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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The Beard Ban
Roger Chapman — Excerpt: They simply won’t be allowed to have a beard and a moustache at the same time.
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On Coffee and Usefulness
Gary Finnegan — Excerpt: While every other aspiring sophisticate was splashing water into brown dust, we knew a better way.
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The Cabal
Sourav Chatterjee — Excerpt: The Communist idea that educators must first be educated melted away into the polluted air of the city.
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The Utter Irrelevance of Human Lives
R Karthik — Excerpt: Considering the vanity-inducing narratives that we have come to believe, it is disturbing to discover the truth of our irrelevance in the grander scheme of things.