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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
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
Sharper Teeth
Essay
Crab Diaries of a Bengali Kakistocrat
Personal Essay
The Loadshedding Shape
Short Fiction
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Recidivism of Fraud
Essay
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Personal Essay
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
The Rent Is a Clock
Personal Essay
The Third Stomach
Short Fiction
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Pond That Breathed
Short Fiction
The North-Facing Room
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Society
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
The Animals That Did Not Know Smiling
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
The Toolbox Theory of Thinking: Why Simple Models Help Us Survive a Complicated World
Thinking
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
The Pharmacy Bandh Is Not About Apps. It Is About Trust Being Sold by the Strip.
Healthcare IT
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
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 AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
Woke: How a Tiny American Word Became a Full-Time Street Fight
Culture
If Asimov Never Put the Leash on the Robots
Artificial Intelligence
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Artificial Intelligence
A Calcutta Bengali’s Guide to the Various Schools of AI
Artificial Intelligence
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
The Kolkata Bat Waiting for a Bus
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
The Range Limit of Kinship
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
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
Kenneth Arrow, Medical Uncertainty, and the False Dream of Healthcare as a Normal Market
Healthcare IT
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
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
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Healthcare IT
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
healthcare ai
Pests we love
natural history
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
The Last Economy
technology
The History of the Shape of Atoms
science
Vector Databases
healthcare it
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it