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The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
Crab Diaries of a Bengali Kakistocrat
Personal Essay
The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
Society
Shortchanged From Dollar To Paise
Personal Essay
The Week of Low Water
Short Fiction
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
The Nationalization of Shame
Personal Essay
The Cup That Starts the Sun
Personal Essay
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Why I Write on Small Things
Personal Essay
I Like Fish, But I Refuse to Worship Rot
Society
The Black Reservoir
Short Fiction
Circle of Death
Short Fiction
The Free Prasad Hour
Short Fiction
The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
Depression Arrives as Weather
Mental Health
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
Hawkers Are Not Rubbish To Be Swept Before Breakfast
Social Commentary
Wrong Shelf
Short Fiction
Skepticism Is the Mosquito Net
Personal Essay
The Toolbox Theory of Thinking: Why Simple Models Help Us Survive a Complicated World
Thinking
The Cockroach Party and the Politics of Being Insulted
Politics
The Calcutta Summer of 2026
Climate
Fellow Passengers and the Broken Record
Life
Mood Bellwethers Before a Low
Personal Essay
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
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
Predepression Tea
Personal Essay
Storm in a Bhar
Short Fiction
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Personal Essay
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Personal Essay
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
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 the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Healthcare IT
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
Pests we love
natural history
Tea
food-and-culture
The History of the Shape of Atoms
science
Building VA Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
Pohela Baisakh
history
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it
A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Personal Essay
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal