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.
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Search the complete archive →A satirical essay on how AI is quietly disenfranchising the common man while everyone believes they are the exception.
A bipolar Bengali's raw meditation on Diwali noise, religious loudspeakers, and the science of sound while suffocating indoors.
Explore how one contact bridge between two communities and fixed-budget vaccine placement alter stochastic epidemic spread across a 36-region Voronoi city.
Explore why predator numbers peak after prey numbers and how increasing the food available to prey can turn steady coexistence into larger population swings.
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On the Diwali season, democracy, and the sweet particulate matter of being Bengali in a city that coughs like it means it.
Major shelves
Ten of the largest published catalogues, plus the interactive Games and Visualizations shelves. The complete archive currently contains 87 categories.
Visualizations
65 posts- The Epidemic Mosaic
- The Predator–Prey Loom
- Binaural Acoustic Soundboard
Games
5 posts- Sort the Tray
- Ludo & Saap-Ludo
- The Healthcare IT Crossword: Systems Rounds
Short Fiction
142 posts- The Nine O'Clock Filter
- The Caller of Calcutta
- Signal
Personal Essay
141 posts- One Good Thing Is Not a Rebuttal
- Recursive Depression
- Can't Sleep. Many Thoughts.
Essay
53 posts- Pedagogy After AI
- Statistically Significant and Other Lies Numbers Tell
- AI Is Here, What Now
Satire
48 posts- The AI Led Disempowerment of the Common Man
- Diwali Depression
- Calcutta Breathes Like a Dying Rickshaw
Healthcare IT
30 posts- The Odyssey of OHDSI: How a Common Language is Rewriting the Story of Human Health
- The AI Scribe, the False Mushroom, and the Rural Clinic
- ChatGPT Enters Healthcare, and Compliance Is the Easy Part
Society
26 posts- The Horoscope That Fits Everybody
- Slow Poisoning Republic
- The Great Indian Fence-Sitter
Artificial Intelligence
23 posts- The Flock Above Howrah Bridge
- The Magnificent Plumbing Department of Artificial Intelligence
- The Cartography of Blind Spots: An Epistemological Field Guide to the Eight Buckets of AI Future Forecasting
Technology
22 posts- The Ghost in the Machine: A Layman's Guide to Virtualization, VMs, and Docker
- The Art and Science of Git and GitHub: A Layman's First Principles Expedition
- Fraud-Fu and the Great Algorithmic Toilet Bowl
Personal
21 posts- I Wanted a Life
- Containment Breach: A Protocol for Intermittent Filial Contact and the Architecture of Refusal
- The Miasma of Mistakes
Mental Health
19 posts- Terrace Tea Manic Depression
- The Baroque Minutiae
- A Mediocre Manifesto of Managed Mediocrity