Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar’s epic ‘Sarpa Satra’

The work is a subversive retelling of the apocalyptic rite of snake sacrifice, which is the opening myth of The Mahabharata.

Hemang Desai

· May 09, 2021 · 05:30 pm

The translation debate: ‘No, translators do not alter the original story or distort its intention’

Literary translator N Kalyan Raman responds to writer Ambai’s observations on the perceived inadequacies of translation.

N Kalyan Raman

· Apr 18, 2021 · 05:30 pm

To pierce a mustard seed and let in seven oceans: Ambai on the art of translation

‘Some mysteries must remain.’

Ambai

· Mar 27, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Missed opportunity: What the debate about Amanda Gorman’s translators is really about

The question is not who ‘may’ translate a black woman poet, but who could have been made visible by being given the opportunity to translate her.

Haidee Kotze

· Mar 20, 2021 · 04:30 pm

Why controversies around cultural appropriation and identity politics should not end translations

The act and the art of translation require the permission to transcend borders, the permission to make mistakes and the permission to be repeated.

Mridula Nath Chakraborty, The Conversation

· Mar 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

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

Love for a language in translation will always have its imperfect bits, but also a delightful ambiguity.

Onaiza Drabu, Dawn.com

· Jun 25, 2020 · 06:30 pm

Mirza Athar Baig’s ‘Hassan’s State of Affairs’ underlines the art and challenges of translation

The original Urdu novel was recently translated by Shahbaz Haider.

Irfan Aslam, Dawn.com

· Apr 25, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Why read translations? Or, why there is no borderless literature and why that is not bad at all

The full text of the keynote address at the 7th edition of the Jaipur BookMark Festival delivered by Berthold Franke.

Berthold Franke

· Feb 23, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Pather Panchali’: Why translating this Bengali classic in the 21st century holds all-new challenges

Rimi, the translator of a new edition of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Bengali novel into English, explains what she set out to achieve.

Rimi

· Nov 30, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘I resisted reading translation theory before I translated’: A journey from reading to translating

‘A Handful of Sesame’, Maithreyi Karnoor’s translation of the Kannada novel ‘Halla Bantu Halla’, has been shortlisted for The Lucien Stryk Asian Prize.

Maithreyi Karnoor

· Oct 26, 2019 · 08:30 am

Found in translation: How 57 different languages have interpreted Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’

On International Translation Day, celebrating the linguists whose cultural reinventions have helped keep the passion and intimacy of the 1847 novel alive.

Matthew Reynolds, The Conversation

· Sep 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Why Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam is one of the most controversial translations ever

Edward FitzGerald’s translations of Khayyam’s verses as Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam not only transcreated Khayyam’s poetry, but also his identity.

Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia

· Jun 22, 2019 · 12:30 pm