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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Flush Fiction

    15 February 2026

    Sadie Kaye — Excerpt: Daddy had salmonella poisoning, but he didn’t know it.

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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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    31 May 2026
  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Aghori Monthly — Issue VII

    1 February 2026

    Aditi Dasgupta — Excerpt: At the immediate outskirts of this small speck on the map, there lived a sadhu of ambiguous age and unmistakable odour.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    They Cloned Jesus

    1 February 2026

    Natalie Wolf — Excerpt: When the video is released, Jesus is already twenty-one. Up until that point, he was being raised in a lab underground.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    The Red Car

    25 January 2026

    Sharika Nair — Excerpt: “Mama, can you buy me a new car? A new red car?”

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