A translation reflects the skills of both the author and the translator, not literally as a combined effort, but in terms of its effect on the reader. A bad translation has the potential to diminish an originally excellent piece of writing, just as a brilliant translation can lift a mediocre original to a higher level.
Depicting Social History Through Fiction
Ashwini Deshpande
SAHELA RE by By Mrinal Pande. Translated from the original Hindi by Priyanka Sarkar Harper Perennial/HarperCollins, India , 2017, 285 pp., INR 499.00
December 2023, volume 47, No 12