‘The long history of Sanskrit has many faces, including voices of protest and revolt’: David Shulman

An interview with the scholar and translator whose work spans, among other subjects, the languages of South India, history of religion and Carnatic music.

Veena Muthuraman

· Dec 30, 2018 · 07:39 am

Only a fraction of worthy modern Tamil books have been translated, says N Kalyan Raman

An interview with the acclaimed translator of Tamil literature into English.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Nov 04, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘You have to be very humble’: How Neerja Mattoo translates from Kashmiri to English

The first in a series of interviews featuring women translating texts from and into different languages.

Niyati Bhat

· Oct 28, 2018 · 08:30 am

Meet Shahnaz Habib, whose debut translation has won the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature

Before and after: What translating Benyamin’s ‘Jasmine Days’ involved, and what it means after winning the prize.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 27, 2018 · 07:00 am

From English to Kannada to Kannada to English: Tejaswini Niranjana’s mirrored path to translation

An interview with a polyglot cultural theorist on the practice of translation.

Trisha Gupta

· Jun 17, 2018 · 05:45 pm

How translator Jennifer Croft won £26,000 and the Man Booker International Prize

Croft won for her translation of ‘Flights’ from the Polish of Olga Tokarczuk’s unusual novel in fragments. This is how she did it.

Sana Goyal

· Jun 16, 2018 · 12:30 pm

From Urdu to English: Translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi chronicles his journey

‘My first foray into translation was because I was conceited.’

Ilona Yusuf

· Jun 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Meet the American who translates some of India’s finest Hindi writers into English

‘I was tired of translating detailed descriptions of male desire and women’s breasts.’

Trisha Gupta

· May 13, 2018 · 08:30 am

The function of the Gita is to reformat the human mind like a hard drive, says its latest translator

An interview with the US-based Amit Majmudar, whose latest translation of the Gita is titled ‘Godsong’. (And he’s translating it again.)

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Apr 29, 2018 · 05:30 pm

What Ekin Oklap can tell readers about translating Orhan Pamuk

An interview with the translator of three of Pamuk’s recent books.

Ipshita Mitra

· Dec 31, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Gregory Rabassa’s magical realism: ‘How does it sound? Translating by ear. It’s like music’

A 2013 interview with, arguably, the world’s most famous translator, who died in June 2016.

Susan Bernofsky

· Jul 02, 2016 · 08:30 am

I don’t become the writer, I inhabit the writer’s words: Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s translator

Ferrante has brought her the fame which the Italian-to-English translator’s body of work should have earned her even earlier.

Neena Bhandari

· May 22, 2016 · 02:30 pm