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  • Culture - Food - Weekly Features

    “A Garlic Pedagogy” by Lina Krishnan

    21 June 2026

    A loud hissing sound came from the kitchen, followed by the most divine fragrance that filled the house.

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    14 June 2026

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    14 June 2026
  • Culture - Food - Humour - Society - Weekly Features

    “For the Love of Pani Puri” and “Swearing: An Act in Nine Parts” by Aditi Surana

    21 June 2026

    This woman, who wasn’t local, wasn’t new to pani puri. She didn’t even have to taste all the flavours to know which ones she wanted.

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    “Is productivity a socially acceptable anaesthetic?” by Shristi Das

    14 June 2026

    Now Steve, he is—in the most clinical sense—a “highly productive person” with an absent bandwidth for unnecessary upheaval in his life.

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    “it’s only a wheelbarrow” by Doğa Kaplan

    14 June 2026

    So much depends upon this red wheelbarrow. But Williams never tells us what depends on it or why. He trusts us to understand.

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  • Culture - Weekly Features

    “The Paan Daan Trail” by Saeed Ibrahim

    31 May 2026

    This antique silver Paan Daan, a family heirloom from the late 19th or early 20th century, bears testimony to the workmanship of a generation of highly skilled artisans.

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