After-lives of Texts and Their Contexts

Translation Studies as a discipline is yet to gain recognition in India despite its multilingual traditions of literature, and translation practices dating back to the first millennium. Of late, literary translation has gained greater visibility as translated Indian fiction has won international acclaim, winning the Booker and JCB awards. Yet, we are nowhere near a country like Turkey where Translation Studies occupies a pride of place in the Humanities curriculum. Bogicazi University of Istanbul has a Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies with over thirty faculty members. If Turkey produced a Nobel laureate like Orhan Pamuk, it is mainly because of its investment in translation studies creating a vibrant culture of translation.