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Ranjit Hoskote

  • President, PEN All-India Centre
Southern Asia
As seen in: Mumbai Mirror, Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, Frontline India, Mint, Outlook (India), The Hindu, The Quint, Poetry Magazine, Literary Hub and
Author of Hunchprose; Jonahwhale/The Atlas of Lost Beliefs; I, Lalla; Icelight; The Homeland's an Ocean. Alumnus: @UIIWP 1995. linktr.ee/rhoskote
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What South Asia’s Literary Classics Reveal About Its Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

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By Ranjit Hoskote
| Literary Hub Verified
While Ten Indian Classics features eight—or, as the voice in my head insists, nine—of South Asia’s languages, it invites the reader to engage with the region in its multilingual plenitude, its many literatures.
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Ranjit Hoskote on picking texts from India’s 2,500-year literary tradition for a new anthology

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By Ranjit Hoskote
| Scroll.in Verified
We zigzag across wide geographical expanses and journey from the sixth century B.C.E. to the 19th century CE as we traverse the extracts gathered in this anthology, beginning with the Therīgāthā, the songs of the earliest women to enter the Buddha’s community of renunciates as nuns, translated from Pali by Charles Hallisey. These songs celebrate the transition from worldly life to spiritual renunciation and, compressed as they are, convey the richly detailed experience of the female questor.
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Ranjit Hoskote’s Translation of Mir Taqi Mir: An Attempt of Failure

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By Ranjit Hoskote, Amitabha Bagchi, Pragathi Ravi, Mitul Kajaria
| Frontline India Verified
Let me admit that I am a votary of the following falsifiable proposition that is almost a cliché among those who follow Urdu poetry: A great poet creates a new idiom for the language. This proposition yields the following corollary for the translator: The translation of a great poet, especially a translation that positions itself as a presentation of the great poet to the target language’s audience, must create a new idiom in the target language.
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