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Street Talk

When My Small Hometown Quietly Begins to Meet the World

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A Polentona DOC Undercover

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The Wings of Tibetan Hip Hop

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The Daily Chant of Political Resistance

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A cafe of one’s own

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Tehran: The price of now; spiralling inflation and currency collapse

The price of yesterday's bread is already a distant memory. Explore the dark humor and quiet desperation of a trapped society watching its currency endlessly collapse....
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Karachi: Surveillance, panic and chaos: the price the people pay for safer streets

New AI traffic cameras peer down on crumbling, flooded streets. This costly digital dragnet has sparked mass paranoia, breeding far more absurd bureaucratic farce than actual civic order....
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Kyoto: Zen and the art of being a tour guide

Experience Kyoto through a local tour guide’s eyes. Get to know how ancient Zen gardens beautifully reflect our deepest, unspoken inner emotions....
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Gaza: How genocide has transformed the daily lexicon

War dismantles more than just skylines; it rewires the very architecture of language. In Gaza, ordinary Arabic words have been hollowed out and repurposed to map a devastating new reality....
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Bangalore: The many tongues heard at midnight in the backseat of a cab

When the gloss of Bangalore strips away at three in the morning, restless cabs become rolling confessionals, where a symphony of borrowed tongues echoes the rawest survival economics....
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Kingston: Who owns Carnival in Jamaica?

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Yakutsk: Soft communal resistance between talks, ghosts and fake Labubus

The frost arrived early, foreshadowing the quiet end to public education. Resistance here isn't shouted; it's whispered through counterfeit Labubu toys and the wry irony of survivalist memes....
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