A guided entrance
Start here
This is a large and varied library. These five short paths offer a way in, whether you came for healthcare systems, science, Calcutta, fiction, or simply the voice behind the site.
The selections are editorial choices, not a popularity ranking. Each path is ordered to be read from top to bottom.
01 / 05
Orientation
Begin with the voice
Three essays about why this site exists, what its author notices, and how small things become a way of thinking.
- 1 Why I Write What I Write A personal essay on writing, drawing, satire, darkness, digital obscurity, and the strange relief of forcing private weather into public shape. Personal Essay
- 2 Why I Write on Small Things A hot June afternoon turns a biscuit, leaf, pressure cooker, and blank page into an honest practice of noticing small things. Personal Essay
- 3 Welcome To SuvroGhosh.IN A Kolkata-flavored blog manifesto about science, skepticism, satire, failure, bipolar weather, and the stubborn need to keep writing even when the room is empty. Personal Essay
02 / 05
Healthcare IT
Healthcare systems from first principles
Start with the human and institutional problems, then move into interoperability and information exchange.
- 1 Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI. Why practitioner-written healthcare IT analysis still matters amid AI-generated noise, vendor jargon, and systems that resist generic answers. Healthcare IT
- 2 FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard How FHIR uses web APIs, resources, profiles, and terminology to exchange health data—and why a standard alone cannot fix fragmented care. Healthcare IT
- 3 HIE from First Principles How Health Information Exchange and OpenHIE coordinate patient identity, terminology, provenance, registries, and shared records across health systems. Healthcare IT
03 / 05
Science & mental models
Science without ceremonial fog
Mathematics, probability, and uncertainty explained through queues, myths, and the structures beneath ordinary problems.
- 1 Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble A practical guide to the Poisson distribution in hospital operations, EHR analytics, patient safety, interface monitoring, and epidemiology. Healthcare IT
- 2 The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra A clear guide to column space, nullspace, row space, and left nullspace, treating a matrix as a machine that moves, loses, and reveals information. Mathematics
- 3 Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained Why ordinary people need working models of randomness, chaos, and complexity in a crowded, rumour-rich, infrastructure-fragile city like Calcutta. Mental Models
04 / 05
Place & memory
Calcutta, close up
Tea, schooling, heat, and the city as lived experience rather than scenery.
- 1 A Cup of Cha Is Not a Small Thing A clay cup of Bengali cha connects tea plantations, empire, stolen plants, roadside life, porcelain, and the physics of cooling. Essay
- 2 Schooling in Calcutta A Calcutta self-portrait stitched from school shame, books, reading, sketches, politics, survival, and the stubborn habit of staying mentally alive. Personal
- 3 The Calcutta Summer of 2026 A street-level, India-focused look at why Calcutta’s 2026 summer is not merely hot, but structurally dangerous: humidity, labor, housing, health surveillance, and the small tyrannies of daily life. Climate
05 / 05
Short fiction
Fiction after dark
Three unsettling stories in which Calcutta's streets, houses, and systems acquire lives of their own.
- 1 The Polished Ghost of Banamali Lane A faceless gentleman in a suit begins visiting corrupt men across Calcutta at night, leaving resignations, deaths, and a city drunk on justice. One failed writer discovers the ghost may not be hunting the people everyone thinks it is. Short Fiction
- 2 The Last Notification When a large asteroid is announced to be heading for Calcutta, a hospital data clerk notices that the city has begun recording deaths before they happen. In a city where everyone survives by looking away, the sky becomes only the second-worst thing falling. Short Fiction
- 3 The River Climbed the Stairs At Mallick Ghat on a furnace-bright morning, devotees enter the river for relief and find something older than prayer waiting below. When the thing climbs ashore, one man must decide whether the past is a wound, a warning, or a debt come due. Short Fiction