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Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a wh...

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...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

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Paul TherouxThe Great Railway Bazaar

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of...

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In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price,...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the...

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Geoff DyerYoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau

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Karl PilkingtonAn Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington