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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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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
April, 2019

Siblings

My brother and I park in the parking lot of Aldi, a German grocery store, and walk to the entrance.  Lying on the right next..
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  • Fiction
April, 2019

Votive Candle

“Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar.” – Antonio Machado One dollar Australian only buys Barb one votive candle, or so goes the..
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  • Poetry
April, 2019

Anthill at the mailbox post

There comes a point for us allwhen more peoplewe know have diedthan still live.You know that in a churchsomewhere a crowdplays Bingo while in anothera..
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
April, 2019

That Night..

Do you have a favourite mom-dad story, too? The one they tell you so often, and so vividly, that you feel you were right there..
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  • Poetry
April, 2019

Stilettos

You should never wear stilettos, they are evil, my mother used to say. Her other life advice included, Do not wax your arms, or shape..
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  • Poetry
March, 2019

Unturned

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
  • Word from the Streets
March, 2019

Food for the soul and the stomach

Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
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  • Culture
  • Non-Fiction
March, 2019

Having a Pension: The Last American Dream Becomes an Element of Myth

Whereas hope and empowerment characterize the realm of dreams, mythic landscapes can be quite different, rife with obstacles the hero cannot overcome, despite hard work..
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  • Fiction
March, 2019

So Far

Shankata­hara Chathurthi: auspicious day dedicated to Ganesha … is observed … on the fourth day of … the waning lunar phase … – Internet Sarasu..
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  • Fiction
March, 2019

Fight Night

Cleveland woke to roosters crowing at daybreak downstairs in one of the hotel garden courtyards. He and Anong had left the balcony door open by..
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  • Poetry
March, 2019

Our English Cousin (2)

(Without covering the tedious detailsthat would have to happen beforesuch a provision would be realized),since in my will I made a bequest“to found at Washington,under..
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  • Poetry
March, 2019

Summit

They put a robot car on Mars to take pictures of rocks.It takes quite a while for the data to come back. About my future,..
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  • Cinema
  • Non-Fiction
February, 2019

Wakanda forever, lah, beyond the West

TGV is the newer of Miri’s two movie theaters. Past the vendors selling durian and rambutan in the tamu, the stall keepers offering nasi lemak..
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
  • Word from the Streets
February, 2019

No mere film star!

The arts and culture pages of the day before yesterday’s Hindu newspaper (April 24th 2015) brought back vivid memories of my first visit to India..
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  • Fiction
February, 2019

Almajiri

AThe woman standing outside in the drizzling rain without an umbrella is Suspect X and has been under surveillance a while now. A black leather..
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  • Fiction
February, 2019

Three Nights to Marriage

Tell her, just tell her, I told myself. She towered over me on Broadway as we crossed in front of traffic, her long legs stretching..
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  • Poetry
February, 2019

Droog 76

Our last bottle finishedno said my Russian friendthere are always seven drops leftseemed empty to me he holds the bottle up and waitsexactly seven dropsthere..
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  • Poetry
February, 2019

THE WINTER EVERY PEN STOPPED WRITING WHILE THERE WAS STILL PLENTY OF INK LEFT

was not a metaphor, and I like to thinkthe weed wasn’t either, the wayit took me three monthsto smoke half an ouncebecause I had one..
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  • Poetry
February, 2019

MY FATHER’S FATHER HAD SYPHILIS

He was a peddler in a horse-drawn wagon that sank beneath a load of watermelons, canary-yellow corn, bushels of gladiolas and mountains of ruby-red grapes...
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  • Poetry
February, 2019

The Pistol as Means of Communication

To not go home in January, I will burn my new calendars, as if they were bridges. An exercise just for show? What do you..
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  • Poetry
January, 2019

Queen of the Cosmos

The pink dogwood buds pop on green branch.In St. Peters church: beneath the Lucite cross, from his snowy mountain, rajastic in white,Father Conri gives a..
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
January, 2019

Two facets

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been torn between the two irreconcilable halves of my person- Tanisha, my name on every official document,..
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Vol. XIII | Issue 4 | December 2025

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