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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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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
August, 2025

Paper Dreams

In our house, we have an entire wall built of books. The English is so hard that even I cannot get through more than a cupboard or two.
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
August, 2025

Shadow (Light)

I miss the parts where my siblings and I would pile into my parents’ bed on the weekend, my father still half asleep and my mother long awaken.
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  • Non-Fiction
August, 2025

Meditation In Athens During Wildfires

I’m pressed for time and I’m not full of longing like those poets I love who write loss is desire and vice versa. I need to peel the potatoes and carrots and that’s not sexy today.
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
August, 2025

Holy

Mrs. Greene just shakes her head. For a moment, she seems about to speak, to demand something again—
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  • Poetry
August, 2025

Meditation in Appalachia

Lesson learned; I will stop counting, but you’ve taken my booze, taken my music; I’m only a man after all.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
August, 2025

Paneer Bhurji

She is sixty-seven years of age, she looks her age, and to me she seemed to have aged overnight one day in September 2019.
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  • Poetry
August, 2025

You

Your signature phrase so Britishly conditional, the words cross-grained with hope and irony,
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
August, 2025

Safe Haven

On the couch again, she propped her feet up on the turquoise ottoman and picked up her book but found she couldn’t concentrate.
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  • TBR Roundtable
June, 2025

The Editors Roundtable – A Dialogue

TBR brings together five editors who discuss literature, publishing, editing, translation and collaborations between various literary magazines.
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  • Specials
June, 2025

TBR Interviews Parismita Singh

TBR Interviews Parismita Singh
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  • TBR Recommends
June, 2025

TBR Recommends – June 2025

This month's TBR Recommends is curated by V. Ramaswamy
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
June, 2025

The Red Dark

My chest is still buzzing when we rise together from the planks and wander into the meadow.
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  • Poetry
June, 2025

Only Here for My Niece’s Christening

He smells like Irish Spring and lots of it. I offer him an agnostic smile.
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
June, 2025

Beedi stubs and Biscuit crumbs

The girl walks towards the waves by herself, still clutching the packet of biscuits, the water a little above her anklets.
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  • Literature
June, 2025

“We’d Stumbled Out the Door”: Reclaiming Female Subjectivity in Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets

The author examines how Diane Seuss reinvents the traditional sonnet form to challenge patriarchal constructs.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
June, 2025

Her Skin

They followed a path down to the shore, suddenly aware of the silence,
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  • Poetry
June, 2025

The Melon

when suddenly our dog swoops in like a hungry kestrel burrowing deep sniffing your sweat
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
June, 2025

The Patriarchal Fantasy of the Extraordinary

The writer evokes the phenomenon of "doing" woman as soon as the epithet ‘woman’ is added to Thinker, writer, achiever, go-getter.
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
June, 2025

Dreamcoat

Outside, noise from the street reminded Dave that life existed beyond his apartment.
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  • Book Reviews
June, 2025

The Grasp of Things by Aishwarya Iyer

Sudeep Ghosh reviews Aishwarya Iyer's debut poetry collection The Grasp of Things.
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  • Poetry
  • Translations
June, 2025

Sinduraruna

Sinduraruna is a translation of the Dhyana Sloka of the Sri Lalita Sahasranama.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
June, 2025

Starbucks

I turned toward her, trying to appear as though I were looking for a seat or watching out the window.
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