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Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Clinical AI Needs A Shadow Architecture First
Healthcare-IT
Sharper Teeth
Essay
The Linear Algebra Blind Spot: Why Healthcare AI Is Only as Safe as Its Underlying Math
Healthcare IT
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
Tea, Depression, and the Probability of a Blog
Personal Essay
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Many-Body Problem of Indian Life
Personal Essay
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Personal Essay
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
Personal Essay
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
Personal Essay
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
Personal Essay
Why I Write on Small Things
Personal Essay
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man’s Future
AI
The Damp Government Office Inside My Head
Personal Essay
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Rice Cooker Kind of Solitude
Personal Essay
After America, Before Nothing
Personal Essay
The Unpaid Consultant and the Theology of Hope
Personal Essay
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
What a Diffusion Model Is, and Why Pi Sneaks Into the Hospital
Science
Benford’s Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
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 Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
The Fifth Window
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
The June That Stayed
Short Fiction
The Vegetarian
Short Fiction
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
Personal Essay
Keshkhor
Short Fiction
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
The Concentric Angsts of a Bankrupt Bengali Man
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
The Antibiotic That Came Back With a Stick
Healthcare
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Trolley Problem Is In The Healthcare Queue
Healthcare-IT
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Mental Health
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
The Last Notification
Short Fiction
MYCIN: The 1970s Medical AI That Knew How to Explain Itself
Healthcare IT
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
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
Writing Nothing From the Edge of Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
India Slept Through the AI Alarm, and the Market Has Started Packing Its Bags
AI Economy
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Obama, HITECH, and the Day the American Medical Chart Was Dragged Into Electricity
Healthcare IT
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
Still Here, In The Corner Room
Personal Essay
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
Storm in a Bhar
Short Fiction
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
Calcutta
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
If AI Ever Gets Depressed, We Are Probably in Trouble
Artificial Intelligence
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
The Lake That Lit Up Genes: Maracaibo, Memory, and Huntington’s Disease
Science & Healthcare IT
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
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
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
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
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
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
Kenneth Arrow, Medical Uncertainty, and the False Dream of Healthcare as a Normal Market
Healthcare IT
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
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
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Public Health
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Healthcare IT
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
Healthcare IT
The Ghost as Perception
philosophy
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Healthcare IT
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
FHIR
healthcare it
The Last Economy
technology
Building VA Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
Vector Databases
healthcare it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
Confounding Factors
healthcare-it
Intro
career
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
The Pufferfish Economy
society
AI in Healthcare: Beware
healthcare ai
Cicada, BA.3.2
public-health
HIE from First Principles
healthcare it
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Hormuz, Day 52
geopolitics
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it
Shouldering the Chips: A Bengali Odyssey Through Calcutta’s Public Transport
Calcutta
Fish Market Merit and the Small Republic of Honesty
Personal Essay