One Year On

One Year On

The Bangalore Review celebrates its first anniversary

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Tribute to a Phenomenal Woman

Tribute to a Phenomenal Woman

The Bangalore Review pays tribute to Maya Angelou

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Revisiting Premier's Mr. Shanbhag

Revisiting Premier’s Mr. Shanbhag

Arvind Radhakrishnan & Suhail Rasheed catches up with T S Shanbhag, the owner of Premier Book Shop, for a candid chat

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Reading the Book of Living with Michael Haneke’s Amour

Reading the Book of Living

Taline Voskeritichian’s review, meditation and analysis of Michael Haneke’s Amour

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Of Books and the Reading Life – One Bangalorean’s Personal Journey

Of Books and the Reading Life

Cheriyan Alexander’s recollection from a personal journey of reading and collecting books

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Hurriedly Brewed: The Taste of a City

Hurriedly Brewed: The Taste of a City

Maitreyee B. Chowdhury writes from her visit to Hatibagan in Calcutta

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Batik Maker

Batik Maker

Fehmida Zakeer reads the poem Batik Maker by Virginia Moreno, a celebrated writer from Philippines

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Through the Motions

Through the Motions

Sometimes, while grabbing coffee or during her lunch break, Kate would twist her wedding ring off and sit at a table by the door, watching…

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Caesar and His People

Caesar and His People

The phone rings like it always does and Kate answers it like she always does. She turns her freckled face in my direction and glances…

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Screaming for Colin Blake

Screaming for Colin Blake

First was the light. It grew from beneath the eave of the porch as the fluorescents flashed to life. She waved the moths away as…

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The Mental Migration & I Am Awake

The Mental Migration & I Am Awake

I am forced to catalog these collisions. Exquisite
explosions of potential flow through me…

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Blank Page with Black Muse

Blank Page with Black Muse

She lies upon the sheets
and bifurcates the whiteness
with the sheer black of her body
the heaving of her body

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Playing Well

Playing Well

Now how smooth is that, I say,
wrapping my hands around her,
placing the apron gently over
her head as she chops onions

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Nobel Lecture by Saul Bellow

Nobel Lecture by Saul Bellow

Every month, The Reading Room showcases a short story, or excerpts of a book, from some of the greatest writers the world has ever seen.

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