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The Consommé of Governance
Essay
The Fish of Babughat
Short Fiction
The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
The Humidity of Proof
Culture
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
The Weight of Wet Heat
Personal Essay
The Pariah Porcupine
Personal Essay
Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
The Churning of the Lesser Fluids
Essay
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Essay
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
Phase Transition at Fifty-One
Personal Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
Tea, Depression, and the Probability of a Blog
Personal Essay
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
The Many-Body Problem of Indian Life
Personal Essay
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
Personal Essay
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 Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
The Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Society
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
Personal Essay
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
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 Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
Personal Essay
The Scarab Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
Personal Essay
The Rice Cooker Kind of Solitude
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
AI, Erdős, and the Great Dot Mischief
Science
Benford’s Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
The Rice Cooker and the Black Hole
Personal Essay
The Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
The Breath That Came By Rain
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
The Fifth Window
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Smoke Under Howrah
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
The Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
Loneliness Is Not a Generation
Personal Essay
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Personal Essay
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
The Protein Man
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
When the Mind Refuses to Stay in One Place
Mental Health
The Last Notification
Short Fiction
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 Room, the Light, and the Brittle Brain
Personal
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Personal Essay
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
Writing Nothing From the Edge of Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
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
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
Nicotine, Biri, and the Great Bengali Bargain
Public Health
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
Happiness After Quicksand
Personal Essay
Still Here, In The Corner Room
Personal Essay
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Fat Animal in the Mirror
Essay
The Geography of Contentment
Life
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
Predepression Tea
Personal Essay
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
Storm in a Bhar
Short Fiction
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Calcutta
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
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
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Kolkata Bat Waiting for a Bus
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
OpenClaw and the Uneasy Arrival of Agents That Actually Do Things
Artificial Intelligence
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
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
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 Invasive Human Weed Species
society
Pests we love
natural history
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
India’s AI Moat
healthcare-it
The Last Economy
technology
Building VA Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
Vector Databases
healthcare it
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
The Pufferfish Economy
society
Cicada, BA.3.2
public-health
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
Hormuz, Day 52
geopolitics
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
Fish Market Merit and the Small Republic of Honesty
Personal Essay
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal