Michael Smith — Excerpt: In October 2009, myself and a colleague at the British school where I worked accompanied a small group of 15/16 year old students to Japan.
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The Guardian of the Temple
Apoorva Shekher — Excerpt: Alok rushed outside and found a few rowdy-looking youngsters throwing stones at a building in the precincts of the Sharda Temple.
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Present Perfect and Other Demonic Possessions
Sabyasachi Roy — Excerpt: This piece is by a Bengali who has been haunted, or rather, it is a haunting in eleven tenses. But, it always starts with the Present Perfect.
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Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 5 – Vienna, Austria)
Michael Smith — Excerpt: There is a Chinese saying (some would say a curse): “May you live in interesting times.”
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Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 4 – Budapest, Hungary)
Michael Smith — Excerpt: The city of Budapest, sometimes referred to back then as the Paris of Eastern Europe, was formed from three separate towns straddling the Danube—Buda, Pest and Obuda.