International Translation Day: Translated books that translators from Indian languages recommend

Scroll Staff

· Sep 30, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘The Dance of the Masks’: A man lives in isolation, oblivious of the pandemic. Then he goes out

VH Nishad

· Sep 29, 2020 · 05:30 pm

A woman is allowed out of her home for the first time at 40 in this novel of dark family secrets

Leesa Gazi

· Sep 10, 2020 · 08:30 am

Why Premchand thought hatred, guided in the right direction, is as useful in life as in literature

Premchand

· Sep 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How to translate Perumal Murugan: Nandini Krishnan on her experience with ‘Estuary’

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Sep 04, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘The Cock is the Culprit’. It offends everyone’s sentiment. A mob bays for its blood

Unni R

· Sep 02, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How are India’s literary translators coping with the pandemic? Nothing is lost in translation

Ambar Sahil Chatterjee

· Aug 27, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Trump is wise like an ullu’: US commentator Tomi Lahren in her message for Indian supporters

Scroll Staff

· Aug 25, 2020 · 12:23 pm

‘How long does it take a hand of my country to reach a hungry mouth?’ Six poems by Kedarnath Singh

Kedarnath Singh

· Aug 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm

The English translation of Perumal Murugan’s first novel lets down its craft and intent

Yashasvi Arunkumar Vighnesh Hampapura

· Aug 09, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Estuary’: Perumal Murugan calls his new novel pure fiction. But we find plenty of truths in it

Yashasvi Arunkumar

· Jul 26, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Estuary’ is Perumal Murugan’s first novel to be set in a town and not a village

Perumal Murugan

· Jul 20, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘It was difficult to imagine that people can run a trade in organs’: Benyamin on his new novel

Shevlin Sebastian

· Jul 18, 2020 · 08:30 am

Who gets to make the choices that affect an individual’s life? This novel asks this crucial question

Shree Thaarshini Sriraman

· Jun 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Not fully knowing a language opened me up to its inherent poetry’: Writer-translator Onaiza Drabu

Onaiza Drabu, Dawn.com

· Jun 25, 2020 · 06:30 pm

‘Blood’: When the NRI is caught between a country he has left behind and one he cannot call home

Anu Kumar

· Jun 08, 2020 · 08:30 am

This translation of two of Chandrasekhara Kambar’s plays shows why his work is important

TP Ashoka

· May 30, 2020 · 08:30 am

Found in translation: Joginder Paul’s satirical Urdu novel about corruption and greed

Joginder Paul

· May 21, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Nothing imagined is excessive’: Eleven poems for (and from) a world gripped by a pandemic

Perundevi

· May 20, 2020 · 05:30 pm

A rediscovered classic Bengali novel finds its way to new readers through an English translation

Sunil Gangopadhyay

· May 12, 2020 · 10:13 am