Chaora Bhaora

Authors

  • Nishaant Choksi IIT Gandhinagar

Abstract

Literary translation can be a political act with immanent failure. It may want to restore
the ‘original’ into the target language only with the consciousness of the impossibility to
do so. One has the desire for translation because the ‘untranslated’ is absent in the target
language.

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Author Biography

Nishaant Choksi, IIT Gandhinagar

 

Nishaant Choksi is currently an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar in Gujarat, India.  His research interests include the study of script, writing, language ideology, education, semiotics, and indigenous communities in Gujarat, West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Northeast India.  He has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Language and Society, Signs in Society, and Modern Asian Studies, and also has edited or co-edited three volumes, including Tribal Literature of Gujarat (2010, CIIL Mysore), A Course in Mundari (2015, JSPS Tokyo), and Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area (2020, Brill).  His monograph, Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy has been published in 2021 from Bloomsbury Academic.



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Published

2021-11-15

How to Cite

Choksi, N. (2021). Chaora Bhaora. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 7(1), 171–183. Retrieved from https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/146

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020): Writing (in) the Post-colony: Practising Academic English in Indian Higher Education

Section

Translations