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EPISODE · Jun 27, 2025 · 41 MIN

The Translator's Craft

from Navigating India · host Navigating India

Join us as we converse with Arunava Sinha, India's most prolific translator! We dive into the profound impact of translations, teaching the craft, fostering vibrant translator and reader ecosystems, the influence of AI, and much more.ReferencesArunava Sinha: Website, X, InstagramTranslations Published, Forthcoming and Work in ProgressMeet Arunava Sinha, likely India’s most prolific translator by Priya RamaniMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieHeart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa BhashtiTomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi by Daisy RockwellPyre by Perumal Murugan, translated from Tamil by Aniruddhan VasudevanHow not to (not) teach translation by Arunava SinhaWhy Heart Lamp’s Booker win breaks many barriers by Arunava SinhaLost in Translation: What the first line of “The Stranger” should be by Ryan BloomAshoka Centre for TranslationA Glimpse of My Life: Autobiography of the Indian Revolutionary Ram Prasad Bismil, translated from the Hindi by Awadhesh TripathiThe JCB Prize for Literature has shut down. What else has ended with it? By Arunava SinhaBooks by Sankar, Translated by Arunava Sinha: Chowringhee, The Middlemen, Limited Unlimited, Dear Reader: A MemoirBooks by Manoranjan Byapari, Translated by Arunava Sinha: There’s gunpowder in the air, ImaanBooks by Anita Agnihotri, Translated by Arunava Sinha: A Touch of Salt, 17, SickleMinistry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

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