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The Bangalore Review

The Bangalore Review

Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2026

  • 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
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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  • Poetry
April, 2024

Mo(u)rning on the River

From one realm to the next, may Your essence forever sizzle and soar. Because whether You believed or not, despite the world not consistently admitting nor deserving it, You were always the hero we needed.
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
April, 2024

A look at Asia’s Biggest Book Fair

The author takes the readers on a journey to the 47th International Kolkata Book Fair.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2024

The Trickster

The old man looked out his window – the elderly are just like cats in many ways: from the number of hours they sleep per day, to the habit of peering out of the window at any chance they get (that is, basically every minute).
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  • Poetry
April, 2024

Preet Padam

I am red like raag yaman. Red like stirring ardor, like relentless vikara, Like flesh awash with rasa, Wasteful, like Laal Ishq, Red like death.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2024

The Makeover

Good, you say; I’m relieved. You hail the waiter and order two more appetizers. You laugh. You have to keep up your strength you say. When the food comes, we both eat ravenously. I’m getting tired of talking. Let’s take a break, I say; why don’t you talk for a while?
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  • Poetry
April, 2024

MILE 3339

because there will come a mile  where he is too weak to brush a horsefly  from the bridge of his nose, his head on a stretcher pillow  ringed by news microphones, surrounded  by the indifference of trees;
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  • Literature
April, 2024

Book Excerpt from A Long Season of Ashes

TBR presents an extract of Siddhartha Gigoo's A Long Season of Ashes by.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2024

The 149th Step

“Hell,” he said, “It was just like a movie, Tish. Janie didn’t have a clue. I drove her out there, blind-fold and all. I brought her down to the dock. Took her blindfold off. She was blown away. Couldn’t believe it. She said, ‘Where are we?’
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2024

Kevlar Hoodies

Gabby had been in this situation before. People hated to think someone had broken the law of averages. Everyone, she included, knew her luck would run out sooner or later. She’d had dates before where this had been a deal breaker.
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  • Poetry
April, 2024

Ode to working the line

Winking bulbs, screaming vents. You need specialized footwear here. You need to wash workwear in a separate load due to its villainous grease.Senior members will ruthlessly remind. You must learn how to resorb the body’s complaints, fashion stout leather insides out of soft tissue.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2024

A Town Without Sidewalks

Ace was a wide man. Over the years, he’d developed layers of fat over his muscle, earned from years of good eating and unseen manual labor on the mountain. His black beard was painted with shades of dusty grey. His face was wrinkled from smiling and squinting in the sun.
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  • Poetry
April, 2024

TRIPTYCH

When he scolded us, in our classroom with Sister Martin standing in back, about dating a non-catholic, his voice rose. “Drop them like a hot potato.”
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  • Specials
March, 2024

Mani Rao shares glimpses of her work place through the years

TBR takes you through this private world of poets and writers through this photo essay. Here Mani Rao gives us a precious glimpse into her work desk, and her books.
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
March, 2024

An Excerpt from 10 Indian Languages and How They Came to Be

The author presents us with an excerpt from his book 10 Indian Languages and How They Came to Be.
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
March, 2024

Reflections on Loneliness from a Kitchen Sink

Connections can be found in unexpected spaces, such as greenhouses and the flora they house. Despite knowing about greenhouses and histories of violence behind their creation, I wasn’t prepared for the array of emotions that assailed me when I visited a greenhouse for the first time—inside the Jardins Botaniques in Montreal.
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  • Book Reviews
March, 2024

Probably Geranium by Shekhar Banerjee

Maitreyee B. Chowdhury reviews Shekhar Banerjee's poetry collection Probably Geranium.
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Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2025

ISSN 2770-0828

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