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The New Mantra
Career
The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
The Weight of Wet Heat
Personal Essay
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
The Person Is Not a Machine
Personal Essay
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Crab Diaries of a Bengali Kakistocrat
Personal Essay
The Trillionaire Gap
Personal Essay
The Curious Day When the Sun Pauses and Humanity Stretches
Science and Society
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
The Bridge That Breathed Backwards
Short Fiction
The Cup That Refused to Become Content
Personal Essay
The Week of Low Water
Short Fiction
The Fog of Future Tense
Personal Essay
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
The Brain Scrap Yard
Personal Essay
Tea and the Probability of a Blog
Personal Essay
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
Symmetry in a Calcutta Room
Mathematics
Fractal Geometry of a Half-Lived Life
Personal Essay
Shiva and the Poison in the Throat
Personal Essay
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Morning Verdict Is Not Law
Mental Health
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
Personal Essay
Why I Write on Small Things
Personal Essay
The AI Harmonium Players
Technology
The Badly Lit Municipality of Myself
Personal Essay
The Courage to Be Disliked in a Sweating Calcutta Room
Psychology
The Damp Government Office Inside My Head
Personal Essay
I Could Have Been a Simple Fool
Personal Essay
A Calcutta Weather Report From the Lower End
Personal Essay
The Stone Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Former Bright Boy Problem
Personal Essay
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Greed Made Me Small
Personal Essay
The Heap That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Men Who Became Water
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
The Unattractive Man's Weather Report
Personal Essay
Head Tax
Short Fiction
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Gracefully Grotesque Collapse
Essay
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
The North-Facing Room
Short Fiction
The Radius of Dust
Short Fiction
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
Folded Arms and Other Small National Disasters
Satire
The Bride Price of Salt
Short Fiction
Cabbage Is Not a Cure
Mental Health
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 Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
The Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
The Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
The Friendless Blister
Mental Health
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
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
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
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 Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Static in the Room
Personal Essay
The Water Remembers
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
Bengali Normalcy and the Borrowed Warmth of Nests
Personal Essay
Will Darjeeling Stay Alive Like This?
Personal Essay
Rain, Power Cuts, and India Standing on Quicksand
Personal Essay
The Protein Man
Short Fiction
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
Square Peg, Round Hole, Bad Weather
Mental Health
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
Wet-Bulb, Dry-Bulb, and Feels Like: Why Kolkata Heat Is Not Just Heat
Science
The Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
Art History
The Body Becomes a Small Oven
Public Health
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Mind
Personal
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
The First Door That Opens
Science
Poisson Distribution in Healthcare IT
Healthcare-IT
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
Waking Into an Empty Morning
Personal Essay
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
The Classification and Variety of Rotting People in Calcutta
Calcutta
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Essay
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
Mood and Calcutta Calculus
Personal Essay
Happiness After Quicksand
Personal Essay
Bellwethers Before a Low
Personal Essay
The Fat Animal in the Mirror
Essay
The Geography of Contentment
Life
The Zeitgeist of Calcutta Has Changed
Calcutta
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
Tea Before the Weather Turns
Personal Essay
Storm in a Bhar
Short Fiction
The Machine That Cannot Digest
Artificial Intelligence
I Am Probably the Least Motivational Blogger in India
Society
The Lake That Lit Up Genes: Maracaibo, Memory, and Huntington's Disease
Science & Healthcare IT
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Empty Room Inside Loneliness
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
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
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
A Difficult Weather in the Skin
Personal Essay
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
Why I Write What I Write
Personal Essay
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
English AI Songs
AI Music Song
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
Technology
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
The Shadow Architecture of Healthcare Data Work
Healthcare-IT
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
Political Economy
The Invasive Human Weed Species
Society
Tea
food-and-culture
India's AI Moat
Healthcare-IT
The History of the Shape of Atoms
Science
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
The Missing Scientists
Healthcare-IT
Propofol, Nightmares
Healthcare
Trigonometric Colonization
history-of-science
Mindfulness?
Calcutta
AQI 420 and the Great Indian Snot Mine
personal
America and Calcutta
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Shouldering the Chips: A Bengali Odyssey Through Calcutta's Public Transport
Calcutta
Fish Market Merit and the Small Republic of Honesty
Personal Essay