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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
  • Word from the Streets
January, 2019

If I really must go shopping

II dislike shopping. That is, I am intolerant of the endless mind-numbing browsing of groaning shelves and sagging racks of items that I can live..
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  • Fiction
January, 2019

The Painting

She could not reconcile the large oil painting hanging in the shadowed hallway of the assisted living suite with the frail woman lying on the..
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  • Poetry
January, 2019

C’est Fini

The credits roll and the audience applauds on their feet.The sunset’s colors bid adieu before the night cloaks the earth.The last leaf of autumn floats..
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  • Poetry
January, 2019

A Vigil on Tiger Hill

The dark climb before dawnto catch the first lightbefore it grows common.Windows rolled downto un-spelled anagramsall over night’s loose gown. Memory of an early downpourIn..
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  • Poetry
January, 2019

UNFOUND

If it was true, if it was true, I would be sitting at one windowAll one morning, testing the strength of the color blue. Is..
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  • Fiction
January, 2019

Manasil

Your mother, unbeknownst to you, tries to reach you. With a barren heat mere inches from her scented palms, she breathes deep unthinkingly at home...
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  • Poetry
January, 2019

The Payoff

Simply press the shutter halfway downto activate the metering system. Initially, you may find the system irksome,but may soon recognize its value. You’ll realize your..
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Categories
  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
  • Word from the Streets
December, 2018

Morning Raga

Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
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  • Book Reviews
  • Non-Fiction
December, 2018

The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch — Book Review

Sameen Borker reviews The Sensational Life & Death of Qandeel Baloch, by Sanam Maher.
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  • Fiction
December, 2018

The Saga of an Unusual Friendship

We sit at the open courtyard, around a small, round table in bamboo chairs gazing out at the passing heads. The garden would gift us..
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Categories
  • Poetry
  • Translations
December, 2018

A Nilgai Deer in the City of Delhi

Between the high walland the roadwith six lines of trafficon a scrap of dried out soil under a dried up treea deer standsin the very..
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  • Fiction
December, 2018

A Long Time Burning

I thought about torching the place; finally, just burning the house, the barn, and the field to the ground. I longed to hear the wooden..
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  • Poetry
December, 2018

Coming to grips with the sound of water

I should live in Tucson or somewhere parched, with no water of its own, anyplace that can only provide me a few critical drops a..
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  • Fiction
December, 2018

Narcos

NPerhaps the blue ones would take her swimming in the cobalt waters, diving into the deep, deep ocean of oblivion, breathing water and narcotics instead..
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  • Poetry
December, 2018

The Dormouse and The Wig

“These are strange and uncertain times,”said the dormouse        to the drag queen’s fallen wig.The stock market was acting up again        and overflowing its banksThe lords rode the..
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  • Poetry
December, 2018

Some People Sleep a Lot Before They Die

I’m looking at yougoing to look at flowersseated across in t r a i n s as the fields swim past usthe horses in their..
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  • Poetry
December, 2018

Where We Meet

In bed, in the dark, your fingers brush the jagged “x”that marks my damaged past.I flinch out of habit, force myselfto be completely naked with..
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
  • Word from the Streets
November, 2018

Vendors of Dignity & Cows of Jayanagar

Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
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  • Book Reviews
  • Non-Fiction
November, 2018

The Best Asian Short Stories 2017

Fehmida Zakeer reviews Kitaab's first anthology of The Best Asian Short Stories.
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  • Fiction
November, 2018

Maruti 800

Pishi’s car had still not pulled out of the driveway. Inside the house, Baba’s door closed on us. Under the yellow porch bulb that was..
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  • Poetry
November, 2018

Or So My Mamma Said

He was a man, like all the rest, or so my mamma said. The violet and green that decorate my body, a sign of his..
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  • Poetry
November, 2018

Strange Visitations

This is where they come to roost in the twilight of their lives, waking to river song and birdcall riding the waves of myriad river..
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Vol. XIII | Issue 4 | December 2025

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