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  • Culture - Photo Essay - Travelogue - Weekly Features

    Shinkansen Diaries: Discovering Japan by Rail (Part 3 – Oita)

    10 May 2026

    Michael Smith — Excerpt: Being in the suburbs, we got to see regular Japanese life, rather than the tourist’s view.

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    “The Wife in the Corner Frame” by Namrata

    4 October 2026

    “Lord Shiva in Singapore” by Pavle Radonić

    27 September 2026

    “In Search of Lost Spectres” by Paromita Patranobish

    27 September 2026
  • Travelogue - Weekly Features

    Through Tea, Forest and Mist: Exploring the Dooars

    10 May 2026

    Anasuya Basu — Excerpt: A road trip through the Dooars in the winter month of January not only invigorates with its crisp, chilly wind and clear skies, but also fills the senses with its vistas of mountains, mist, and lush tea gardens.

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    “Scandinavian Capitals: A Visit to All Four Capital Cities (Part 1 – Copenhagen)” by Michael Smith

    11 October 2026

    “Akagera National Park: A Conservation Destination” by Chitra Gopalakrishnan

    4 October 2026

    “Journey to the north-eastern end of Deutschland” by Subham Mukherjee

    16 August 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    The Meta-Eco in Vinita Agrawal’s The Hour of God

    7 May 2026

    Alka Balain — Excerpt: The Hour of God opens with a sacred invocation to wholeness from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, and this invocation sets the tone of the collection.

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    “When the River Remembers: Umar Nizarudeen’s The Moplah Speaks of the Rivers” by Haimanti Bagchi

    17 October 2026

    “The Geography of Unfinished Memory: Trauma, Belonging and the Ethics of Return in Umair Ahmed Khan’s The Valley of Unfinished Songs” by Wani Nazir

    8 October 2026

    “The Unease Beneath the Ordinary: Review of Geet Chaturvedi’s Scent of the Nameless, tr. Anita Gopalan” by Tarang Sinha

    2 October 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    A Joycean Romp through Belfast: Hanna Nielson’s Did You Pay the Piper Man?

    4 May 2026

    Mark Mullan — Excerpt: Hanna Nielson’s debut is a joyous Joycean romp through a single wintery night in post-Troubles Belfast that asks: If all of life is a play, do we write our own lines?

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    “When the River Remembers: Umar Nizarudeen’s The Moplah Speaks of the Rivers” by Haimanti Bagchi

    17 October 2026

    “The Geography of Unfinished Memory: Trauma, Belonging and the Ethics of Return in Umair Ahmed Khan’s The Valley of Unfinished Songs” by Wani Nazir

    8 October 2026

    “The Unease Beneath the Ordinary: Review of Geet Chaturvedi’s Scent of the Nameless, tr. Anita Gopalan” by Tarang Sinha

    2 October 2026
  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Toilet Spider

    3 May 2026

    Sadie Kaye — Excerpt: It was like all my phobias had decided to get together and have a child.

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    “C8H10N4O2” by Michael Smith

    25 October 2026

    “a wife’s complaint” and other poems by Low Kian Seh

    25 October 2026

    “How to be a Good Nigerian” and other poems by Hassan Ismail Adekunle

    18 October 2026
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