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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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Issue 15 - REFUSE

Review: Bhima’s Wife

By Esha Dasgupta

Kané’s Hidimbi retelling confronts patriarchal mythologies, reclaiming erased tribal and female voices while critiquing socio-political realities, yet risks endorsing endurance...

Issue 15 - REFUSE

Review: The Mumbai School for Murder

By Pallavi Narayan

Beyond plot, this mystery's stakes lie in its meticulous dissection of elite Mumbai's social stratification and moral ambiguities, recalibrating perceptions...

Issue 15 - REFUSE

Review: The Girl in White Cotton

By Anasuya Basu

Dementia's erasure of memory fundamentally undermines a daughter's pursuit of justice for past trauma, problematizing intergenerational reconciliation and the ethics...

Issue 15 - REFUSE

Review: Harvest

By Mahalakshmi Gururaj

Global organ commodification constitutes a colonial extension, where the Global North's longevity demands entail bio-surveillance, sanitizing Global South bodies and...

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