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The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
The Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Society
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
The Pest Department in My Skull
Personal Essay
Tea Skin and the Science of Suspicion
Essay
The Tea Skin on My Mind
Personal Essay
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Kolkata Bat Waiting for a Bus
Personal Essay
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
Why I Write What I Write
Personal Essay
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
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
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
Pests we love
natural history
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
America and Calcutta
personal
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal