Tag: Arunava Sinha
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The Creative Life: Arunava Sinha, Translator
Arunava Sinha’s bio says: Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and nonfiction into English. Eighteen of his translations have been published so far. Twice the winner of the Crossword translation award, for Sankar’s Chowringhee (2007) and Anita Agnihotri’s Seventeen (2011), respectively, and the winner of the Muse India translation award (2013) for…
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Journal: Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay reads from Khagenbabu. From There Was No One At The Bus Stop, translated by Arunava Sinha As he was about to leave his room, sleep still clinging to his eyes, Robi gingerly parted the curtains leading to the next room and saw his father. Smoke rose from behind The Statesman, while a pair…
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Banned Books Week: Arunava Sinha on many Ramayanas
By Arunava Sinha How about banning this? Here are two short passages from two famously funny plays written in Bengali several decades ago. For, they make fun of – without malice, in pure humour – one of the most revered figures of the Hindu pantheon, the mythically immortal Hanuman. One possible reason for there being…
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