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Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
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
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
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
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
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 Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Men Who Became Water
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
The River Climbed the Stairs
Short Fiction
The Radius of Dust
Short Fiction
Settled Water
Short Fiction
The Skull Under the Bridge
Short Fiction
The Second Rain
Short Fiction
The Sword in the Frame
Short Fiction
Benford's Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
The Bride Price of Salt
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 Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
The Tamarind Orbit
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
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
The June That Stayed
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
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 Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
Art History
The Last Notification
Short Fiction
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Audio Technology
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Mind
Personal
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
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
The Dhoti, the Toothache, and the Great Bengali Flapping Problem
Personal
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
The Geography of Contentment
Life
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
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 Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
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 Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
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
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’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
The Ghost as Perception
Philosophy
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
Vector Databases and the Shape of Clinical Memory
healthcare-it
Pohela Baisakh
history
Hormuz, Day 52
Geopolitics
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
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