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Tubifex in Trouble: A Billing Cliff
Essay
The New Mantra
Career
The Fish of Babughat
Short Fiction
The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
The Weight of Wet Heat
Personal Essay
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Personal Essay
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
No Ambition Left, Only Cold Tea
Personal Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
Shiva and the Poison in the Throat
Personal Essay
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
The Dopamine Economy
Mental Health
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
Faces for Ashtami
Short Fiction
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Personal Essay
Vamana and the Three Steps of Bankruptcy
Personal Essay
After America, Before Nothing
Personal Essay
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
Personal Essay
Head Tax
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
What a Diffusion Model Is, and Why Pi Sneaks Into the Hospital
Science
Benford’s Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
The Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
The Animals That Did Not Know Smiling
Short Fiction
The Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
Cockroach Season
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis
Healthcare IT
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 2
Healthcare IT
Nostril Hairs and the Tainted Calcutta Summer
Personal Essay
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 Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
Mood Bellwethers Before a Low
Personal Essay
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
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
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
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
Personal Essay
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Healthcare IT
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
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
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
healthcare ai
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
The Last Economy
technology
The History of the Shape of Atoms
science
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
HIE from First Principles
healthcare it
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal