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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
The Return of the Sweets
Short Fiction
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
The Weight of Wet Heat
Personal Essay
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Personal Essay
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
The Fog of Future Tense
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Personal Essay
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
Personal Essay
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
Faces for Ashtami
Short Fiction
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
The Scarab Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
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
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
Tea Skin and the Science of Suspicion
Essay
The Gracefully Grotesque Collapse
Essay
The Tea Skin on My Mind
Personal Essay
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Personal Essay
Hardy’s Law in Genetics for the Callow Calcuttan
Science
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis
Healthcare IT
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
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
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Essay
The Geography of Contentment
Life
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Calcutta
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
If Asimov Never Put the Leash on the Robots
Artificial Intelligence
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
Society
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
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
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Kolkata Bat Waiting for a Bus
Personal Essay
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Personal Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
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
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
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Healthcare IT
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 Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
mathematics
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
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
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
FHIR
healthcare it
The Last Economy
technology
The History of the Shape of Atoms
science
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
Pohela Baisakh
history
The Pufferfish Economy
society
Cicada, BA.3.2
public-health
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
America and Calcutta
personal
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
Fish Market Merit and the Small Republic of Honesty
Personal Essay
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal