Tanul Thakur
A regional classic brings out the dehumanising experience of prison life
The pleasures and perils of translation came to the fore at a recent literature festival
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s translations of Kabir, with a generous dose of American slang, are awkward at times. But the remix experiment is worth the risk of failure
When a renowned free market economist takes to translating an entire epic from the original classical Sanskrit, his passion can only be marvelled at.
Translating epics like Hoshruba, etching graphic novels and the Urdu Project. Farooqi has a lot on his plate and he’s loving it
A professor tilts his pen at libraries here and abroad to put back on the shelf a contemporary version of a Spanish classic in Bengali