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The One-Eyed Cyclops of Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Rice Pullers of New Garia
Short Fiction
Blood Sugar
Short Fiction
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Return of the Sweets
Short Fiction
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
The Churning of the Lesser Fluids
Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Essay
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
The Recidivism of Fraud
Essay
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
The Dopamine Economy
Mental Health
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
Personal Essay
Why I Write on Small Things
Personal Essay
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
The Men Who Became Water
Short Fiction
The Mothers of Tangra
Short Fiction
Head Tax
Short Fiction
The Pest Department in My Skull
Personal Essay
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
Body Rent
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
The Sofa Bird
Short Fiction
The Second Rain
Short Fiction
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Humming Under the Bandage
Short Fiction
The Breath That Came By Rain
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
A Cup of Cha Is Not a Small Thing
Essay
Silk Season
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Vegetarian
Short Fiction
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
Personal Essay
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
Bengali Normalcy and the Borrowed Warmth of Nests
Personal Essay
Poison Often Wears a Clean Shirt
Personal Essay
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
Nostril Hairs and the Tainted Calcutta Summer
Personal Essay
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
Nicotine, Biri, and the Great Bengali Bargain
Public Health
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Essay
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
Predepression Tea
Personal Essay
Storm in a Bhar
Short Fiction
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
When Diabetes Started Asking About Its Ancestors
Healthcare Science
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
The Painful Tooth Fairy
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 Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
Pests we love
natural history
Tea
food-and-culture
FHIR
healthcare it
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
Can't Go Back to Childhood—Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay