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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
May, 2023

Mom

Winter sound is blue and bell sudden. Shadows are knife blades. I was her nurse, butt wiper and cook. Still strong enough to hurl a bowl
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  • Poetry
May, 2023

Mother Tongue

it slipped then through the cracks lost on the highway of a life lived in layers of wanderings.
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  • Editorial
  • Specials
April, 2023

TBR Interviews Yogesh Maitreya

Our editor interviews Dalit activist, writer and publisher,Yogesh Maitreya.
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  • Specials
  • Translations
April, 2023

Tracing Hundred and Fifty Years of Commercial Bengali Theatre

Armaan Singh translates Prabal Kumar Basu's essay on Commercial Bengali Theatre
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  • Book Reviews
  • Non-Fiction
April, 2023

A Bite in Time – Cooking with Memories by Tanya Mendonsa

Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews Tanya Mendonsa's book of recipes, poems and illustrations.
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  • Short Fiction
  • Translations
April, 2023

The Vulture

Tapan Mozumdar translates Hasan Azizul Huq's short story, Shakun.
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  • Poetry
April, 2023

The Songs of Mad Tom

Yes, let justice be for twig and flea, ankle and feather in deep heather. A thousand tongues will praise me and none will beg my pardon, my inmates there all to declare I am a caring warden.
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  • Poetry
April, 2023

Ghazal 23 – ‘on the tongue’

The nawab clings to cinders, yearning for yesterday His paan performs a final somersault on the tongue.
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
April, 2023

Starman Waiting in the Sky

The author traverses the chasm between Jewish or Christian and the unknown.
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  • Poetry
April, 2023

Renga

There lies the great poet In the hamlet of Haiku Influenced by seeds My fellow wandering soul Content with the heart
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2023

A Tiny Pebble

The shelves with Tarot books were so densely packed that I wondered if magic prevented them from collapsing. The books ranged from huge to small with covers from muddy brown to flaming yellow. I saw one that said it was the complete guide. I flipped through the pages and thought my mom might be dead before I got through the first half of the book.
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  • Poetry
April, 2023

hiking in the reservoir

i think i am owed secrets as though i’m one of a few earned caretakers or a suzerain fate has granted all sorts of trespasses but maybe it’s just like what my ex wife said before i packed the boxes i am only fascinated by what won’t let me in
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2023

Sister, Mother, Martyr

I rushed to the living room, my feet carrying me with a sense of urgency that I had never experienced before, with a sense of anticipation of something sinister and something quite uncanny. I saw my mother kneeling beside his cursing body as he held her by the hair, her vitiligo white skin stained by his blood.
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  • Poetry
April, 2023

Metal Birds Make a Sonnet

The road might have taken us anywhere     but instead we are surrounded by birds     white birds black birds     all are forced out of metal     with gyroscopes and grease
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  • Book Reviews
  • Non-Fiction
April, 2023

This Land, This People – Rajbanshi Poems Translated by Pradip Acharya and Jyotirmoy Pradhan

Kamalakar Bhat reviews Rajbanshi's book of poetry, This Land, This People translated by Pradip Acharya and Jyotirmoy Pradhan
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  • Poetry
April, 2023

Einstein’s Shoes

And yes, Schrodinger’s cat has crapped all over the lawn. Street people are panhandling planets like food stamps, and all the fundamental particles of the universe are
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  • Poetry
April, 2023

Between Episodes

I got moon boots, you got moon boots. We all scream for ice cream but to no avail – our prayers are answered at no better than the rate of chance. There's no glissando without stops and starts. Nor parallel nor intersecting, one guideline has teeth and one has dreams.
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  • Editorial
  • Specials
March, 2023

TBR Interviews Jacinta Kerketta

Our editor interviews Jacinta Kerketta, poet, writer, activist and freelance journalist.
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  • Poetry
March, 2023

How to wear gingham shirts, like a 10-month-old

realizing it also has a pocket, wondering what a ten month old would keep inside. gazing at the blueberry stain as I vacantly rub a wet Q tip over it, again.
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
March, 2023

Starting Late – Reflections on becoming a Writer

The author shares her reflections on becoming a writer and the tussle between self-publishing and traditional publishing.
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  • Poetry
March, 2023

Five Poems by Esther Sadoff

We are this and this and this,  cinders flaming like lighthouses enveloped by fog,  someone tripping in the yard,  someone stumbling through the door. 
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
March, 2023

Honey Balm

The author weaves a telling tale out of a a complex fusion of honey, mountains, lungs, honeycombs, childhood memories and falling stars.
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Vol. XIII | Issue 4 | December 2025

ISSN 2770-0828

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