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The Fish of Babughat
Short Fiction
The Man with the Greyscale Shadows
Short Fiction
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
The Fog of Future Tense
Personal Essay
The Good Boy Hunger
Short Fiction
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
The Fish That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Men Who Became Water
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Head Tax
Short Fiction
The North-Facing Room
Short Fiction
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Blue Above Chandni
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
A Cup of Cha Is Not a Small Thing
Essay
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
The Fifth Window
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The June That Stayed
Short Fiction
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
Bengali Normalcy and the Borrowed Warmth of Nests
Personal Essay
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Personal Essay
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Science
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
One Life, No Rehearsal, No Refund Counter
Personal Essay
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
The Fat Animal in the Mirror
Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
The Ghost as Perception
philosophy
Pests we love
natural history
Tea
food-and-culture
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal