@aswritingsaves.bsky.social
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Literary Translator, Hindi-English
1990, Aramganj Westland
Literary Translator, Hindi-English
1990, Aramganj Westland
Too true!
February 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Too true!
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darkness all morning
in this shifting sea of mist
traces of crowflight
in this shifting sea of mist
traces of crowflight
January 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
darkness all morning
in this shifting sea of mist
traces of crowflight
in this shifting sea of mist
traces of crowflight
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the year’s last sunlight
drawn away under the bridge
never meant to go
drawn away under the bridge
never meant to go
January 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
the year’s last sunlight
drawn away under the bridge
never meant to go
drawn away under the bridge
never meant to go
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Religion and morality are 2 separate concepts and there's nothing moral about religion. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal
December 26, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Religion and morality are 2 separate concepts and there's nothing moral about religion. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal
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Why you should always use a professional translator, number I-don't-know-I've-lost-count, in a series that is far less occasional than it should be...
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#xl8
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#xl8
December 17, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Why you should always use a professional translator, number I-don't-know-I've-lost-count, in a series that is far less occasional than it should be...
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#xl8
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#xl8
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‘When I taught a translation workshop this summer…I banned both terms. I find them disturbingly sexual—the implication is that a faithful translator does sleep around, and a translator who takes liberties is something like a rapist.’
The ever entertaining #DaisyRockwell
@shreedaisy.bsky.social
Loved doing this interview with @aswritingsaves.bsky.social! The article is behind a paywall, so I’ll post some screenshots of my answer to the question “Faithfulness or liberty, what should be a translator's north star?” Below…
@shreedaisy.bsky.social speaks to me on the process of recreating a text in another language in this engaging and insightful interview.
frontline.thehindu.com/books/transl...
frontline.thehindu.com/books/transl...
December 12, 2024 at 12:37 AM
‘When I taught a translation workshop this summer…I banned both terms. I find them disturbingly sexual—the implication is that a faithful translator does sleep around, and a translator who takes liberties is something like a rapist.’
The ever entertaining #DaisyRockwell
@shreedaisy.bsky.social
Geetanjali Shree speaks to me on the cumulative effect of small violences and the liberal confusion as a factor in the process of communalization of our cities.
frontline.thehindu.com/books/geetan...
frontline.thehindu.com/books/geetan...
Geetanjali Shree Interview: Language as Protest in ‘Our City That Year
International Booker winner on how language becomes an act of resistance and identity in her latest novel, translated by Daisy Rockwell.
frontline.thehindu.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Geetanjali Shree speaks to me on the cumulative effect of small violences and the liberal confusion as a factor in the process of communalization of our cities.
frontline.thehindu.com/books/geetan...
frontline.thehindu.com/books/geetan...
@shreedaisy.bsky.social speaks to me on the process of recreating a text in another language in this engaging and insightful interview.
frontline.thehindu.com/books/transl...
frontline.thehindu.com/books/transl...
INTERVIEW | We Now Have Means to Actively Build a Community and Train and Help Emerging Translators: Daisy Rockwell
Through her translations of Hindi/Urdu novels, the translator has brought out the best of post-Independence writers in English.
frontline.thehindu.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:38 AM
@shreedaisy.bsky.social speaks to me on the process of recreating a text in another language in this engaging and insightful interview.
frontline.thehindu.com/books/transl...
frontline.thehindu.com/books/transl...
“किसी शहर से परिचित होने का शायद सबसे आसान तरीक़ा यह है कि यह जानने की कोशिश की जाए कि उसमें रहने वाले लोग काम किस तरह करते हैं, प्यार और मुहब्बत किस तरह करते हैं और मरते किस तरह हैं।”
–अल्बेयर कामू
–अल्बेयर कामू
December 2, 2024 at 10:20 AM
“किसी शहर से परिचित होने का शायद सबसे आसान तरीक़ा यह है कि यह जानने की कोशिश की जाए कि उसमें रहने वाले लोग काम किस तरह करते हैं, प्यार और मुहब्बत किस तरह करते हैं और मरते किस तरह हैं।”
–अल्बेयर कामू
–अल्बेयर कामू
Man with his trophy, Mumbai .
December 1, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Man with his trophy, Mumbai .
Sunny Dogs❤️
November 28, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Sunny Dogs❤️
Alice Walker :
November 27, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Alice Walker :
Reading Mira Sethi:
‘Lahore revived to an early-evening clamor: crows gashed black against the sky, horses drew carts skittish on the roads…the azaan rose above the blare of car horns, —a mesh of sound that evoked Lahore at its most stark, its most beautiful.’
‘Lahore revived to an early-evening clamor: crows gashed black against the sky, horses drew carts skittish on the roads…the azaan rose above the blare of car horns, —a mesh of sound that evoked Lahore at its most stark, its most beautiful.’
November 21, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Reading Mira Sethi:
‘Lahore revived to an early-evening clamor: crows gashed black against the sky, horses drew carts skittish on the roads…the azaan rose above the blare of car horns, —a mesh of sound that evoked Lahore at its most stark, its most beautiful.’
‘Lahore revived to an early-evening clamor: crows gashed black against the sky, horses drew carts skittish on the roads…the azaan rose above the blare of car horns, —a mesh of sound that evoked Lahore at its most stark, its most beautiful.’
Election morning , Colaba.
November 20, 2024 at 4:54 AM
Election morning , Colaba.