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The Bangalore Review

Vol. XIII | Issue 3 | October 2025

  • Non-Fiction
    • Art
    • Book Reviews
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    • Creative Non-Fiction
    • Culture
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    • Memoirs
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    • Nature & Environment
    • Philosophy
  • Specials
    • Editorial
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    • 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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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
April, 2020

The Consolation of Joy Williams

Can we incorporate and treasure and be nourished by that which we do not understand? Of course. — Joy Williams It was a fresh day..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2020

The Girl on the Roof

She arrived in Buenos Aires with the story born of her travels so fulsome in her that she felt like a woman she’d seen in..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
April, 2020

One Year, One Hundred Years

Imagine entering an apartment building that is outwardly non-descript, concrete, post-modern; it rises shadowing a mosque next door.  Imagine the muezzin’s call to prayer is..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2020

The Reincarnated One

1956 was an especially poor monsoon year, the drought which had gripped our region intermittently over the past few years was now starting to take..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
April, 2020

Lost and found

The old book’s cloth cover had turned gray. A friend, who knows my passion for Eastern poetry, had just given it to me as a..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2020

Arcs of Memory

I No one in Bodhi’s village had expected an ascent of the Mount Everest. It alarmed his mother. Men had trespassed on an abode of..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2020

Remarkable Fall

On an otherwise ordinary autumn day, I killed a three-year-old boy. One might think that the air held some hint of warning, but it didn’t—just..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
April, 2020

To The Horizon

The wind blows the dust and dry dirt across the plains, ceaselessly lifting it from the earth only to set it down again elsewhere. The..
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
March, 2020

Holden, Charlie, and the Fight for the Coming of Age

Ally H. Campanozzi delves deep into the psyche of adolescence and sexual trauma from the eyes of Holden and Charlie.
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
March, 2020

A Light to Read By: A Tribute to William Maxwell

Gretchen Comba writes a tribute to William Maxwell and discusses how his pivotal moments take place in insignificant moments that occur after the tragedy.
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  • Poetry
March, 2020

My Diary, My Alter ego

The Sukshma Series is a first-hand account of an educated woman of post-colonial India reflecting on how the social and political set-up of the country defined the status of an Indian woman.
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
March, 2020

Sympoetics

I bought this pen (the one I am writing with now) from the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. It is a small pen,..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
March, 2020

A Natural Arrangement

The caress of the morning call yanks my soul. It screams for attention. I cannot tell who calls whom or why. Beneath me, the dusty..
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  • Poetry
March, 2020

Asylum Melody

This baby, my gold. This banana plantation, hers.This wild bush, hers.This worm-laced dirt, hers. She will build me a house with wooden shutters and a..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
March, 2020

Rabbit Bone Pink

“One of us should live here some day,” Dinesh says, gazing up at the ceiling in the living room of 42 RC. His sister, Sathya,..
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  • Poetry
March, 2020

Death Of The Beast

You think with his death there will be the trembling of heaven and earth, but no, only silence coming from the furrowed field, where He’d..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
March, 2020

On The Prowl

The tightening in the center of my back and a slight tingling sensation inside my nose let me know that she had arrived. Mid hug with..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
March, 2020

Checkpoint 104

In the dusty, windy hills above Bethlehem, she drove alone along the lonely by-pass road leading north from Wadi al-Arayis toward East Jerusalem. It was..
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  • Poetry
March, 2020

Grandma

Grandma moves sunflower-faced in the kitchen, her hands breaking like leaves. Outside, deer eat the flowers. Long stretches of land where we search for golf-balls,..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
March, 2020

They’ll say it was an Honest Mistake

“Yo, J, Got a light?” I pulled the convenient store lighter from my pocket with finger cutoff gloves. My nails were blackened from the shop,..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
March, 2020

In Gresham

Temperature hit one hundred, making our third floor apartment close to like Hell. I spent the day with Ben in the playground, leaving him under..
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
December, 2019

Literary Shorthand: What Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast” Can Teach Readers About a Useful Writing Technique

Vincent Larson offers this fun, exploratory literary criticism on Hemingway's work, intended to help writers discover a type of literary notation that they might use in their own work.
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Vol. XIII | Issue 4 | December 2025

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