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Reviews that argue, not summarise. Each one asks whose story is told, who is absent, and what structures the book reinforces or resists.
Across intersectionality, decolonial thought, agency, and margins.
Reviews that argue, not summarise. Each one asks whose story is told, who is absent, and what structures the book reinforces or resists.
Across intersectionality, decolonial thought, agency, and margins.

Memory & Time

A curated collection

Issue 9 - Violence

Review: What I Don’t Tell You

By Urna Bose

The argument asserts that poetry's strategic 'space' cultivates readerly agency, fostering profound self-knowledge and resilience by navigating the complexities of...

Matchbox - October '25

Review: The Dandelions Have It

By Kabir Deb

The text explores how an imagined, interconnected world, imbued with kindness, challenges conventional reality, positing a framework for healing the...

Issue 10 - The Body

Review: A City Full of Sirens

By Kavita Parwani Talib

Mhatre's poetry confronts the raw intersections of urban life, grief, and brutal finitude, demanding an uncomfortable reckoning with shared human...

Issue 7 - Environment

Review: A Sky Full of Bucket Lists

By G. Akila

Leveraging experimental haibun, the collection articulates memory and grief, probing how formal innovations can render abstract human experience beyond conventional...

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'tamil terrains' fundamentally reconfigures translation as an ethical, politically charged act, revealing how linguistic transfers forge new inheritances across fragmented...

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Review: Silence Has A Sound

By Aditi Dasgupta

By mapping an emotional atlas where place and memory become sentient interlocutors, the poetry critiques fixed notions of home, self,...

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Reviews: The Outsider: A Memoir for Misfits

By Aditi Dasgupta

The Outsider deploys a Bakhtinian carnivalesque, using the fool's irreverence to dismantle conventional success narratives, thereby questioning societal hierarchies and...

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Review: Sea, Salt & Spice

By Aditi Dasgupta

Examining Mumbai through its food reveals how culinary evolution exposes colonial legacies, environmental shifts, economic commodification, and deep-seated societal stratification,...

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