Translation
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‘Banaras Talkies’ in translation is an adroit recreation of a wickedly funny campus novel in Hindi
Mohini Gupta
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What makes the ‘Hitopadesha’ a timeless text on human behaviour? It is its playful language
Shonaleeka Kaul
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Why Jhumpa Lahiri says translating herself is ‘bewildering, paradoxical, doomed from start’
Sayari Debnath
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A young doctor’s contentious divorce makes her wonder if women can ever live truly independent lives
KR Meera
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A new prize for translating books from South Asian languages into English has been announced
Scroll Staff
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‘Breaking Free’: Devdasis find feminist solidarity in history, memories, and secrets in this novel
Vaasanthi
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‘A woman and fire are as ancient as civilisation’: Six Dalit-feminist poems by Poonam Tushamad
Poonam Tushamad
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This Malayalam novel is a sweeping family saga playing out amidst the mysteries of the forest
Sheela Tomy
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This epic challenges dominant Telugu literary styles to reflect the existential status of Dalits
Gurram Jashuva
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Slice-of-life novel set in corridors of a BHU hostel captures eccentricities of college life
Satya Vyas
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‘The Silentiary’: This novel from Argentina is classic literature for victims of expectations
Rohit Thombre
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Sister Lucy Kalapura tells the story of her protest against a bishop for sexual assault in this book
Sister Lucy Kalapura
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‘Authors are great, translators are not’: Shanta Gokhale on being a translator
Shanta Gokhale
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Kathryn Hansen: ‘Even knowing one South Asian language very well is not enough to translate’
Suzanne L Schulz
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The borders of reality are porous in these stories of spirits and other elements of the supernatural
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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Myth and history come together with magic realism in this recently translated Bengali novel
Amar Mitra
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‘The Wait And Other Stories’: Damodar Mauzo reaches into cracks and crevices in search of Goa
Sayari Debnath
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‘Hungry Humans’: The myth of personal choice in lives shaped by chance and deliberate ways of people
Aishwarya Dani
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‘Birds of the Snows’: Tarannum Riyaz’s novel charts the fateful journey of a family in Kashmir
Tarannum Riyaz
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‘Mai’: International Booker winner Geetanjali Shree’s first novel also talks of generations of women
Geetanjali Shree