#indianwriting — Public Fediverse posts

https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2022-12/on-the-evolution-and-craft-of-gujarati-literature-in-translation-an-interview-with-dr-rita-kothari/

"Translation is an un-self-conscious act in India; it’s in the air, in the cosmos. And it’s hidden by being most proximate and natural."

Brilliant conversation between Rita Kothari and @jennybhatt.

#translation #writing #indianwriting

Nilanjana Roy 🦊 @[email protected] · 2022-12-18 · 08:57 UTC

https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2022-12/on-the-evolution-and-craft-of-gujarati-literature-in-translation-an-interview-with-dr-rita-kothari/

"Translation is an un-self-conscious act in India; it’s in the air, in the cosmos. And it’s hidden by being most proximate and natural."

Brilliant conversation between Rita Kothari and @jennybhatt.

#translation #writing #indianwriting

Nilanjana Roy 🦊 @[email protected] · 2022-12-18 · 08:57 UTC

https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2022-12/on-the-evolution-and-craft-of-gujarati-literature-in-translation-an-interview-with-dr-rita-kothari/

"Translation is an un-self-conscious act in India; it’s in the air, in the cosmos. And it’s hidden by being most proximate and natural."

Brilliant conversation between Rita Kothari and @jennybhatt.

#indianwriting #writing #translation

Nilanjana Roy 🦊 @[email protected] · 2022-12-18 · 08:57 UTC

https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2022-12/on-the-evolution-and-craft-of-gujarati-literature-in-translation-an-interview-with-dr-rita-kothari/

"Translation is an un-self-conscious act in India; it’s in the air, in the cosmos. And it’s hidden by being most proximate and natural."

Brilliant conversation between Rita Kothari and @jennybhatt.

https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/my-village-is-every-village-in-the-western-ghats-exploited-by-mans-greed-malayalam-writer-sheela-tomy/2588573/

#translation #writing #indianwriting

Nilanjana Roy 🦊 @[email protected] · 2022-11-20 · 10:05 UTC

Also sending love to one of my favourite novels on the #JCB shortlist, Sheela Tomy's Valli:

"Kalluvayal is a real place. It’s my own village where I was born. It is also every village in the Western Ghats. Wherever nature is exploited by man’s greed, there is a Kalluvayal."

#Indianwriting #books #reading

#jcb #indianwriting #books #reading

Nilanjana Roy 🦊 @[email protected] · 2022-11-20 · 10:05 UTC

Also sending love to one of my favourite novels on the #JCB shortlist, Sheela Tomy's Valli:

"Kalluvayal is a real place. It’s my own village where I was born. It is also every village in the Western Ghats. Wherever nature is exploited by man’s greed, there is a Kalluvayal."

https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/my-village-is-every-village-in-the-western-ghats-exploited-by-mans-greed-malayalam-writer-sheela-tomy/2588573/

#Indianwriting #books #reading

#jcb #indianwriting #books #reading

Nilanjana Roy 🦊 @[email protected] · 2022-11-20 · 10:05 UTC

Also sending love to one of my favourite novels on the #JCB shortlist, Sheela Tomy's Valli:

"Kalluvayal is a real place. It’s my own village where I was born. It is also every village in the Western Ghats. Wherever nature is exploited by man’s greed, there is a Kalluvayal."

https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/my-village-is-every-village-in-the-western-ghats-exploited-by-mans-greed-malayalam-writer-sheela-tomy/2588573/

#Indianwriting #books #reading

#reading #books #indianwriting #jcb

Nilanjana Roy 🦊 @[email protected] · 2022-11-20 · 09:58 UTC

Khalid Jawed, winner of the JCB Prize, The Paradise of Food:

"The world had shrunk into a village. A village where the game of loathing, fire and blood was being played all the time. And everyone was participating in this game in their eagerness to be called modern.”

https://scroll.in/article/1025443/the-paradise-of-food-horror-lurks-in-kitchen-corners-in-khalid-jaweds-fiction-of-hostility

https://scroll.in/article/1025443/the-paradise-of-food-horror-lurks-in-kitchen-corners-in-khalid-jaweds-fiction-of-hostility

Nilanjana Roy 🦊 @[email protected] · 2022-11-20 · 09:58 UTC

Khalid Jawed, winner of the JCB Prize, The Paradise of Food:

"The world had shrunk into a village. A village where the game of loathing, fire and blood was being played all the time. And everyone was participating in this game in their eagerness to be called modern.”

https://scroll.in/article/1025443/the-paradise-of-food-horror-lurks-in-kitchen-corners-in-khalid-jaweds-fiction-of-hostility

Nilanjana Roy 🦊 @[email protected] · 2022-11-20 · 09:58 UTC

Khalid Jawed, winner of the JCB Prize, The Paradise of Food:

"The world had shrunk into a village. A village where the game of loathing, fire and blood was being played all the time. And everyone was participating in this game in their eagerness to be called modern.”

https://scroll.in/article/1025443/the-paradise-of-food-horror-lurks-in-kitchen-corners-in-khalid-jaweds-fiction-of-hostility

#indianwriting #novels #books

Nilanjana Roy 🦊 @[email protected] · 2022-11-20 · 09:58 UTC

Khalid Jawed, winner of the JCB Prize, The Paradise of Food:

"The world had shrunk into a village. A village where the game of loathing, fire and blood was being played all the time. And everyone was participating in this game in their eagerness to be called modern.”