Tamil Nadu. Reportedly.
In our fictional sequel to Saravanan’s reported midnight visit, the nervous system is asked to explain why it has not adjusted to the electoral mandate.
An invented inspection of an imaginary hospital. No real doctor, nurse or elected representative is depicted.ILLUSTRATION: PODA DASHThe midnight-inspection edition. Read the source & research →
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An imaginary machine clears its toughest local-language test: saying ‘tomorrow’ without specifying which one.
Fictional founder discovers his father has been running a resource-efficiency accelerator since 1998.
A preliminary meeting to decide the date of the first meeting has been hailed as a major breakthrough.
Fitness tracker congratulates him. He hasn’t reached the restaurant yet.
Relatives achieve rare consensus: nothing was quite like the wedding they attended in 2009.
Peer review enters its ‘forwarded many times’ era.
Local information network once again outperforms official infrastructure.
Researchers identify the missing ingredient in corporate productivity: a steel tumbler.
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