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  • Culture - Music - Weekly Features

    American Idiot and the Loss of My Parents

    13 July 2025

    Mark McConville — Excerpt: As I sat in a room of few things, I started to confide in a record, an album that was politically infused, a non-nonsense assessment of a country on its knees.

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  • Culture - Film/TV - Society - Weekly Features

    Cruel Sentimentalism

    27 April 2025

    Anna Nguyen — Excerpt: I remember reading on the forums how Maggie betrayed her fans in China. Because she married a white man.

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    Of Beauty in the Quotidian

    16 March 2025

    Aditi Yadav — Excerpt: You live always in motion—onward, forward. But never quite perfect—just as the circle doesn’t really get a final closure, reminding us of our limitations and transient existence.

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  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    MIDAS

    26 January 2025

    Surabhi Katyal — Excerpt: I would never tell anybody about MIDAS and my score. I was sure the result was enough to send me home. And I did not want that.

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    Ghosts on the Radio

    26 January 2025

    Damayanti Saha — Excerpt: I could feel Aishwarya Rai’s smile on one note, an eyebrow raised, and excitedly but mistakenly remembered Dola Re.

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