In a new Translating India series, ten noted translators will share their experiences of translating from their respective languages. In the final part, Arunava Sinha writes how for him the greatest ...

What’s common between Bengali words like ‘batela’, ‘bikel’, ‘nyaka’, ‘mairi’ and ‘abhimaan’? Most of them are apparently ‘untranslatable’ when it comes to subtitling films or translating literary ...