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  • ‘Boats Nudged into the Sea’: Ambai on text, translation and authors who refuse to die

    ‘Boats Nudged into the Sea’: Ambai on text, translation and authors who refuse to die

    Ambai
    · Apr 13, 2025 · 03:30 pm
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    Saloni Sharma
    · Dec 28, 2024 · 08:30 am
  • Detective fiction: Ambai’s private eye Sudha Gupta is on a mission to uncover Mumbai’s underbelly

    Detective fiction: Ambai’s private eye Sudha Gupta is on a mission to uncover Mumbai’s underbelly

    Ambai Gita Subramanian
    · Jul 19, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • The translation debate: ‘No, translators do not alter the original story or distort its intention’

    The translation debate: ‘No, translators do not alter the original story or distort its intention’

    N Kalyan Raman
    · Apr 18, 2021 · 05:30 pm
  • ‘There is no need to specify that I am a woman writer’: Ambai

    ‘There is no need to specify that I am a woman writer’: Ambai

    Sharanya Manivannan
    · Sep 02, 2017 · 07:45 am
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    Tamil writer Ambai’s new creation is a... detective

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    · Jul 24, 2016 · 07:00 am