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Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
The Pariah Porcupine
Personal Essay
The Person Is Not a Machine
Personal Essay
Sharper Teeth
Essay
The Churning of the Lesser Fluids
Essay
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
Personal Essay
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Personal Essay
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Essay
The Cup That Refused to Become Content
Personal Essay
The Fog of Future Tense
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
Personal Essay
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
Personal Essay
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
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
The Rent Is a Clock
Personal Essay
Vamana and the Three Steps of Bankruptcy
Personal Essay
After America, Before Nothing
Personal Essay
Greed Made Me Small
Personal Essay
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Second Rain
Short Fiction
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
The Blue Above Chandni
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
The K-Shaped Economy Is a Forked Road, and Most of Us Are on the Wrong Fork
Economy
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
The Happy Water
Short Fiction
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
The Concentric Angsts of a Bankrupt Bengali Man
Personal Essay
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Personal Essay
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Brain
Personal
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
Writing Nothing From the Edge of Calcutta
Personal Essay
Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
Public Health
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
One Life, No Rehearsal, No Refund Counter
Personal Essay
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
The Terrace Republic
Personal Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
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 Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
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
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
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
Pests we love
natural history
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Can't Go Back to Childhood—Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
Fish Market Merit and the Small Republic of Honesty
Personal Essay
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay