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Winner of the Short Story Prize announced Sanjana Thakur is the overall winner with her story ‘Aishwarya Rai’ View Now

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9:00 am, 19 Jul 2024 to 11:00 am, 19 Jul 2024 9am Apia

Civil society experts from the Pacific are invited to share their views ahead of the 2024 Commonwealth People's Forum in Samoa.

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The Commonwealth Foundation's online literary magazine of new writing is known as adda. Read fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe.

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