Page 4 – The Bangalore Review

June, 2025

Winning while Losing

The writer makes the unique argument that athletic competition is not actually competition but rather mutualism, in which all the participants benefit

Poetry

June, 2025

Restrained Approval of Decorative Porcelain Tiles

Elevated into the high rafters of heat,

Specials

May, 2025

Re-reading the Classics – Once There Was A King By Rabindranath Tagore

In Re-reading the Classics, TBR tries to entice the readers into going back to reading some of the most famous books that were a large part of our growing up.

Specials

May, 2025

Writer Bishwanath Ghosh takes TBR on a journey through his study and home

Writer Bishwanath Ghosh takes TBR on a journey through his study and home.

Poetry

May, 2025

TBR pays homage to the last of the Beats-poet Gary Snyder, who turns 95!

Poetry

May, 2025

Watercolor: A Quiet Moment in the Garden City—Bangalore, India

After dinner I hear the music of the ceremony across the street.

Poetry

May, 2025

Leaving the City

You board another train, but it’s another season, maybe even another year. You travel quietly. Pairs of eyes sit across in varying degrees of kindness.

May, 2025

The Door and the Dog

Had I been asleep, I might have missed the sound, like a strange scuttling against the walls. I glanced over at the boy in the corner, but he remained silent

Literature

May, 2025

The Poetry of Prose Writers

Sudeep Ghosh offers snippets of some prose writers whose works do not cease to fascinate him for their levels of poetic sweep and grandeur

May, 2025

October

I stub the butt of my cigarette out and stare blankly at the too trimmed row of bushes bordering our backyard. Michigan is chilly in October. I go inside.

Poetry

May, 2025

Aloe

Plant mother to plant mother, I get it The sun shines on, dutiful and tired And I am tempted to break

Translations

May, 2025

The Death by Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi (Translated by Jyotirmoy Prodhani from the Assamese short story, ‘Mrityu’)

Jyotirmoy Prodhani translates Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi's Assamese short story, ‘Mrityu'.

Poetry

May, 2025

On Hamlet’s Flute

On Hamlet’s flute old bones of Elsinore shook and shuckered up the graves they died and dyed the earth in.

May, 2025

The Invasion

The berries they usually found in wild abundance failed to materialize. At first the stories struck her as apocryphal. Bears were reportedly ripping...

Poetry

May, 2025

House of the Dead

The dead mattered more than the living. One night, the fire alarm didn’t go off.

Poetry

May, 2025

rain is rare and it is welcome but it doesn’t solve anything and actually that’s okay

And the rain swept in a little fast for her liking but there was no helping it was there And nobody picked up the phone when she called

Editorial

April, 2025

TBR Interviews Prafull Shiledar

TBR Interviews Prafull Shiledar, the Editor of Yugvani.

Specials

April, 2025

Re-reading the Classics – Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

TBR celebrates Charlotte Bronte's birth month April by re-reading two chapters of her classic novel Jane Eyre. In Re-reading the Classics, TBR tries to entice the readers into going back to reading some of the most famous books that were a large part of our growing up.