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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Know Your Place! — A True Story

    18 January 2026

    Joy Dillon — Excerpt: Know where you is, and especially where you going in this world! I begging you, from the bottom of my heart!

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Vicky Walrus

    18 January 2026

    Selina Sheth — Excerpt: ‘Fast Wheels! Great Meals! Best Deals!’ So promises The Walrus.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    How to Apologise for Being Born Incorrectly, According to My Family WhatsApp Group

    4 January 2026

    Sabyasachi Roy — Excerpt: You’ve disrupted the ancestral algorithm. Now your name is blinking. Now the aunties are circling. It’s time.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    ‘Booked’ and ‘Java by my side’

    4 January 2026

    Rohit Karir — Excerpt: My heart skips a beat when a paragraph grabs hold of me, and the search ends.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Modern Dating Red Flags: As Interpreted by a Birdwatcher

    21 December 2025

    Sabyasachi Roy — Excerpt: Specimen 5: The Hobby Cultist. Latin Name: Singulus obsessionae. They don’t date—they recruit.

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