The December 2020 Issue of Bengaluru Review contains (click on the titles to read):
Essays:
- That Thing About Nostalgia, by Neha Sureka
- On the Aesthetics of Moral Ambiguity, by Dustin Pickering
- A Little Less Magic: Notes from a film buff's diary, by Suryadipta Guha
- Richmond Town's Bohemian House is an architectural marvel of adaptive reuse, by Deeksha GM,Varshini Gopal, Merina Benny and Ananya N S
Short Stories and Fiction:
- A Lamp Facing East: A story by Veena Narayan
- Control + Zero: A story by Sravanthi Challapalli
- The Sister Who Wouldn’t Smile: A story by Monisha Raman
- Mkupuruma: A story by Gerald Ewa
- Memory shafts: A story by Neera Kashyap
- A Seller of Grief: Flash Fiction by Ritika Bali
- The Subway Diary: A story by Vijayender Cherupally
- Chillies like Chips: A story by Madhurima Das
- Your Last Selfie: A story by Cathy Adams
- Pasture Statues: A story by Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi
Interviews:
- "We as Indians have never frankly confessed our ways of lovemaking": Pitambar Naik
- "The verb ‘to be’ remains unsolved by both science or philosophy": Pranav Sharma
Book Reviews:
- Utpal Chakraborty’s Kirigami is a delicate work of art with powerful impact: A review by Annapurna Palit
- Dhruba Jyoti Borah's Hunger makes us swim in an ocean of pathos and raw emotions: A review by Dr. Namrata Pathak
- Sit up and take notice of the widows in India : Mansi Dhanraj Shetty on Bani Basu’s 'A Plate of White Marble'
- A book set in Bolshevik Russia that redefines "survival": Anantha on Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow
Film Review:
Poetry:
- "Of the world at night, all we can know is death": Two poems by Tobias Freeman
- Tanka Prose and Haibun by Kala Ramesh
- "If you were a stranger to our rains": Four poems by Soni Somarajan
- "Now where do the ghosts live? I ask.": Three poems by Amlanjyoti Goswami
- "Perhaps, numbers are neutral / useful only for setting limits": Three poems by Ankush Banerjee
- “Chain-linked to the moon”: Three Haiku by Samuel Strathman
- "And just as I had everything plated up, / you knocked on my front door as arranged": Three poems by Camillus John
Translation:
- Eight Women Poets in Translation from the Malayalam by Arathy Asok
- "I’d read poems to rocks / not one rock melted": Three poems by Vasant Abaji Dahake translated by Suhit Kelkar
- "There is no road at all": Five poems by Davide Nota translated by Giacomo Lilliù