5 min
The Peculiar Case of the Pre-Interregnum Radish
The Department of Historic Edible Crop Regulation, established in 1897 and functionally obsolete since 1903, was Ishwar Das’s personal, dust-choked mausoleum.
Genre: Satirical Fiction
A genre that uses humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. It often aims to provoke thought and stimulate change.
4 min
The Cartographer’s Palimpsest
My shift in the Department of Ephemeral Geographies began, as always, with a quiet resignation to the absurdity of it all. The City, a vast, restless beast of concrete and glass, never paused for measurement.