In the Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) Smriti Daniel discusses 'the importance of developing vernacular literatures' with Jaipur festival co-founder Namita Gohkhale, in Looking into our own mirror again.
A good question:
(I still have the damnedest time getting my hands on sub-continental fiction in translation, and of these three authors only Hyder (River of Fire) is under review at the complete review.)
A good question:
What does it mean that the world reads and believes it comprehends India through Rushdie and Roy rather than Kamleshwar (Hindi), Ambai (Tamil) or Qurrutalain Hyder (Urdu) ?" Namita says that the proliferations of translations of works written in Indian English are beginning to "challenge the sanctioned ignorance" of the sub-continent's numerous other literary languages.I hope she's right .....
(I still have the damnedest time getting my hands on sub-continental fiction in translation, and of these three authors only Hyder (River of Fire) is under review at the complete review.)