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Violent Caucasian Decorations
Violent Caucasian Decorations

Not rummy mummies but mahjong mates:...
An old friend stayed with me last month. When it was time for her to leave, we hugged each other and I said, ‘After five days, friends and fish both start to smell. You are leaving just in time.’ My cousin, standing with us, took offence on her behalf. It was difficult to explain to

You learn something new everyday 😯
You learn something new everyday 😯

everythingfox:me
everythingfox: me

Friends, flatwallahs and budding CID detectives,...
In the eighties, at one end of our living room, we had a large trunk with a paper pad, a coffee mug filled with pens and an ashtray. There was also a chair facing this makeshift altar where only one god was placed centre stage and regularly worshipped, a black telephone. It was not uncommon

Sandpaper Suit | Matt Ruby’s comedy...
News! My debut standup album will be released by 800 Pound Gorilla Records and comes out on Friday, March 31. I think you’ll like it. Trying to get the word out so If anyone has a podcast and wants me as a guest around that time, hit me up. Also, I’ll be having an album

Glycerine, gurujis and Bryan Johnson, some...
Murder She Wrought is not the next season of the old Angela Lansbury’s ‘Murder She Wrote’ detective series. It’s India’s new reality if you go by what’s been happening in the last few weeks. In Jaipur, a vegetable vendor’s wife strangled her husband and then set the body on fire. In UP’s Auraiya district, a

salparadisewasright: unclefather: Thank you. I will
salparadisewasright: unclefather: Thank you. I will

Hunting the ghost in the machine
They fell all around me like an unseasonal monsoon that ruins onion and mustard crops. AI-generated images of people and places, rendered in the style of Studio Ghibli. First came curiosity. Then interest. Then, quickly, ennui. Though it was all perfectly fine. Fine — a word that means both adequate and exquisitely made. Amidst this

Common core math.
Common core math.