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March, 2025

Evolutionary Ecology

I’m letting fish and turtles Swim to the edges of this coastal river
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February, 2025

TBR Interviews editors Hilda David and Francis Jarman

Our editor interviews editors Hilda David and Francis Jarman
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February, 2025

The Moving Finger: A book by writers, for writers on the art of writing, edited by Hilda David and Francis Jarman – Excerpt from Jerry Pinto’s Essay “On Translation”.

TBR present an excerpt from Jerry Pinto's essay titled On Translation from The Moving Finger.
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February, 2025

A Necessary Interlude

Mansi looks at them. They seem terrified. A sense of guilt starts seeping into her heart.
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February, 2025

Male Child Insurance 

It's well known that in Indian culture, male children are considered the parents' support system for their old age.
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February, 2025

La Douleur

Ours was a space, gray amoebic and moss-soft.
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February, 2025

Asit, the Horizontal

There was no brain death. Even the night of the full moon came and went, but his brain had other plans.
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February, 2025

River Rock

The last time we met, he read me a line about how life is good though not fair.
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February, 2025

Instructions on Falling

I had my first seizure age 14. This created another original fear.
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February, 2025

Everybody Leaves

Today, on the broken-tiles of your sleeping house, we are both in the clouds again.
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February, 2025

Chlorine Fever

Only the car door and that chain-link fence separate me from the most glorious
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February, 2025

Coherence

She loved the sound so much, she did all the gutting after that. I enjoyed the feeling of washing the dishes,
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February, 2025

Crossroads

She was determined to get the shop closed. It was destroying too many families.
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February, 2025

Gulab Jamun

Not a day goes by without the auto horns, Or the political instability, Or chai,
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February, 2025

The Sinners, 1969

The next day I wrote myself a check for $400, detasseling money from the summer,
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February, 2025

i think of you often and fondly

it’s not like you’re the one that got away— i let you go,                      i let you go,                                            i let you go
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January, 2025

Three Poems by Gavrila Derzhavin in Translation

Peter Orte and John Hamel present translations of Derzhavin's three poems.
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January, 2025

Lost Souls

He had the same easy smile as Patrick, but his eyes were more calculating. They roved over her red flared pants, her pale blue shirt, her hair done up in ringlets.
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January, 2025

Rabindranath Never Ate Here by Mohammad Nazim Uddin

This is an excerpt from the crime thriller, Rabindranath Never Ate Here, by Mohammad Nazim Uddin of Bangladesh, a bestseller in Bangla. Translation by V. Ramaswamy.
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January, 2025

The Calf

Father had gotten the fabric from a business partner who had been to Bombay and it was rumored to be the most expensive of fabrics.
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January, 2025

red bean

I spend the forty-five minutes warming up, front-kicking & later getting my back straightened by sabumnim on the hard-wood, eyes
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