Bengaluru Review

29/07/2021

Dear friends,

Bengaluru Review has been running its first poetry mentorship programme for high school students. Please join us this Sunday in the final event when the cohort members present their poems written during the programme and share the stage with senior and well-known poets.

It is an online event conducted over Zoom, and anyone interested can join to cheer our young bards.

Date: Sunday, 1st August, 5:30 PM onwards.
Joining link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81455685946?pwd=VmJiOGN0MER5OXZNcnlQcWZ2bVVldz09

Meeting ID: 814 5568 5946
Passcode: 608520

28/07/2021

Dear friends, the Bengaluru Review website is down. We are switching platforms, and the website should be up soon again.

22/05/2021

Last call for applications!

Bengaluru Review is launching Perspectives in Poetry: A Poetry Mentoring Programme for 14-17 year olds (applications now open). This programme will introduce high school students to the history, evolution, aesthetics, and discourses in poetry and also teach them how to employ this knowledge in their own creative space.

- Open for age group: 14-17 years
- Maximum batch size: 15 (selected based on applications)
- Timeline: 10-week programme. May 30th to August 1st, every Sunday 3-5 pm.
- Fees: 3,000 ₹ for 10 sessions per student.
- Mentors: Sourav Roy and Poornima Laxmeshwar.
- Language of instruction: English.

Course syllabus and other details are on the Magazine's website here: https://bengalurureview.com/perspectives-in-poetry-poetry-mentoring-programme-for-14-17-year-olds-applications-open

Link to the application form here: https://forms.gle/EmHMdaUbhnrZ1e6L8

21/05/2021

Dear friends,

Bengaluru Review is launching Perspectives in Poetry: A Poetry Mentoring Programme for 14-17 year olds (applications now open). This programme will introduce high school students to the history, evolution, aesthetics, and discourses in poetry and also teach them how to employ this knowledge in their own creative space.

- Open for age group: 14-17 years
- Maximum batch size: 15 (selected based on applications)
- Timeline: 10-week programme. May 30th to August 1st, every Sunday 3-5 pm.
- Fees: 3,000 ₹ for 10 sessions per student.
- Mentors: Sourav Roy and Poornima Laxmeshwar.
- Language of instruction: English.

Course syllabus and other details are on the Magazine's website here: https://bengalurureview.com/perspectives-in-poetry-poetry-mentoring-programme-for-14-17-year-olds-applications-open

Link to the application form here: https://forms.gle/EmHMdaUbhnrZ1e6L8

06/05/2021

Dear friends,

Hope you are staying safe in these maddening times. Neither 2020 nor 2021 so far has been kind to anyone. The second wave of Covid has brought sorrow and pain to many of us personally. Given the situation, Bengaluru Review team has decided to cancel the Monsoon Issue 2021.

Bringing out an issue takes a lot of collective effort. As much as we love the pieces that are coming in, we feel that we owe it to ourselves and the people around us and take a sanity break. If you have sent us a submission for the issue, please feel free to withdraw it and drop us an email. In case you wish to wait, we are more than happy to consider them for the next issue.

These are times for prayers and healing. We promise to be back with the next issue as soon as possible. We pray for your safety and for those around you.

Editorial,
Bengaluru Review

04/05/2021

Dear friends,

Bengaluru Review is launching Perspectives in Poetry: A Poetry Mentoring Programme for 14-17 year olds (applications now open). This programme will introduce high school students to the history, evolution, aesthetics, and discourses in poetry and also teach them how to employ this knowledge in their own creative space.

- Open for age group: 14-17 years
- Maximum batch size: 15 (selected based on applications)
- Timeline: 10-week programme. May 30th to August 1st, every Sunday 3-5 pm.
- Fees: 3,000 ₹ for 10 sessions per student.
- Mentors: Sourav Roy and Poornima Laxmeshwar.
- Language of instruction: English.

Course syllabus and other details are on the Magazine's website here: https://bengalurureview.com/perspectives-in-poetry-poetry-mentoring-programme-for-14-17-year-olds-applications-open

Link to the application form here: https://forms.gle/EmHMdaUbhnrZ1e6L8

30/04/2021

“Very little in my own heritage has suggested to me that a wild living creature might bring me a direct personal message. (...) I am suspicious of adopted mysticisms (...) But our trajectory crossed at a time when I was ready to begin something new, the nature of which I did not clearly see."

Read Bengaluru Review's complete Spring 2021 Issue here: https://bengalurureview.com/bengaluru-review-spring-2021

Toward radical pedagogies and insurgent learning inspired by feminist antiracist epistemologies.

30/04/2021

In an exclusive interview with Poornima Laxmeshwar, Bengaluru Review’s Editor, Nandini and Shantanu discuss their experience with communities of young poets they have worked with over the past seven years.

Read Bengaluru Review's complete Spring 2021 Issue here: https://bengalurureview.com/bengaluru-review-spring-2021

Airplane Poetry Movement founders discuss the importance of community among poets, and an anthology they have been working on.

30/04/2021

"I’m writing about my mother’s funeral
to deflect
from my father’s imminent death.
It’s a futile exercise
and there is no comfort."

- David Harrison Horton

Read Bengaluru Review's complete Spring 2021 Issue here: https://bengalurureview.com/bengaluru-review-spring-2021

Three Poems by David Harrison Horton

30/04/2021

"A strange sting developed behind his eyes as the sunlight beamed through the kitchen window."

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"A strange sting developed behind his eyes as the sunlight beamed through the kitchen window."

29/04/2021

The marriage took place a year ago in May- the month when weddings shouldn’t happen because of the mood-ruining heat.

Michelle D'costa

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Melita was almost about to say, “Just because your husband doesn’t send you any letters doesn’t mean you can read mine.” But she held her tongue.

29/04/2021

Translated from Original Bangla by Barnali Saha.

Read Bengaluru Review's complete Spring 2021 Issue here: https://bengalurureview.com/bengaluru-review-spring-2021

Translated from Original Bangla by Barnali Saha.

29/04/2021

"You know a ghost lives on the lemon tree. Ghosts engulf thought because they are astral ones. Mere on thought they sense and make everything happen. But they lack equilibrium and balance which come from fear. Fear is a human trait. A human curse."

Pragya Suman

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"After glancing upon the plant on the ground, the cook blurted in such a pitch that I shivered at once!"

28/04/2021

Poems, prose, and couplets from my other life are better left behind. Poetry does not stand a chance in the real world, because the real world, unlike poetry is not beautiful.

Read Bengaluru Review's complete Spring 2021 Issue here: https://bengalurureview.com/bengaluru-review-spring-2021

"See the difference between you and me is age. But the similarity is that like you, I am also looking for myself."

28/04/2021

When the bank people came to take our farm, Pa rushed out of the house with a shotgun and fired over their heads, scaring me and Joey. Ma cried. The twins howled and clung to her flour-sack dress. Pa cursed the politicians, said they were just bumping gums when it came to veterans’ bonus pay.

Read Bengaluru Review's complete Spring 2021 Issue here: https://bengalurureview.com/bengaluru-review-spring-2021

“We’re staying on son, until justice is done.”

28/04/2021

"Your eyelids again flutter in your white early morning sleep
in search of another fragile dream
and a new red scar
It is probably your future"

Sekhar Banerjee

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Two Poems by Sekhar Banerjee

28/04/2021

Praveen Palakkazhi reviews The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka, a novel set in South-Asia.

Read Bengaluru Review's complete Spring 2021 Issue here: https://bengalurureview.com/bengaluru-review-spring-2021

Praveen Palakkazhi reviews The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka, a novel set in South-Asia.

28/04/2021

"Living in the moment was the only religion in town."

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"Living in the moment was the only religion in town."

27/04/2021

"Poetry is the resounding gunshot
Of the people’s fight."

Read Bengaluru Review's complete Spring 2021 Issue here: https://bengalurureview.com/bengaluru-review-spring-2021

Jointly translated from the Telugu into English

27/04/2021

You are not invited to the actual union, which started inside a Volkswagen, fumbled its way out of the car, rifled through pockets for keys, then stumbled its way to the sofa.

You are not invited to the actual union, which started inside a Volkswagen, fumbled its way out of the car, rifled through pockets for keys, then stumbled its way to the sofa.

"You are not invited to the actual union, which started inside a Volkswagen..."

26/04/2021

I felt Death staring right back at me and instead of fear, I felt a bubble of a feeling forming inside and before I could turn my attention to it, it popped right out of me and continued existing and all at once, I understood that there were certain ingredients that were a prerequisite to be normal and right now, all of them lay outside my body, and inside the bubble, swaying slightly out of reach.

Shene Bhat

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"The next time I met Death was when I was twelve."

26/04/2021

"night is a poem
written by a woman
with her head bowed
while black serpents slither
along her tresses
to be read only by those homes
that have turned insomniac."

Read Bengaluru Review's complete Spring 2021 Issue here: https://bengalurureview.com/bengaluru-review-spring-2021

Translated from the Malayalam into English