Translation
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In these calm stories of everyday life, Vinod Kumar Shukla elevates the small to the sublime
Sharmistha Mohanty
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How males were created: A Bengali feminist wrote this wicked fable nearly a hundred years ago
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
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‘I don’t see translation as something done for glory. It’s a very serious business’: Rita Kothari
Suhasini Patni
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Why translating HS Shivaprakash’s plays from Kannada to English demands ‘a calling for a calling’
Maithreyi Karnoor
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Fiction pick: What happened when Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose met Hitler? Read this re-creation
Vishwas Patil
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‘I saw how he sought to break the chains of caste’: Nirupama Dutt on translating Lal Singh Dil
Nirupama Dutt
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Poomani’s ‘Heat’ is a vivid novel concerned with the central difference between law and justice
Trisha Gupta
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‘The obduracy of women’: Why J Devika translated the works of K Saraswathi Amma from Malayalam
J Devika
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Why readers will almost never encounter anything like these two ‘anti-novels’ by Subimal Misra
Sayali Palekar
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‘Basanti’: A classic but experimental Odia novel from the 1920s is reinvented in English translation
Tyagraj Thakur
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‘Celestial Bodies’: The Man Booker International Prize winner helps highlight writings by Arab women
Shadya Radhi, The Conversation
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The trauma of being forced to learn English is played out painfully in this small town classroom
Neelesh Raghuwanshi
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The ministry of utmost translation: Lenka Lichtenberg on translating Arundhati Roy into Czech
Ipshita Mitra
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Man Booker International Prize: The winning novel tells the story of modern Oman through one family
Jokha Alharthi
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‘Kathakautukam’: If only this accessible translation of the Sanskrit epic had been all in verse
John Butler
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A boy kills a family foe and is on the run with his father in this novel set in rural Tamil Nadu
Poomani
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These two collections of Telugu stories depict women being battered daily. Do they work as fiction?
Sayali Palekar
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Fafnir’s heart: A legend from Norse mythology inspires an anthology of poetry from across the world
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
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This Urdu short story by Joginder Paul brings Indian readers a slice of life in Kenya
Joginder Paul
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N Prabhakaran’s eccentric short stories reveal how the bizarreness of reality can mess with our mind
Karthik Shankar