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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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  • Poetry
June, 2017

Musings on the Old Abalone Song

“In Monterey the squid they say is tender as baloney. But here I’ll pound a little round of tough old abalone.” George Sterling was Bohemian,..
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  • Poetry
June, 2017

Through the Sea Black as Tar

I cannot reach you…   If the waves would rise on the first day of September a Prince of Venice will depart down the sea..
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  • Poetry
June, 2017

Do You Remember My Name?

I only want to know your name. there is a drizzle of homemade jam on this memory i think i have, like a hug under..
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  • Poetry
June, 2017

A Pastoral Woman

(1) On Rogation Sunday in a field in Kent The flowing blessing is presently underway. And in a building too shy to hold a woman..
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  • Poetry
June, 2017

The harbor never changes

Scour-faced, jet-lagged, fresh from the airport, they plod up the tower’s steps  and stare across to the Old Man of Storr’s sky-pointing finger.   And..
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  • Fiction
June, 2017

Model Citizen1

George Tandle stood, patiently waiting for the 7:38 from Bunker Hill to Hardchester. From the lofty vantage point of the station, he could see nearly..
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  • Poetry
June, 2017

2017

I. She relates to me that a race vet in Kaltag has misplaced a glove, gone gloveless and at forty below developed frostbite. This year,..
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  • Poetry
May, 2017

The Fang of Oblivion

It has become mechanistic at this point. I placed the blade in your larynx. I have grown tired of your voice. Your speech isn’t free...
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  • Poetry
May, 2017

A Foray into Metaphysics

They were trying to catch my eye as I hurried past an old tree, the abandoned pencil factory, and what was rumored to be a..
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  • Poetry
May, 2017

The Housewife Dreams the Drifter

Here beneath the hems of evergreen, beside the weathered shed where sunlight doesn’t reach, the housewife squints and takes it all in until she sees..
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  • Fiction
May, 2017

The Strings

The walls were a sterile white, bright enough to blind. I kept my eyes partway closed, watching the nurses walk past in their crisp candy..
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  • Fiction
April, 2017

Post Mortem

Kusum, A. (18 November 19–) Letters to the editor, Dainik Bharat, Manoranjan Ravivar, p. 5-6. Editor’s note: Printed here unedited, this curious letter and its..
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  • Fiction
April, 2017

Shell Game

My anxiety went through the roof once Adam left. The cage I had built to contain my fears collapsed – a cage formed from the..
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  • Culture
  • Non-Fiction
April, 2017

Accidental Landlord

Enticed by stories of people who were flipping houses and making piles of money, I bought a run-down house on Montrose Avenue in spring 2006...
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  • Poetry
April, 2017

23

At 23 let us count the things We have lost to the fire: We entered the Corporate We skipped the breakfast On Monday mornings We..
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  • Fiction
April, 2017

Clearcutting

We had all these kids uprooting trees. We provided chainsaws. They sent chips of bark flying, catcalled to one another, egging each other on. I’ve..
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  • Memoirs
  • Non-Fiction
April, 2017

ZAYDE

  My grandfather had died. I was four years old. I rested my elbows on my mother’s knees and gazed up at the strange men...
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  • Poetry
April, 2017

Snow-hauler

Heavy snowfall at a military base, in a scorching Naples in August: where the Austrias, and after them the Borbons, and much later Maradona, and..
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  • Culture
  • Non-Fiction
March, 2017

Temple of Irreverence

I am neither religious nor especially spiritual nor convinced that God exists. Jewish by background, I am secular in practice. And while I appreciate the..
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  • Fiction
March, 2017

Needles

Mandy Bishop had heard a good bit about acupuncture over the years. She was, after all, fifty-four and the Chinese therapy had been somewhat in..
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  • Fiction
March, 2017

Love at Last Dance

Traffic inches along the 101 Freeway at rush hour South of San Francisco on a Friday evening except for the luxury buses racing up the..
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  • Fiction
March, 2017

The Village of One House

Last year, in the month of July, usually a time of reckoning that comes in the wake of appraisals at an advertising agency, I realised..
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Vol. XIII | Issue 4 | December 2025

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