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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
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
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 Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
Personal Essay
A Trapezoid for My Mother
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
The Loadshedding Shape
Short Fiction
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Essay
The Cup That Refused to Become Content
Personal Essay
No Ambition Left, Only Cold Tea
Personal Essay
The Compressor and the Small Black Hole
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
Tea, Depression, and the Probability of a Blog
Personal Essay
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
Anger: The Last Working Appliance
Personal Essay
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man’s Future
AI
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
Vamana and the Three Steps of Bankruptcy
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Unattractive Man’s Weather Report
Personal Essay
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
Head Tax
Short Fiction
Tea Skin and the Science of Suspicion
Essay
Body Rent
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
Settled Water
Short Fiction
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
AI, Erdős, and the Great Dot Mischief
Science
The Corridor of Wind
Short Fiction
The Humming Under the Bandage
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
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Personal Essay
Poison Often Wears a Clean Shirt
Personal Essay
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
The Antibiotic That Came Back With a Stick
Healthcare
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Mental Health
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Audio Technology
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Brain
Personal
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
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
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Personal Essay
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 2
Healthcare IT
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
Waking Up Depressed in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
Technology
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 Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
Society
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
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 Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
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
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
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
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
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
Kenneth Arrow, Medical Uncertainty, and the False Dream of Healthcare as a Normal Market
Healthcare IT
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
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Healthcare IT
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
The Invasive Human Weed Species
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
India’s AI Moat
healthcare-it
Building VA Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
Dogs Detect Violations.
science
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
Intro
career
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
Propofol, Nightmares
healthcare
The Pufferfish Economy
society
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it
The Aromatics of Stagnation
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
Driving the Accord
personal
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay