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  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    Smells Like Home

    17 November 2024

    Parul Desai Shah — Excerpt: “A buyer said the house smelled. Like spices,” Nina stated with dramatic condemnation. This was a bullet wound to my family’s soul.

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  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    Satyanarayan Katha

    17 November 2024

    Jahnavi Gogoi — Excerpt: At one point in my childhood, I declare that I am an atheist. I do not believe in god. Everyone is horrified.

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  • Culture - Music - Weekly Features

    Hunting for Joy through Music — Holding Absence’s The Noble Art Of Self-Destruction

    3 November 2024

    Mark McConville — Excerpt: To create art, you must be ambitious, and Holding Absence shows they’re masters of melancholia while breaking ground.

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    auguri, auguri!

    13 October 2024

    Rachel Kitch — Excerpt: Only one thing was slightly off, and that was the bride. My dress—a custom Anne Barge—was slightly too big.

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  • Culture - Film/TV - Weekly Features

    Learning Perry

    5 November 2023

    Sahana Ahmed — Excerpt: All the fans of the show — scores of millions worldwide — “stared” at him. He was in a funk, but he had to be funny. 

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Lord Shiva in Singapore by Pavle Radonić

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