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October, 2021

TBR Recommends – October 2021

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 author and journalist, Uttaran Das Gupta.
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October, 2021

Two Stories by Allison A. deFreese

Two pieces of flash fiction by poet and translator, Allison A. deFreese.
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October, 2021

Foreignness

This personal essay by Dina Hendawi explores the dilemma of feeling foreign everywhere, including the place we call 'home.'
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October, 2021

Sing of Life: Revisioning Tagore’s Gitanjali by Priya Sarukkai Chabria

A review of Priya Sarukkai Chabria's "Sing of Life: Revisioning Tagore’s Gitanjali" by Maitreyee Chowdhury.
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October, 2021

Jayanta Mahapatra: A Reader edited by Durga Prasad Panda

A review of "Jayanta Mahapatra: A Reader" by Maitreyee Chowdhury.
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October, 2021

The Map of my Mother Tongue

Damilola Oyedele's essay explores language as both a barrier and a tether. Her accent and diction - influenced by the various Nigerian languages and dialects she speaks - shapes her interactions as an immigrant in the United States and South Africa, and tethers her to Nigeria, her home country.
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October, 2021

The House I Grew Up In

My father built the house with rocks; my mother threw them.  Snow came through the holes she made.  She watched us freeze. 
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October, 2021

Drought

You can tell me nothing, because I am nobody to you. Yet once I made the rainbow for you, and when it rained I kept you dry.
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October, 2021

On Princess May Road

Long familiar wooden bench Friday night streets Shiraz, Shiraz, Shiraz
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October, 2021

LeftRight

It was the year of strange weather. Whirring blades of Chinooks above him, he rehearsed a monologue sometimes, in preparation for a testimony he felt would be demanded, soon.
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October, 2021

A Five Gallon Water Can

A Five Gallon water can filled to the brim, I once learned, is about the density of the human body --blood, intestines, muscle and bone.
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October, 2021

Prison Bullfrog

He usually writes about his routine rising before 5:00 to weak coffee scrubbing floors, painting walls his one hour in the exercise yard, or a dream from the night before a fishing trip with his father long dead.
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October, 2021

Vases

The first time you decide to buy a vase you will know you have a home to bring it to
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October, 2021

Change of Season

In mid April, for two short weeks the Magnolia breaks its blossoms over the deck each of its eyes open wide
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October, 2021

Signature

The first letter of Georgia’s name was supposed to be a tribute to a dead great grandmother on her father’s side that no one remembered.
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September, 2021

The Yellow Notebook

The Yellow Notebook is from Aamer Hussein's anthology, Restless. The book is a collage of fugitive fictions, reminiscences of friends, and personal essays which, when read in sequence, offer an unofficial picture of one writer's private and public lives.
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September, 2021

The Garden Spy: A Diptych

The Garden Spy is from Aamer Hussein's anthology, Restless. The book is a collage of fugitive fictions, reminiscences of friends, and personal essays which, when read in sequence, offer an unofficial picture of one writer's private and public lives.
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September, 2021

Museum: A Collection of Four Works

A collection of four works of flash fiction presented in the style of four works from a museum.
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September, 2021

The Shape of Us: Exploring Post-Genocide Identity

“I believe that everything that happens to me now goes back to 1915.” Araz Artinian says in a voiceover. In her documentary, The Genocide in..
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September, 2021

The Night Jumpers

The moonlight shined on your brown hair, wet and wavy from the sandy river’s flow. My toes clung to the bark underneath my feet, and..
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September, 2021

Lines Before an Iron Bedframe, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum: A Collection of Four Poems

1 The bar with the U-shaped clampsto lock the prisoner’s feetstill lies on a bedframe wherea sleeper like me always assumesthe freedom of my legs..
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September, 2021

A Cookbook

Friday Night, the stillness, the madnessUnder the purplish sky Wear a pink blouse, come to a deserted gardenFireflies might come but you should not expect itFocus..
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