How a publisher and a foundation are furthering translations between India’s languages

A partnership between Zubaan publishers and the Prabha Khaitan Foundation is showing the way.

Sanchit Toor

· Sep 03, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Who has the right to translate Dalit literature? New answers to an old question

What is the translator doing in the process of choosing to translate a politically charged work from what is often described as marginal literature?

S Satish Kumar

· Jan 21, 2023 · 02:30 pm

What translating ‘Kusumabale’ meant to Susan Daniel, winner of the Sahitya Akademi award

Daniel won the 2019 award for translating Devanoora Mahadeva’s ‘Kusumabale’, considered a particularly difficult text, from Kannada into English.

Susan Daniel

· Mar 07, 2020 · 08:30 am

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

The US-based Raina is behind an initiative to foster translated literature in India.

Mohini Gupta

· Mar 03, 2019 · 07:00 am

Why the subtitles for ‘Sacred Games’ are offending both Congress members and Hindutva supporters

Released on July 6 on Netflix, season one of ‘Sacred Games’ is drawing anger and attention from both ends of the political spectrum.

Devarsi Ghosh

· Jul 11, 2018 · 08:15 am

Can translations become a vehicle of cultural resistance? No, because they always were

Literary gatherings provide a space for certain clichés that remind us of the increasingly vulnerable contexts literatures in translation represent.

Parvathy Raveendran

· Aug 13, 2017 · 03:30 pm

These seven poems by Ashok Vajpeyi show why Hindi poetry matters

Continuing our new series of works of Indian literature in translation.

Ashok Vajpeyi

· Mar 18, 2016 · 01:30 pm

This Hindi memoir dealt with same sex relationships in 1939

Continuing our new series of works of Indian literature in translation with poet Suryakant Tripathi Nirala’s story about his own life.

Suryakant Tripathi Nirala

· Mar 17, 2016 · 01:30 pm

How to slaughter a pig in your hut in the dead of night

The second in our new series of works of Indian literature in translation features Bhisham Sahni’s ‘Tamas’.

Bhisham Sahni

· Mar 16, 2016 · 01:30 pm

How to get a role in a movie instead of your boyfriend without even trying

The first in a new series of works of Indian literature in translation.

Ashokamitran

· Mar 15, 2016 · 01:30 pm