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Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
The Pariah Porcupine
Personal Essay
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Clinical AI Needs A Shadow Architecture First
Healthcare-IT
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Curious Day When the Sun Pauses and Humanity Stretches
Science and Society
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
Phase Transition at Fifty-One
Personal Essay
The Good Boy Hunger
Short Fiction
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
Why I Write on Small Things
Personal Essay
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Pest Department in My Skull
Personal Essay
Do Not Sell Your Pressure Cooker for RTX Spark
Technology
The River Climbed the Stairs
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
The Breath That Came By Rain
Short Fiction
Depression Arrives as Weather
Mental Health
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Animals That Did Not Know Smiling
Short Fiction
Cockroach Season
Short Fiction
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
The Antibiotic That Came Back With a Stick
Healthcare
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Science
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Audio Technology
Hardy’s Law in Genetics for the Callow Calcuttan
Science
The Toolbox Theory of Thinking: Why Simple Models Help Us Survive a Complicated World
Thinking
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
India’s Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis
Healthcare IT
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science
Nicotine, Biri, and the Great Bengali Bargain
Public Health
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Essay
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
Mood Bellwethers Before a Low
Personal Essay
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Calcutta
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
Calcutta
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
Why 2026 Is Still the 21st Century
Personal Essay
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
Society
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
Bessel Correction Without the Mathematical Chilli Powder
Statistics
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
The Kolkata Bat Waiting for a Bus
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
Why I Write What I Write
Personal Essay
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
English AI Songs
AI Music Song
Kenneth Arrow, Medical Uncertainty, and the False Dream of Healthcare as a Normal Market
Healthcare IT
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Healthcare IT
The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
mathematics
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
Healthcare IT
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Healthcare IT
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
healthcare ai
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
LPG debacle
energy
Pests we love
natural history
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
Tea
food-and-culture
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
FHIR
healthcare it
Building VA Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
Vector Databases
healthcare it
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
Confounding Factors
healthcare-it
Dogs Detect Violations.
science
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
Intro
career
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
Propofol, Nightmares
healthcare
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
HIE from First Principles
healthcare it
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Costume Ambition
society
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
Can't Go Back to Childhood—Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections