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Blood Sugar
Short Fiction
The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
The Return of the Sweets
Short Fiction
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
The Weight of Wet Heat
Personal Essay
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
The Loadshedding Shape
Short Fiction
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
The Good Boy Hunger
Short Fiction
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Fish That Remembered
Short Fiction
Newton's First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
Faces for Ashtami
Short Fiction
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Gut of God
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Voice Under the Loudspeaker
Short Fiction
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
Head Tax
Short Fiction
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The North-Facing Room
Short Fiction
Settled Water
Short Fiction
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
The Second Rain
Short Fiction
The Sword in the Frame
Short Fiction
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Blue Above Chandni
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Humming Under the Bandage
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
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
ASMR: The Softly Whispered Apocalypse
Satire
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
The Fifth Window
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
Short Fiction
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
The June That Stayed
Short Fiction
The Vegetarian
Short Fiction
The K-Shaped Economy Is a Forked Road, and Most of Us Are on the Wrong Fork
Economy
Keshkhor
Short Fiction
The Animals That Did Not Know Smiling
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Audio Technology
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Mind
Personal
The First Door That Opens
Science
India's Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
Public Health
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
Nicotine, Biri, and the Great Bengali Bargain
Public Health
The Dhoti, the Toothache, and the Great Bengali Flapping Problem
Personal
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
The Morning of the Cutouts
Short Fiction
Woke: How a Tiny American Word Became a Full-Time Street Fight
Culture
The Lake That Lit Up Genes: Maracaibo, Memory, and Huntington's Disease
Science & Healthcare IT
When Diabetes Started Asking About Its Ancestors
Healthcare Science
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
Stagnant Water at Morning
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?
Philosophy and AI
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
Mathematics
The Ghost as Perception
Philosophy
Pests we love
natural history
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Tea
food-and-culture
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
Cicada, BA.3.2
Public Health
Hormuz, Day 52
Geopolitics
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
America and Calcutta
personal
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
An Architect's Education
Healthcare-IT
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal