In Translation – Writing Women

Anu–baad, Translation

Aadrit

content note for sexual violence . My grandmother sits on the verandah, her legs spread out, descaling fish, one after another, after another, as the sunlight filters through the latticed-designed

Mirror

Sakshi Nain Bishnoi

I had imagined a tiny miracle: my mother, sitting cross-legged on the charpai, the fan creaking above her, holding a stapled copy of the translated text in her hands, nodding

The Oppressor’s Tongue

Soniya Pondcar

“Aapke paas paanch-das minute ka time hai kya? Mujhe Sassoon Dock ke baare mein jaankaari chahiye. (Could you spare 5-10 minutes? I need some information about Sassoon Dock),” began my

A Caseworker’s Diary of Hope and Delusion

Kalpita Wadher

I recently witnessed the birth of my niece. Her first look made me believe that there is a piece of that child in me who will fight the oceans to

Traditions of the Tongue, Translating a Lepcha Folk Song ‘Mutanchi Lungten’

Lungmying Lepcha

My sister’s favourite Lepcha song is not any of the current, modern songs ruling the local charts. Hers is a folk song known as ‘Muntanchi Lungten.’ Written by elders, this

The Presence of your Absence: Grieving as Translation

Anuradha Banerji

There is a story—part musicology, part myth—that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the Chaconne, the monumental final movement of his Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin, after returning

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