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The Cheapest Soil
Short Fiction
The Perpendicular Shadow
Personal Essay
The Vermicular Parliament
Personal Essay
The Warmth
Short Fiction
The New Mantra
Career
The Fish of Babughat
Short Fiction
The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Do Not Let It Wake Facing the City
Short Fiction
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
The Humidity of Proof
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 Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
The Weight of Wet Heat
Personal Essay
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
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
The Dwellers
Short Fiction
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Linear Algebra Blind Spot: Why Healthcare AI Is Only as Safe as Its Underlying Math
Healthcare IT
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
No Ambition Left, Only Cold Tea
Personal Essay
The Compressor and the Small Black Hole
Personal Essay
Oxygen in a Box
Personal Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
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 Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
Personal Essay
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
Personal Essay
Why I Write on Small Things
Personal Essay
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
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
I Could Have Been a Simple Fool
Personal Essay
The Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
Personal Essay
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Rice Cooker Kind of Solitude
Personal Essay
After America, Before Nothing
Personal Essay
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Men Who Became Water
Short Fiction
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
Personal Essay
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Pest Department in My Skull
Personal Essay
The Gracefully Grotesque Collapse
Essay
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
Do Not Sell Your Pressure Cooker for RTX Spark
Technology
The Radius of Dust
Short Fiction
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
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 Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Society
The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
The Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
The Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
The Breath That Came By Rain
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
A Cup of Cha Is Not a Small Thing
Essay
The Friendless Blister
Mental Health
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
Short Fiction
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
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
Keshkhor
Short Fiction
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Wrong Shelf
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
Poison Often Wears a Clean Shirt
Personal Essay
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
The Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
Art History
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
Hardy’s Law in Genetics for the Callow Calcuttan
Science
MYCIN: The 1970s Medical AI That Knew How to Explain Itself
Healthcare IT
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
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
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
The First Door That Opens
Science
Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis
Healthcare IT
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
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
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
Waking Up Depressed in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
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
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
Technology
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Essay
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
The Dhoti, the Toothache, and the Great Bengali Flapping Problem
Personal
Still Here, In The Corner Room
Personal Essay
The Fat Animal in the Mirror
Essay
The Geography of Contentment
Life
The Terrace Republic
Personal Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
Calcutta
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
Woke: How a Tiny American Word Became a Full-Time Street Fight
Culture
If AI Ever Gets Depressed, We Are Probably in Trouble
Artificial Intelligence
If Asimov Never Put the Leash on the Robots
Artificial Intelligence
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Coding After the Keyboard: How AI Agents Learned to Roam the Codebase
Artificial Intelligence
Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?
Philosophy and AI
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
Society
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Artificial Intelligence
A Calcutta Bengali’s Guide to the Various Schools of AI
Artificial Intelligence
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
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
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 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
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
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
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
Bengali AI Songs
AI Music Song
English AI Songs
AI Music Song
AI Music
AI Music Song
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
Hindi AI Songs
AI Music Song
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
OpenClaw and the Uneasy Arrival of Agents That Actually Do Things
Artificial Intelligence
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
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
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Healthcare IT
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
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
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
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
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 Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
Pests we love
natural history
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
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
India’s AI Moat
healthcare-it
The Last Economy
technology
The History of the Shape of Atoms
science
Building VA Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
Vector Databases
healthcare it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
Confounding Factors
healthcare-it
Dogs Detect Violations.
science
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
Pohela Baisakh
history
Propofol, Nightmares
healthcare
The Pufferfish Economy
society
AI in Healthcare: Beware
healthcare ai
Cicada, BA.3.2
public-health
HIE from First Principles
healthcare it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Hormuz, Day 52
geopolitics
Costume Ambition
society
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal