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Suttee resurrected: When suicide is dressed up as romance.
Suttee was the now-banned Hindu practice in which a widow would die on her husband’s funeral pyre.
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The puppy, the broken leg and the bone-deep love
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Robot World, Part II
Call me dogged.
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Computer says no
The charmless robot world of the airport.
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Empty Nest
As my husband and I walked home, we found a bird’s egg under a lime tree.
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A Pulitzer Prize for Denial, Distortion and Desecration
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Why it’s dangerous to be polite to AI
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Taxing Us Dry
In which I let off steam after completing my tax return.
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Saint Laura and the Hilltop Epiphany
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Laura Dodsworth's substack for free minds. Focussing on culture, politics, critical thinking, media, gender, free speech and freethinking.
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