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The Bangalore Review

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
May, 2020

Hand-Me-Downs

You stand nakedalone in your roomlike a cradle.You step outinto the empty woods.You’re flying then a person appears, then anotheruntil a crowd is around you.Without..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
May, 2020

Perennials

In the garden. It looks like snow, a surreal May frost, but the sun slaps my winter-paled skin as I hunch over the tiny growths..
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  • Non-Fiction
  • Philosophy
April, 2020

How to be a Parasite

Study English and Migrate/Migrate and Study English A parasite is by its very nature a wanderer, an alien, a migrant – a creature who does..
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
  • Translations
April, 2020

Chitarroni and Chatwin in Patagonia

Author: Luis Chitarroni Title: From Siluetas/Silhouettes  (La Bestia Equilátera, 2012) Language:  Spanish (Argentina)  Excerpt Length: Approx. 1,300 Words Translator: Allison A. deFreeseRights Holder: Luis Chitarroni,..
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  • Culture
  • Non-Fiction
April, 2020

Facing Zhang Fei: Hero or Villain or Man

I’m the only foreigner on a bus from Chengdu to Langzhong Ancient Town, over three hours away north-east. A middle-aged lady, Wu Yahua, is next..
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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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The Bangalore Review
Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2025

ISSN 2770-0828

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