Mitul Kajaria

Oct 16, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Ranjit Hoskote |Amitabha Bagchi |Pragathi Ravi |Mitul Kajaria

Let me admit that I am a votary of the following falsifiable proposition that is almost a cliché among those who follow Urdu poetry: A great poet creates a new idiom for the language. This proposition yields the following corollary for the translator: The translation of a great poet, especially a translation that positions itself as a presentation of the great poet to the target language’s audience, must create a new idiom in the target language.