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Matchbox August - 2026
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This edition of Matchbox is a collection of stories, reviews, and poetry centring on dissent and displacement.
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Issue 15
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Even when erased, an act of dissent leaves a palimpsest. Those who come after do not begin from nothing; they write into those faint but indelible traces. Every authoritarian project shrinks collective imagination through fear; every act of dissent enlarges it. We refuse to accept fear as the price of citizenship

Sophocles and My Dadu and 2 other poems

October 15, 2025

1 min read

Poetry

Poems of memory, love, and belonging—where ancestry, food, and nature entwine...

Khalid Jawed on "The Book of Death" in Conversation with Rituparna Mukherjee

October 15, 2025

17 min read

Interviews

Khalid Jawed on death, disgust, and the haunting truths of life...

Cassandra: Kinship Beyond Borders

January 15, 2025

4 min read

Cassandra

As I leafed through Kin, an anthology of poetry, prose, and art by women from Romani,......

The Editors of Poetry at Sangam in Conversation with Ankush Banerjee

December 17, 2023

22 min read

Interviews

Taking down Poetry at Sangam must have generated a plethora of flashbacks of memory for you....

Higher Ground

June 15, 2022

19 min read

Fiction

The tarmac appeared to melt under the harsh sun. It was well past noon. Abdul had......

Khalid Jawed on "The Book of Death" in Conversation with Rituparna Mukherjee

October 15, 2025

17 min read

Interviews

Khalid Jawed on death, disgust, and the haunting truths of life...

The Sand Flows Upward and 6 other poems

June 15, 2025

1 min read

Poetry

Inherited silence transformed into ritual, memory, and voice....

Excerpt: Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada

June 15, 2024

12 min read

Excerpts

Why did beef and pork become part of the diet of only these communities? As per......

Mind Matter

December 17, 2023

5 min read

Poetry

He was thinking of a sensory tool that could turn Descartes on his head. Microbiologists had......

Claudia Goldin

October 15, 2023

4 min read

Over Coffee

“I have always thought of myself as a detective”, said economic historian Claudia Goldin in an......

Issue 15: Refuse

Even when erased, an act of dissent leaves a palimpsest. Those who come after do not begin from nothing; they write into those faint but indelible traces. Every authoritarian project shrinks collective imagination through fear; every act of dissent enlarges it. We refuse to accept fear as the price of citizenship

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Matchbox - August 2026

This edition of Matchbox is a collection of stories, reviews, and poetry centring on dissent and displacement.

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Matchbox August - 2026

ULR

Issue 15

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Sophocles and My Dadu and 2 other poems

Khalid Jawed on "The Book of Death" in Conversation with Rituparna Mukherjee

Cassandra: Kinship Beyond Borders

The Editors of Poetry at Sangam in Conversation with Ankush Banerjee

Higher Ground

On Our Mind

Khalid Jawed on "The Book of Death" in Conversation with Rituparna Mukherjee

The Sand Flows Upward and 6 other poems

Excerpt: Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada

Mind Matter

Claudia Goldin

Issue 15: Refuse

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