‘Kathakautukam’: If only this accessible translation of the Sanskrit epic had been all in verse

John Butler

· May 27, 2019 · 05:30 pm

A boy kills a family foe and is on the run with his father in this novel set in rural Tamil Nadu

Poomani

· May 27, 2019 · 08:30 am

These two collections of Telugu stories depict women being battered daily. Do they work as fiction?

Sayali Palekar

· May 19, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Fafnir’s heart: A legend from Norse mythology inspires an anthology of poetry from across the world

Priya Sarukkai Chabria

· May 16, 2019 · 08:30 am

This Urdu short story by Joginder Paul brings Indian readers a slice of life in Kenya

Joginder Paul

· May 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

N Prabhakaran’s eccentric short stories reveal how the bizarreness of reality can mess with our mind

Karthik Shankar

· Apr 28, 2019 · 07:30 am

This novel in translation imagines the Partition from the perspective of women who stayed at home

Niyati Bafna

· Apr 27, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How Intizar Husain’s Partition trilogy gently probed the wounds of the tragedy

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Apr 21, 2019 · 08:30 am

A master Tamil storyteller turns the quotidian into a tour of human psychology in his short fiction

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Apr 20, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘An Incident from 1919’: Saadat Hasan Manto’s haunting short story on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Saadat Hasan Manto

· Apr 13, 2019 · 07:30 am

Annie Ernaux: At 78, one of France’s great writers is finally wowing English language readers

Elise Hugueny-Léger, The Conversation

· Apr 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Hajiyani’: Read the piece that won the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-to-English translation

Javed Siddiqui Fatima Rizvi

· Apr 07, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How Mahasweta Devi’s historical romance, starring courtesans and thugs, was translated into English

Jai Arjun Singh

· Apr 06, 2019 · 08:30 am

This Sanskrit epic, derived from a Persian work, brings together figures from many religions

AND Haksar

· Apr 01, 2019 · 06:30 pm

Why is everyone suddenly reading this Japanese novel? The translator tries to explain

Sana Goyal

· Mar 24, 2019 · 06:30 pm

Kamal Kumar Tanti’s poems present the politics and poignance of being marginalised in a distant land

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Mar 23, 2019 · 08:30 am

This highly dramatic Thai novel is a meditation on sorrow and loneliness (because it is about love)

Suhasini Patni

· Mar 16, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Have English translations obscured the music and wordplay of the Bible for the sake of meaning?

Robert Alter, Aeon

· Mar 04, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Do literary translations need financial patronage? Ask Kalpana Raina, who has been doing just that

Mohini Gupta

· Mar 03, 2019 · 07:00 am

How a Sinhalese writer and an Urdu translator collaborated without knowing each other’s language

Ajmal Kamal

· Mar 02, 2019 · 12:30 pm