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The New Mantra
Career
The Fish of Babughat
Short Fiction
The Man with the Greyscale Shadows
Short Fiction
Blood Sugar
Short Fiction
The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Do Not Let It Wake Facing the City
Short Fiction
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
The Return of the Sweets
Short Fiction
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
Artificial Intelligence
The Weight of Wet Heat
Personal Essay
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
The Pariah Porcupine
Personal Essay
The Person Is Not a Machine
Personal Essay
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Clinical AI Needs A Shadow Architecture First
Healthcare-IT
Sharper Teeth
Essay
Crab Diaries of a Bengali Kakistocrat
Personal Essay
Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
The Churning of the Lesser Fluids
Essay
The Dwellers
Short Fiction
The Linear Algebra Blind Spot in Healthcare AI
Healthcare-IT
The Curious Day When the Sun Pauses and Humanity Stretches
Science and Society
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
Aimless With Mangoes
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Bengali Who Knows Too Much to Move
Personal Essay
The Loadshedding Shape
Short Fiction
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
Cholai and the Chemistry of Forgetting
Essay
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
The Red Room of Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Week of Low Water
Short Fiction
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Good Boy Hunger
Short Fiction
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
The Brain Scrap Yard
Personal Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
The Recidivism of Fraud
Essay
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
The Fish That Remembered
Short Fiction
Newton's First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
The Fourth-Standard Saint
Short Fiction
The Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Society
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Chyavana and the Refusal to Rot Quietly
Personal Essay
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
The Dopamine Economy
Mental Health
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
Anger: The Last Working Appliance
Personal Essay
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man's Future
AI
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
The Damp Government Office Inside My Head
Personal Essay
Faces for Ashtami
Short Fiction
The Stone Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Third Stomach
Short Fiction
After America, Before Nothing
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Gut of God
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
Head Tax
Short Fiction
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
Tea Skin and the Science of Suspicion
Essay
The Gracefully Grotesque Collapse
Essay
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
Body Rent
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
Do Not Sell Your Pressure Cooker for RTX Spark
Technology
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 Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
The Second Rain
Short Fiction
The Sword in the Frame
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
AI, Erdős, and the Great Dot Mischief
Science
What a Diffusion Model Is, and Why Pi Sneaks Into the Hospital
Science
Benford's Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
Cabbage Is Not a Cure
Mental Health
Human Rights, Oh What a Joke!
Society
The Ten-Kilo Children
Short Fiction
The Blue Above Chandni
Short Fiction
The Corridor of Wind
Short Fiction
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
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 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
ASMR: The Softly Whispered Apocalypse
Satire
The Friendless Blister
Mental Health
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
Silk Season
Short Fiction
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
When Weather Enters the Room
Mental Health
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 Small Republic of No One
Personal
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
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Animals That Did Not Know Smiling
Short Fiction
The Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
Cockroach Season
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
The Happy Water
Short Fiction
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare-IT
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
Bengali Normalcy and the Borrowed Warmth of Nests
Personal Essay
The Concentric Angsts of a Bankrupt Bengali Man
Personal Essay
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Personal Essay
Synthetic Jest and the Great Bengali Smile Factory
Social Commentary
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Antibiotic That Came Back With a Stick
Healthcare
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Trolley Problem Is In The Healthcare Queue
Healthcare-IT
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Mental Health
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Science
Bengali Tintin In The Republic Of Garbage
Satire
When the Mind Refuses to Stay in One Place
Mental Health
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
Hardy's Law in Genetics for the Callow Calcuttan
Science
MYCIN and the Old Dream of Explainable Medical AI
Healthcare-IT
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Mind
Personal
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
The First Door That Opens
Science
India's Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
Poisson Distribution in Healthcare IT
Healthcare-IT
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT, Part 2
Healthcare-IT
The Pharmacy Bandh Is Not Only About Apps
Healthcare-IT
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
Drake's Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Sky Above Calcutta
Science
Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
Public Health
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
Babu Culture and the Indian Art of Bending
Society
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
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
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
Technology
Falling Through the Crack
Personal Essay
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
Nicotine, Biri, and the Great Bengali Bargain
Public Health
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
Obama, HITECH, and the Electronic Chart
Healthcare-IT
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
The Dhoti, the Toothache, and the Great Bengali Flapping Problem
Personal
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Personal Essay
Happiness After Quicksand
Personal Essay
Bellwethers Before a Low
Personal Essay
Still Here, in the Corner Room
Personal Essay
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Fat Animal in the Mirror
Essay
The Geography of Contentment
Life
The Terrace Republic
Personal Essay
The Visible Work of Imaginary Things
Personal Essay
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
If Lies Had Noses Again
Satire
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
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
Calcutta
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Personal Essay
The Machine That Cannot Digest
Artificial Intelligence
Woke: How a Tiny American Word Became a Full-Time Street Fight
Culture
If AI Ever Gets Depressed, We Are Probably in Trouble
Artificial Intelligence
If Asimov Never Put the Leash on the Robots
Artificial Intelligence
The Bengali Hikikomori and the Shrinking Map of His Life
Personal
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
Society
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
The Lake That Lit Up Genes: Maracaibo, Memory, and Huntington's Disease
Science & Healthcare IT
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT in a Country of Missing Systems
Healthcare-IT
When Brains Are Bright but Systems Are Blind
Artificial Intelligence
Why 2026 Is Still the 21st Century
Personal Essay
When Diabetes Started Asking About Its Ancestors
Healthcare Science
Why India Produces So Many Different Species of Goons
Society
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
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
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
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?
Philosophy and AI
Pixels That Make Us Feel Present
Society
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
Bessel Correction Without the Mathematical Chilli Powder
Statistics
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
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT, Part 1
Healthcare-IT
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Kolkata Commuter Waiting for a Bus
Personal Essay
A Difficult Weather in the Skin
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
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
Why I Write What I Write
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 Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
India's Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
OpenClaw and the Uneasy Arrival of Agents That Actually Do Things
Artificial Intelligence
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
Technology
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support
Healthcare-IT
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Public Health
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
The Shadow Architecture of Healthcare Data Work
Healthcare-IT
The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
Mathematics
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
Healthcare-IT
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
The Ghost as Perception
Philosophy
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
Political Economy
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
Healthcare AI
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
LPG debacle
energy
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
Society
The Invasive Human Weed Species
Society
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
Tea
food-and-culture
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses From First Principles
Healthcare-IT
FHIR for a Curious Student in Calcutta
Healthcare-IT
India's AI Moat
Healthcare-IT
The Last Economy
Technology
The History of the Shape of Atoms
Science
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
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
Dogs Detect Violations
Science
India's White-Collar Issue
India
The Missing Scientists
Healthcare-IT
Pohela Baisakh
history
Propofol, Nightmares
Healthcare
The Pufferfish Economy
Society
AI in Healthcare: Beware
Healthcare AI
Cicada, BA.3.2
Public Health
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Hormuz, Day 52
Geopolitics
Costume Ambition
Society
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics Might Not
Healthcare-IT
The Questions You Ask
Healthcare-IT
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
Mindfulness?
Calcutta
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
personal
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Shouldering the Chips: A Bengali Odyssey Through Calcutta's Public Transport
Calcutta
Can't Go Back to Childhood-Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
The Bengali Baby
Personal Essay
Fish Market Merit and the Small Republic of Honesty
Personal Essay
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
An Architect's Education
Career
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal
Welcome to SuvroGhosh.in
Personal Essay