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Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
Newton's First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man's Future
AI
The Heap That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
The Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
The Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
Art History
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Mind
Personal
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Geography of Contentment
Life
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
When Diabetes Started Asking About Its Ancestors
Healthcare Science
Stagnant Water at Morning
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
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
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
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
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
Tea
food-and-culture
Vector Databases and the Shape of Clinical Memory
healthcare-it
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
India's White-Collar Issue
India
Intro
career
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Can't Go Back to Childhood-Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal