Suhasini Patni

Nov 14, 2024 | roccitymag.com | Suhasini Patni

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Mar 11, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Suhasini Patni |Christi A. Merrill |Alexander Aguayo |Vijay Dan Detha

Vishes Kothari is the translator of The Timeless Tales of Marwar and A Garden of Tales by Vijaydan Detha, one of India’s most prominent Rajasthani writers. Kothari has always viewed the act of translation as activism and has spoken publicly about the lack of Rajasthani language usage in urban spaces.

Mar 5, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Suhasini Patni |Nina Perrotta

What is your personal relationship to language and translation? What drew you to Words Without Borders (and literature in translation more generally)? It is impossible for me to talk about my relation to language and literature without talking about translation. My love for language developed very early because of the Bengali lullabies and folktales I heard before going to bed from my grandmother and my parents.

Jul 24, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Sohini Basak |Jenny Bhatt |Suhasini Patni |Wesley Lewis

Out of Sri Lanka (Bloodaxe Books, 2023) shines light upon a long-neglected national literature by bringing together, for the first time, Sri Lankan and diasporic poetry written in and after Independence. Featuring over a hundred poets translated from Tamil and Sinhala, or writing in English, the anthology intends to exhibit poetry as a vehicle of anti-amnesia and of witness to the various political events that have shaped the country since 1948.