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The Bangalore Review

The Bangalore Review

Vol. XIII | Issue 3 | October 2025

  • Non-Fiction
    • Art
    • Book Reviews
    • Cinema
    • Creative Non-Fiction
    • Culture
    • Literature
    • Memoirs
    • Music
    • Nature & Environment
    • Philosophy
  • Specials
    • Editorial
    • TBR Recommends
    • TBR Roundtable
    • Translations
    • Fiction Special 2024
      • Peripheries – of Being and Living
      • Promises Made and Promises Broken – the NATURE of Things
      • Writing From the Peripheries of Language
      • Queering Language
      • Anthologies – The Editorial Perspective
  • Fiction
    • Flash Fiction
    • Short Fiction
  • Poetry
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  • Poetry
  • Specials
  • Translations
June, 2024

Five Poems by Adnan Kafeel ‘Darwesh’ Translated from Hindi by Rituparna Sengupta

Rituparna Sengupta translates five poems by Adnan Kafeel "Darwesh" from Hindi into English.
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  • Specials
  • TBR Recommends
June, 2024

TBR Recommends – Environment & Climate Change

Rajat Chowdhuri recommends four books that broach the subject of environment and climate change.
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  • Nature & Environment
  • Poetry
  • Specials
June, 2024

The Symbiotic Relationship Between Bird Photography and Writing

The ‘I’ in my poetry is never always myself. Trees and birds live inside me and much of my voice is theirs. They have changed..
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  • Nature & Environment
  • Non-Fiction
  • Specials
June, 2024

The Secret Knowledge of Birds

For years now from the front porch of my old Michigan farmhouse I have closely watched a variety of ordinary birds. I have concluded –..
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  • Cinema
May, 2024

TBR pays tribute to the maestro for his 101st birthday, with ten unique posters that celebrate his films

TBR pays tribute to the maestro for his 101st birthday, with ten unique posters that celebrate his films
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
May, 2024

This is What It Means to Say Poetry in America

Photo by Felix Mittermeier on Unsplash CategoriesCreative Non-Fiction Non-Fiction
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  • Literature
May, 2024

The Boatswain: Authority and Power Politics in Shakespeare’s The Tempest

William Shakespeare’s The Tempest contains a minor character, the Boatswain, who is rarely examined, yet is pivotal to understanding not only the dynamics of the..
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  • Poetry
May, 2024

Picture

When four baby daughters up in the sky drain her anaemic heart, tears on Granddad’s photo against her riant chest, I crawl on her lap - My hug means to tell her, yes, she will see them again but please, not now.
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  • Poetry
May, 2024

Death Dance

There were car accidents, illness, and war. Dia de Los Muertos arrived just in time. I surrendered as the ants overwhelmed me. Beneath blue skies and papel picado.
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  • Poetry
May, 2024

True North (After Louise Glück)

Look for mentors and they’ll materialize, peer around corners, mouthing Psst with pursed lips,
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  • Book Reviews
May, 2024

Jamini Roy’s Unbroken Lines: A joyous, interactional engagement with an iconic artist

Rituparna Roy reviews Jamina Roy's Unbroken Lines
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  • Poetry
May, 2024

Waiting

A girl perched on a Translucent ocean In a dusty rose tunic On rowboat the color Of old paper, like the sky, The foam on the water,
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2024

Still

“Pocket full of posies!” She watched as a little girl appeared two houses down, dancing down the sidewalk. She was holding a doll in one hand, waving it wildly over her head as she sang. When she reached the old woman’s house, the child spun around and threw the doll into the air.
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  • Poetry
May, 2024

Cyclicity

Hovering over my body, in a tangled   mess of silver threads going snap, snap,   snap, I realise you were the fibre and tendon,   and glue that held while we ended   and began and ended and began;
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  • Poetry
May, 2024

agarita

but the berries do not know they grow because they grow and only know how to grow in the front circle in the backyard up and down the gravel road all along the fence line
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2024

One Family

His aunt stayed angry until another American came to visit, a tall lady with yellow hair and lime green glasses. She took Sami back to the ruined home, snapped pictures of him in front of it. The tall lady paid his aunt a lot of money, enough to move to the mountain camp, where everything was better.
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  • Poetry
May, 2024

Lemons      

Yet there the seed waits all the while and dreams of its own life — my only way of reaching it is with my paring knife.
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  • Book Reviews
May, 2024

This Damp House by Bibhu Padhi

Kabir Deb reviews Bibhu Padhi’s collection This Damp House.
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  • Poetry
May, 2024

don’t try so hard

I stood over him as he sat at the table setting the book down automatically in front of him he looked up and almost made eye contact asking, “Who do I make it out to?”
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  • Specials
April, 2024

Photo Essay by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

TBR takes you through this private world of poets and writers through this photo essay. Here Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee gives us insight into his day to day and favourite spots.
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
April, 2024

Statues and the Colonised Mind

Statues do many things. They tell or repress a story about the past. They tell us about ourselves. They make us feel uneasy or can inspire. Scenes of sculptural epiphanies and distress, as well as, defiance, acknowledge that engaging with statues is not always easy or enjoyable.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2024

Intruder

The dilemma in her dream woke her. She looked over and saw her husband, asleep. Her muscles ached from being unsettled. She looked around and saw a chasm of shifting shadows. Her chest felt tight, making it hard for her to catch a breath.
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