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

An interview with Shamya Dasgupta, Devi’s nephew and the translator of ‘Mirror Of The Darkest Night’ (‘Laayl-e Aasmaaner Aayna’ in the original).

Jai Arjun Singh

· Apr 06, 2019 · 08:30 am

How do you select and translate Urdu ghazals by 65 poets written over 500 years? Ask Anisur Rahman

The writer and translator explains how he selected the ghazals for his comprehensive collection, ‘Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi’ and how the form has evolved.

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Mar 31, 2019 · 12:30 pm

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

The Morgan Giles interview: ‘I talked about translating the book non-stop for two years till the publisher gave in’

Sana Goyal

· Mar 24, 2019 · 06:30 pm

What we talk about when we talk about translation (and its joys): Views from translators in the UK

A mash-up of conversations with the renowned international translators Ros Schwartz and Daniel Hahn during their visits to the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Mohini Gupta

· Feb 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘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