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The Man with the Greyscale Shadows
Short Fiction
Blood Sugar
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
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
The Return of the Sweets
Short Fiction
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
Artificial Intelligence
The Weight of Wet Heat
Personal Essay
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
The Pariah Porcupine
Personal Essay
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
Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
The Dwellers
Short Fiction
The Curious Day When the Sun Pauses and Humanity Stretches
Science and Society
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 Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Week of Low Water
Short Fiction
The Good Boy Hunger
Short Fiction
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
The Fish That Remembered
Short Fiction
Newton's First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
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
Faces for Ashtami
Short Fiction
The Third Stomach
Short Fiction
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Gut of God
Short Fiction
The Heap That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Men Who Became Water
Short Fiction
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Pond That Breathed
Short Fiction
The Voice Under the Loudspeaker
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
Head Tax
Short Fiction
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
Body Rent
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
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
AI, Erdős, and the Great Dot Mischief
Science
What a Diffusion Model Is, and Why Pi Sneaks Into the Hospital
Science
Benford's Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
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 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
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
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
Milk Teeth of the City
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 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
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
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 Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Science
Bengali Tintin In The Republic Of Garbage
Satire
The Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
Art History
The Last Notification
Short Fiction
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Mind
Personal
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
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
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
Drake's Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Sky Above Calcutta
Science
Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
Public Health
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
India Slept Through the AI Alarm, and the Market Has Started Packing Its Bags
AI Economy
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 Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
The Dhoti, the Toothache, and the Great Bengali Flapping Problem
Personal
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Geography of Contentment
Life
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
Storm in a Bhar
Short Fiction
The Morning of the Cutouts
Short Fiction
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Calcutta
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
Calcutta
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
Woke: How a Tiny American Word Became a Full-Time Street Fight
Culture
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
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
Stagnant Water at Morning
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 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
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
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
English AI Songs
AI Music Song
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
Hindi AI Songs
AI Music Song
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
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
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
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
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
Healthcare AI
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
LPG debacle
energy
Pests we love
natural history
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Tea
food-and-culture
The History of the Shape of Atoms
Science
Vector Databases and the Shape of Clinical Memory
healthcare-it
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
Dogs Detect Violations
Science
India's White-Collar Issue
India
Intro
career
Pohela Baisakh
history
Propofol, Nightmares
Healthcare
AI in Healthcare: Beware
Healthcare AI
Cicada, BA.3.2
Public Health
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
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
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Shouldering the Chips: A Bengali Odyssey Through Calcutta's Public Transport
Calcutta
Can't Go Back to Childhood-Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
An Architect's Education
Healthcare-IT
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal