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 ...
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 ...
This is an edited version of the conversation that took place on stage with the poet, Kiriti Sengupta, on 16 March 2023, at Mulk Raj Anand Auditorium, Department of English and Cultural Studies, ...