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The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
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 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 Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
Newton's First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Rain Before Rain
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
Head Tax
Short Fiction
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
Body Rent
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
Settled Water
Short Fiction
The Skull Under the Bridge
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
AI, Erdős, and the Great Dot Mischief
Science
Benford's Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
The Ninth Tap
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 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
ASMR: The Softly Whispered Apocalypse
Satire
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
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
Meanline
Short Fiction
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
The K-Shaped Economy Is a Forked Road, and Most of Us Are on the Wrong Fork
Economy
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
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
Bengali Tintin In The Republic Of Garbage
Satire
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Audio Technology
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
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
Drake's Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Sky Above Calcutta
Science
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
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 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 Geography of Contentment
Life
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
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
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
Stagnant Water at Morning
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
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
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
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
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
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
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
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
LPG debacle
energy
Pests we love
natural history
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Vector Databases and the Shape of Clinical Memory
healthcare-it
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
Intro
career
Pohela Baisakh
history
AI in Healthcare: Beware
Healthcare AI
Cicada, BA.3.2
Public Health
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Hormuz, Day 52
Geopolitics
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
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal