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Blood Sugar
Short Fiction
The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
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
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
The Pariah Porcupine
Personal Essay
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
The Dwellers
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
The Good Boy Hunger
Short Fiction
The Public Mouth
Short Fiction
The Rent Spider
Short Fiction
The Corridor That Forgot to Breathe
Short Fiction
The Wetland Under the Lights
Short Fiction
Newton's First Law and the Bladder
Personal Science
Entropy in a Rented Room
Science Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Ledger of Soft Parts
Short Fiction
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man's Future
AI
The Third Stomach
Short Fiction
The Heap That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Language Under Hatibagan
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Head Tax
Short Fiction
Phage at Beliaghata
Short Fiction
The Man Who Looked Too Long
Short Fiction
Body Rent
Short Fiction
The River Climbed the Stairs
Short Fiction
The Radius of Dust
Short Fiction
Settled Water
Short Fiction
The Sofa Bird
Short Fiction
The Post That Took the Weather
Short Fiction
AI, Erdős, and the Great Dot Mischief
Science
The Ninth Tap
Short Fiction
The Blue Above Chandni
Short Fiction
The Eye-Eater of Hazra
Short Fiction
The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane
Short Fiction
The Tamarind Orbit
Short Fiction
The Godman of Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Truth, Adjustment, and the Cost of Coming Back
Social Commentary
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
Faces in the Municipal Water
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
Meanline
Short Fiction
Milk Teeth of the City
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Blister Labels
Short Fiction
Cockroach Season
Short Fiction
The End of History, and Other Overconfident Announcements
Ideas
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
The Antibiotic That Came Back With a Stick
Healthcare
The Dark Matter Man of Kalighat
Short Fiction
The Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
Art History
The Room, the Light, and the Brittle Mind
Personal
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
Ebola From First Principles: The Small Thread That Can Frighten a Planet
Public Health
The Thucydides Trap, Two Superpowers, and a Very Old Greek Headache
Geopolitics
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Geography of Contentment
Life
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Calcutta
When Diabetes Started Asking About Its Ancestors
Healthcare Science
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
Stagnant Water at Morning
Personal
Existential Arithmetic at Bread Level
Personal
The Boy Inside the Broken House
Personal
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Bessel Correction Without the Mathematical Chilli Powder
Statistics
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
How Are You and Other Small Cruelties
Personal Satire
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat
Personal
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
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
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
Political Economy
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
LPG debacle
energy
Pests we love
natural history
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
Tea
food-and-culture
The History of the Shape of Atoms
Science
Vector Databases and the Shape of Clinical Memory
healthcare-it
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
India's White-Collar Issue
India
Intro
career
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
Mindfulness?
Calcutta
Mary's Room, Red Mangoes, and the Poor Man's Philosophy of Color
personal
Driving the Accord
personal
Can't Go Back to Childhood-Except as a Misremembering Ghost
Memoir
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal