Bibek Debroy
What is lost in Vikram Seth’s wonderful translation of Hanuman Chalisa is bhakti
A landmark Hindi novel of the 1960s, now translated into English, tells of a woman caught between individual freedom and social obligation
An Indian novel wins the International Booker Prize for the first time. The act of translation must now be sustained and strengthened
In appreciation of translators ‘who make the space between languages as small as possible’
The familiar and the fantastical permeate a new collection of stories by Haruki Murakami
Was the first English translator of the Mahabharata really the scholar we think?