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Tubifex in Trouble: A Billing Cliff
Essay
The Warmth
Short Fiction
The New Mantra
Career
The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Sharper Teeth
Essay
Crab Diaries of a Bengali Kakistocrat
Personal Essay
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Linear Algebra Blind Spot: Why Healthcare AI Is Only as Safe as Its Underlying Math
Healthcare IT
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Essay
The Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Many-Body Problem of Indian Life
Personal Essay
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
Personal Essay
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
Personal Essay
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
I Could Have Been a Simple Fool
Personal Essay
The Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Greed Made Me Small
Personal Essay
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Men Who Became Water
Short Fiction
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
The Pond That Breathed
Short Fiction
The Unpaid Consultant and the Theology of Hope
Personal Essay
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Tea Skin on My Mind
Personal Essay
Body Rent
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
Do Not Sell Your Pressure Cooker for RTX Spark
Technology
The Radius of Dust
Short Fiction
The Skull Under the Bridge
Short Fiction
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
Benford’s Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Society
The Ten-Kilo Children
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 Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
The June That Stayed
Short Fiction
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
Personal Essay
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Animals That Did Not Know Smiling
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Happy Water
Short Fiction
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
The Concentric Angsts of a Bankrupt Bengali Man
Personal Essay
The Invisible Radius
Personal Essay
Loneliness Is Not a Generation
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Personal Essay
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Audio Technology
MYCIN: The 1970s Medical AI That Knew How to Explain Itself
Healthcare IT
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
The Toolbox Theory of Thinking: Why Simple Models Help Us Survive a Complicated World
Thinking
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis
Healthcare IT
Nostril Hairs and the Tainted Calcutta Summer
Personal Essay
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science
Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
Public Health
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
India Slept Through the AI Alarm, and the Market Has Started Packing Its Bags
AI Economy
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Essay
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
Personal Essay
Mood Bellwethers Before a Low
Personal Essay
Still Here, In The Corner Room
Personal Essay
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Terrace Republic
Personal Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
Predepression Tea
Personal Essay
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
The Morning of the Cutouts
Short Fiction
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
Calcutta
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Personal Essay
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
Society
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
Bessel Correction Without the Mathematical Chilli Powder
Statistics
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
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 Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
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
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
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
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
Technology
Kenneth Arrow, Medical Uncertainty, and the False Dream of Healthcare as a Normal Market
Healthcare IT
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
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
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Healthcare IT
LPG debacle
energy
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
Pests we love
natural history
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Tea
food-and-culture
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
FHIR
healthcare it
India’s AI Moat
healthcare-it
The Last Economy
technology
Building VA Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
AI in Healthcare: Beware
healthcare ai
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Costume Ambition
society
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
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
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Shouldering the Chips: A Bengali Odyssey Through Calcutta’s Public Transport
Calcutta