INTER-LINKED: The Politics of Translation

Professor Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction, nonfiction and poetry into English. He has so far translated 60 texts into English. Along with this he has also worked as a journalist and is currently a books editor at Scroll. He is currently an associate professor of practice in the Creative Writing department at Ashoka University. This episode focuses on the politics behind the translation of texts- especially in the context of identities in post-colonial nations. It explores the question “What are the implications of translation and how has it become almost a sort of independent literary tradition in some senses?”