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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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    7 June 2026
  • 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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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    The Audition

    21 December 2025

    Devin James Leonard — Excerpt: “I’ll work on my French accent.” The casting director wagged his head and rolled his eyes at that.

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  • Culture - Humour - Travelogue - Weekly Features

    The Road to Limerick

    7 December 2025

    Sarah Das Gupta — Excerpt: We were hoping to hitch a lift up the beautiful West Coast to the city of Limerick where we had arranged to stay for a few days.

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    5 July 2026
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