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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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  • 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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  • Poetry
November, 2016

Grandmother Boogie

My grandmother sang the song from Jaws Show Me The Way to Go Home fire danced a double Dutch Yiddish hopscotch pinkie ball capoeira smoked..
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  • Poetry
November, 2016

Technicolor Sweet and Sour Grapes

You said yes because you believed it would flood you with shiver broken glass blizzard colored not ash showered Schindler but 2001 What Shall We..
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  • Fiction
November, 2016

The Fruit Grove Girl

I’m not sure why I didn’t tell Grandma about the girl sleeping in our fruit grove. It was around midday when I found her. The..
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  • Fiction
November, 2016

Insomnia

Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato..
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  • Poetry
September, 2016

Terracotta Soldiers

Here is nothing that burns yellow giving the light that raised civilisations and enabled following civilisations to see it happening.   Yellow, the colour of..
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  • Poetry
September, 2016

what poetry should do

They were debating what poetry should do best. One says that it should break the shackles of papers strip the oppressive paperback clothing run through..
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  • Fiction
August, 2016

Being Red

I haven’t really done much. The least I can do is write this down while I can. I was a lazy redhead – the sloth..
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  • Poetry
August, 2016

Lighthouse

My son has ears filled with light It is filled so hard with light it Shuts out the noise. I pray he heals of blindness,..
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
August, 2016

Mahasweta Devi: Writing as Protest

Embed from Getty Images   When I first read Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi, it created a minor explosion in my ‘reading’ life. The theme and starkness..
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  • Poetry
August, 2016

How do you remember your childhood?

As a pair of overworn ghungroos, their gentle patter across the linoleum floor. My master’s feet fluttering around the room in circles. The poetry of..
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  • Fiction
August, 2016

Grace and Jimmy

When I was a child, I saw my father as the Indian Jimmy Dean. He was a young god.  That’s why my mother married him.  ..
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  • Poetry
August, 2016

Aunt Laura, Where’d You Go?

I sit at the edge of my driveway drinking an apple juicebox, staring at my purple toenails. I’m eighteen but parts of me have never..
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  • Fiction
August, 2016

The Story of the Woman Who Fell in Love with Death

In an armchair at the center of a Starbucks, nearly hidden by its arms, a young boy reads, perplexed but concentrating hard: Once upon a..
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  • Poetry
August, 2016

Family History

Born 1931 Here, by afternoon the sun slants down like candelabra; heart of mangoes shimmied fairy dust on her back. My grandmother picks the thumba..
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  • Poetry
July, 2016

At the Bar

I sat at the bar between two men ones ear had recently been cut off he still wore the bandages and the other had one..
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  • Fiction
July, 2016

Bunny Hop

My destination was about 30 miles from Reno-Tahoe International Airport. I drove along I-580, to US-395 S., to US-50 and took exit 39 and as GPS..
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  • Memoirs
  • Non-Fiction
July, 2016

In a Dark Wood

1 There were four bunks in the room and two seemed already claimed.  Some boxes sat on them, partly opened, and some clothes hung on..
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The Bangalore Review
Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2025

ISSN 2770-0828

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