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Oct 25, 2018
JCB Prize 2018: Benyamin's Malayalam novel Jasmine Days announced winner
The JCB Prize 2018 winner Jasmine Days is the story of a young Pakistani woman who witnesses the 2011 Arab Spring while working a radio jockey in a West Asian country -
Sep 19, 2018
Hindi poet-journalist Vishnu Khare, who translated works of TS Eliot and Goethe, passes away at 78 in Delhi
Vishnu Khare was part of the Hindi Academy and a recipient of the Order of the White Rose of Finland for his translation of Kalevala, the national epic of Finland. -
Aug 15, 2018
Gandhi and his autobiography will be needed as long as we desire to rise above our failings: Tridip Suhrud
Gandhi's autobiography can aid one in the quest for truth and desire to live an ethical life, says Tridip Suhrud who has authored the recently published Critical Edition of My Experiments With Truth -
Aug 02, 2018
After Yesterday: A search for home, hope and love in Appadurai Muttulingam’s translated short stories
A decade after Appadurai Muttulingam’s last collection of short stories in English comes After Yesterday and Other Stories, translated from Tamil by Padma Narayanan -
Mar 30, 2018
Women writers, regional literature and translation: Notes from a multilingual poets' meet
At a recent meet of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, poets reflected on the paucity of translators for regional languages and the representation of women in Indian writing | #FirstCulture -
Mar 01, 2018
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on the art of translation and its inextricable relationship with culture
According to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the only sincere way to translate, or to read a culturally different book, is to go beyond English and the very sense of one’s time | #FirstCulture -
Nov 26, 2017
From Perumal Murugan's The Goat Thief to Tamil Pulp Fiction, a look at recent notable translations
In the final part of the series on translation efforts in India, we take a look at all the translated works making news. -
Nov 11, 2017
Tamil Sangam poetry to Dalit literature, translation provides a window to words that might be lost
Translation, even when we do not notice it, is integral to our lives | #FoundInTranslation | #FWeekend -
Oct 29, 2017
Why the translation of vernacular literature in India into English is an act of solidarity
The translation of writings in vernacular languages into English brings voices of revolution and those of the subaltern to the privileged and the powerful — challenging them in their space. -
Oct 21, 2017
Found in Translation: A few noteworthy initiatives are helping Indian literature breach the language barrier
Nurturing of translation talent in India is also a relatively new and interesting space
