
    02A study in colour, texture and possibility

    Creative experiment

    Living Pigment Studio

    A browser canvas for pigments that spread, mix and dry. A creative approximation of paint, with room for happy accidents.

    Try the pigment studio
  3. The SuvroGhosh.IN publishing systemAn editorial illustration of a written idea becoming a discoverable page, from draft to the writing archive and a reader.SuvroGhosh.INA PLACE FOR IDEASAn idea,made readable.ESSAYS / EXPERIMENTS / EVERYDAY LIFE01 DRAFT02 DISCOVER03 READ
    03From a first draft to a reader’s next discovery

    Working website

    SuvroGhosh.IN Editorial Publishing System

    The quiet machinery behind this site: a home for long essays, curious experiments and the paths that connect them.

    Explore the writing archive

Built with care. Open to exploration.

More work & experiments

The illustrated shelf

Comics

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Featured comic / Science fiction · Horror

On a distant planet, dreams bring back the comforts a colony has lost. Then the sleepers begin to change. Marcy tries to keep the children awake as the ground moves beneath them.

Full colour 16 pages PDF

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Front cover: an exhausted Marcy at a kitchen table with a yellow floral mug and a peach, the off-world colony beyond the window.
Front cover
Back cover: the story blurb above an empty kitchen table, yellow mug, peach and a fine pale thread.
Back cover

From the desk

Recent writing

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  1. A wide-eyed Bengali babu in a vest reads a 'Daily Horoscope / Jyotish' newspaper page over scalding tea, parathas, a kundali chart, and matchsticks in a Calcutta room while a giant mosquito hovers nearby and an arthritic goat with a cane, an irritable crab, and a smug ringed planet float outside the colonial window near Howrah Bridge.

    Satire

    Horoscopes—Harbingers of Horseshit

    A satirical rant from Calcutta on daily horoscopes, Jyotish charlatans, planetary scapegoats, and the tragicomic Bengali addiction to celestial bullshit.

    Essay Read

  2. Black and gold headphones and glowing computer chips repeat along a looping path through a surreal sky.

    Raw

    The Next Better Thing

    The curious machinery behind wanting better headphones, better AI models, and whatever promises to improve them next.

    Essay Read

  3. Patient X's fictional questionnaire results shown as separate depression, mania-related symptoms and wellbeing plots across twelve weeks

    Visualizations

    Depression, bipolar disorder, and what the scores leave out

    Follow fictional Patient X through three mental-health questionnaires. See how symptoms and wellbeing change, inspect the answers, and understand the limits.

    Interactive essay 6 min Explore

  4. A sleep-deprived Bengali man on a Calcutta toilet squints at a shampoo bottle while wearing a vintage EEG cap, as a glowing brain overhead radiates electrical waves toward sitars, espresso cups, a Formula 1 car, clouds, and a Calcutta bus.

    Satire

    Brain Waves: Or How Your Mind is Constantly Shitting Out Electricity

    A satirical tour of brain waves—alpha, beta, gamma, theta, and delta—from Hans Berger's 1924 EEG to 3 AM bathroom philosophy in Calcutta.

    Essay Read

A reader’s index

Five ways
into the work

A thread to follow, if you’re not sure where to begin. Each route brings a few related pieces together.

  1. Orientation

    Begin with the voice

  2. Healthcare IT

    Healthcare systems from first principles

  3. Science & mental models

    Science without ceremonial fog

  4. Place & memory

    Calcutta, close up

  5. Short fiction

    Fiction after dark

Explore all five paths

The notebook stays open.

Follow a little curiosity.

There’s always another idea to explore. Questions, corrections and thoughtful disagreements are welcome.

Need help with software or data? I also work with businesses on small, agreed projects.

Made with curiosity.
Rooted in Calcutta.