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Arunava Sinha

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Arunava Sinha

India

Arunava Sinha is a translator from India. He translates classic, modern, and contemporary Bengali fiction and nonfiction into English. Thirty of his translations have been published so far....

Twice the winner of the Crossword translation award, for Sankar’s Chowringhee (2007) and Anita Agnihotri’s Seventeen (2011), respectively, and the winner of the Muse India translation award (2013) for Buddhadeva Bose’s When the Time Is Right, he has also been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction prize (2009) in the UK for his translation of Chowringhee. Besides India, his translations have been published in the UK and the US in English, and in several European and Asian countries through further translation. He was born and grew up in Kolkata, and lives and writes in New Delhi. Visit his website here.

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Articles by Arunava Sinha

Etching of a bird flying over the countryside with a view of a city in the background

Bird of Paradise by Jacques Callot in the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery of Art

Creating Creatures

By Binoy Majumdar

In these poems, written during a stay in a psychiatric hospital, Bengali poet Binoy Majumdar gives instructions for creating new birds, fruit, and trees.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

Exile Poem

Afterwards, heads of hushed army snipers / pop up on every rooftop.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

10 Translated Books from India to Read Now

By Arunava Sinha

Both list-makers and editors seem to forget that India is in fact a country with 20,000 tongues, which are variations of over 120 distinct languages.

Devdas

By Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

She searched for an answer, embarrassed for the first time in her life at having to say what she was about to.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

Heeng Kochuri

By Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

I cannot serve a glass of water to a Brahmin’s son.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

Bengali to Bollywood

By Arunava Sinha

Arunava Sinha introduces the four stories in our December feature exploring Bollywood’s debt to Bengali writers.India’s Hindi film industry is the largest in the world in terms of the number…

The Assassin

Still we couldn't stop writing.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

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On Translating “Rasha”

By Arunava Sinha

In 1971, schoolchildren in the Indian city of Calcutta were afraid of many things. There was full-blown guerrilla action in the streets, with young men and women from middle-class families taking up bombs…

Rasha

By Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

Whenever teachers said there was good news, it almost always turned out to be nothing of the sort.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha