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The Fish of Babughat
Short Fiction
The Man with the Greyscale Shadows
Short Fiction
Blood Sugar
Short Fiction
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
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
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
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
Taklu Babu Eats the River
Short Fiction
The Churning of the Lesser Fluids
Essay
The Dwellers
Short Fiction
The Curious Day When the Sun Pauses and Humanity Stretches
Science and Society
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
The Loadshedding Shape
Short Fiction
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
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
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
Slow Poisoning Republic
Society
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Artisanal Darkness in a Kolkata Room
Personal Essay
The Official Mouth
Short Fiction
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
The Recidivism of Fraud
Essay
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
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 Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
The Damp Government Office Inside My Head
Personal Essay
Faces for Ashtami
Short Fiction
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
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 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 Second Rain
Short Fiction
The Sword in the Frame
Short Fiction
What a Diffusion Model Is, and Why Pi Sneaks Into the Hospital
Science
The Belly Wall
Short Fiction
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
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 Rice Cooker and the Black Hole
Personal Essay
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
A Cup of Cha Is Not a Small Thing
Essay
The Friendless Blister
Mental Health
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
The Animals That Did Not Know Smiling
Short Fiction
The Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Static in the Room
Personal Essay
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
Cockroach Season
Short Fiction
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
The Happy Water
Short Fiction
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
A Private Nuisance at Five-Thirty in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Personal Essay
Poison Often Wears a Clean Shirt
Personal Essay
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
The Antibiotic That Came Back With a Stick
Healthcare
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
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
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Mind
Personal
Milk Cha and the Small Engine of Attention
Personal Essay
Society With Open Drains and Polished Shoes
Personal Essay
The Bridgerat of Cossipore
Short Fiction
Drake's Equation, Alien Arithmetic, and the Sky Above Calcutta
Science
Waking Into an Empty Morning
Personal Essay
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
Technology
Shallow Water, Loud Television
Essay
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
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
Bellwethers Before a Low
Personal Essay
The Fat Animal in the Mirror
Essay
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
Gold Karigars, Fertiliser Slogans, and the Knife Hidden Inside a Political Sentence
Political Economy
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
One More Bhaar Cha Before Night Falls
Calcutta
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Personal Essay
The Lake That Lit Up Genes: Maracaibo, Memory, and Huntington's Disease
Science & Healthcare IT
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
Stagnant Water at Morning
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
India's Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
LPG debacle
energy
Pests we love
natural history
Tea
food-and-culture
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
Technology
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Hormuz, Day 52
Geopolitics
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta
Mindfulness?
Calcutta
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
personal
Bassline, Backhoe, Breath
Personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal