From the Editor’s Desk
As I browsed through the issue, leafing through each writer and poet's work, I was taken back to my recent trip to Bhopal, to see the Bhimbetka caves. The etchings on the Bhimbetka rock shelters predate modern history as we know it.
What strikes you first in Bimbetka is the absence of geographical markers of being Indian, being from this territory or that. Both the rock formations, and the language of the sketches is universal, and understood by all. A bit like good literature, I thought to myself, that bears the same human urge to tell a story, to record a part of time, emotion and experience. There are wedding processions here, sketches of a bull, of a hunting party marching on, and other activities one would associate with humans in any part of the world. More and more, literary geography seems to collide with political geography, and yet this urge to leave a part of oneself in a story, or a piece of art is universal.
As we bring to you the February Spring issue of TBR, we hope you sit back and bask in the colours that came together to thread everything. Like spring itself we turn colour-gatherers.
Instructions on Falling, by Marije Bouduin is a story that will surprise you, the tenderness of I think of you often and fondly by Mal Virich, an excerpt from a book by writers and for writers - of The Moving Finger- an excerpt and an interview of the editors.
Enjoy February, dear readers
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury
Managing Editor, The Bangalore Review
