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The Warmth
Short Fiction
The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
Artificial Intelligence
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
The Person Is Not a Machine
Personal Essay
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Clinical AI Needs A Shadow Architecture First
Healthcare-IT
Sharper Teeth
Essay
The Churning of the Lesser Fluids
Essay
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Personal Essay
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
Personal Essay
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Essay
The Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
Tea, Depression, and the Probability of a Blog
Personal Essay
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
Personal Essay
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
The Recidivism of Fraud
Essay
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
The Error Bar Around a Man
Personal Essay
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
Personal Essay
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
Personal Essay
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Rent Is a Clock
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Greed Made Me Small
Personal Essay
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
The Pest Department in My Skull
Personal Essay
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
The Radius of Dust
Short Fiction
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The K-Shaped Economy Is a Forked Road, and Most of Us Are on the Wrong Fork
Economy
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Happy Water
Short Fiction
Loneliness Is Not a Generation
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Personal Essay
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Personal Essay
The Antibiotic That Came Back With a Stick
Healthcare
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Audio Technology
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 2
Healthcare IT
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
Public Health
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
India Slept Through the AI Alarm, and the Market Has Started Packing Its Bags
AI Economy
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
Technology
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
Storm in a Bhar
Short Fiction
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Personal Essay
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Artificial Intelligence
A Calcutta Bengali’s Guide to the Various Schools of AI
Artificial Intelligence
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Kolkata Bat Waiting for a Bus
Personal Essay
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Personal Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
Personal Essay
Why I Write What I Write
Personal Essay
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
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
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Public Health
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
healthcare ai
LPG debacle
energy
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Tea
food-and-culture
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
India’s AI Moat
healthcare-it
The Last Economy
technology
Confounding Factors
healthcare-it
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
The Pufferfish Economy
society
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Hormuz, Day 52
geopolitics
Costume Ambition
society
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
Driving the Accord
personal
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal