Lost—In—Translation
Rawan Gamal Agha
“I love you…” No… not like that… Love should be confessed in the motherhood of languages—the mother tongue—the way your great granddad said it to his wife; Before the language
In Translation
The Violence of Translation: Rewritings of Empire, Caste and Patriarchy
Amritesh Mukherjee
Who tells your story decides how your story is told. A tale mutates each time it changes custodians. In this process of shape-shifting, a story is pried open, reshaped, rearranged,
What does movement say? Analysing Bharatanatyam as a Medium to Translate Justice
Ishika Khollam
The lights in the auditorium go off. The stage is set. We enter, hands and feet synchronised, with each other, and with the music. When we are on stage, we
Lessons in Wave-Making: A Post-Pandemic Reading
Gauri Yadav
The gestural marks of abstraction helped me to articulate the waves of feeling that exceeded — or at the very least resisted — language. -Ara Osterweil Between Her Body and
What Does it Mean to Translate That Which is on the Margins?
Rinchen Angmo
While sitting amidst the Trans-Himalayas in Ladakh, I came across this call for writings about translation on my friend’s Instagram story. Incidentally, just before I saw this story, I had
A Letter to my Daughter
Sarah Khan
Dear L, Well before you were born, a part of me feared for you even while you were in the womb. The minute I was told you were a girl,
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