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The Thermodynamics of Shame: A South Calcutta Canticle
Essay
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Essay
The Cup That Refused to Become Content
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Brain Scrap Yard
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Personal Essay
The Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Society
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
The Rent Is a Clock
Personal Essay
The Rice Cooker Kind of Solitude
Personal Essay
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Pest Department in My Skull
Personal Essay
Tea Skin and the Science of Suspicion
Essay
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
The Radius of Dust
Short Fiction
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
Personal Essay
Keshkhor
Short Fiction
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
Bengali Normalcy and the Borrowed Warmth of Nests
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Personal Essay
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
Writing Nothing From the Edge of Calcutta
Personal Essay
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
India Slept Through the AI Alarm, and the Market Has Started Packing Its Bags
AI Economy
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
The Dhoti, the Toothache, and the Great Bengali Flapping Problem
Personal
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
Why 2026 Is Still the 21st Century
Personal Essay
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Kolkata Bat Waiting for a Bus
Personal Essay
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
Personal Essay
Why I Write What I Write
Personal Essay
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & 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
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
Bengali AI Songs
AI Music Song
English AI Songs
AI Music Song
AI Music
AI Music Song
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
Hindi AI Songs
AI Music Song
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
OpenClaw and the Uneasy Arrival of Agents That Actually Do Things
Artificial Intelligence
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
Kenneth Arrow, Medical Uncertainty, and the False Dream of Healthcare as a Normal Market
Healthcare IT
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Healthcare IT
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Public Health
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Healthcare IT
The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
mathematics
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
Healthcare IT
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
The Ghost as Perception
philosophy
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Healthcare IT
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
healthcare ai
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
LPG debacle
energy
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
Pests we love
natural history
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Tea
food-and-culture
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
FHIR
healthcare it
India’s AI Moat
healthcare-it
The Last Economy
technology
The History of the Shape of Atoms
science
Building VA Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
Vector Databases
healthcare it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
Confounding Factors
healthcare-it
Dogs Detect Violations.
science
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
Intro
career
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
Pohela Baisakh
history
Propofol, Nightmares
healthcare
The Pufferfish Economy
society
AI in Healthcare: Beware
healthcare ai
Cicada, BA.3.2
public-health
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
HIE from First Principles
healthcare it
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Hormuz, Day 52
geopolitics
Costume Ambition
society
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
Mindfulness?
Calcutta
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay