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Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Many-Body Problem of Indian Life
Personal Essay
The Recidivism of Fraud
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 Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
The Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Society
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man’s Future
AI
The Damp Government Office Inside My Head
Personal Essay
I Could Have Been a Simple Fool
Personal Essay
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Pest Department in My Skull
Personal Essay
Tea Skin and the Science of Suspicion
Essay
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
Benford’s Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Society
The Corridor of Wind
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
The Last Notification
Short Fiction
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
Society
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
A Calcutta Bengali’s Guide to the Various Schools of AI
Artificial Intelligence
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
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
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Public Health
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
FHIR
healthcare it
The Last Economy
technology
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
Pohela Baisakh
history
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay