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The Digital Charnel House
Personal Essay
The Weight of Pages
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
The Weight of Wet Heat
Personal Essay
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
Sharper Teeth
Essay
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
Personal Essay
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
Personal Essay
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
A Cup of Cha Is Not a Small Thing
Essay
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
The K-Shaped Economy Is a Forked Road, and Most of Us Are on the Wrong Fork
Economy
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
Bengali Normalcy and the Borrowed Warmth of Nests
Personal Essay
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Brain
Personal
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
Technology
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
Obama, HITECH, and the Day the American Medical Chart Was Dragged Into Electricity
Healthcare IT
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
Personal Essay
Bipolar Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Personal Essay
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?
Philosophy and AI
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Artificial Intelligence
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
healthcare ai
LPG debacle
energy
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
India’s AI Moat
healthcare-it
The Last Economy
technology
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
Driving the Accord
personal