
Ep 172: The Many Cities of Delhi
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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How to Translate?
The first book that i translated was tatani gater ander. It's not how good you are in er the language itself, it's how good you understand,. I did a lot of reading for translating the tanegather to understand what he's trying to do. And i wanted that to be the answer of just translation. So when you're invested and in that language, in the culture and the religion, you're able to use that iconography so that whichever writer you're doing it. You can't just translate word to word.
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