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Parvathy Raveendran
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Can translations save India’s endangered ‘mother tongues’?
Political and historical pressures continue to suppress the use of local languages and impose a universal one.
Parvathy Raveendran
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Can translations become a vehicle of cultural resistance? No, because they always were
Literary gatherings provide a space for certain clichés that remind us of the increasingly vulnerable contexts literatures in translation represent.
Parvathy Raveendran
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How do you translate classic literature for contemporary readers?
It must be a meaningful conversation with the currents, conflicts and concerns of the present.
Parvathy Raveendran
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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What did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar think about Dalits praying in temples and eating with Brahmins?
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Mid-life running works wonders for the knees, hips and spine
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‘No educated person will vote for the BJP. What is the point of studying if we do not get jobs?’
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Translated short fiction: A 73-year-old Indian man goes to Bangladesh, his ‘land of birth’, to die
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If these libraries do not exist in the real world yet, they should
Inevitably, it all began with Borges, as ‘Invisible Libraries’ reveals.
Parvathy Raveendran
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A subversive handbook, psychology manual and style guide for women who choose to remain single
But you could be fooled into thinking these stories are about lyricism and lovemaking.
Parvathy Raveendran