11 Thu 10.15
A.M
Focus Art Gallery
Raja
Annamalai Building (Air India Building)
19,
Rukmani Lakshmipathi Road
Egmore,
Chennai 600 008
The Autobiography of a Thousand Languages
Is
it true that you speak one, two or more Indian languages fluently, but do
most of your reading in English? This is largely due to our education
during the modernization of India, over three generations. Are
we not then, in some sense, home-grown exiles, i.e. living like refugees
in our own homes? Yet the paradox of history is that it is for this
group of Indians that English-language publishers have created a phantom
literature that is neither English nor an indigenous Indian language:
it is a third literature that is both beautiful and problematic — India Translated.
Come,
open yourself up to different perspectives and varied tongues in a
new venue. Our speaker, Ms Mini Krishnan will share treasures waiting
to be uncovered - and to delight. Her talk will also include literature
by writers, marginalized by society. She edits translations for
Oxford University Press (India), sourcing fiction, plays, travelogues,
autobiographies and biographies from 16 Indian languages.
To date she has edited 106 full-length translations. She writes
two columns for The Hindu: (1) This Word for That in the
Literary
Review and (2) Ethics & You in
Education Plus.
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