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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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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2021

Flowers & Stars

Looking back, no-one could remember when the clown first appeared on the corner by the park. Everyone agreed that it was sometime last spring and,..
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
May, 2021

Pennies

The first time I am told I am not actually Jewish, I am eight-years old and I am sitting on the bus. My hair is..
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  • Poetry
May, 2021

Hush

A bed of pine needles hushesThe air of Autumn Forest.Black shaded river curls overDeep green stones.Space rests.Yonder, a woodpeckerSounds the core of a frosted pineWho..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
May, 2021

Historian

My wife screams and my daughter’s hair-mottled scalp crowns. The doctor guides my hands and I grasp my daughter, her small body taught and alive,..
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  • Poetry
May, 2021

Cardiac

A UCLA boy, crisp in cotton shirts,you came at me clean, knocking me over.  Even your painwas pure back then, your sweat sweet. You ripped..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
May, 2021

Ma in the Sitting Room

Ma at the bookshelves, searching for new knowledge. She takes a novel between her calloused fingertips, rummages through the pages like she’s looking for something..
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  • Poetry
May, 2021

Dream Poem

I wish I could tell youI didTell youAnd youStillDoNotKnowIt still has been a year you do not knowI could tell you and you will never..
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  • Poetry
May, 2021

Natural Disasters

1. The Derecho brings change spinningfrom its edge, a clock-hand turningfrom a pivot point in the Midwest,reaching Eastern cities in the foreignlanguage of straight wind..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
May, 2021

Priority One

ATTENTION PASSENGERS: Sorry to startle and disappoint, to inconvenience and annoy, but our priority one is not arrival or commute, it’s code for deliverance of..
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  • Poetry
May, 2021

In the Summer of Nasturtiums

Take a look around the roomNotice the absence of scary animalsUnpack your lunch sack            you may wear out your iron soled shoes           this is the pandemic..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
May, 2021

Mama was a rainbow

Everyone say black is the colour of death.  But Emily know it ain’t true.  Black is the colour of Mama bein’ alive.  It the colour..
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  • Poetry
May, 2021

Funereal

I. Sheboygan, Wisconsin November, 2017 There is a postmark on your faceblocking your view of beyond.Leaves fall arraying the ground in an autumnal palette.You cannot..
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  • TBR Recommends
April, 2021

TBR Recommends – April 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 the Editorial Team.
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  • Translations
April, 2021

Five Poems by Huang Fan

Walking When I walk, my shoes squeak in painI pretend it’s a blessingWalking will take my health to voidSo I pretend not hearing the pain..
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  • Poetry
April, 2021

Homesick for the Dead

Stumbling through the dust of cremation bones I dream of rivers rolling wide and green and deep – time is an abstraction – you walk..
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  • Book Reviews
April, 2021

The girl and the ghost by Hanna Alkaf

Hanna Alkaf is a writer from Malaysia where the legend of the pelesit originated—in Malay myth, a pelesit is a shape shifting spirit usually under..
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  • Poetry
April, 2021

Off the Bookshelf

The Essence of T’AI CHICH’UAN The Literary Tradition(Translated and ed. by BenjaminPang Jeng Lo et alia) My copy is falling apart;frontispiece with Chinese writing,Preface, Introduction..
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  • Poetry
April, 2021

Bill of Lading

BILL OF LADING Contents received by Charon, Inc. for shipping via sea freight, for deliveryTo the nearest available port of the far shore, consigned to..
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  • Poetry
April, 2021

If I made her once can I not make her again?

In the garden among flowersthe thick black ants make ecstatic highwaysover and into the sweet honeypot of cow-tongue peonies,the black-eyeds dip drunkenly into the foxgloves,all..
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  • Flash Fiction
April, 2021

Absence Makes the Heart

I wake up from my nap. The house is empty. You said you were going to the store, but that was many hours ago. In..
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  • Poetry
April, 2021

Letters

When I write to you, Hello,it’s marked with swollen      anticipation,and I wonderabout your interpretation:did I sound too curt?too friendly? too tender?too insecure?And when I write to..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2021

Who Cares for the Dead

A lean man of average height with intelligent eyes set far apart, a narrow chin, and a mouth that sloped downward at its corners, August..
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Vol. XIII | Issue 4 | December 2025

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