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The Thermodynamics of Shame: A South Calcutta Canticle
The Thermodynamics of Shame: A South Calcutta Canticle
Essay
Sharper Teeth
Sharper Teeth
Essay
Crab Diaries of a Bengali Kakistocrat
Crab Diaries of a Bengali Kakistocrat
Personal Essay
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
Personal Essay
A Trapezoid for My Mother
A Trapezoid for My Mother
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
The Cup That Refused to Become Content
The Cup That Refused to Become Content
Personal Essay
The Fog of Future Tense
The Fog of Future Tense
Personal Essay
No Ambition Left, Only Cold Tea
No Ambition Left, Only Cold Tea
Personal Essay
The Compressor and the Small Black Hole
The Compressor and the Small Black Hole
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
Oxygen in a Box
Oxygen in a Box
Personal Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
The Brain Scrap Yard
The Brain Scrap Yard
Personal Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
Tea, Depression, and the Probability of a Blog
Tea, Depression, and the Probability of a Blog
Personal Essay
The Cup That Starts the Sun
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Many-Body Problem of Indian Life
The Many-Body Problem of Indian Life
Personal Essay
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
Personal Essay
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
Shiva and the Poison in the Throat
Shiva and the Poison in the Throat
Personal Essay
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
The Ordinary Things
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Personal Essay
The Error Bar Around a Man
The Error Bar Around a Man
Personal Essay
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
Personal Essay
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Entropy in a Rented Room
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
The Dopamine Economy
The Dopamine Economy
Mental Health
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
Personal Essay
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
Anger: The Last Working Appliance
Anger: The Last Working Appliance
Personal Essay
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
The Damp Government Office Inside My Head
The Damp Government Office Inside My Head
Personal Essay
I Could Have Been a Simple Fool
I Could Have Been a Simple Fool
Personal Essay
The Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
The Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
Personal Essay
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Scarab Under the Skin
The Scarab Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Former Bright Boy Problem
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
The Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
Personal Essay
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
Vamana and the Three Steps of Bankruptcy
Vamana and the Three Steps of Bankruptcy
Personal Essay
After America, Before Nothing
After America, Before Nothing
Personal Essay
Greed Made Me Small
Greed Made Me Small
Personal Essay
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Unpaid Consultant and the Theology of Hope
The Unpaid Consultant and the Theology of Hope
Personal Essay
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
Personal Essay
My Father, Samarendra Kumar Ghosh, and the Family That Came Home with a Few Clothes
My Father, Samarendra Kumar Ghosh, and the Family That Came Home with a Few Clothes
Personal Essay
The Pest Department in My Skull
The Pest Department in My Skull
Personal Essay
The Tea Skin on My Mind
The Tea Skin on My Mind
Personal Essay
The Post That Took the Weather
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
The Rice Cooker and the Black Hole
The Rice Cooker and the Black Hole
Personal Essay
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
A Cup of Cha Is Not a Small Thing
A Cup of Cha Is Not a Small Thing
Essay
The Friendless Blister
The Friendless Blister
Mental Health
Depression Arrives as Weather
Depression Arrives as Weather
Mental Health
The Small Republic of No One
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
Personal Essay
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Static in the Room
The Static in the Room
Personal Essay
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Bengali Normalcy and the Borrowed Warmth of Nests
Bengali Normalcy and the Borrowed Warmth of Nests
Personal Essay
The Concentric Angsts of a Bankrupt Bengali Man
The Concentric Angsts of a Bankrupt Bengali Man
Personal Essay
The Invisible Radius
The Invisible Radius
Personal Essay
Loneliness Is Not a Generation
Loneliness Is Not a Generation
Personal Essay
A Private Nuisance at Five-Thirty in Calcutta
A Private Nuisance at Five-Thirty in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Personal Essay
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Dawn Is Still Open
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Mental Health
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
When the Mind Refuses to Stay in One Place
When the Mind Refuses to Stay in One Place
Mental Health
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Brain
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Brain
Personal
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
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
Nostril Hairs and the Tainted Calcutta Summer
Nostril Hairs and the Tainted Calcutta Summer
Personal Essay
The Low Market Value of Reality
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science
Waking Up Depressed in Calcutta
Waking Up Depressed in Calcutta
Personal Essay
One Life, No Rehearsal, No Refund Counter
One Life, No Rehearsal, No Refund Counter
Personal Essay
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
Personal Essay
Bipolar Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Bipolar Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Personal Essay
Happiness After Quicksand
Happiness After Quicksand
Personal Essay
Mood Bellwethers Before a Low
Mood Bellwethers Before a Low
Personal Essay
Still Here, In The Corner Room
Still Here, In The Corner Room
Personal Essay
The Terrace Republic
The Terrace Republic
Personal Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
Predepression Tea
Predepression Tea
Personal Essay
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Calcutta
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
Calcutta
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Personal Essay
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
Society
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
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
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
The English Medium Urine Stain
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
The Painful Tooth Fairy
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Prognosis Is Clarity
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
Personal Essay
Why I Write What I Write
Why I Write What I Write
Personal Essay
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Range Limit of Kinship
The Range Limit of Kinship
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
The City That Begs at the Window
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
When the Office Learns to Beg
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
When Structure Loses Its Map
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
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
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Healthcare IT
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Public Health
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Healthcare IT
The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
mathematics
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
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
AI and Denial
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
FHIR
FHIR
healthcare it
India’s White-Collar Issue
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
Intro
Intro
career
The Missing Scientists
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
Pohela Baisakh
Pohela Baisakh
history
Propofol, Nightmares
Propofol, Nightmares
healthcare
AI in Healthcare: Beware
AI in Healthcare: Beware
healthcare ai
Cicada, BA.3.2
Cicada, BA.3.2
public-health
Costume Ambition
Costume Ambition
society
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
The Questions You Ask
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it
The Aromatics of Stagnation
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
Mindfulness?
Mindfulness?
Calcutta
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
America and Calcutta
America and Calcutta
personal
The Bengali Baby
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay
Schooling in Calcutta
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Welcome To SuvroGhosh.IN
Welcome To SuvroGhosh.IN
Personal Essay