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The Fish of Babughat
Short Fiction
The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
The Person Is Not a Machine
Personal Essay
Clinical AI Needs A Shadow Architecture First
Healthcare-IT
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
No Ambition Left, Only Cold Tea
Personal Essay
Phase Transition at Fifty-One
Personal Essay
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
Personal Essay
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
The Dopamine Economy
Mental Health
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man’s Future
AI
Faces for Ashtami
Short Fiction
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Men Who Became Water
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
Head Tax
Short Fiction
The Tea Skin on My Mind
Personal Essay
The Sword in the Frame
Short Fiction
AI, Erdős, and the Great Dot Mischief
Science
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
The Corridor of Wind
Short Fiction
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
Short Fiction
The Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
The Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
ASMR: The Softly Whispered Apocalypse
Satire
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Static in the Room
Personal Essay
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Loneliness Is Not a Generation
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Antibiotic That Came Back With a Stick
Healthcare
The Trolley Problem Is In The Healthcare Queue
Healthcare-IT
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Mental Health
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Science
The Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
Art History
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Audio Technology
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
The Toolbox Theory of Thinking: Why Simple Models Help Us Survive a Complicated World
Thinking
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
The First Door That Opens
Science
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Personal Essay
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
The Pharmacy Bandh Is Not About Apps. It Is About Trust Being Sold by the Strip.
Healthcare IT
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science
Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
Public Health
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Essay
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
The Geography of Contentment
Life
The Terrace Republic
Personal Essay
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
Predepression Tea
Personal Essay
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
Woke: How a Tiny American Word Became a Full-Time Street Fight
Culture
If Asimov Never Put the Leash on the Robots
Artificial Intelligence
The Lake That Lit Up Genes: Maracaibo, Memory, and Huntington’s Disease
Science & Healthcare IT
When Diabetes Started Asking About Its Ancestors
Healthcare Science
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?
Philosophy and AI
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
Society
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Artificial Intelligence
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
Technology
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Healthcare IT
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
The Ghost as Perception
philosophy
LPG debacle
energy
Pests we love
natural history
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
The Last Economy
technology
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
Confounding Factors
healthcare-it
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
The Pufferfish Economy
society
Cicada, BA.3.2
public-health
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Costume Ambition
society
Mindfulness?
Calcutta
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal