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The New Mantra
Career
The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
The Unveiling
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 Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Sharper Teeth
Essay
Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
The Churning of the Lesser Fluids
Essay
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
Personal Essay
A Trapezoid in Low Light
Personal Essay
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Essay
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
The Fog of Future Tense
Personal Essay
The Compressor and the Small Black Hole
Personal Essay
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
Personal Essay
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Society
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man's Future
AI
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End
Personal Essay
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Pond That Breathed
Short Fiction
The Unpaid Consultant and the Theology of Hope
Personal Essay
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Tea Skin on My Mind
Personal Essay
Do Not Sell Your Pressure Cooker for RTX Spark
Technology
Settled Water
Short Fiction
The Sofa Bird
Short Fiction
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
The Sword in the Frame
Short Fiction
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
The Corridor of Wind
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
The Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
The Breath That Came By Rain
Short Fiction
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
When Weather Enters the Room
Mental Health
Meanline
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
The K-Shaped Economy Is a Forked Road, and Most of Us Are on the Wrong Fork
Economy
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Static in the Room
Personal Essay
Cockroach Season
Short Fiction
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
A Private Nuisance at Five-Thirty in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Personal Essay
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Mental Health
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
When the Mind Refuses to Stay in One Place
Mental Health
The Last Notification
Short Fiction
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Mind
Personal
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Poisson Distribution in Healthcare IT
Healthcare-IT
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT, Part 2
Healthcare-IT
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
India Slept Through the AI Alarm, and the Market Has Started Packing Its Bags
AI Economy
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
Technology
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
The Smorgasbord of Powerlessness
Personal Essay
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Personal Essay
Happiness After Quicksand
Personal Essay
Still Here, in the Corner Room
Personal Essay
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Geography of Contentment
Life
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
The Morning of the Cutouts
Short Fiction
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Calcutta
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
Calcutta
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
The Machine That Cannot Digest
Artificial Intelligence
If AI Ever Gets Depressed, We Are Probably in Trouble
Artificial Intelligence
If Asimov Never Put the Leash on the Robots
Artificial Intelligence
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
Society
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT in a Country of Missing Systems
Healthcare-IT
Why 2026 Is Still the 21st Century
Personal Essay
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Stagnant Water at Morning
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Coding After the Keyboard: How AI Agents Learned to Roam the Codebase
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Artificial Intelligence
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
A Difficult Weather in the Skin
Personal Essay
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
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 Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support
Healthcare-IT
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
The Ghost as Perception
Philosophy
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
Political Economy
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
Healthcare AI
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
Society
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
The Last Economy
Technology
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
Technology
India's White-Collar Issue
India
Cicada, BA.3.2
Public Health
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
Mindfulness?
Calcutta
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections