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The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Sharper Teeth
Sharper Teeth
Essay
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Seasonal Crop
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Essay
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
The Red Room of Beliaghata
The Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Good Boy Hunger
The Good Boy Hunger
Short Fiction
The Brain Scrap Yard
The Brain Scrap Yard
Personal Essay
The Public Mouth
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
The Rent Spider
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
The Recidivism of Fraud
The Recidivism of Fraud
Essay
The Wetland Under the Lights
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Personal Essay
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
The Dopamine Economy
The Dopamine Economy
Mental Health
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
Personal Essay
Why I Write on Small Things
Why I Write on Small Things
Personal Essay
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man’s Future
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man’s Future
AI
Faces for Ashtami
Faces for Ashtami
Short Fiction
The Rent Is a Clock
The Rent Is a Clock
Personal Essay
The Rice Cooker Kind of Solitude
The Rice Cooker Kind of Solitude
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Greed Made Me Small
Greed Made Me Small
Personal Essay
Rain Before Rain
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Gut of God
The Gut of God
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Mothers of Tangra
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
Personal Essay
The River Climbed the Stairs
The River Climbed the Stairs
Short Fiction
Settled Water
Settled Water
Short Fiction
The Post That Took the Weather
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
The Bride Price of Salt
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
The Ten-Kilo Children
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Corridor of Wind
The Corridor of Wind
Short Fiction
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
Short Fiction
The Rice Cooker and the Black Hole
The Rice Cooker and the Black Hole
Personal Essay
The Tamarind Orbit
The Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
Silk Season
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
Faces in the Municipal Water
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian
Short Fiction
Keshkhor
Keshkhor
Short Fiction
The Static in the Room
The Static in the Room
Personal Essay
The Blister Labels
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Wrong Shelf
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Personal Essay
The Protein Man
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Morlocks in White Kurta
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Science
Bengali Tintin In The Republic Of Garbage
Bengali Tintin In The Republic Of Garbage
Satire
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Personal Essay
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
Waking Up Depressed in Calcutta
Waking Up Depressed in Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
Technology
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
Obama, HITECH, and the Day the American Medical Chart Was Dragged Into Electricity
Obama, HITECH, and the Day the American Medical Chart Was Dragged Into Electricity
Healthcare IT
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
Personal Essay
Still Here, In The Corner Room
Still Here, In The Corner Room
Personal Essay
The Fat Animal in the Mirror
The Fat Animal in the Mirror
Essay
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
Predepression Tea
Predepression Tea
Personal Essay
The Second Mouth
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
Society
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Personal Essay
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
The English Medium Urine Stain
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
The Prognosis Is Clarity
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
The Range Limit of Kinship
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
When Nothing Beats Something
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
When the Office Learns to Beg
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Healthcare IT
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
The Ghost as Perception
The Ghost as Perception
philosophy
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Healthcare IT
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
healthcare ai
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Tea
Tea
food-and-culture
The Fish Bengalis Eat
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
The Missing Scientists
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
The Bengali Baby
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
Welcome To SuvroGhosh.IN
Welcome To SuvroGhosh.IN
Personal Essay