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The Consommé of Governance
Essay
The Digital Charnel House
Personal Essay
The Warmth
Short Fiction
The Green Light on Bondel Road
Short Fiction
The One-Eyed Cyclops of Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Fish of Babughat
Short Fiction
The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
The Weight of Pages
Culture
The Return of the Sweets
Short Fiction
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
Artificial Intelligence
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
The Pariah Porcupine
Personal Essay
Sharper Teeth
Essay
Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Great Unemployment of the Soul
Personal Essay
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
Rice Cooker Bookkeeping
Personal Essay
The Unattractive Man’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
The Cup That Refused to Become Content
Personal Essay
The Week of Low Water
Short Fiction
No Ambition Left, Only Cold Tea
Personal Essay
The Compressor and the Small Black Hole
Personal Essay
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
Oxygen in a Box
Personal Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
The Brain Scrap Yard
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
Tea, Depression, and the Probability of a Blog
Personal Essay
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
The Many-Body Problem of Indian Life
Personal Essay
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Ordinary Things
Personal Essay
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
Ram Bharose Is No Bharosa
Personal Essay
The Error Bar Around a Man
Personal Essay
The Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Society
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
Personal Essay
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
Personal Essay
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
Personal Essay
Why I Write on Small Things
Personal Essay
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
The Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
Personal Essay
The Scarab Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
Personal Essay
The Rice Cooker Kind of Solitude
Personal Essay
Vamana and the Three Steps of Bankruptcy
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Pond That Breathed
Short Fiction
The Unpaid Consultant and the Theology of Hope
Personal Essay
The Chant Beneath Chowringhee
Short Fiction
Head Tax
Short Fiction
Tea Skin and the Science of Suspicion
Essay
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
The River Climbed the Stairs
Short Fiction
The Skull Under the Bridge
Short Fiction
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
The Bipolar Diet Is Not Lithium
Mental Health
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Blue Above Chandni
Short Fiction
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
The Rice Cooker and the Black Hole
Personal Essay
The Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
The Breath That Came By Rain
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
A Cup of Cha Is Not a Small Thing
Essay
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
The Vegetarian
Short Fiction
The Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
The Static in the Room
Personal Essay
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
Cockroach Season
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
The Invisible Radius
Personal Essay
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
Hope Dies at Different Rates
Personal Essay
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Dawn Is Still Open
Personal Essay
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Science
The Last Notification
Short Fiction
China Rose Like A Factory, India Is Rising Like A Bazaar
Geopolitics
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Audio Technology
The Toolbox Theory of Thinking: Why Simple Models Help Us Survive a Complicated World
Thinking
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Personal Essay
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
Nostril Hairs and the Tainted Calcutta Summer
Personal Essay
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
Writing Nothing From the Edge of Calcutta
Personal Essay
Drake’s Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Bengali Who Refuses to Be Fooled by the Sky
Science
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
India Slept Through the AI Alarm, and the Market Has Started Packing Its Bags
AI Economy
One Life, No Rehearsal, No Refund Counter
Personal Essay
Nicotine, Biri, and the Great Bengali Bargain
Public Health
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
Bipolar Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Personal Essay
Happiness After Quicksand
Personal Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
If AI Ever Gets Depressed, We Are Probably in Trouble
Artificial Intelligence
If Asimov Never Put the Leash on the Robots
Artificial Intelligence
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
Dead Body in Stagnant Water
Personal
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?
Philosophy and AI
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
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
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
Personal Essay
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
Technology
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
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
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
The Ghost as Perception
philosophy
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
The Returnee Who No Longer Fits
work, migration, India
Tea
food-and-culture
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
India’s AI Moat
healthcare-it
The Last Economy
technology
Vector Databases
healthcare it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
The Pufferfish Economy
society
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal