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  • Culture - Humour - Society - Weekly Features

    Do Not Pet While Working

    24 August 2025

    Kira Córdova — Excerpt: If you have an 18th-century British military kink, I beg you, don’t tell me.

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  • Culture - Music - Mythology - Society - Theatre - Weekly Features

    The Heroines in Hadestown: Objects of Desire versus Agents of Affection

    17 August 2025

    Z. M. Asafzah — Excerpt: The story is a retelling of the “love story” of Orpheus and Eurydice, but entwines the Greek gods Hades and Persephone and their “love” story into its lore.

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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 - Food - Society - Weekly Features

    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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  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    The Utter Irrelevance of Human Lives

    11 May 2025

    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.

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