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The Unveiling
Personal Essay
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
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
The Dwellers
Short Fiction
The Curious Day When the Sun Pauses and Humanity Stretches
Science and Society
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
The Gut of God
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
Head Tax
Short Fiction
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
Body Rent
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
The Skull Under the Bridge
Short Fiction
The Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Blue Above Chandni
Short Fiction
The Humming Under the Bandage
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 Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
The Fifth Window
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
Short Fiction
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
The June That Stayed
Short Fiction
The K-Shaped Economy Is a Forked Road, and Most of Us Are on the Wrong Fork
Economy
The Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
Cockroach Season
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
The Antibiotic That Came Back With a Stick
Healthcare
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Trolley Problem Is In The Healthcare Queue
Healthcare-IT
The Last Notification
Short Fiction
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Mind
Personal
India's Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
Nicotine, Biri, and the Great Bengali Bargain
Public Health
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
The Geography of Contentment
Life
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
The Morning of the Cutouts
Short Fiction
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Calcutta
Woke: How a Tiny American Word Became a Full-Time Street Fight
Culture
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
The Lake That Lit Up Genes: Maracaibo, Memory, and Huntington's Disease
Science & Healthcare IT
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?
Philosophy and AI
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
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
LPG debacle
energy
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
Vector Databases and the Shape of Clinical Memory
healthcare-it
Pohela Baisakh
history
AI in Healthcare: Beware
Healthcare AI
Cicada, BA.3.2
Public Health
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Hormuz, Day 52
Geopolitics
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
Mindfulness?
Calcutta
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
personal
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
An Architect's Education
Healthcare-IT