This write-up describes my singular experience in translating Bengali short stories into English. However, all literary translations deal with certain common problems—of idiolect and dialect, or the ...

The questions facing India’s translation ecosystem are perennial. Indians have natural translation consciousness and must ...

In a new Translating India series, ten noted translators will share their experiences of translating from their respective languages. In the final part, Arunava Sinha writes how for him the greatest ...

Prepone” is now a word in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. So is “airdash”. For those who squirm at the made-in-India opposite of “postpone”, the dictionary-makers say: “It enriches the ...

Bengali is not so much threatened by Hindi as other indigenous local languages of West Bengal are by Bengali, and not much effort is being made to save them, according to an award-winning ...

The titular story in Entering the Maze, is about young boy’s advent into teenage, warts of puberty and all. (Unsplash) Entering the Maze is a translation of two short stories and a novella from the ...

– No, I mean who’s the man standing with him? – That gentleman killed my father – Tapan gazed at the photograph in silence. He moved closer to it, as if the light in the room was dim. It was an old ...

The One Legged is an affecting translation of Sakyajit Bhattacharya’s Bengali novel Ekanore. The translator, Rituparna Mukherjee, evokes the haunting sights, smells and sounds of this fictional world ...

What’s common between Bengali words like ‘batela’, ‘bikel’, ‘nyaka’, ‘mairi’ and ‘abhimaan’? Most of them are apparently ‘untranslatable’ when it comes to subtitling films or translating literary ...

The Romain Rolland Book Prize was awarded to the Bengali translation 'Staliner Divan' by Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee. The thought-provoking novel explores the encounter between Josef Stalin and a young ...

The "Last Poem," English translation of Rabindranath Tagore's novel, "Shesher Kavita" was launched by Ms. Sharmila Tagore, Mr. Sunit Tandon, Dr. Kapila Vatsayan and Prof Dilip Basu, who translated the ...