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The New Mantra
Career
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
Artificial Intelligence
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Clinical AI Needs A Shadow Architecture First
Healthcare-IT
Sharper Teeth
Essay
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Linear Algebra Blind Spot: Why Healthcare AI Is Only as Safe as Its Underlying Math
Healthcare IT
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Essay
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
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
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
The Brain Scrap Yard
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
Tea, Depression, and the Probability of a Blog
Personal Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
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 Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
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
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
Anger: The Last Working Appliance
Personal Essay
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man’s Future
AI
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 Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
Personal Essay
The Rent Is a Clock
Personal Essay
After America, Before Nothing
Personal Essay
Greed Made Me Small
Personal Essay
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Tea Skin on My Mind
Personal Essay
Do Not Sell Your Pressure Cooker for RTX Spark
Technology
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
AI, Erdős, and the Great Dot Mischief
Science
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
The Corridor of Wind
Short Fiction
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
ASMR: The Softly Whispered Apocalypse
Satire
The Friendless Blister
Mental Health
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
Keshkhor
Short Fiction
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Loneliness Is Not a Generation
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Personal Essay
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Mental Health
When the Mind Refuses to Stay in One Place
Mental Health
The Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
Art History
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
MYCIN: The 1970s Medical AI That Knew How to Explain Itself
Healthcare IT
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
The Toolbox Theory of Thinking: Why Simple Models Help Us Survive a Complicated World
Thinking
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
The First Door That Opens
Science
Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis
Healthcare IT
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 2
Healthcare IT
Nostril Hairs and the Tainted Calcutta Summer
Personal Essay
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
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
India Slept Through the AI Alarm, and the Market Has Started Packing Its Bags
AI Economy
One Life, No Rehearsal, No Refund Counter
Personal Essay
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
Technology
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Essay
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
Obama, HITECH, and the Day the American Medical Chart Was Dragged Into Electricity
Healthcare IT
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
The Dhoti, the Toothache, and the Great Bengali Flapping Problem
Personal
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 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
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
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 Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
If AI Ever Gets Depressed, We Are Probably in Trouble
Artificial Intelligence
If Asimov Never Put the Leash on the Robots
Artificial Intelligence
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
Society
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
When Brains Are Bright but Systems Are Blind
Artificial Intelligence
Why 2026 Is Still the 21st Century
Personal Essay
When Diabetes Started Asking About Its Ancestors
Healthcare Science
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
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
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
Society
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Artificial Intelligence
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
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
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
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
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 Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
English AI Songs
AI Music Song
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
OpenClaw and the Uneasy Arrival of Agents That Actually Do Things
Artificial Intelligence
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
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
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
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 Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Healthcare IT
The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
mathematics
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
Healthcare IT
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
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Healthcare IT
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
healthcare ai
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
Pests we love
natural history
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Tea
food-and-culture
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
FHIR
healthcare it
India’s AI Moat
healthcare-it
The Last Economy
technology
The History of the Shape of Atoms
science
Building VA Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
Vector Databases
healthcare it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
Dogs Detect Violations.
science
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
Intro
career
Propofol, Nightmares
healthcare
AI in Healthcare: Beware
healthcare ai
Cicada, BA.3.2
public-health
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
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
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
personal
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Fish Market Merit and the Small Republic of Honesty
Personal Essay
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal