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The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
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 Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
The Dhoti, the Toothache, and the Great Bengali Flapping Problem
Personal
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
The Geography of Contentment
Life
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
Calcutta
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
LPG debacle
energy
Pests we love
natural history
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
Vector Databases and the Shape of Clinical Memory
healthcare-it
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
Intro
career
Pohela Baisakh
history
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
personal
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Shouldering the Chips: A Bengali Odyssey Through Calcutta's Public Transport
Calcutta
Can't Go Back to Childhood-Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir