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Essays and personal narratives that turn lived experience into testimony. Writing on body autonomy, caste, care, incarceration, digital feminism, trauma, and resilience
Evidence that the world must be organised differently.
Essays and personal narratives that turn lived experience into testimony. Writing on body autonomy, caste, care, incarceration, digital feminism, trauma, and resilience
Evidence that the world must be organised differently.

Memory & Time

A curated collection

Issue 8 - Kindness

A Smile Like No Other

By Dr. Sarabjeet Dhody Natesan

Guided by a father's radical kindness, a woman confronts societal unkindness, finding unexpected solace and acceptance through an elder's unconditional...

Issue 8 - Kindness

Annie Ernaux: A Critical Examination

By Arun Paria

Annie Ernaux's fearless self-documentation embraces the imperfect past with clear-eyed acceptance, bridging memory and fiction to find peace and prove...

Issue 8 - Kindness

Celebrating Cancer

By Vibha Rani

Enduring cancer, one woman transforms her battle into a powerful celebration of life, fostering resilience, redefining beauty, and inspiring others...

Matchbox - July '24

Can We Love the Art But Hate The Artist?

By Kinshuk Gupta

The discussion probes whether artistic creation's integrity can withstand profound ethical compromise in the artist's life, particularly concerning complicity in...

We Are Here: Writings by Afghan Women

Conversations with My Mother

By Fatemeh Karimi

A daughter explores her mother's silenced past, uncovering the trauma of a forced child marriage and the generational strength of...

Issue 9 - Violence

Dubravka Ugresic: Writing from Anywhere But Home

By Shankar Mony

Dubravka Ugresic's poignant prose, born from exile, critically dissects memory, cultural commodification, and narrative conventions, championing honesty and the enduring...

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Matchbox – May ’26

The Danger of a Simple Story

By Suchi Govindarajan

A collection of academic essays dismantles romantic notions of India's forests as untouched wilderness, revealing instead centuries of human entanglement...

Matchbox – May ’26

Madhvi Parekh : A Life in Line, Memory and Myth

By Anasuya Basu

Parekh's six-decade retrospective reveals a self-taught folklorist whose village-rooted visual language—layered with myth, memory, and crosshatched vibrancy—resists stylistic prescription while...

Issue 14 - WITNESS

What remains, after the circus has gone?

By Sampurna Chattarji

This article interprets László Krasznahorkai's work as a profound maelstrom, challenging the reader's intellectual and primal faculties. It argues his...

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