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  • Culture - Humour - Weekly Features

    Present Perfect and Other Demonic Possessions

    8 February 2026

    Sabyasachi Roy — Excerpt: This piece is by a Bengali who has been haunted, or rather, it is a haunting in eleven tenses. But, it always starts with the Present Perfect.

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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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  • Travelogue - Weekly Features

    How to Visit L.A. with a Young Child

    11 January 2026

    Jeremy Turner — Excerpt: Capital T travel with a two-year-old turned out far from perfect; we left a failed Airbnb choice and the body of a departed soul in our wake.

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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

    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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