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Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Clinical AI Needs A Shadow Architecture First
Healthcare-IT
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
The Compressor and the Small Black Hole
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
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
Personal Essay
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man’s Future
AI
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
I Could Have Been a Simple Fool
Personal Essay
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
Personal Essay
Tea Skin and the Science of Suspicion
Essay
Settled Water
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
Benford’s Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
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
The Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
The Invisible Radius
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Personal Essay
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Mental Health
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
India’s Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis
Healthcare IT
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
Obama, HITECH, and the Day the American Medical Chart Was Dragged Into Electricity
Healthcare IT
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Terrace Republic
Personal Essay
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
The Kolkata Bat Waiting for a Bus
Personal Essay
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
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
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
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
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
healthcare ai
LPG debacle
energy
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
Vector Databases
healthcare it
Confounding Factors
healthcare-it
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
HIE from First Principles
healthcare it
Hormuz, Day 52
geopolitics
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
America and Calcutta
personal
Fish Market Merit and the Small Republic of Honesty
Personal Essay