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The One-Eyed Cyclops of Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
The Weight of Pages
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
The Person Is Not a Machine
Personal Essay
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
The Churning of the Lesser Fluids
Essay
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
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 Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
Personal Essay
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
Twaddle Tendency
Essay
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
The Many-Body Problem of Indian Life
Personal Essay
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
The Recidivism of Fraud
Essay
Shiva and the Poison in the Throat
Personal Essay
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
The Error Bar Around a Man
Personal Essay
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
I Could Have Been a Simple Fool
Personal Essay
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Rent Is a Clock
Personal Essay
The Third Stomach
Short Fiction
Benford’s Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
ASMR: The Softly Whispered Apocalypse
Satire
The Friendless Blister
Mental Health
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
The Vegetarian
Short Fiction
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
Personal Essay
Keshkhor
Short Fiction
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Trolley Problem Is In The Healthcare Queue
Healthcare-IT
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Science
The Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
Art History
MYCIN: The 1970s Medical AI That Knew How to Explain Itself
Healthcare IT
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
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
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 2
Healthcare IT
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
Public Health
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
India Slept Through the AI Alarm, and the Market Has Started Packing Its Bags
AI Economy
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
Nicotine, Biri, and the Great Bengali Bargain
Public Health
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
Obama, HITECH, and the Day the American Medical Chart Was Dragged Into Electricity
Healthcare IT
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
Bipolar Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Personal Essay
The Terrace Republic
Personal Essay
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Calcutta
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Personal Essay
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
Society
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
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
Why 2026 Is Still the 21st Century
Personal Essay
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Coding After the Keyboard: How AI Agents Learned to Roam the Codebase
Artificial Intelligence
Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?
Philosophy and AI
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
Society
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Bessel Correction Without the Mathematical Chilli Powder
Statistics
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Artificial Intelligence
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
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
The Kolkata Bat Waiting for a Bus
Personal Essay
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
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
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
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
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
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
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
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Healthcare IT
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
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
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Healthcare IT
The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
mathematics
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
Healthcare IT
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
The Ghost as Perception
philosophy
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
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
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
The Last Economy
technology
The History of the Shape of Atoms
science
Building VA Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
Vector Databases
healthcare it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
Confounding Factors
healthcare-it
Dogs Detect Violations.
science
Intro
career
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
Pohela Baisakh
history
The Pufferfish Economy
society
AI in Healthcare: Beware
healthcare ai
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
HIE from First Principles
healthcare it
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Hormuz, Day 52
geopolitics
Costume Ambition
society
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it
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
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal