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The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
The Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man's Future
AI
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The North-Facing Room
Short Fiction
The Sofa Bird
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Humming Under the Bandage
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
Short Fiction
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
The June That Stayed
Short Fiction
The Animals That Did Not Know Smiling
Short Fiction
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
Bengali Tintin In The Republic Of Garbage
Satire
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
The Toolbox Theory of Thinking: Why Simple Models Help Us Survive a Complicated World
Thinking
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
India's Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
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 Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
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 Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
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
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
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
Pests we love
natural history
Vector Databases and the Shape of Clinical Memory
healthcare-it
Intro
career
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
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Can't Go Back to Childhood-Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
An Architect's Education
Healthcare-IT
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal