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The One-Eyed Cyclops of Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Man with the Greyscale Shadows
Short Fiction
The Return of the Sweets
Short Fiction
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
The Churning of the Lesser Fluids
Essay
The Dwellers
Short Fiction
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
The Loadshedding Shape
Short Fiction
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
The Cup That Refused to Become Content
Personal Essay
The Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Week of Low Water
Short Fiction
Phase Transition at Fifty-One
Personal Essay
The Compressor and the Small Black Hole
Personal Essay
The Good Boy Hunger
Short Fiction
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
The Brain Scrap Yard
Personal Essay
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
The Recidivism of Fraud
Essay
Shiva and the Poison in the Throat
Personal Essay
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
The Fish That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
Personal Essay
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
Faces for Ashtami
Short Fiction
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 Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
Personal Essay
The Third Stomach
Short Fiction
Vamana and the Three Steps of Bankruptcy
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Gut of God
Short Fiction
The Heap That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Men Who Became Water
Short Fiction
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Pond That Breathed
Short Fiction
The Voice Under the Loudspeaker
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
Head Tax
Short Fiction
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
Tea Skin and the Science of Suspicion
Essay
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
Body Rent
Short Fiction
The River Climbed the Stairs
Short Fiction
The North-Facing Room
Short Fiction
The Radius of Dust
Short Fiction
The Skull Under the Bridge
Short Fiction
The Sofa Bird
Short Fiction
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
The Second Rain
Short Fiction
The Sword in the Frame
Short Fiction
Benford’s Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Blue Above Chandni
Short Fiction
The Corridor of Wind
Short Fiction
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Humming Under the Bandage
Short Fiction
The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
The Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
The Breath That Came By Rain
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
ASMR: The Softly Whispered Apocalypse
Satire
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
Short Fiction
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
The June That Stayed
Short Fiction
The Vegetarian
Short Fiction
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 Blister Labels
Short Fiction
Cockroach Season
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
Poison Often Wears a Clean Shirt
Personal Essay
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
The Last Notification
Short Fiction
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
India’s Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
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 Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science
One Life, No Rehearsal, No Refund Counter
Personal Essay
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
Personal Essay
Happiness After Quicksand
Personal Essay
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
Storm in a Bhar
Short Fiction
The Morning of the Cutouts
Short Fiction
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Personal Essay
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
Woke: How a Tiny American Word Became a Full-Time Street Fight
Culture
If AI Ever Gets Depressed, We Are Probably in Trouble
Artificial Intelligence
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
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
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
Society
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
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
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
Tea
food-and-culture
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay