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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
September, 2017

Dire Situations

When Mr. d’Foos-Fong told Mrs. d’Foos-Fong he was going to kill himself, she said, “I am at a loss for words. But of course do..
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  • Music
  • Non-Fiction
September, 2017

Teaching the Harlem Renaissance

I Skyped with four eighth graders seated in someone’s living room while someone’s grandma puttered around in the background, obviously eavesdropping on our chat about..
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  • Culture
  • Non-Fiction
September, 2017

What They (Don’t) See

Starting in level 1, we began getting evaluations each spring. They checked boxes to indicate our progress in four categories, and now I can’t remember..
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  • Fiction
September, 2017

Trio’s

You’ve got to give a little, take a little, And let your poor heart break a little. That’s the story of, that’s the glory of..
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  • Fiction
September, 2017

The Master Carpenter

Charles Willett appeared both defeated and stoic while seated at the slab-table he’d fashioned years earlier from the choice reddish-brown heartwood of a Kentucky Coffee..
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  • Poetry
September, 2017

Legacy

she has inherited her father’s cracking bones and her mother’s dimple   she stands in front of the mirror, Ma’s green dupatta resting against her..
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  • Fiction
September, 2017

THE LONGEST DAYS

Our mosque leans to the left. That’s because it was a church before the Tidesville Islamic community put enough money together to buy it. Apparently,..
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  • Poetry
September, 2017

Brahmasthanam

All faces are one—   so worship the bull at the gate, the elephant-headed son, the rising serpent light, and the dark mother’s womb.  ..
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  • Poetry
September, 2017

The Liquidators

Soviet hazardous waste experts spent an estimated $2 billion on the cleanup and threw everything from converted moon rovers to radio-controlled bulldozers at the demolished..
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  • Fiction
September, 2017

The Bandwala

Sundar Brass Band, most popularly called Sundar Band, had arrived in the city of Bangalore quite early in the morning. Their performance was set to..
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  • Poetry
September, 2017

Your Camel

Tomatoes and cucumbers overcome by mint — green beans hanging from gutters — circles around eyes weepy with moonlight. We sit on your porch, gliding..
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  • Fiction
  • Translations
September, 2017

The leather bag

Translated from Tamil by Jayanthi Sankar She pressed the doorbell. One of the duplicate keys to the front door had been left with her. However, she..
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  • Poetry
August, 2017

State Road Sixty-Two

Twentynine Palms two thousand eleven a salty, old Marine tried to tell me the legend of the Joshua Trees   he spat brown juice from..
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  • Poetry
August, 2017

AFTER BAUDELAIRE

It’s all very poetic To gaze at oneself through a cracked mirror But far more tragic To wipe down a faultless one And find your..
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  • Poetry
August, 2017

A Portrait of My Mother’s Lover as an Anonymous Man

sometimes, you reduce him to this: the place at the back of his head where the hairs have begun to fall out still, he becomes..
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  • Poetry
August, 2017

Unrecallable Events

Circumstantial evidence entertains Thoughts of legitimate rape of the mind and memory Eliciting nomenclature of no men gathered in the recesses Pouncing As if Nothing..
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  • Music
  • Non-Fiction
July, 2017

King and Queen of the Weekend: The Glorious Revisionism of Lorde’s Melodrama

In 2013, Pure Heroine burst into pop culture with a precocious “Royals” that was more acutely aware of the limitations of adolescence and the humility..
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  • Poetry
July, 2017

At the observatory

It is the place where, without admixture or confusion, all the places of the world, seen from every angle, coexist. — J L Borges, The..
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  • Poetry
July, 2017

Out of the Aeneid

Next door a rooster inscribes his cry on the living cosmos.   Overnight my hair has become a nest of aluminum foil   to short..
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  • Poetry
July, 2017

The Final Darkness

“In this big world of adults, observing with my big round eyes, Mum said we are bound by love and friendship and live together as..
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  • Poetry
July, 2017

Skin is Core

Soap dissolves molecule by molecule, runnels toward   the drain and disappearance. The skin is core, outer the inner,   so only the shrinking, —rounding,..
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  • Poetry
July, 2017

FLOATING, FLOATING

Our lives race feebly in all directions. A frozen piece of land at the bottom of the earth… “I seem to hold in reserve something..
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The Bangalore Review
Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2025

ISSN 2770-0828

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