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The Vermicular Parliament
Personal Essay
The Thermodynamics of Shame: A South Calcutta Canticle
Essay
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
The Humidity of Proof
Culture
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
Personal Essay
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man’s Future
AI
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
The Rice Cooker and the Black Hole
Personal Essay
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
The Pharmacy Bandh Is Not About Apps. It Is About Trust Being Sold by the Strip.
Healthcare IT
Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
Public Health
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
India Slept Through the AI Alarm, and the Market Has Started Packing Its Bags
AI Economy
Nicotine, Biri, and the Great Bengali Bargain
Public Health
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
The Coming Unemployment
AI
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
Calcutta
The Lake That Lit Up Genes: Maracaibo, Memory, and Huntington’s Disease
Science & Healthcare IT
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
Personal Essay
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
When Structure Loses Its Map
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
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Healthcare IT
LPG debacle
energy
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
The Last Economy
technology
The History of the Shape of Atoms
science
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
Confounding Factors
healthcare-it
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
Pohela Baisakh
history
Cicada, BA.3.2
public-health
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Hormuz, Day 52
geopolitics
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
Can't Go Back to Childhood—Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir