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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    THE CAMEL SADDLE CONSPIRACY OF CT‑29 (opens the original)

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    (A desert‑thriller satire set in early 1980s Rajasthan)<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KnQB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsu

  2. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    The Night of Kitman (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Sep 13, 2026

    THE MACHINERY OF THAUJI — PART II (opens the original)

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    (Thauji means Elder)<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="829" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RC6Z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-

  4. Issue · Aug 30, 2026

    THE MACHINERY OF THAUJI (opens the original)

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    (Thauji means Elder)Some places don’t need maps to be strange — they announce it the moment you arrive. Kesar Bari was one of those places. A desert village where logic came on camelback, got confused, and quietly left again.Here, people lived by rules nobody remembered, written by a man nobody had met, for reasons nobody could explain — and they followed them with the confidence of a Supreme Court verdict.That man was Thauji. He didn’t build templ

  5. Issue · Aug 16, 2026

    When Heads Learn to Bow (opens the original)

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    In 1865, Count Arthur de Gobineau crossed into Persia expecting philosophy and found something far stranger: a society fluent in Ketman, where truth was a luxury and performance a survival art. One informant whispered to him, almost amused, “There is not a single true Moslem in Persia.”Gobineau realized Ketman wasn’t a lie told in desperation — it was a discipline, a kind of psychological acrobatics. Those who practiced it didn’t feel crushed by power; they felt secretly superior to it. By recit

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