Book Reviews
Blood Brothers by Chandini Santhosh
Dipali Taneja reviews Chandini Santosh’s new novel, Blood Brothers.
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Creative Non-Fiction
Foreignness
This personal essay by Dina Hendawi explores the dilemma of feeling foreign everywhere, including the place we call ‘home.’
Book Reviews
Sing of Life: Revisioning Tagore’s Gitanjali by Priya Sarukkai Chabria
A review of Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s “Sing of Life: Revisioning Tagore’s Gitanjali” by Maitreyee Chowdhury.
Book Reviews
Jayanta Mahapatra: A Reader edited by Durga Prasad Panda
A review of “Jayanta Mahapatra: A Reader” by Maitreyee Chowdhury.
Creative Non-Fiction
The Map of my Mother Tongue
Damilola Oyedele’s essay explores language as both a barrier and a tether. Her accent and diction – influenced by the various Nigerian languages and dialects she speaks – shapes her interactions as an immigrant in the United States and South Africa, and tethers her to Nigeria, her home country.
Non-Fiction
The Yellow Notebook
The Yellow Notebook is from Aamer Hussein’s anthology, Restless. The book is a collage of fugitive fictions, reminiscences of friends, and personal essays which, when read in sequence, offer an unofficial picture of one writer’s private and public lives.
Memoirs
The Shape of Us: Exploring Post-Genocide Identity
“I believe that everything that happens to me now goes back to 1915.” Araz Artinian says in a voiceover. In her documentary, The Genocide in..
Creative Non-Fiction
Walking: A Health Story
Although my mother could not control what I ate—at least, what I chose to gorge on while she worked—she could make me get up and..
Creative Non-Fiction
Longing for the Rain: Remembering the Cherrapunjee Summers
Sohra or Cherrapunjee—which we still fondly call the wettest place on earth—is my birthplace, where my ancestral home is, and though only tenants live in..
Editorial
June Jazz & 8 years of TBR
We are proud to present the June Jazz Summer issue of The Bangalore Review as we celebrate the completion of 8 years of the magazine…
Literature
The Threshold Perspective
Playwright-poet Ashutosh Potdar’s questioning approach towards traditions and modernity gives his writing a nuanced and layered approach. We talk to him to know more about his thought process.
Book Reviews
Victory Colony, 1950 by Bhaswati Ghosh
Bhaswati Ghosh’s Victory Colony, 1950, is a portrait of resilience and a testament to humanity. The novel set in eastern India in the aftermath of the partition..
Non-Fiction
Elements of a Memory: A Phenomenology of Summers near the Sea
Long before air-conditioners were bought for our house in the coastal town of Puri, the dominant white noise during summers was that of the ceiling..
Non-Fiction
Parched
I stare out over the skyline of Mumbai. My nostrils flare as I inhale the scent of rain on the wind. Tiny droplets of sweat..
Book Reviews
The Anger of Saintly Men by Anubha Yadav
Jagged Edges of Masculinity Anubha Yadav’s debut novel is a play of stereotypes and tags that constitute male upbringing, entitlement and survival in India. It’s..
Creative Non-Fiction
Pennies
The first time I am told I am not actually Jewish, I am eight-years old and I am sitting on the bus. My hair is..
Book Reviews
The girl and the ghost by Hanna Alkaf
Hanna Alkaf is a writer from Malaysia where the legend of the pelesit originated—in Malay myth, a pelesit is a shape shifting spirit usually under..
Creative Non-Fiction
My Mother: Technology and Retirement in the Pandemic
My parents now have the same sleep schedule they yelled at me about in high school. My mother goes to bed at midnight and sleeps..
Editorial
From the Editorial Desk
Women have played a major role in our sustenance and growth during the last eight years. In our editorial team or in our submissions pile,..
Creative Non-Fiction
Dance Macabre, 2020
In the first week of quarantine my dad started wearing his mask and a tree branch nearly fell on our heads, nearly killing us. It..
Book Reviews
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings (2020), translated into English by Ginny Tapley Takemori, is a slim yet eerie novel about a young woman who feels peripheral to..
Creative Non-Fiction
Stage Entrance
The last acting job I had was on Late Night with David Letterman. A few months shy of my fiftieth birthday, I walked into the..
Literature
Bright Stain
As the title suggests, Francesca Bell’s debut collection of poetry, Bright Stain (Red Hen Press, 2019) is rife with complexity and nuance. A stain might..
Creative Non-Fiction
A Hard Day’s Night in Calcutta
One evening about eight Warren dropped by our apartment unexpectedly. As he walked in he said, “No surprises here: how did I know you’d be..