Gained In Translation
From the time I started teaching myself English in fifth standard by using the brilliant four-part translation manual by Odia educator Bainkunthanath Acharya - called ‘Structural Approach to…
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‘Winter’ By Bhanuji Rao
The time of complete and completely satisfying
old age and death has come.
The time has come for old women
with their spare mattresses under the armpits
to roam around the deserted…
Thus Spake Sarala, The Shudra
In Sarala Das’s Odia version of the Mahabharata, which is the first complete rendition of the epic by a single author in any language other than Sanskrit, Ganga is a wild and tempestuous…