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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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  • Poetry
June, 2021

Be my Home

December came like a thiefin a black robe,at a fated hour while the Gods slept,and devoured my Dad. January cut me into shards,broke my limbs,crushed..
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  • Non-Fiction
June, 2021

Elements of a Memory: A Phenomenology of Summers near the Sea

Long before air-conditioners were bought for our house in the coastal town of Puri, the dominant white noise during summers was that of the ceiling..
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  • Non-Fiction
June, 2021

Parched

I stare out over the skyline of Mumbai. My nostrils flare as I inhale the scent of rain on the wind. Tiny droplets of sweat..
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  • Book Reviews
May, 2021

The Anger of Saintly Men by Anubha Yadav

Jagged Edges of Masculinity Anubha Yadav’s debut novel is a play of stereotypes and tags that constitute male upbringing, entitlement and survival in India. It’s..
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  • Poetry
May, 2021

Another Poem about Oranges

–Mint Vinetu Bookstore, Vilnius So, Jonas said, you should write a poemabout eating an orange at the counter.It’s a tangerine, I thought,but didn’t tell him...
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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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The Bangalore Review
Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2025

ISSN 2770-0828

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