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The One-Eyed Cyclops of Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Fish of Babughat
Short Fiction
Blood Sugar
Short Fiction
The Churning of the Lesser Fluids
Essay
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Personal Essay
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
Why I Write on Small Things
Personal Essay
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Voice Under the Loudspeaker
Short Fiction
My Father, Samarendra Kumar Ghosh, and the Family That Came Home with a Few Clothes
Personal Essay
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
The North-Facing Room
Short Fiction
The Sofa Bird
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
Benford’s Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Society
The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
The Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
The Fifth Window
Short Fiction
The Vegetarian
Short Fiction
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
Personal Essay
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
The Happy Water
Short Fiction
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
Poison Often Wears a Clean Shirt
Personal Essay
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Brain
Personal
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
India’s Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
The Pharmacy Bandh Is Not About Apps. It Is About Trust Being Sold by the Strip.
Healthcare IT
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
Woke: How a Tiny American Word Became a Full-Time Street Fight
Culture
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal