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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Toilet Spider

    3 May 2026

    Sadie Kaye — Excerpt: It was like all my phobias had decided to get together and have a child.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Unflushed Fiction

    5 April 2026

    Sadie Kaye — Excerpt: “One of the builders has done a poo in our downstairs toilet. Call me.” I suddenly felt feverish in the sub-Arctic airconditioned meeting room. I tried to shut off the call. Much too late.

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  • Culture - Humour - Weekly Features

    The Snide Sniper

    15 March 2026

    Sadie Kaye — Excerpt: I know I’m not a bad parent because it’s 4.03 am and I’m whispering The Pied Piper to my daughter so as not to wake up anyone else.

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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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  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Paper Plane Takes Off: Review of Nifraz Rifaz’s Soaring Debut

    23 December 2025

    Sadie Kaye — Excerpt: Rifaz’s startling gift as a writer is to make the heaviest of emotions feel miraculously airborne without sacrificing their weight. The result is a poignant, beautifully crafted narrative that elevates and uplifts.

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

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    Memories, distraught and disturbing: Avni Doshi’s Girl in White Cotton

    21 May 2026

    Making Sense: Absurd Theatre by Suchita Parikh-Mundul

    12 May 2026

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