Thinking Multilingually

14/02/22

મારી માની ભાષા / My Mother’s Language

Pratishtha Pandya articulates the poisoning of her mother tongue in a heartrending poem.

14/02/22

Dalit writers – Savarna translators

Yogesh Maitreya opens up questions of caste, representation, and translation in the publishing sphere.

14/02/22

More or Less Translation

An excerpt from More or Less “translation” by Rita Kothari and Krupa Shah, published in A World Atlas of Translation in 2019.

14/02/22

Language and its shadow dwellings

Angana Sinha Ray complicates the idea of Linguistic Hospitality, as theorized by Emmanuel Levinas.

14/02/22

The River called Language

Aditya Vikram follows ideas of religiosity and secularism to trace the flow of language.

14/02/22

On Love and Translation

Madhuri Lalwani responds to Writing Back, in Translation by Robert J. C. Young.

14/02/22

Secular, Secularism and Non-translations

Rita Kothari maps the conceptual-linguistic journey of the term “secular” in India in her article published in the EPW.

14/02/22

When We Are ‘Multilingual’, Do We Translate?

A riveting introduction to A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India, edited by Rita Kothari.

Some of these pieces are written by the students of Ashoka University. Do not forget to provide due credit if using their work!