Episode Details

Arunava Sinha—professor, journalist, translator of over 100 works, including The Laboratory by Rabindranath Tagore—discusses his new venture, Chowringhee Press, his career in translation, the literary scene in India writ large, and provides a list of books to check out if you’re looking for entryways into South Asia’s diverse literary scene (see below).

Books published by Chowringhee Press:

I Murdered Mine, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, translated from the Hindi by Sakshi Agarwal

Premchand X Ray + Sen, Munshi Premchand aka Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava, translated from the Hindi by Sayari Debnath

Writing Death—Ego: A Novel, Rajalekshmi, translated from the Malayalam by Dhiya Sony

The Laboratory, Rabindranath Tagore, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha

Finalists for the JCB Prize for Literature:

Jasmine Days, Benyamin, translated from the Malayalam by Shahnaz Habib

The One Legged, Sakyajit Bhattacharya, translated from the Bengali by Rituparna Mukherjee

Imaan, Manoranjan Byapari, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha

The Nemesis, Manoranjan Byapari, translated from the Bengali by V. Ramaswamy

There’s Gunpowder in the Air, Manoranjan Byapari, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha

Moustache, S. Hareesh, translated from the Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil

Anti-Clock, V.J. James, translated from the Malayalam by Ministhy S.

The Paradise of Food, Khalid Jawed, translated from the Urdu by Baran Farooqi