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    51st Sakai Festival — Taikodai Parade and more

    16 March 2025

    Jacelyn Yap — Excerpt: Just neighbouring the bustling Osaka City is the lesser known Sakai City. Every October they hold their largest festival, the Sakai Festival (Sakaimatsuri).

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Titilayo Matiku chronicles mechanical and organic slitherers of Lagos, and Nenad Pavlovic plays accidental agent of chaos across realms.

‘Danfo’ and ‘Ode to a Scaly Skin’ by Titilayo Matiku

The curious case of Tim Cranshaw and all the people that were hurt, maimed, or mildly inconvenienced by it by Nenad Pavlovic

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Anna Nguyen, Culture/Humour, Apr 27
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Zary Fekete, Humour, May 4
Muheez Olawale, Humour, May 4

Sourav Chatterjee, Culture/Satire, May 11
R Karthik, Culture Essay, May 11

Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos, Humour, May 18
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Anthony Kane Evans, Humour, May 25
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Roger Chapman, Humour, June 15
Bhartrihari, translated by Louis Hunt, Translation, June 15

Jacelyn Yap, Photo Essay, June 22
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Maureen Tai, Culture/Humour, June 29
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James Sennott and Alba Blanco, Humour, July 6
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Dustin Vann, Culture Essay, July 13
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Barnali Ray Shukla, Humour, July 20
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Elizabeth Barton, Humour, July 27
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Susnata Karmakar, Photo Essay, Aug 3
Panna Naik and Rohee Dholakia, Translation, Aug 3

D.C. Nobes, Humour, Aug 10
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Z. M. Asafzah, Culture/Music/Mythology/Review, Aug 17
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Kira Córdova, Culture/Humour, Aug 24
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Rafaela Kottou, Culture/Travel/Food, Aug 31
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