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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
  • Fiction Special 2024
  • Specials
  • Writing From the Peripheries of Language
December, 2024

Gold-unTouch

After a while, his mother, parched with thirst, asked for water. An earthen pot stood under a ghaf tree, but it was forbidden for Dalits to touch it.
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  • Fiction
  • Fiction Special 2024
  • Specials
  • Writing From the Peripheries of Language
December, 2024

Shuklaburhi

Shuklaburhi’s father-in-law, Sri Bamacharan Prodhani, was a renowned man from Kalahaat village near Dhubri town.
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  • Fiction
  • Fiction Special 2024
  • Specials
  • Writing From the Peripheries of Language
December, 2024

Two Mini Stories

The hall was filled with hungry diners. She served the dishes on each plate as if it were her own body she had cooked.
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  • Fiction
  • Fiction Special 2024
  • Specials
  • Writing From the Peripheries of Language
December, 2024

Nani’s Noose

This is the way Nani is. Fire, one moment; cool water, the next.  Even her rage is special.
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  • Fiction
  • Fiction Special 2024
  • Specials
  • Writing From the Peripheries of Language
December, 2024

Tetari

Days would pass before she ate even a morsel of food … and there was no one to ask after her either.
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  • Fiction
  • Fiction Special 2024
  • Specials
  • Writing From the Peripheries of Language
December, 2024

House Warming

Dastgir transported farm produce for large farmers and worked as a cook whenever he could.
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  • Fiction
  • Fiction Special 2024
  • Specials
  • Writing From the Peripheries of Language
December, 2024

Tiffin Box

His mind drifted back to the hunger pangs that had plagued him from the beginning, a familiar sensation that...
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  • Fiction
  • Fiction Special 2024
  • Queering Language
  • Specials
December, 2024

No Regrets

It was a thing with Sheth. He had a special taste for teenage boys. He would hire them at the bar, enjoy them for a few months, and then send them away.
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  • Fiction
  • Fiction Special 2024
  • Queering Language
  • Specials
December, 2024

The Broken Column

I couldn’t change the time on the clock in Chachi’s house. Soon after college, I will have enough money to rent a room.
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  • Fiction
  • Fiction Special 2024
  • Queering Language
  • Specials
December, 2024

Jokhini and the Princess

Ivy yearned to make peace with the princess. She would wait outside the castle to see if the princess would come out.
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  • Fiction
  • Fiction Special 2024
  • Queering Language
  • Specials
  • Uncategorized
December, 2024

Mahmud and Ayaz – Excerpt

TBR presents an excerpt from R. Raj Rao's Mahmud and Ayaz
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  • Anthologies – The Editorial Perspective
  • Fiction
  • Fiction Special 2024
  • Specials
December, 2024

In Conversation with Dr A J Thomas and Ashutosh Potdar

TBR interviews Dr A J Thomas and Ashutosh Potdar
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  • Literature
  • Specials
November, 2024

TBR Showcases Eight Books from Independent Publishing Houses

At TBR, we wanted to recognise the efforts that go into independent publishing and showcase a few interesting books (published in 2024) that caught our eye.
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  • Specials
November, 2024

Re-reading the Classics – The Stranger By Albert Camus

In Re-reading the Classics, TBR tries to entice the readers into going back to reading some of the most famous books that were a large part of our growing up.
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  • Specials
November, 2024

From Shambuk to Vemula, Revisiting the Trajectory of Dalit Exploitation in India in Vemular Ramayana

Dr. Swati Chowdhury discusses Angshuman Kar's Vemular Ramayana staged at Minerva Theatre under the direction of Abhi Chakraborty.
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  • Poetry
November, 2024

The Greatest Poem Ever Written

But. The greatest poem ever written,  also must be a war poem,
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  • Poetry
November, 2024

Hillo

She was a fossil with no story to tell, no story of her own: yet contained in that dormant pulse were the stories of all...
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  • Poetry
November, 2024

Of Love and Laundry

Grateful for any help, I wept. My ex-sister-in-law. My friend. I had screamed Shame on you. My enemy holding my laundry.
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  • Book Reviews
November, 2024

Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries by Sumana Roy

Rituparna Sandilya reviews Sumana Roy's Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries
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  • Poetry
November, 2024

Dancing with Shame

I should say no more dancing on the outside since shuffling shame-faced off the stage classmates snickering But sister of spring’s first daffodils
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
November, 2024

My Uncle, The Fisherman

Uncle Louie stood beside the Dark Lake a long time, starring out at the placid water as the sun rose.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
October, 2024

Drones

He watches it drop silently into the trench between the soldier’s legs. Yuri clenches, as if the grenade has dropped into his own lap. The Russian soldier scrambles to rise up as the grenade explodes. Yuri stubs out his cigarette in
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