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Issue 4 (April 2025)

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  • Photo Essay - Weekly Features

    Fleeting Moments of Stillness

    22 June 2025

    Jacelyn Yap — Excerpt: Such care and attention to detail is common across cultural sites [in Japan], and is best savoured in the moments of stillness.

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  • Culture - Humour - Society - Weekly Features

    January

    22 June 2025

    Bidisha Satpathy — Excerpt: In the mirror, I look like I did in December, with an addition of about seven greying hair.

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  • Culture - Humour - Satire - Weekly Features

    The Beard Ban

    15 June 2025

    Roger Chapman — Excerpt: They simply won’t be allowed to have a beard and a moustache at the same time.

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  • Translation - Weekly Features

    Poems from Bhartrihari’s Shatakatraya (The Three Hundreds)

    15 June 2025

    Translated from the Sanskrit by Louis Hunt — Excerpt: Where else can one find such useless stuff / if not in youth’s ramshackle house?

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Otto’s Obituary

    8 June 2025

    Brian Christopher Giddens — Excerpt: Otto went through two brooms a season, and multiple pairs of jeans due to holes in the knees.

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this week

Jacelyn Yap continues walking through Japanese heritage, and Bidisha Satpathy tries new aberrations in a new year.

Fleeting Moments of Stillness by Jacelyn Yap

January by Bidisha Satpathy

 

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Issue 4 (April 2025)

Murals, guest-edited by François Bereaud

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Maureen Tai, Culture/Humour, June 29
Saraswati Nagpal, Humour, June 29

James Sennott and Alba Blanco, Humour, July 6
Amita Basu, Humour, July 6

Dustin Vann, Culture Essay, July 13
Mark McConville, Culture Essay / Music Review, July 13

Barnali Ray Shukla, Humour, July 20
Zoé Mahfouz, Humour, July 20

Elizabeth Barton, Humour, July 27
Chayanika Saikia, Photo Essay, July 27

Susnata Karmakar, Photo Essay, Aug 3
Panna Naik, translated by Rohee Dholakia, Translation, Aug 3

D.C. Nobes, Humour, Aug 10
Samiksha Ransom, Humour, Aug 10

Z. M. Asafzah, Culture/Music/Mythology/Review, Aug 17
Jer Hayes, Culture Essay, Aug 17

Kira Córdova, Culture/Humour, Aug 24
Jim Hohenbary, Culture/Science, Aug 24

Rafaela Kottou, Culture/Travel/Food, Aug 31
Raka Banerjee, Culture/Travel, Aug 31

Mary Buchanan Sellers, Culture, Sept 7
Cate LeBrun, Culture, Sept 7

Jacelyn Yap, Photo Essay, Sept 14
Marshall Moore, Culture/Travel, Sept 14

Sydney’s Guard, Culture/Music, Sept 21
Guinotte Wise, Culture/Craft, Sept 21

Rakhima Imanaliyeva, Travelogue, Sept 28
John Haymaker, Travelogue, Sept 28

Ayushi Kainthola, Culture, Oct 5
Shobha Ramani, Culture/Food, Oct 5

Jacelyn Yap, Photo Essay, Oct 12
Michael Smith, Travelogue/Photo Essay, Oct 12

Alice Moon, Humour, Oct 19
Sarp Sozdinler, Humour, Oct 19

Johnny Roach, Humour, Oct 26
Tim Frank, Humour, Oct 26

Sumitra Singam, Humour, Nov 2
Enit’ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya, Humour, Nov 2

Mojaffor Hossain, translated by Rituparna Mukherjee, Translation, Nov 9
Arpita Bhawal, Humour, Nov 9

Saeed Ibrahim, Culture/Travel, Nov 16
Michael Smith, Photo Essay / Travelogue, Nov 16

Sabyasachi Roy, Craft Essay, Nov 23
Kathleen Fullerton, Culture/Society, Nov 23

Mike Nagel, Humour/Culture, Nov 30
Catherine Rossi, Humour/Culture, Nov 30

Sarah Das Gupta, Travel/Culture/Humour, Dec 7
MJ Huntsgood, Craft/Culture, Dec 7

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