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The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
Artificial Intelligence
The Weight of Wet Heat
Personal Essay
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Sharper Teeth
Essay
Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
The Dwellers
Short Fiction
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
The Week of Low Water
Short Fiction
The Good Boy Hunger
Short Fiction
The Brain Scrap Yard
Personal Essay
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
The Recidivism of Fraud
Essay
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
The Fish That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
Anger: The Last Working Appliance
Personal Essay
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
The Stone Under the Skin
Mental Health
After America, Before Nothing
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Gut of God
Short Fiction
The Heap That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Men Who Became Water
Short Fiction
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Pond That Breathed
Short Fiction
The Voice Under the Loudspeaker
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
Head Tax
Short Fiction
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
Body Rent
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
Do Not Sell Your Pressure Cooker for RTX Spark
Technology
The River Climbed the Stairs
Short Fiction
The North-Facing Room
Short Fiction
Settled Water
Short Fiction
The Sofa Bird
Short Fiction
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
The Second Rain
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
The Corridor of Wind
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Humming Under the Bandage
Short Fiction
The Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
The Breath That Came By Rain
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
Short Fiction
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
Keshkhor
Short Fiction
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare-IT
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Mind
Personal
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
The First Door That Opens
Science
India's Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
India Slept Through the AI Alarm, and the Market Has Started Packing Its Bags
AI Economy
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Essay
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
Obama, HITECH, and the Electronic Chart
Healthcare-IT
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
The Dhoti, the Toothache, and the Great Bengali Flapping Problem
Personal
The Fat Animal in the Mirror
Essay
The Geography of Contentment
Life
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
The Machine That Cannot Digest
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
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
The Lake That Lit Up Genes: Maracaibo, Memory, and Huntington's Disease
Science & Healthcare IT
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
Stagnant Water at Morning
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
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
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
Bengali AI Songs
AI Music Song
AI Music
AI Music Song
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
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
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support
Healthcare-IT
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Public Health
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
The Shadow Architecture of Healthcare Data Work
Healthcare-IT
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
The Ghost as Perception
Philosophy
Pests we love
natural history
Tea
food-and-culture
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses From First Principles
Healthcare-IT
Building VA Data Warehouses
Healthcare-IT
Vector Databases and the Shape of Clinical Memory
healthcare-it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
Technology
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
Intro
career
The Missing Scientists
Healthcare-IT
Pohela Baisakh
history
Propofol, Nightmares
Healthcare
The Pufferfish Economy
Society
AI in Healthcare: Beware
Healthcare AI
HIE From First Principles
Healthcare-IT
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Mindfulness?
Calcutta
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Can't Go Back to Childhood-Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal