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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
February, 2022

Ghost Walk of the Hermitage Ruins

“Okay, mister. I’m intrigued. I should have known it would be something romantic.” Before leaving the house, I’d said, “Bring your boots and a sweater,” but I wouldn’t let on what I had planned. I should have told her, but communication was one of my weaknesses.
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  • Poetry
February, 2022

What I Might Have Said

When I came to say goodbye,I brought a pocketful of poems,not mine, but some which I meant to comfort you,and I hope they did,hope you..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
February, 2022

Free Will

Please enter into the simulator and prepare for the memory reconstruction workflow. Sofia’s humanoid voice rippled through her mind. She stole a glance at the..
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
February, 2022

Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing: The Uses and Manipulation of Bodies

“… teachers are very serious because they do all their work with their minds and so sometimes they have to be reminded that they must use their bodies.” - Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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  • Poetry
February, 2022

Separation

In the spirit of all things we are not, I should be honest. Demand:take your cardigan off first, then my pantyhose, use your tongue to..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
February, 2022

Alley

I hug my wet sweater to my body as I stare at the retreating bus. Seriously? Bitch, I take this bus every day, and you..
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  • Poetry
February, 2022

Family Matter

Mother, this home is infectedwith demons, every rooma photograph of the tragedieswe performed many a night. Frightening is the bedroom whereI threatened to hit youif..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
February, 2022

Spider-Girl

Today, at two months shy of sixteen, Thenmozhi finally felt like a woman. She assessed herself in the tall old mirror; black and red oxidisation..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
February, 2022

Relocation

There were chimpanzees in our back yard. Oops, I did it again.  Chipmunks.  A dozen of them, constantly scurrying across the lawn from the sparse..
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  • Poetry
February, 2022

Just Silence

On some nights, she doesn’t eat but instead writes about the food she really wants. Jae Yook Gui. Kimchi jigae. Foods representing her Korean heritage...
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
February, 2022

Red Hand Woman

Author’s Note: I am an enrolled Native American member from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in Mandaree, ND. My people are the Hidatsa. Missing Murdered..
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  • Poetry
February, 2022

Playing moonlight sonata in the morning

Forgive me –The day breaks and so do I. Someone played the moonlight sonata at11 in the morning and all I could think of was..
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
February, 2022

Breaking Fast at the Baba’s Shrine

This piece by Ahsan Chowdhury resulted from his pilgrimage to Khwaja Baba's shrine a few years ago.
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  • Poetry
February, 2022

Nameri

Many have asked me,‘Who is Nameri?’Even you, Nameri. In all the world,there is only one Nameri.Nameri, the place,Nameri, the woman.Nameri:‘From God, who protects her,’from me,..
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  • Specials
  • TBR Recommends
January, 2022

TBR Recommends – January 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 poet, Abhay K.
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
January, 2022

In Times of Shadow Shows and Pandemonium: Returning to Ray Bradbury

At 61 years, in the midst of a pandemic, Keith Fadelici turns his attention to a collection of Ray Bradbury's novels & short stories on his bookshelves and inspects the author's lasting legacy.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
January, 2022

Lotus on the water

John breathes in deeply, feeling his chest muscles expand. Blood rushes around his shoulder muscles. He feels good. He’s going home now and will be able to be there for a while because he was told something this morning that he never knew until then: he’s non-essential.
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
January, 2022

Who are you without your things?

The cup broke into three pieces. There was no cinematic splatter of fragments; just a flat note of three sturdy pieces and a few splinters..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
January, 2022

The Essence of Your True Origin

The tight fabric of the kite kicked against the wind and shot up into the sky. It was an exceptionally windy afternoon, but the sky..
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  • Poetry
January, 2022

Abecedarian for A Child Brought Up with Magic

Architecture meant nothing— except blanket forts in August. I didn’t know aboutBrutalist monoliths, Renaissance churches & Gothic arcs. I only knew aboutCrafting glue. I smattered..
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  • Poetry
  • Specials
  • Translations
January, 2022

4 poems by Diego Valeri in Translation

Diego Valeri is an Italian poet and literary critic affectionately remembered as 'the poet of Venice'. Laura Valeri translates four of his poems here.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
January, 2022

Blue Sugar

It was time. Mama and Daddy said it was time.  I was almost nineteen years old.  I could haul wood, split logs, drive Daddy’s tractor,..
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Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2025

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