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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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  • Fiction
January, 2017

Hsi-Wei and The Twin Disasters

Note:  The following is drawn from the Tang Minister Fang Xuan-ling’s account of his extensive conversations with the peasant/poet Chen Hsi-wei, whom he visited in..
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  • Poetry
December, 2016

Braille

lately my mind is a dreamy soup Yours, polished rosin. I stand grey as a doorway To embody sleep my chance to mishear when you..
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  • Fiction
December, 2016

Dry Day

The date was 27 June. Or it may have been 28th. I’m not sure. But this took place at a time when I was still..
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  • Poetry
December, 2016

Exiled at Home

I find it amusing, yes when people refer to their nation as the Mother Land. My mother’s land is not mine. I have no claim..
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  • Culture
  • Non-Fiction
December, 2016

The Sway

  In Ecuador I keep seeing a trace of 17th Century handcarts known, at one time, to have carried Confucius.  But now we’ve come to..
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  • Poetry
December, 2016

His Death: Part I

took my arm and said something about MRSA climbed into a sitting position took on his own half-assed-half-lotus “I had an axe and a wife...
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  • Poetry
December, 2016

Am I Now I?

Change the way you think you’re escaping toward the blue and fuzzy, bleeding into a wash. [Ask me not to say it.] Awake from the..
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  • Poetry
December, 2016

Nothing is Ever Destroyed

I wanted to stay in that little town with you The one with all the chickens And the movie house on fire Late at night..
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  • Fiction
December, 2016

The Ballad of Maher’s Skin Cancer

When he told her that Dr. Kahn said he had skin cancer because over the years he had refused to wear a hat, sat too..
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
November, 2016

A Magical Review: Harry Potter and The Cursed Child

  Harry Potter and The Cursed Child hit the bookstores on 31st July, 2016 and it has been causing an insane amount of excitement  across..
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  • Poetry
November, 2016

The AC/DC Dark -for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”

In my fully charged battery life youth, my bedroom blazes nightlight electric, my nursery rhyme records spin twilight warped, the gorilla’s cymbals clash a flat..
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  • Poetry
  • Translations
November, 2016

For a Poem

Translated from Bangla by Md. Ziaul Haque. I go near a tree and utter: Oh kind tree, can you provide me a poem? The tree..
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  • Culture
  • Non-Fiction
November, 2016

The Commune

America has a long history of utopian experiments, a history that stretches far beyond the hippie communes of the 1960s. Some of the earliest European..
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  • Poetry
November, 2016

Notes from a Himalayan Village

A constant hammer on wood and a distant conversation. Two voices, two villages, Separated by a river that scorns The silence and floats into my..
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  • Poetry
November, 2016

Cartography of a Broken Town

i. a city of stuttering street lamps, sinking paper boats & swirling streets, you were born into/ shadows possessed you till you laughed at your..
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  • Poetry
  • Translations
November, 2016

Oh Freedom

Translated from Bangla by Md. Ziaul Haque. Freedom, you’re The classic verses of Tagore, timeless lyrics. Freedom, you’re Kazi Nazrul a great man with thick..
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  • Poetry
November, 2016

Inadequacies and Reassurances

I will sleep tonight, I tell myself Despite the insomnia that developed After you left, like the filth that washed up— Mainly broken bottles of..
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  • Poetry
November, 2016

Shit poetry

Shit poetry went for poetry festivals sponsored by corporates drunk champaign wrote about rain flowers, cherry tree, birds, butterflies, clods, love and sex in the..
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  • Fiction
November, 2016

Trespass

Every day, before I begin my rounds, I stop at our home’s shrine to Zheng He, the one whose voyages over 300 years ago started..
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  • Poetry
November, 2016

Mother Tongue

“If you write in English, you cannot know your own emotions.” ~ a poet I once met Mother’s tongue. Say it slow to staunch the..
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  • Poetry
  • Translations
November, 2016

Riches

Translated from Bangla by Md. Ziaul Haque. When I stand the wall reflects the shadow, My very own shadow. Two eyes are there Behind the..
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  • Poetry
November, 2016

The Moon Machine Begins

They’re selling the projected lightshow pyramid scheme selling the world one way tickets to all tomorrow’s parties they come wrapped in self-reflexive electrical tape hand..
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