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The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
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
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
The Churning of the Lesser Fluids
Essay
The Dwellers
Short Fiction
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
Personal Essay
A Trapezoid for My Mother
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
The Cup That Refused to Become Content
Personal Essay
The Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
No Ambition Left, Only Cold Tea
Personal Essay
Phase Transition at Fifty-One
Personal Essay
The Compressor and the Small Black Hole
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
Tea, Depression, and the Probability of a Blog
Personal Essay
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived 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 Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
The Fish That Remembered
Short Fiction
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Personal Essay
The Error Bar Around a Man
Personal Essay
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
Personal Essay
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
Personal Essay
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
Anger: The Last Working Appliance
Personal Essay
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
The Damp Government Office Inside My Head
Personal Essay
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Scarab Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
Personal Essay
After America, Before Nothing
Personal Essay
The Heap That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
Personal Essay
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
My Father, Samarendra Kumar Ghosh, and the Family That Came Home with a Few Clothes
Personal Essay
The Gracefully Grotesque Collapse
Essay
The Tea Skin on My Mind
Personal Essay
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
The Radius of Dust
Short Fiction
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
A Cup of Cha Is Not a Small Thing
Essay
The Friendless Blister
Mental Health
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
The Fifth Window
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
Short Fiction
Depression Arrives as Weather
Mental Health
Meanline
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
The Happy Water
Short Fiction
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
Bengali Normalcy and the Borrowed Warmth of Nests
Personal Essay
The Invisible Radius
Personal Essay
Loneliness Is Not a Generation
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Personal Essay
Poison Often Wears a Clean Shirt
Personal Essay
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Trolley Problem Is In The Healthcare Queue
Healthcare-IT
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Science
When the Mind Refuses to Stay in One Place
Mental Health
MYCIN: The 1970s Medical AI That Knew How to Explain Itself
Healthcare IT
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
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
Nostril Hairs and the Tainted Calcutta Summer
Personal Essay
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
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
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
One Life, No Rehearsal, No Refund Counter
Personal Essay
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Essay
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
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
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
Happiness After Quicksand
Personal Essay
Still Here, In The Corner Room
Personal Essay
The Fat Animal in the Mirror
Essay
The Geography of Contentment
Life
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
Predepression Tea
Personal Essay
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
When Diabetes Started Asking About Its Ancestors
Healthcare Science
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
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
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Artificial Intelligence
A Calcutta Bengali’s Guide to the Various Schools of AI
Artificial Intelligence
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
Personal Essay
Why I Write What I Write
Personal Essay
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
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
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
Technology
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
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
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Public Health
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Healthcare IT
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
Healthcare IT
The Ghost as Perception
philosophy
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
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
FHIR
healthcare it
The History of the Shape of Atoms
science
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
Pohela Baisakh
history
Propofol, Nightmares
healthcare
The Pufferfish Economy
society
AI in Healthcare: Beware
healthcare ai
Cicada, BA.3.2
public-health
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Costume Ambition
society
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
personal
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Can't Go Back to Childhood—Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
Fish Market Merit and the Small Republic of Honesty
Personal Essay
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal