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The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
The Weight of Wet Heat
Personal Essay
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
The Pariah Porcupine
Personal Essay
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Crab Diaries of a Bengali Kakistocrat
Personal Essay
The Loadshedding Shape
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 Week of Low Water
Short Fiction
No Ambition Left, Only Cold Tea
Personal Essay
The Compressor and the Small Black Hole
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
Oxygen in a Box
Personal Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Many-Body Problem of Indian Life
Personal Essay
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
The Recidivism of Fraud
Essay
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Personal Essay
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
The Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Society
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
Personal Essay
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
Anger: The Last Working Appliance
Personal Essay
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
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
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
I Could Have Been a Simple Fool
Personal Essay
The Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
Personal Essay
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Scarab Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
Personal Essay
The Rent Is a Clock
Personal Essay
The Rice Cooker Kind of Solitude
Personal Essay
The Third Stomach
Short Fiction
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Greed Made Me Small
Personal Essay
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Gut of God
Short Fiction
The Heap That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Pond That Breathed
Short Fiction
The Unpaid Consultant and the Theology of Hope
Personal Essay
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
Personal Essay
The Pest Department in My Skull
Personal Essay
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
Tea Skin and the Science of Suspicion
Essay
The Gracefully Grotesque Collapse
Essay
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 Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
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 Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Society
The Ten-Kilo Children
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 Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
The Breath That Came By Rain
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
A Cup of Cha Is Not a Small Thing
Essay
Silk Season
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
Depression Arrives as Weather
Mental Health
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 Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
The June That Stayed
Short Fiction
The Vegetarian
Short Fiction
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
Personal Essay
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 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 Happy Water
Short Fiction
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
The Invisible Radius
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Personal Essay
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
Bengali Tintin In The Republic Of Garbage
Satire
When the Mind Refuses to Stay in One Place
Mental Health
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 Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
India’s Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Personal Essay
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
Nostril Hairs and the Tainted Calcutta Summer
Personal Essay
The Pharmacy Bandh Is Not About Apps. It Is About Trust Being Sold by the Strip.
Healthcare IT
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
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
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
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
Personal Essay
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
Bipolar Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Personal Essay
Happiness After Quicksand
Personal Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
Predepression Tea
Personal Essay
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
Storm in a Bhar
Short Fiction
The Morning of the Cutouts
Short Fiction
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
If AI Ever Gets Depressed, We Are Probably in Trouble
Artificial Intelligence
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
Society
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
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
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
A Calcutta Bengali’s Guide to the Various Schools of AI
Artificial Intelligence
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Personal Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
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
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
Personal Essay
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
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
Technology
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
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
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
LPG debacle
energy
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Tea
food-and-culture
FHIR
healthcare it
The Last Economy
technology
Building VA Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
Vector Databases
healthcare it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
The Pufferfish Economy
society
Cicada, BA.3.2
public-health
HIE from First Principles
healthcare it
Hormuz, Day 52
geopolitics
Costume Ambition
society
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it
America and Calcutta
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
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Welcome To SuvroGhosh.IN
Personal Essay