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Ep 168: The Art of Translation

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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What Kind of Books Did You Read?

I started reading quite early. I think i devoured everything there was for our age group. And soya a also school life. My uncle, my father's elder cousin, who himself is a poet, he put me through my pieces of writing by making me summarize the ar text books. So yo sow quite a lot of reading bangla. But then i found it very difficult to write. The biggest value of reading woodhouse was becoming sensitive about language. Rad woodhouse, you almost et, purely at the level of agage. T tha's quite a knock. You know, what kind hov struck me when you were talking about your decision in college to fail our engineering exams

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