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The Weight of Pages
The Weight of Pages
Culture
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Sharper Teeth
Sharper Teeth
Essay
Administratively Deleted
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Personal Essay
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
Personal Essay
A Trapezoid for My Mother
A Trapezoid for My Mother
Personal Essay
Aimless With Mangoes
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
The Fog of Future Tense
The Fog of Future Tense
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
The Moat Has Mosquitoes
Personal Essay
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
The Human Intake Pipe
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
The Nethermost Layer of Dinner
Personal Essay
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Newton’s First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
The Error Bar Around a Man
The Error Bar Around a Man
Personal Essay
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Highly Composite Mornings, Prime Afternoons
Personal Essay
Label: Road
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
Anger: The Last Working Appliance
Anger: The Last Working Appliance
Personal Essay
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
The Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
The Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
Personal Essay
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Pod Mara Gechhe: A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End of the Soul
Personal Essay
The Scarab Under the Skin
The Scarab Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Former Bright Boy Problem
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Rent Is a Clock
The Rent Is a Clock
Personal Essay
The Rice Cooker Kind of Solitude
The Rice Cooker Kind of Solitude
Personal Essay
The Gut of God
The Gut of God
Short Fiction
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Radius of Dust
The Radius of Dust
Short Fiction
The Post That Took the Weather
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
The Second Rain
The Second Rain
Short Fiction
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Society
The Corridor of Wind
The Corridor of Wind
Short Fiction
The Rice Cooker and the Black Hole
The Rice Cooker and the Black Hole
Personal Essay
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
The Friendless Blister
The Friendless Blister
Mental Health
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
The Fifth Window
The Fifth Window
Short Fiction
Depression Arrives as Weather
Depression Arrives as Weather
Mental Health
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
I Am a Solipsist Nihilist, Unfortunately Before Breakfast
Personal Essay
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Static in the Room
The Static in the Room
Personal Essay
The Water Remembers
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Bengali Normalcy and the Borrowed Warmth of Nests
Bengali Normalcy and the Borrowed Warmth of Nests
Personal Essay
The Concentric Angsts of a Bankrupt Bengali Man
The Concentric Angsts of a Bankrupt Bengali Man
Personal Essay
The Invisible Radius
The Invisible Radius
Personal Essay
Poison Often Wears a Clean Shirt
Poison Often Wears a Clean Shirt
Personal Essay
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
The Dawn Is Still Open
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
Bengali Tintin In The Republic Of Garbage
Bengali Tintin In The Republic Of Garbage
Satire
When the Mind Refuses to Stay in One Place
When the Mind Refuses to Stay in One Place
Mental Health
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Audio Technology
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Personal Essay
The Low Market Value of Reality
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science
Waking Up Depressed in Calcutta
Waking Up Depressed in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
Personal Essay
Tea with George Orwell
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
Bipolar Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Bipolar Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Personal Essay
Mood Bellwethers Before a Low
Mood Bellwethers Before a Low
Personal Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
Predepression Tea
Predepression Tea
Personal Essay
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
Artificial Intelligence
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
The Lake That Lit Up Genes: Maracaibo, Memory, and Huntington’s Disease
The Lake That Lit Up Genes: Maracaibo, Memory, and Huntington’s Disease
Science & Healthcare IT
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Coding After the Keyboard: How AI Agents Learned to Roam the Codebase
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?
Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?
Philosophy and AI
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
Society
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Artificial Intelligence
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
The English Medium Urine Stain
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
Why I Write What I Write
Why I Write What I Write
Personal Essay
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Range Limit of Kinship
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
When Nothing Beats Something
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
Technology
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Healthcare IT
LPG debacle
LPG debacle
energy
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Vector Databases
Vector Databases
healthcare it
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
personal
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
America and Calcutta
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
Driving the Accord
personal
Can't Go Back to Childhood—Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Can't Go Back to Childhood—Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
Schooling in Calcutta
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Schooling in Calcutta
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Welcome To SuvroGhosh.IN
Welcome To SuvroGhosh.IN
Personal Essay