The July 2020 Issue of Bengaluru Review is an assortment of some of the best submission we rceived towards the short story contest running over the past months . With nearly 200 submissions, it was an uphill task for the team and the judges to arrive at a final result. A special note of thanks to our judges, Shinie Antony, Madhavi Mahadevan, and Vasudhendra, who took the time from their busy schedules to go through the selected submissions and arrive at the final winners.
The winning, shortlisted, and longlisted stories are as follows :
Winner :
Little Star : Winning short story by Carol Pang
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First Runner Up :
Girls and Boys : Winning short story by Vrinda Baliga
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Second Runner Up :
Migratory Birds : Winning short story by Sudeepta Sanyal
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Shortlisted Stories (in no particular order) :
Meera : A short story by Pragya Bhagat
Endra’s Mask : A short story by Stephen Douglas Wright
The Founding Story Of Climate Change Village : A short story by Venkataraghavan Subha Srinivasan
Calling All Rebel Gardeners : A short story by Rebecca Winslow-Pandey
Good Bones : A short story by Sahiti Gavarikar
The Darkness of Truth : A short story by Anna Peter
Behind the Veil : A short story by Sarthak Kukreja
Fluffy Xavier Junior Rests Here : A short story by Purnesh Bhattacharya
Keep it clean the grave, down in Burma Shave : A short story by Dinesh Raghavendra
Those who follow shadows, by Raoul Djimeli
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Longlisted Stories (in no particular order) :
Counting Backwards, by Shruthi Menon
Exam Day, by Radhika Lata Murthy
The Damned Heart, by Paresh Tiwari
The Little Girl, by Rose Maria Thomas
Believer in Disbelief, by Muddasir Ramzan
The Dreams of Freedom, by Abilash Chandran
Papayas of Gobra, by Sufia Khatoon
The Divide, by Sheela Jaywant
The End of the Affair, by Himangshu Dutta
Carmine, by Sharika Nair
The Armadillo, by Sudipa Palit
Rio-Bogota-London, by Kirtana Kumar
Dragon's Tail, by Priyanka Kapoor
You Don't Step Out Of The House For A Long Time, by Michelle D'costa
Exhaling, by Tia Basu
The Photograph, by Sara Sohail
Cities as Metaphors of Love, by Bijaya Biswal
Changeling, by Suchi Govindarajan
The West Facing Window, by Shameek Ray
The Song of the Fireflies, by Vignesh Babu