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Making of the sisterhood of a writer, her translator
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
|June 28, 2025
The collection Heart Lamp: Selected Stories has riches, and some repetitive moments.
The collection Heart Lamp: Selected Stories has riches, and some repetitive moments. That said, it is undeniably one of the very few examples of its kind, available in English. Like the Tamil writer Salma, Banu Mushtaq takes us to a different geography and gives us a linguistically heterogeneous, domestic world of Muslim men and women—markedly different from the North Indian fare of an Attia Hosain or Khadija Mastoor. However, my thoughts today are not so much about the original but the translation, and it involves not a comparison with the original (for I can't read Kannada) but how it comes over to us. In other words, how do I read this text as a non-Kannadiga woman reader/translator and respond from that twin-ness? This is also to foreground the translator's role who, unlike many translators, has been rewarded, but like most translators, not engaged with.
This story is from the June 28, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Rajasthan.
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