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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    “Follow the Algorithm” by Brian Christopher Giddens

    20 September 2026

    Maybe falling off the wagon isn’t so smart. Best to stay safe. Retreat to the sofa, reach for the phone, resume scrolling. Let the algorithm be my guide.

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  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    “The Day You Came” by McLord Selasi

    30 August 2026

    I told her my surname. She shook her head. She meant the one that came before the surname and before the English first name on my passport.

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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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    30 August 2026
  • 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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    20 September 2026

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    23 August 2026
  • 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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    “Journey to the north-eastern end of Deutschland” by Subham Mukherjee

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    “French One, Seven Times” by Curtis C. Morgan

    26 July 2026
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Pavle Radonić has an illuminating spiritual encounter in Singapore, and Paromita Patranobish pens a cultural critique of the ghosts of Bengal.

Lord Shiva in Singapore by Pavle Radonić

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