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A Tea Story by Shakil Rabbi (Bangladesh)

He walked down the incline but did not head towards the gate. It was already dark and he was very tired.

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The Expedition by Pocholo Goitia (Philippines)

Before it could start Italo insisted he had to find Cassandra Gemini. I agreed. We both agreed this decision came too late.

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Theatre Review: Model citizens (by Zafar Anjum)

I’ve not seen all the plays that Director Alvin Tan and Playwright Haresh Sharma have done together in the last 20 years but amongst the ones that I have seen, “Model Citizens” is one of their best—honest, direct and biting.

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shivratri by Rajan

the computer wallah asks for roti too
on Shivratri

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Tammy Ho Lai-Ming (Hong Kong)

It is Impossible to be Partially Gutted

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I vow never to speak to him again.
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If you know what he said to me,
you’ll understand—
Words coming out of his fingers,
in the cold darkening night: ‘I feel nothing
inside’, ‘plaything’.
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You see, he sharpened
his words, each a blade, ready to kill.
He intensified his [...]

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5. Snapshot Bangalore, India – Monideepa Sahu

Leaving Bangalore on transfer, we returned and drove by the same street seven years later. Would I spot that hospital between new high rises and glass and aluminium store fronts of India’s fastest growing technology city?

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Theatre Review: — Can Change by Zafar Anjum (S’pore)

Watching The Necessary Stage’s “– Can Change”, the opening play of M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2010, this reviewer was not sure if the play was to be taken at its face value or one was expected to interpret the whole thing as a lampooning exercise.

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The Catherine Theory by Sasha Martinez (Philippines)

At least he wasn’t married. She never dallied with married men. Her mother would never forgive her if she did, if she somehow knew.

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Film review: Avatar by Zafar Anjum (S’pore)

In Avatar, Cameron has turned the focus of this terror inwards: he shows us a mirror in which we, the humans, are the terror for the lives of other planets.