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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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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
August, 2022

In-between Emotions: A Triptych

The author translates, among other things, the relationship she shares with Bombay, the city of her birth; how she has accepted and made peace with the method in its madness.
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  • Poetry
August, 2022

All the Howling

The night locked and cellular, the landscape grows increasingly perplexed at the Color aspects of American democracy,
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
August, 2022

A Topic Too Distressing to Mention

Janice was scarcely 30 when she came to Claresboro, a newly licensed veterinarian joining Dr. Quigley’s small-animal practice. We knew her family from a long way back–her mother grew up here before moving to the city, and her grandma Paula still owns the flower shop on Minton Street.
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  • Poetry
August, 2022

Rich People

There are plenty of seats on the summit. You can see the dark clouds amassing from miles away. I had a big wedding. I’ve stood beneath a waterfall.
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  • Specials
  • TBR Roundtable
July, 2022

Indie Publishers & Booksellers

Welcome to the first edition of The Bangalore Review Roundtable, where we discuss Indie Publishing & Bookselling in India. This session is moderated by Sucharita Dutta-Asane, Fiction Editor at The Bangalore Review.
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  • Specials
  • TBR Recommends
July, 2022

TBR Recommends – July 2022

Every month, The Bangalore Review recommends a reading list, also mentioning in brief why each book must be read. This month’s list has been compiled by Sekhar Banerjee.
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  • Memoirs
  • Non-Fiction
  • Translations
July, 2022

The Dreams of a Mappila Girl

In the preface to her memoir, the author B. M. Zuhara writes, “I grew up at a time when Muslim girls did not even have..
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
July, 2022

Proximity to—and from—Bodies: The Civil War Poetry of Whitman & Dickinson

The author studies the seemingly dichotomous take on war in Walt Whitman's and Emily Dickinson's poetry; and argues for the congruency it attains underlining sufferings and deaths. Further, she notes the heavy usage of punctuations in Dickinson's war poetry and theorizes what it represents.
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  • Poetry
July, 2022

Stepping into the Dark

I imagined her soul, slipping into muted sleep, slowing its swirl, dimming its spectrum of colors - until like a photo, darkening to monochrome, she would become the very depth and quiet of her own shadow. Fire slowly dims, coal blackens, into night.
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  • Book Reviews
  • Non-Fiction
July, 2022

From Threnody to Laughter: A Review of Shikhandin’s After Grief

Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews Shikhandi's poetry collection, After Grief.
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  • Poetry
July, 2022

Ode to Beets

Prisoners could enroll in college courses and some even taught. The people of Alabama often formed remarkable friendships with the prisoners and gave them many gifts, as well as invitations to their homes for a meal. After the war, many Germans brought their families to vacation in the South and to introduce them to their southern friends. These friendships lasted for decades.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
July, 2022

The Book Circle Party

“You must go to a lot of Book Circle Parties,” I remarked. “Don’t you?” he asked, eyes surveying the rest of the crowd, looking for someone more malleable than me.
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  • Poetry
July, 2022

Waiting

The thing about a lake is the crazy men who fish there, in the copper- hearted flow where cold springs and greasy seaweed gather. Shimmer.  Buckle.  Fish bodies writhe beneath, more life always where one can’t reach. More life always where watching is not allowed.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
July, 2022

A conspiracy of Mules

Mule carcasses give up ash. Thick and dark. It swirls and swells in the violet sky like a great murmuration. The screams of the mules have subsided, the air thick with the smell of their roasting meat. It is unbearable to these starving people.
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
July, 2022

Bird House

The author goes through the pandemic along with a change of residence and lifestyle. A bird lover since childhood, she learns a lot more as she lives along side Woodpeckers and Hummingbirds.
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  • Poetry
July, 2022

2 poems by Jane Marston

They were not deer, such as the men had known in Virginia or Vermont, but antelope whose haunches flashed when the heave of portage brought the men too near. The men believed they were something they needed to kill, not just for food or for the pleasure of pursuit, but from a need to supplement,
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
July, 2022

The Sea and the Sky

In some ways, I hate what I do, though my feelings have never been distinct. It is more of an unease that creeps into my mind when I see my planet so far beneath me, and, surrounded by the boxes and boxes of products and resources that fill the storage space of my cable car...
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  • Poetry
July, 2022

Sooner Now

And so, it seems it only takes one summer without rain, a drift of weeks, the world gone mean, to make a start then, offer age assent. To give surprised consent, or to at least – time bossy, brooking no dissent – begin to know there is a change now on its way. Not today. Not right away.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
July, 2022

Good Hair

I watched with a sullen expression as she struggled to lift her right leg, gingerly rubbing the area of swollen flesh where I’d kicked her thigh. She placed delicate fingers along her bottom lip, still red and swollen from my punch of a few days ago.
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  • Poetry
July, 2022

Loss of Little Things

I dream each night our house is burning,               and I watch and watch. It consumes, I am consumed, by the pit in my gut, burning rubble. Spiders watch from the corners,               with their wide shining eyes, but do not spin a line to save me-
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
July, 2022

The Astronomer’s Garden

And so, the astronomer and the inquisitor pulled and tilled and spread and sowed until Emile’s backyard was one colossal labyrinth of garlic and radishes and roses and towering sunflowers that shaded the humble beds of lettuce and trumpeted the arrival of the spring winds.
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  • Editorial
  • Specials
June, 2022

9 Years of The Bangalore Review

The anniversary editorial piece by our Managing Editor and some congratulatory notes from our wellwishers around the world.
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Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2025

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