International Translation Day: Listen to ten translators around the world talk about their craft

Scroll Staff

· Sep 30, 2024 · 03:30 pm

‘An act of dancing in chains’: Ranjit Hoskote on the ‘luxury of interpretation’ in translation

Tansy Troy

· Sep 01, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘If I was a believer, I’d talk like him’: Why MG Vassanji wrote a novel about physicist Abdus Salam

Mandira Nayar

· Aug 25, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘Syeda’s story is also Delhi’s story’: Why Neha Dixit wrote about an ‘unknown’ working-class woman

Yamini Krishnan

· Aug 17, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘There are tales of hope even in the face of relentless destruction’: Wildlife writer Stephen Alter

Amrita Talwar

· Aug 04, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘The novels I write are pretty much an excuse to indulge my delight in language’: Rohit Manchanda

Mahika Dhar

· Jul 27, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘I’m a product of Indian socialism’: Theatre actor-director MK Raina talks about his life and memoir

Sujata Prasad

· Jul 14, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘I have spent at least a part of my day writing since the age of seven’: Anita Desai

Sayari Debnath

· Jul 06, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘No poem or story can exist without its spine of the truths of the world’: Poet Rochelle Potkar

Jayanth Kodkani

· Jun 29, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘I wanted to know if feminist politics was all but lost’: Academic Srila Roy on her new book

Anjali Chauhan

· Jun 02, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘Queer, for me, is anything that deviates from normative desire’: Saikat Majumdar on his fiction

Hoshang Merchant

· Jun 01, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘I believe in neither government reports nor happy literature’: A writer-translator conversation

Sayari Debnath

· May 25, 2024 · 08:30 am

International Booker Prize interview: How Kira Josefsson translated ‘The Details’

Harshaneeyam

· May 12, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘It all starts with knowing your text’: How prizewinning designer Bhavi Mehta makes book covers

Sayari Debnath

· May 12, 2024 · 08:30 am

International Booker Prize interview: How Annie McDermott translated ‘Not a River’

Harshaneeyam

· May 05, 2024 · 03:30 pm

‘Knowing we’re mortal gives us purpose’: Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan on his new book

Scroll Staff

· May 04, 2024 · 07:30 am

International Booker Prize interview: How Johnny Lorenz translated ‘Crooked Plow’

Harshaneeyam

· Apr 28, 2024 · 01:30 pm

What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India

Manasi Kumar

· Apr 24, 2024 · 08:30 am

International Booker interview: How Sarah Timmer Harvey translated ‘What I’d Rather Not Think About’

Harshaneeyam

· Apr 21, 2024 · 03:30 pm

‘I stopped at an essential ambiguity’: How Sharmistha Mohanty wrote ‘Book One’ thirty years ago

Sayari Debnath

· Apr 20, 2024 · 05:30 pm