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Tubifex in Trouble: A Billing Cliff
Essay
The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
Artificial Intelligence
The Pariah Porcupine
Personal Essay
The Person Is Not a Machine
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 Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
Personal Essay
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
Personal Essay
A Trapezoid for My Mother
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
The Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Fog of Future Tense
Personal Essay
No Ambition Left, Only Cold Tea
Personal Essay
Phase Transition at Fifty-One
Personal Essay
The Compressor and the Small Black Hole
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
Oxygen in a Box
Personal Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
Tea, Depression, and the Probability of a Blog
Personal Essay
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
The Many-Body Problem of Indian Life
Personal Essay
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
Personal Essay
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
The Recidivism of Fraud
Essay
Shiva and the Poison in the Throat
Personal Essay
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Personal Essay
The Error Bar Around a Man
Personal Essay
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
Personal Essay
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Dopamine Economy
Mental Health
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
Personal Essay
Why I Write on Small Things
Personal Essay
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
Anger: The Last Working Appliance
Personal Essay
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
I Could Have Been a Simple Fool
Personal Essay
The Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
Personal Essay
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Scarab Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
Personal Essay
The Rent Is a Clock
Personal Essay
Greed Made Me Small
Personal Essay
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Unpaid Consultant and the Theology of Hope
Personal Essay
The Voice Under the Loudspeaker
Short Fiction
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
Personal Essay
My Father, Samarendra Kumar Ghosh, and the Family That Came Home with a Few Clothes
Personal Essay
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
Tea Skin and the Science of Suspicion
Essay
The North-Facing Room
Short Fiction
Settled Water
Short Fiction
The Skull Under the Bridge
Short Fiction
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
The Second Rain
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
Benford’s Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Society
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
The Rice Cooker and the Black Hole
Personal Essay
The Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Fifth Window
Short Fiction
Depression Arrives as Weather
Mental Health
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
The June That Stayed
Short Fiction
The Vegetarian
Short Fiction
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
Personal Essay
The K-Shaped Economy Is a Forked Road, and Most of Us Are on the Wrong Fork
Economy
Keshkhor
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 Static in the Room
Personal Essay
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
Cockroach Season
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
The Invisible Radius
Personal Essay
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Personal Essay
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
The Antibiotic That Came Back With a Stick
Healthcare
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Mental Health
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
The First Door That Opens
Science
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Personal Essay
Nostril Hairs and the Tainted Calcutta Summer
Personal Essay
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
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
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
Waking Up Depressed in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
One Life, No Rehearsal, No Refund Counter
Personal Essay
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
Technology
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
Bipolar 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 Terrace Republic
Personal Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Personal Essay
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
Coding After the Keyboard: How AI Agents Learned to Roam the Codebase
Artificial Intelligence
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
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
Personal Essay
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
Kenneth Arrow, Medical Uncertainty, and the False Dream of Healthcare as a Normal Market
Healthcare IT
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Healthcare IT
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Tea
food-and-culture
The Last Economy
technology
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
Propofol, Nightmares
healthcare
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Shouldering the Chips: A Bengali Odyssey Through Calcutta’s Public Transport
Calcutta
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Welcome To SuvroGhosh.IN
Personal Essay