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  • Culture - Humour - Weekly Features

    The Clocks

    29 June 2025

    Maureen Tai — Excerpt: As I wandered from room to room, I noticed that each clock, housed in a separate room, showed a time of just before or just after 5 o’clock.

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    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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    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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    On Coffee and Usefulness

    8 June 2025

    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

    11 May 2025

    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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