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The Green Light on Bondel Road
Short Fiction
The New Mantra
Career
The Fish of Babughat
Short Fiction
The Man with the Greyscale Shadows
Short Fiction
Blood Sugar
Short Fiction
Do Not Let It Wake Facing the City
Short Fiction
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
Sharper Teeth
Essay
Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Loadshedding Shape
Short Fiction
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
The Cup That Refused to Become Content
Personal Essay
The Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Week of Low Water
Short Fiction
The Fog of Future Tense
Personal Essay
No Ambition Left, Only Cold Tea
Personal Essay
Phase Transition at Fifty-One
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Good Boy Hunger
Short Fiction
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
The Many-Body Problem of Indian Life
Personal Essay
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
Personal Essay
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
The Wetland Under the Lights
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 Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Society
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
Personal Essay
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
The Dopamine Economy
Mental Health
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 Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
Faces for Ashtami
Short Fiction
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
I Could Have Been a Simple Fool
Personal Essay
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Rent Is a Clock
Personal Essay
Vamana and the Three Steps of Bankruptcy
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Greed Made Me Small
Personal Essay
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Gut of God
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Men Who Became Water
Short Fiction
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Pond That Breathed
Short Fiction
The Unpaid Consultant and the Theology of Hope
Personal Essay
The Voice Under the Loudspeaker
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
Personal Essay
My Father, Samarendra Kumar Ghosh, and the Family That Came Home with a Few Clothes
Personal Essay
Head Tax
Short Fiction
The Pest Department in My Skull
Personal Essay
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Gracefully Grotesque Collapse
Essay
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
The Tea Skin on My Mind
Personal Essay
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 Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
The Second Rain
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Society
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Blue Above Chandni
Short Fiction
The Corridor of Wind
Short Fiction
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
Short Fiction
The Humming Under the Bandage
Short Fiction
The Temperature of Attention
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
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
ASMR: The Softly Whispered Apocalypse
Satire
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
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
The June That Stayed
Short Fiction
The Vegetarian
Short Fiction
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
Personal Essay
The K-Shaped Economy Is a Forked Road, and Most of Us Are on the Wrong Fork
Economy
Keshkhor
Short Fiction
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Animals That Did Not Know Smiling
Short Fiction
The Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
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
The Concentric Angsts of a Bankrupt Bengali Man
Personal Essay
The Invisible Radius
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Personal Essay
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Antibiotic That Came Back With a Stick
Healthcare
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Mental Health
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
The Last Notification
Short Fiction
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Brain
Personal
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
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
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 2
Healthcare IT
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
Writing Nothing From the Edge of Calcutta
Personal Essay
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science
Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
Public Health
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
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
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
Bipolar Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Personal Essay
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Fat Animal in the Mirror
Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
Storm in a Bhar
Short Fiction
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
Calcutta
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Personal Essay
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
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
If Asimov Never Put the Leash on the Robots
Artificial Intelligence
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
When Diabetes Started Asking About Its Ancestors
Healthcare Science
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?
Philosophy and AI
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
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
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
Personal Essay
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
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
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
Technology
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
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
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Healthcare IT
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 Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
The Ghost as Perception
philosophy
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
FHIR
healthcare it
The Last Economy
technology
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
Dogs Detect Violations.
science
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
Propofol, Nightmares
healthcare
HIE from First Principles
healthcare it
Costume Ambition
society
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
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
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal