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Tubifex in Trouble: A Billing Cliff
Tubifex in Trouble: A Billing Cliff
Essay
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
Artificial Intelligence
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
Personal Essay
Phage at Beliaghata
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Ten-Kilo Children
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Temperature of Attention
The Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
Keshkhor
Keshkhor
Short Fiction
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Science
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
India’s Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
India’s Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 2
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 2
Healthcare IT
The Man Held by the Neck
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
The Range Limit of Kinship
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
Pests we love
Pests we love
natural history
Databases and Data Warehouses
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
Confounding Factors
Confounding Factors
healthcare-it
Intro
Intro
career
HIE from First Principles
HIE from First Principles
healthcare it
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal