Writings
A reading room for essays, fiction, healthcare systems, science, technology, society, and ordinary life in Calcutta. The work is personal and analytical, sometimes comic, sometimes dark, and intentionally human.
Recent writing
Search the complete archive →A Calcuttan meditation on entropy, defiance, and the glorious geometry of collapse.
A bipolar brain's confession of persistence in a world allergic to thought.
An unpowered paper-plane flight through a charcoal Calcutta assembled by memory, crosswind, rooftops, river air, and borrowed lift.
A journey through the geometry of ignorance—how we map what we know, what we don't, and what we don't know we don't know about the future of artificial intelligence.
Hatch deterministic alien arthropods from body-plan grammars, cellular armour, and inverse-kinematic legs, then mutate them across imagined worlds.
Follow one fictional MRI request through portal/fax and FHIR-enabled pathways to see transaction time, human work, and patient waiting diverge.
Major shelves
Ten of the largest published catalogues, plus the interactive Games and Visualizations shelves. The complete archive currently contains 81 categories.
Visualizations
24 posts- The Chitin Engine: A Xenobiological Creature Foundry
- The Prior Authorization Machine: a patient, an MRI, and the invisible decisions between them
- The Strange Attractor Orchestra: When Chaos Learns to Sing
Games
2 posts- Kagojer Dana: A Paper Plane Through Calcutta
- Calcutta Footpath Simulator: Ekdom Side Diye Jaan
Personal Essay
123 posts- Democracy on Installments
- Groundhog Cud: A Recursive Ramble on the Infinite Loop of Being
- One Program at a Time
Short Fiction
111 posts- While You Were Holding
- The City’s AI Has Depression
- The Examination That Predicts When You Die
Essay
31 posts- Dhhur, or The Recyclable Meat Hypothesis
- Rictus Calcuttensis: Notes on the Geology of the Failed Smile
- The Tea Cools to the Temperature of Defeat
Healthcare IT
28 posts- ChatGPT Enters Healthcare, and Compliance Is the Easy Part
- Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
- FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Society
26 posts- The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
- Slow Poisoning Republic
- The Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Artificial Intelligence
21 posts- The Cartography of Blind Spots: An Epistemological Field Guide to the Eight Buckets of AI Future Forecasting
- The Machine That Ate Ten Theorems: How OpenAI's Unreleased Astra Model Produced Ten Mathematical Advances
- How Systems Thinking Survives the Age of Agentic AI
Personal
20 posts- Containment Breach: A Protocol for Intermittent Filial Contact and the Architecture of Refusal
- The Miasma of Mistakes
- The Small Republic of No One
Technology
15 posts- The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
- The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
- The AI Harmonium Players
Mental Health
14 posts- Sinusoidal Dementia
- The Erasure Is a Palimpsest
- The Courtier Never Leaves
Science
12 posts- The SpudCell and the Border of Life
- The Human Intake Pipe
- AI, Erdős, and the Great Dot Mischief