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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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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
September, 2019

De-parted

Train travel was slowly dying out like the art of writing letters. I didn’t care for such statements made by various people I knew. I..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
September, 2019

Excuse Me, Sir, May We Invade Your Home?

For Roald DahlIn heaven, or wherever he may have gone Laszlo Oxbreast bound old and rare books. His work required the utmost caution and particularity,..
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
September, 2019

Seen Anew

The restoration of sight is nothing short of miraculous. The most treasured of our senses, sight helped the first humans differentiate safe from unsafe food,..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
September, 2019

Postpartum

After an excruciating week of meetings in New York City, my husband was to arrive back home via bus. Noon sharp, he’d told me. He..
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  • Poetry
September, 2019

Rejection

The letter comes from a far countryon an early April evening, when the moon is fulland stars run quietly. The good earth, bored with the fecund promise..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
September, 2019

Violation

She’d been worried about her daughter all day. The little girl’s temperature had risen to 38° and she’d called the doctor. Now the child was..
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  • Poetry
September, 2019

Topiarius

A man in Derbyshire,grows trees into chairs.Oak & willow are tiedto forms, pruned to complyto templates that determinetheir utility & usagelike children bound bytheir parent’s..
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  • Poetry
September, 2019

Trial & Error

Sometimes late at nightwhen they’re done their roundsand I’m sure no one is listening,I speak to Sylvia Plath: You’ve died before I had time—we’re much..
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  • Poetry
September, 2019

I Want to Be Myself

Today a man, a woman, and a child much younger than me asked me who I wanted to be I responded with – Is that..
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  • Poetry
September, 2019

A Shadow is a Gentle Lover

The shadow is the ice melting down ravines of drowned hipbones, beadings strung in the sunlight.  It rubs its head between two stones, peeling back..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
September, 2019

You in the Dark

After school, you play with Mindy. She lives two houses away and has a big brother. He’s tall and lanky and if you knew the..
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
August, 2019

Ethics & Environmental Stewardship in The Road

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road can best be described as an exploration of human complexity in the wake of life-threatening conflict. It follows the story of..
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Categories
  • Book Reviews
  • Non-Fiction
August, 2019

Side Effects of Living: A Book Review

Side effects of Living: An Anthology of Voices on Mental Health (Edited by Jhilmil Breckenridge and Namarita Kathait)Publisher: Speaking Tiger I grew up in a..
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  • Poetry
August, 2019

Witch of the Night

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
August, 2019

A Woman named Samantha

Coming up from the West Fourth Street subway, I texted that I was a block away from the Washington Square Diner. Don’t rush, I’m early...
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
August, 2019

Wait

Randal didn’t know that it wasn’t normal to wait until your father got home from the bar before you could have dinner.             It wouldn’t..
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  • Poetry
August, 2019

we’ll always have Terracotta Warriors dusted in Han Purple, never looking behind

“Drinking mercury to the mystery of all that you should ever leave behind…. in time.”  “Ava Adore,” Billy Corgan My purple skin projects royal essences..
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  • Poetry
August, 2019

Love As Told

And as the sets reverse, to bring age to each step, Every sordid moment worse, lost is the night to its solemn shroud And as I were, softly..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
August, 2019

Big Dusty

To Russell, always called ‘Dusty’ since the day he was born, his father was a big man; not just big but BIG. He had big..
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Categories
  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
August, 2019

The Combination Padlock

A man couldn’t remember the combination to a padlock. He didn’t want to break it, so he tried 0000, then 0001. He was prepared to..
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Categories
  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
August, 2019

Silver Lining

Everyone knows people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, you catch more flies with honey, that love makes the world go round.  This..
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  • Poetry
August, 2019

One Way Back to Babylon

“Can I go home yet?” Such a small voice for a big statue On a grey stool in the cornera British Museum guard yawnsand turns away..
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The Bangalore Review
Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2025

ISSN 2770-0828

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