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  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    “Is productivity a socially acceptable anaesthetic?” by Shristi Das

    14 June 2026

    Now Steve, he is—in the most clinical sense—a “highly productive person” with an absent bandwidth for unnecessary upheaval in his life.

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    “it’s only a wheelbarrow” by Doğa Kaplan

    14 June 2026

    So much depends upon this red wheelbarrow. But Williams never tells us what depends on it or why. He trusts us to understand.

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    “The Paan Daan Trail” by Saeed Ibrahim

    31 May 2026

    This antique silver Paan Daan, a family heirloom from the late 19th or early 20th century, bears testimony to the workmanship of a generation of highly skilled artisans.

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    “Chronicle of the Scarred Mountains” by Gunjan Joshi

    31 May 2026

    I wonder what Frank S. Smythe would have thought about the deterioration of mountains today when he completed his climb of Mount Kamet in 1931.

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    Shinkansen Diaries: Discovering Japan by Rail (Part 3 – Oita)

    10 May 2026

    Michael Smith — Excerpt: Being in the suburbs, we got to see regular Japanese life, rather than the tourist’s view.

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