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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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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
December, 2023

Rebecca’s Baby

Then it struck her. “Why, I’ve taken the Lord into my heart. That’s it. I should have realized.” 
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  • Cinema
November, 2023

Film Historian SMM Ausaja shares unique hand drawn posters of Raj Kapoor’s films, as a tribute to celebrating 100 years of Raj Kapoor in Hindi cinema.

Film Historian SMM Ausaja shares unique hand drawn posters of Raj Kapoor's films, as a tribute to celebrating 100 years of Raj Kapoor in Hindi cinema.
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  • Specials
  • Translations
November, 2023

Poem by Alexandra Domínguez, Translated by Jeremy Paden

Jeremy Paden translates a poem by Alexandra Domínguez
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  • Literature
November, 2023

Autumn Blossoms

Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri speaks to Gajra Kottary, the author of Autumn Blossoms.
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
November, 2023

Spiritual symbols in The Left Hand of Darkness

The author traces the influence of Taoism on Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction, analysing the use of spiritual symbols in her book, 'The left hand of darkness' which directly relates to her belief in Taoism.
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  • Poetry
November, 2023

Imaginal Cells

The prescience itself is attacked: the caterpillars’ own being hates that it knows it will change, won’t let the secret be. Life can’t all be eating.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
November, 2023

NightDream

Your mom thinks you should be recording emotions, not just what happens.  You don’t really want to, but what the hell.  You can try it once.  All you can feel at this part of the dream is ... fear. 
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  • Poetry
November, 2023

Heraclitean Primacy

We are entitled, much the same as the perception of time dying To look away in the direction where we notice a crow flying Because the crow, whether you know it or not, is a song bird
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
November, 2023

People Like Us

That evening, while Mr. Klein and I were halfway across the river, another boat came downstream so he lowered the line and waited for it to pass. It was a big fiberglass boat, and it didn’t slow down. Instead, it steered towards us and then arced away, sending its wake in our direction.
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  • Poetry
November, 2023

Turning A Corner

My daughter backs into the neighbor's car– confesses over a coffee table of water stains and smoke thick like a 90s beer pub. She gets off easy. She doesn’t know what she doesn’t know.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
November, 2023

Siren

Rebecca sank further, dropped down to the first floor, her own office. A room empty of the watery substance and so her body crashed to the floor, dripping with a thickening blue. The screaming of the alarm was still strong in her ears.
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  • Poetry
November, 2023

New Order of our Lady of Bethlehem, 1247

An asylum in a mad city, Bedlam begins in a town ditch with eleven chain, six locks, four manacles, and two stocks, to guard (or guard against) the menti capti, whose minds lay tangled in a landscaped brain. Mary’s blue robe the only sky for inmates;
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
November, 2023

White Guilt

I don’t know how this happened; I woke up and found myself like this. I have only just now begun to devote thought to why I am in this state really. My initial waking thoughts were prostrate and bowed to the immense pain of cracking open my oophorm eyes.
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  • Poetry
November, 2023

fractals

creatures caught in the heat of mating/ body parts of personal history/ memory’s tenuous grip/ sudden dip
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
November, 2023

Minha

She drew their faces in greater detail on the opposite page, as if she had severed and separated their heads.
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  • Editorial
  • Specials
October, 2023

Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri interviews Advait Kottary

Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri interviews Advait Kottary
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  • Poetry
October, 2023

Blue Tarpaulins On Bombay Chowpatty

How it just happens that we all have someone to make a blue tarpaulin memory with. Even if you find them many years later and many miles away, There is a spot on this Bombay Chowpatty Where the sea is so close to you.
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  • Book Reviews
October, 2023

drenched thoughts by Anita Nahal

Candice Louisa Daquin reviews Anita Nahal's novel, drenched thoughts.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
October, 2023

World Record Holder

I pictured a man with such a long mustache that it curled around his body hundreds of times, making him look like a spool of thread. A week earlier, my father had taken me to the barbershop, where I had seen several long mustaches.
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  • Poetry
October, 2023

Mother at the Airport

But I like my own bed best, she says, and the quiet in mornings, when I scatter seed for the birds, the quiet in evenings, not at all. That's when you should call.
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
October, 2023

Anger

The writer reflects on the wide range of emotions and experiences she had in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade being overturned.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
October, 2023

Packed Baggage

The writer notes the bittersweet goodbye and the baggage that comes along with being a spouse to a military man.
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Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2025

ISSN 2770-0828

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