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Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.

Those you cannot see

ON A RAINLESS monsoon Sunday, she walks to the electric train station closest to her house. She turns back...

By Lavanya Shanbhogue

Into the air, into the sky, into the clouds

OUR VAN FLOATED on the river of mid-morning Kandy traffic. As though we had dropped anchor, we drifted forward...

By Danushka Silva

What happened to ‘old Asia’?

ON THE MONGOLIAN steppe roams a dog with the unfortunate name of ‘Rabies’. Some years ago, while I was...

By Kirril Shields

Metaphors

They don’t explain. They don’t connect. They don’t mean what they say. They don’t say what they mean. They...

Uniquely unique, with reason

WITH CHINA’S RISE, understanding what the country’s political elite thinks is no longer a matter that concerns just China...

By Merriden Varrall

Tinderbox

BACK WHEN THEY’VE not yet met, Ameer wears a pressed shirt in his profile picture, Ada a cellophane stare....

By Alice Bishop

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