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The New Mantra
Career
The Fish of Babughat
Short Fiction
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
Artificial Intelligence
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
Crab Diaries of a Bengali Kakistocrat
Personal Essay
Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
The Dwellers
Short Fiction
The Trillionaire Gap
Personal Essay
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Loadshedding Shape
Short Fiction
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
The Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Compressor and the Small Black Hole
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Brain Scrap Yard
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
Personal Essay
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
Newton's First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man's Future
AI
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
The Damp Government Office Inside My Head
Personal Essay
Faces for Ashtami
Short Fiction
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Rent Is a Clock
Personal Essay
The Third Stomach
Short Fiction
Vamana and the Three Steps of Bankruptcy
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Gut of God
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Unpaid Consultant and the Theology of Hope
Personal Essay
The Voice Under the Loudspeaker
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
The Unattractive Man's Weather Report
Personal Essay
Head Tax
Short Fiction
The Gracefully Grotesque Collapse
Essay
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
Body Rent
Short Fiction
Do Not Sell Your Pressure Cooker for RTX Spark
Technology
The River Climbed the Stairs
Short Fiction
The North-Facing Room
Short Fiction
The Radius of Dust
Short Fiction
Settled Water
Short Fiction
The Skull Under the Bridge
Short Fiction
The Sofa Bird
Short Fiction
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
The Second Rain
Short Fiction
The Sword in the Frame
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
Benford's Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
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 Corridor of Wind
Short Fiction
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Humming Under the Bandage
Short Fiction
The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
The Rice Cooker and the Black Hole
Personal Essay
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
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
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 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 Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
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
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
The Concentric Angsts of a Bankrupt Bengali Man
Personal Essay
The Invisible Radius
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Personal Essay
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Personal Essay
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Trolley Problem Is In The Healthcare Queue
Healthcare-IT
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
India's Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
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
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
Obama, HITECH, and the Electronic Chart
Healthcare-IT
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
The Smorgasbord of Powerlessness
Personal Essay
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Personal Essay
Happiness After Quicksand
Personal Essay
Bellwethers Before a Low
Personal Essay
The Geography of Contentment
Life
The Terrace Republic
Personal Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
Tea Before the Weather Turns
Personal Essay
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
The Morning of the Cutouts
Short Fiction
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
When Diabetes Started Asking About Its Ancestors
Healthcare Science
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
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
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
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
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
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
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
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
India's Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
OpenClaw and the Uneasy Arrival of Agents That Actually Do Things
Artificial Intelligence
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
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
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Hormuz, Day 52
Geopolitics
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Can't Go Back to Childhood-Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
Fish Market Merit and the Small Republic of Honesty
Personal Essay
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal