All Posts Resume

The Coming Unemployment

The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System

The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers

India Slept Through the AI Alarm, and the Market Has Started Packing Its Bags

How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans

AI Music
Bengali AI Songs
English AI Songs
Hindi AI Songs

The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt

Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?

artificial intelligence

A Calcutta Bengali’s Guide to the Various Schools of AI
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
AI and Denial
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Coding After the Keyboard: How AI Agents Learned to Roam the Codebase
If AI Ever Gets Depressed, We Are Probably in Trouble
If Asimov Never Put the Leash on the Robots
OpenClaw and the Uneasy Arrival of Agents That Actually Do Things
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
When Brains Are Bright but Systems Are Blind
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning

Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Mindfulness?
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
The Aromatics of Stagnation
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed

Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta

Intro

The Calcutta Summer of 2026

Facial Pleasure Receipts
Woke: How a Tiny American Word Became a Full-Time Street Fight

What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are

LPG debacle

Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Tea with George Orwell
The Fat Animal in the Mirror

The Fish Bengalis Eat

food-and-culture

Tea

Hormuz, Day 52
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache

The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly

health & society

Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar

Propofol, Nightmares
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man

AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
AI in Healthcare: Beware
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity

Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 2
FHIR
HIE from First Principles
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Kenneth Arrow, Medical Uncertainty, and the False Dream of Healthcare as a Normal Market
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Obama, HITECH, and the Day the American Medical Chart Was Dragged Into Electricity
Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis
The Pharmacy Bandh Is Not About Apps. It Is About Trust Being Sold by the Strip.
The Questions You Ask
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Vector Databases
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not

healthcare science

When Diabetes Started Asking About Its Ancestors

Building VA Data Warehouses
Confounding Factors
Databases and Data Warehouses
India’s AI Moat
The Missing Scientists

healthcare-systems

Homeopathy

Pohela Baisakh

history-of-science

Trigonometric Colonization

India’s White-Collar Issue
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India

The Epistemic Iceberg Effect

Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
The Geography of Contentment

The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra

The English Medium Urine Stain

mental health systems

Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood

Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained

natural history

Pests we love

Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic

America and Calcutta
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Driving the Accord
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Read This First
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
The Boy Inside the Broken House
The Dhoti, the Toothache, and the Great Bengali Flapping Problem
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Brain
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger

A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Bipolar Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Falling Through the Crack
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Fish Market Merit and the Small Republic of Honesty
Happiness After Quicksand
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Mood Bellwethers Before a Low
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Nostril Hairs and the Tainted Calcutta Summer
One Life, No Rehearsal, No Refund Counter
Predepression Tea
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Still Here, In The Corner Room
The Bengali Baby
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
The Kolkata Bat Waiting for a Bus
The Low Market Value of Reality
The Painful Tooth Fairy
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
The Terrace Republic
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Waking Up Depressed in Calcutta
Why 2026 Is Still the 21st Century
Why I Write What I Write
Writing Nothing From the Edge of Calcutta

personal reflections

This Blog's History

personal satire

How Are You and Other Small Cruelties

The Ghost as Perception
The Prognosis Is Clarity

philosophy and ai

Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?

political economy

Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise

Election Puja And The Common Eye
India’s Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
The Man Held by the Neck
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics

politics and society

Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character

Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Nicotine, Biri, and the Great Bengali Bargain

Cicada, BA.3.2

Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
If Lies Had Noses Again

CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Dogs Detect Violations.
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
The First Door That Opens
The History of the Shape of Atoms

science & healthcare it

The Lake That Lit Up Genes: Maracaibo, Memory, and Huntington’s Disease

science and society

The Plague of Pseudoscience in India

Storm in a Bhar
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
The Morning of the Cutouts
The Second Mouth

Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Costume Ambition
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
The City That Begs at the Window
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
The Invasive Human Weed Species
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
The Pufferfish Economy
The Range Limit of Kinship
When Structure Loses Its Map
When the Office Learns to Beg
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons

Bessel Correction Without the Mathematical Chilli Powder

systems thinking

Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals

India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
The Last Economy
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
When Nothing Beats Something
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader

technology and society

Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
The Desperation Premium

useful mental models

First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality

work, migration, india

The Returnee Who No Longer Fits

Climate

Exploring concepts, systems, and logic in Climate.

The Calcutta Summer of 2026

The Calcutta Summer of 2026

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