Fiction
Selected Fiction from the First 10 Years
The following Fiction pieces have been selected by the Editorial Team for the 10-year Anniversary Issue.
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Poetry
Selected Poems from the First 10 Years
The following Poems have been selected by the Editorial Team for the 10-year Anniversary Issue.
Non-Fiction
Selected Essays from the First 10 Years
The following Essays have been selected by the Editorial Team for the 10-year Anniversary Issue.
Editorial
Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri interviews Prerna Gill
Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri interviews poet Prerna Gill.
Specials
Banarasidas’s Ardhakathanak
Rohini Chowdhury has translated the seventeenth-century Braj Bhasha text, Ardhakathanak (A Half Story), the first autobiography in an Indian language.
Editorial
TBR Interviews Yogesh Maitreya
Our editor interviews Dalit activist, writer and publisher,Yogesh Maitreya.
Specials
Tracing Hundred and Fifty Years of Commercial Bengali Theatre
Armaan Singh translates Prabal Kumar Basu’s essay on Commercial Bengali Theatre
Editorial
TBR Interviews Jacinta Kerketta
Our editor interviews Jacinta Kerketta, poet, writer, activist and freelance journalist.
Specials
Understanding the Art of Translation
Welcome to another session of TBR Talks, where we discuss the art of translation. This session of TBR Talks is moderated by Maitreyee Chowdhury, Managing Editor at The Bangalore Review.
Editorial
TBR Interviews Sufia Khatoon
Our editor interviews Sufia Khatoon about her poetry collection, Germination.
Specials
TBR Recommends – October 2022
Every month, The Bangalore Review recommends a reading list, also mentioning in brief why each book must be read. This month’s list has been compiled by the literary translator, Rohini Chowdhury.
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TBR Recommends – September 2022
Every month, The Bangalore Review recommends a reading list, also mentioning in brief why each book must be read. This month’s list has been compiled by the award winning Photographer and Barrister, Suchitra Vijayan.
Specials
Quarantine by Rajinder Singh Bedi
C. Christine Fair, a professor in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program within the School of Foreign Service, translates Rajinder Singh Bedi’s timeless short story, Quarantine.
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Coffee House – The Leitmotif of Kolkata by Prabal Kumar Basu
Armaan Singh translates, from Bangla, an essay by poet Prabal Kumar Basu.
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TBR Recommends – August 2022
Every month, The Bangalore Review recommends a reading list, also mentioning in brief why each book must be read. This month’s list has been compiled by the Indian poet, Sonnet Mondal.
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Indie Publishers & Booksellers
Welcome to the first edition of The Bangalore Review Roundtable, where we discuss Indie Publishing & Bookselling in India. This session is moderated by Sucharita Dutta-Asane, Fiction Editor at The Bangalore Review.
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TBR Recommends – July 2022
Every month, The Bangalore Review recommends a reading list, also mentioning in brief why each book must be read. This month’s list has been compiled by Sekhar Banerjee.
Editorial
9 Years of The Bangalore Review
The anniversary editorial piece by our Managing Editor and some congratulatory notes from our wellwishers around the world.
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TBR Recommends – June 2022
Every month, The Bangalore Review recommends a reading list, also mentioning in brief why each book must be read. This month’s list has been compiled by Urdu Novelist and Sahitya Akademi Award winner, Rahman Abbas.
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3 Poems by Monibhushan Bhattacharya in Translation
Monibhushan Bhattacharya was a major poet who transformed the language of Bengali poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His poems were published in famous literary journals including the Buddhadeb Basu edited Kabita, Porichoy, Chaturanga and Purbasha.
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TBR Recommends – May 2022
Every month, The Bangalore Review recommends a reading list, also mentioning in brief why each book must be read. This month’s list has been compiled by writer, Jayasree Kalathil.
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Translations from Ṛtusaṃhāra and Meghadūta by Kalidasa
Kālidāsa was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India’s greatest poet and playwright. His plays and poetry are primarily based on the Vedas, the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇas. His surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems and two shorter poems.
Editorial
TBR Interviews Abhay K.
Our editor interviews Abhay K. about his poetry collection, Monsoon, and his translations of Meghadūta and Ṛtusaṃhāra.
Editorial
TBR Interviews Avinab Datta-Areng
Our editor interviews Avinab Datta-Areng after the recent launch of his debut book of poems, Annus Horribilis.