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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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  • Poetry
April, 2021

The Bunny Man

The electric piano comes in. It’s a Hohner Pianet.The keys go:Duh-Duh, Abm, Db/Ab,Duh-Duh, Abm7(b5), Db/Ab,Lloyd Loar’s Vivi-Tone Clavier.[1]Sharp staccato hits. Brighter, with less sustain.Did you..
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
April, 2021

My Mother: Technology and Retirement in the Pandemic

My parents now have the same sleep schedule they yelled at me about in high school. My mother goes to bed at midnight and sleeps..
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  • Poetry
April, 2021

Young

I don’t rememberif we kept any plants. If we fussed over themlike new parents worried that the waterwasn’t enough or the sun. I remember a..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2021

Fear and Feathers

Every evening, she set up the altar afresh, because she couldn’t leave it out overnight. Even if it didn’t rain, the dew at dawn was..
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  • Poetry
April, 2021

Miss Alice

I remember the missionaries’ daughter Alice at Tullahasee,eating sofke, writing a Creek dictionary in her room,the stick she used to correct the wrong Mvskoke girl,teacher’s..
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  • Editorial
  • Non-Fiction
March, 2021

From the Editorial Desk

Women have played a major role in our sustenance and growth during the last eight years. In our editorial team or in our submissions pile,..
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  • Translations
March, 2021

Grandpa

Then Grandpa walked in. Tall—he just cleared the lintel—and smiling, undoubtedly well over seventy, but quite strong. He was holding a prickly plaid lap blanket...
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
March, 2021

The Jim Crow Dope

“There’s not supposed to be a test,” I said. The man behind the table gave me a skewed look, his mouth turned in a malignant..
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  • TBR Recommends
March, 2021

TBR Recommends – March 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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  • Poetry
March, 2021

Last night I dreamed my mother was Carl Reiner and I was sad she died

They had nothing in commonbesides being smart New Yorky jews,Carl was a creator and my motheran other… while laughing listeninghis 2000-year-old man spinningin shiny blackness..
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  • Poetry
March, 2021

Monarch

                           an ironic name to give a butterfly                           one gets the distinct impression                           deposed, have been                           in the bloodiest of purges                           in whispers we cheer them on                           from the shadowy sidelines                           eagerly..
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  • Poetry
March, 2021

Dreaming in Blue

Note: This poem is best viewed on a Desktop Computer with widescreen. The week before he was bornI dreamt only in blue, like paint names the..
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  • Poetry
March, 2021

What I was like when I came in

I liked the feeling of being knifed to piecesand sent bleeding down a hilllike earth torn in torrential rainsracing through an innocent village                                  I might..
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  • Poetry
March, 2021

Ragamala

I never wanted a homenor a Lotus Sutra    I am not a lotus eater    a homeis a place to hanghistory floatingin etymologicalsoundfacts    a privilegethat is created..
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
March, 2021

Dance Macabre, 2020

In the first week of quarantine my dad started wearing his mask and a tree branch nearly fell on our heads, nearly killing us. It..
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  • Poetry
March, 2021

Take Us Ornately Hanging Girls

Take us ornately hanging girls  composed of candles and scintillating light, as sacred as bael fruit. It is our wild-born nature to cling to the..
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  • Poetry
March, 2021

Blue

Blue light on dark rivers, blue notes floating in veils of wind          down chasms of blue canyonswhose denouement issuesinto fields of tiny bluets limning the dawn. I..
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  • Poetry
March, 2021

Penelope Diaz Ramirez, 31, Bayamon, Puerto Rico, April 13

The third in eight days. Penelope, how can a life be reduced to facts,and those so few? And used to compare youwith those who died..
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  • Poetry
March, 2021

Trapped

I saw a woman peeling an orange at a traffic light and thought of you. She had the orange on top of the steering wheel,a small,..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
March, 2021

Ten

The tears came early that night, something she had expected. She had felt it building all day, a jagged boulder against her chest, sliding deeper..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
March, 2021

Land Lore

Alan finds a glade with no overhead branches that might come crashing down if winds blow up. But hard ground, rough with exposed pebbles, frustrates..
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  • Translations
January, 2021

Resigned Song by Antonia Pozzi

Resigned Songfor A.M.C Come, my sweet friend:on the firm white roaduntil the whole valley turns blue.Come: it’s so sweet to walknear you, even if you..
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Vol. XIII | Issue 4 | December 2025

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