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Ep 168: The Art of Translation

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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What's the Difference Between English and Urdu?

This has always actually seem youknow, one of the things i wonder about that languages are so fundamentally different that are they translatable at all. So how much of a problem for you was this at sort of conscious level? And my other sort of related question goes back to what you were earlier say about strategy and tactics,. But he said, it's only tactics. I just go, you know, one sentence at a time and so on. So how do you resolve that? Like you, interestingly said that you do have a strategy whenyou get down to so what's this distinction between stategy and text and strategy? It is almost a philosophy of translation, or my philosophy of translation

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