President Droupadi Murmu hailed Santali Constitution in Oi Chiki script as the ‘pride and joy’ of the Santal community. But the first translation was done in 2021—‘no govt was involved’.
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.
Published by HarperCollins India, 'The Essential Ghalib' will be released on 6 January on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.
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’.
‘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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
Young boys who should be sweating about schoolwork are learning how to corner women. Are we now supposed to add children to the list of people we need to protect ourselves from?
Armenia has procured significant defence equipment from India, including artillery guns, multi-barrel rocket launchers, air defence system, sniper rifles, weapons locating radars, anti-drone weapons.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
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