Ep 168: The Art of Translation
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Translating a Book
There are more translators from bengoli to english than perhaps from any othearne snot. So although it takes less time to perhaps translate than to write a book, but the thing is that you can't always go with only your personal taste 100%. And sometimes what i do is ar so this's interesting, very increasingly now, i don't read the book through before translating it. O i dead a little bit, and then i get into it, and i discover the book as i am going along. It reproduces the first on of the reader when they're not familiar with the text. The fact is that i enjoy it because i am actually discovering the story as
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