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  • Culture - Humour - Weekly Features - Wildlife

    Man Vs. Wild

    30 November 2025

    Mike Nagel — Excerpt: “Would a red panda make a good pet?” I ask Google two or three times a year.

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  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    Gratitude Found Inside the Fence

    23 November 2025

    Kathleen Fullerton — Excerpt: Coffee brews in an old industrial pot, large upon the counter in this long open room optimistically called “the day room.”

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  • Culture - Travelogue - Weekly Features

    “GOING DOOLALLY!” — Memories of an Idyllic Childhood Vacation

    16 November 2025

    Saeed Ibrahim — Excerpt: The smell of fodder and hay wafted through the air as the train puffed into the quaint little Deolali Railway Station.

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    Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 2 – Leningrad)

    16 November 2025

    Michael Smith — Excerpt: From time to time during this overnight journey we passed through areas of very bright lights shining deliberately on the train. I had been warned about this before we left for Russia.

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  • ASAP Corner - Film/TV - Remembrance

    Chala Murari Hero Banne: The Struggle Behind the Smile

    26 October 2025

    Namrata — Excerpt: If one seeks a lens to understand Asrani’s journey, it is perhaps best found in Chala Murari Hero Banne (1977). Beneath its laughter lies an almost autobiographical resonance. The film’s humour, while entertaining, is inseparable from its poignancy.

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    25 May 2026

    “The Road Taken: On Perumal Murugan’s Neduneram” by Kathiravan Annamalai

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    “The Poetry of Inner Landscapes: Neera Kashyap’s The Art of Unboxing” by Anjana Basu

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