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The Fish of Babughat
Short Fiction
The Man with the Greyscale Shadows
Short Fiction
The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
Do Not Let It Wake Facing the City
Short Fiction
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
The Return of the Sweets
Short Fiction
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Person Is Not a Machine
Personal Essay
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
The Dwellers
Short Fiction
The Curious Day When the Sun Pauses and Humanity Stretches
Science and Society
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Personal Essay
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
The Loadshedding Shape
Short Fiction
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
The Week of Low Water
Short Fiction
The Good Boy Hunger
Short Fiction
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
The Many-Body Problem of Indian Life
Personal Essay
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
The Fish That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
The Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Society
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
The Damp Government Office Inside My Head
Personal Essay
Faces for Ashtami
Short Fiction
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Third Stomach
Short Fiction
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Heap That Remembered
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 Voice Under the Loudspeaker
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
The Unattractive Man's Weather Report
Personal Essay
Head Tax
Short Fiction
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
Body Rent
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
The River Climbed the Stairs
Short Fiction
The North-Facing Room
Short Fiction
The Radius of Dust
Short Fiction
Settled Water
Short Fiction
The Skull Under the Bridge
Short Fiction
The Sofa Bird
Short Fiction
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
The Sword in the Frame
Short Fiction
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
Cabbage Is Not a Cure
Mental Health
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Blue Above Chandni
Short Fiction
The Corridor of Wind
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
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
ASMR: The Softly Whispered Apocalypse
Satire
The Friendless Blister
Mental Health
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
The Fifth Window
Short Fiction
Three Heads for Migraine
Short Fiction
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
The June That Stayed
Short Fiction
The Vegetarian
Short Fiction
The K-Shaped Economy Is a Forked Road, and Most of Us Are on the Wrong Fork
Economy
Keshkhor
Short Fiction
The Animals That Did Not Know Smiling
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
Cockroach Season
Short Fiction
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
The Happy Water
Short Fiction
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
The Concentric Angsts of a Bankrupt Bengali Man
Personal Essay
A Private Nuisance at Five-Thirty in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
The Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
Art History
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
The First Door That Opens
Science
India's Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
The Dhoti, the Toothache, and the Great Bengali Flapping Problem
Personal
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
Bellwethers Before a Low
Personal Essay
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
Tea Before the Weather Turns
Personal Essay
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
Storm in a Bhar
Short Fiction
The Morning of the Cutouts
Short Fiction
The Vegetable Seller Before Dawn
Personal Essay
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Calcutta
The Machine That Cannot Digest
Artificial Intelligence
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
Stagnant Water at Morning
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?
Philosophy and AI
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
A Difficult Weather in the Skin
Personal Essay
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
OpenClaw and the Uneasy Arrival of Agents That Actually Do Things
Artificial Intelligence
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support
Healthcare-IT
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
Healthcare-IT
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
Healthcare AI
Pests we love
natural history
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Building VA Data Warehouses
Healthcare-IT
Vector Databases and the Shape of Clinical Memory
healthcare-it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
Technology
Propofol, Nightmares
Healthcare
Mindfulness?
Calcutta
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Can't Go Back to Childhood-Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections