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The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
The Cup That Refused to Become Content
Personal Essay
The Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
The Scarab Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
Personal Essay
The Third Stomach
Short Fiction
Greed Made Me Small
Personal Essay
The Heap That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
The Second Rain
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
Benford’s Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Society
The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
Silk Season
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
Poison Often Wears a Clean Shirt
Personal Essay
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Audio Technology
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Brain
Personal
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
India’s Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
One Life, No Rehearsal, No Refund Counter
Personal Essay
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
The Fat Animal in the Mirror
Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
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
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
Costume Ambition
society
America and Calcutta
personal
Shouldering the Chips: A Bengali Odyssey Through Calcutta’s Public Transport
Calcutta
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal