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Translators agree that AI can’t do their job. ‘It changed mummy to Egyptian mummy’

Author Sumitra Mehrol emphasised the need for translators to belong to the same social or cultural space and to deeply understand the subject they are translating.

Vikram Sampath has an AI startup now. He wants to transform the slow world of book translations

Vikram Sampath and Sandeep Singh Chauhan's NAAV-AI is backed by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal and venture capitalist Asha Jadeja.

New book presents Ghalib’s couplet to modern audiences

Published by HarperCollins India, 'The Essential Ghalib' will be released on 6 January on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

ThePrint’s Insha J Waziri wins 2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for English translation of Ali Jafri poem

Waziri says she chose Jafri's ‘Mera Safar’ not only because aligned with this year’s theme of ‘resurgence’, but also because it spoke of eternal hope in the ‘dystopian times we live in’.

Book launch sparks debate on Western gaze in Tulsidas, Guru Nanak, Bulleh Shah translations

‘Ten Indian Classics’ by Harvard University Press spans 2,000 years of South Asian writing. It has translations of ‘Ramcharitmanas’, Mir Taqi Mir’s works, and Guru Nanak’s poems.

How many times has Premchand been translated? New search engine answers all such questions

Launched at ‘Bhashavaad: National Translation Conference’, the database search engine has over 14,000 entries of books, with information on 6,500 authors and 7,000 translators.

Is English dominating Indian translations? ‘It’s like alien invasion’

‘Why don't we translate directly from Telugu into Odia?’ This was one of the questions raised at the ‘Bhashavaad’ National Translation Conference hosted by Ashoka University at Delhi's IIC.

Hanuman Chalisa to Happy Birthday – Vikram Seth’s new book of suitable rhymes

The Hanuman Chalisa is Vikram Seth’s second book in two years. And because it is a poet's translation, he said it had to retain that ‘mesmerising and incantatory’ pleasure of the original.

Pickpocket, ‘catamite’, govt employee—the many lives of Tamil cult writer Charu Nivedita

Charu Nivedita shot to mainstream literary fame after ‘Conversations with Aurangzeb’. He’s a genius to fans, a porn peddler to critics, but his life is extraordinary any way you look at it.

A Moradabad-born hakim’s love for Sherlock Holmes and English gave birth to Urdu crime fiction

In 'Urdu Crime Fiction 1890–1950’, author CM Naim writes how Urdu readers in India were introduced to the adventurous tales of Sherlock Holmes by Muhammad Muhsin Faruqi.

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Digital push for grassroots banking: 2 new apps to transform urban cooperative banks for 9 cr users

Cooperation Ministry takes a step towards financial inclusion with Sahkar DigiPay and Sahkar DigiLoan. They will enable faster and seamless access to financial services in small towns.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.