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Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Curious Day When the Sun Pauses and Humanity Stretches
Science and Society
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Essay
The Cup That Refused to Become Content
Personal Essay
The Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Fog of Future Tense
Personal Essay
No Ambition Left, Only Cold Tea
Personal Essay
Phase Transition at Fifty-One
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Good Boy Hunger
Short Fiction
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
Personal Essay
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
Shiva and the Poison in the Throat
Personal Essay
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Personal Essay
The Error Bar Around a Man
Personal Essay
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
The Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Society
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
Personal Essay
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
Personal Essay
Why I Write on Small Things
Personal Essay
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
I Could Have Been a Simple Fool
Personal Essay
The Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
Personal Essay
The Scarab Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
Personal Essay
Vamana and the Three Steps of Bankruptcy
Personal Essay
After America, Before Nothing
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Greed Made Me Small
Personal Essay
The Gut of God
Short Fiction
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
Personal Essay
My Father, Samarendra Kumar Ghosh, and the Family That Came Home with a Few Clothes
Personal Essay
The Pest Department in My Skull
Personal Essay
Tea Skin and the Science of Suspicion
Essay
The Gracefully Grotesque Collapse
Essay
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
The Tea Skin on My Mind
Personal Essay
Body Rent
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Society
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
A Cup of Cha Is Not a Small Thing
Essay
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
Personal Essay
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
The Concentric Angsts of a Bankrupt Bengali Man
Personal Essay
Loneliness Is Not a Generation
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Personal Essay
Poison Often Wears a Clean Shirt
Personal Essay
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Mental Health
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
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
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
Personal Essay
The Dhoti, the Toothache, and the Great Bengali Flapping Problem
Personal
Happiness After Quicksand
Personal Essay
The Terrace Republic
Personal Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
Predepression Tea
Personal Essay
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Calcutta
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
Woke: How a Tiny American Word Became a Full-Time Street Fight
Culture
If AI Ever Gets Depressed, We Are Probably in Trouble
Artificial Intelligence
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
Society
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
Why 2026 Is Still the 21st Century
Personal Essay
When Diabetes Started Asking About Its Ancestors
Healthcare Science
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?
Philosophy and AI
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
Bessel Correction Without the Mathematical Chilli Powder
Statistics
A Calcutta Bengali’s Guide to the Various Schools of AI
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
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
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
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
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
LPG debacle
energy
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
Pests we love
natural history
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Tea
food-and-culture
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
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
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
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
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
Mindfulness?
Calcutta
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Can't Go Back to Childhood—Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Welcome To SuvroGhosh.IN
Personal Essay