Translation
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Is this collection of stories about death, destiny or Benares? Perhaps it’s all three
Siba Barkataki
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A new book shows us ways to read Shahryar’s life in his poetry, and poetry in his life
Nikhil Govind
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‘You have to be very humble’: How Neerja Mattoo translates from Kashmiri to English
Niyati Bhat
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Meet Shahnaz Habib, whose debut translation has won the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Translating Asterix jokes and puns: The genius of Anthea Bell (and Derek Hockridge)
Aunty Muriel
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‘A true genius’: Twitter pays tribute to Anthea Bell, who elevated ‘Asterix’ with her translations
Scroll Staff
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‘A Nail on a Tamarind Tree’: This eerie short story explores a popular Indian belief about ghosts
K Madavane
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This poetry anthology reveals (again) why India must reclaim its own literary tradition of desire
Sayali Palekar
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Neelesh Misra’s universe of rural imagination does not travel well from radio to a book
Devapriya Roy
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Perumal Murugan’s ‘One Part Woman’ on the translated books longlist for the US National Book Awards
Scroll Staff
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JCB Prize longlist: What we think about when we think about contemporary fiction from India
Sana Goyal
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‘When I Hid My Caste’: Baburao Bagul’s short stories were steeped in his ideologically vibrant youth
Yogesh Maitreya
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Manzoor Ahtesham’s Hindi novel on the alienated post-partition Muslim in India is playfully truthful
Manzoor Ahtesham
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Five translated books by Indian women that you should read in this #WomenInTranslation month
Urvashi Bahuguna
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The idea of ‘untranslatable’ words says more about English speakers than other cultures
Laura Bailey, The Conversation
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This Assamese novel about Bengali Muslim settlers uprooted from their homes resonates sharply today
Rudrani Sarma
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Hindi writer Nirmal Verma’s stories from the 1960s give us people in love with loneliness
Oindrila Mukherjee
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‘Auspicious and intimidating in equal measure’: Translating Benyamin’s twin novels as a first-timer
Shahnaz Habib
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In this novel, a Bangladeshi woman sets out to find out whether her husband has really been hanged
Anisul Hoque
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Hallucinogens, two women living together, and ghosts from the past mark this deeply disturbing debut
Sangeetha Sreenivasan