Saudamini Deo
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humanities, writing, translation
“It seemed that we had, indeed, left the wolves behind—but they soon returned.” Revisiting my translation of Bhuwaneshwar's iconic Hindi short story Wolves, published in
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:
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Wolves - Words Without Borders
This week, Seagull Books publishes Wolves, a collection of short stories by Bhuwaneshwar (1910–57), who is often described as the father of the modern Hindi short story. Translated and introduced by S...
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2021-05/wolves-bhuwaneshwar-saudamini-deo-first-read-seagull-books/
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Winter mornings, Jaipur.
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Every time I read the play, I think about the murky borders between the truth and narratives. The person and its silhouette.
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We are all Othello
In 1603, William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello. The play follows the life of a Moorish military commander, in love with the tender De…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/29/we-are-all-othello/
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Every time I read the play, I think about the murky borders between the truth and narratives. The person and its silhouette.
beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/29/w...
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We are all Othello
In 1603, William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello. The play follows the life of a Moorish military commander, in love with the tender De…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/29/we-are-all-othello/
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"In the 1984 song “Material Girl”, Madonna declares that she is a material girl. She uses logic that’s hard to argue with since she insists that we all must be material because we are living in a material world."
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Madonna Material Girl
In the 1984 song “Material Girl”, Madonna declares that she is a material girl. She uses logic that’s hard to argue with since she insists that we all must be material because we are living in a ma…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/26/madonna-material-girl/
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"In the 1984 song “Material Girl”, Madonna declares that she is a material girl. She uses logic that’s hard to argue with since she insists that we all must be material because we are living in a material world."
beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/26/m...
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Madonna Material Girl
In the 1984 song “Material Girl”, Madonna declares that she is a material girl. She uses logic that’s hard to argue with since she insists that we all must be material because we are living in a ma…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/26/madonna-material-girl/
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Jaipur light update.
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Pink city winters.
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Jaipur light update.
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Dave Bonta
16 days ago
This week in the poetry blogs w/
@kent-nj.bsky.social
@saudaminideo.bsky.social
@robmclennan.bsky.social
@linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social
@emmalee1.bsky.social
@jwikeley.bsky.social
@pearlpoet.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 51
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/12/poetry-blog-digest-2025-week-51/
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus
17 days ago
From Anne Carson’s groundbreaking translations to Geetanjali Shree’s Booker-winning work,
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explores the complex dynamics of translation, cultural appropriation, and the reception of non-Western literature in the Western literary world.
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Postcolonial Translations and the Reception of Indian Literature in the West - Words Without Borders
From Anne Carson’s groundbreaking translations to Geetanjali Shree’s Booker-winning work, Deo explores the complex dynamics of translation, cultural appropriation, and the reception of non-Western…
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2025-04/postcolonial-translations-and-the-reception-of-indian-literature-in-the-west-deo/
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus
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Looking to fill the gaps in your reading? Check out our ten most popular pieces from 2025. From essays to fiction and poetry to a Watchlist by
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, there’s something for everyone on this list! Check it out here and save these pieces to your bookmarks:
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Absolutely delighted to see my essay Postcolonial Translations and the Reception of Indian Literature in the West in Words Without Border's top ten pieces of 2025.
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Delhi Airport Lost & Found Properties
MULTIPLE CURRENCYLEFT SIDE EARBUDS01 USED LADIES PURSE BROWNELECTRIC KETTLE MARKED AGARODENIM JACKETREADING GLASSTEA PACKETSUSA PASSPORTRING01 USED RED AND BLUE HAND BAGAIR TAGSNAKES PACKETSUNGLASS…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/22/delhi-airport-lost-found-properties/
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It has not been long enough to call this hallucinatory city home but it has been long enough to not find it entirely foreign: it is a liminal city, like a person who you have known for a long time and then suddenly not at all.
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Leaving Paris
I arrived in Paris on 10th September, 2024. When I first came here, I wasn’t sure if I were going to stay beyond the summer of this year but it has been one year and a few months that I have been h…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/17/leaving-paris/
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Delighted to see my translation of Alok Dhanwa's poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day, published by Seagull Books, in Frontline's list of new books:
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From Naga Stories and Aparna Sen’s Cinema to Supreme Court at 75
A selection of fiction and non-fiction titles spans Nagaland’s myths, Aparna Sen’s cinematic journey, the Supreme Court’s legacy, and the global crises of politics and culture.
https://frontline.thehindu.com/books/new-books-september-2025-india-naga-aparna-sen-supreme-court/article70000872.ece
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Having given up on a literary career (like George Costanza, I am a great quitter), these days I am failing at far more profound things: moral clarity, politics, ethics, being a good person, etc.
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On being a failure
When I was 12 years old, I stopped going to school for two years. I hated schools, their strict environments, the constant vigilance, the wafting scent of stale lunches at recess, the other student…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/11/on-being-a-failure/
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Having given up on a literary career (like George Costanza, I am a great quitter), these days I am failing at far more profound things: moral clarity, politics, ethics, being a good person, etc.
beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/11/o...
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On being a failure
When I was 12 years old, I stopped going to school for two years. I hated schools, their strict environments, the constant vigilance, the wafting scent of stale lunches at recess, the other student…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/12/11/on-being-a-failure/
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Me in Jaipur next month:
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Noël x Paris (part deux)
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My Russian Christmas tree that immediately reminded me of Soviet children’s book illustrations, the world of Raduga Publishers.
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My Russian Christmas tree that immediately reminded me of Soviet children’s book illustrations, the world of Raduga Publishers.
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Noël x Paris (part deux)
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Me in Jaipur next month:
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Sharing this excellent essay on translation and literary memory. It briefly touches on an older piece I wrote for
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, placing it in a broader discussion. A rich read for anyone exploring multilingual literary histories.
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(Re)staging ‘Sekese’ | Sydney Review of Books
Makafane Tšepang Ntlamelle reflects on being a (Black) Commonwealth literary translator, the Tolstoys of the Basutos, and the exhaustion of being The Lone Man. Anglophone publishers want more African ...
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/restaging-sekese
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Submissions are now open for RIC Journal's annual themed anniversary issue. This year's theme is *Intimate Anatomy*. Send us work that listens closely to the body, its secrets, frictions, ruptures, and revelations. Details here:
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The November 2025 issue of RIC Journal is now live. ✨ New texts, new wounds, new luminescences: poems, images, essays, fragments, voices touching at the edges of language. Please read and share:
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Even my own image sometimes seems another’s. Somewhere last night in Paris, by Buku Sarkar.
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Two years ago, I spoke to Tristan Foster about my translation practice and the continuing project of translating Hindi literature's outsiders into English. The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...
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As Close to 600 BC As We Are to Tomorrow: A Conversation with Saudamini Deo - Asymptote Blog
The role of the translator is to madden a language, drive it insane, do unimaginable things with it.
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05/08/as-close-to-600-bc-as-we-are-to-tomorrow-a-conversation-with-saudamini-deo/
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Two years ago, I spoke to Tristan Foster about my translation practice and the continuing project of translating Hindi literature's outsiders into English. The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...
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As Close to 600 BC As We Are to Tomorrow: A Conversation with Saudamini Deo - Asymptote Blog
The role of the translator is to madden a language, drive it insane, do unimaginable things with it.
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05/08/as-close-to-600-bc-as-we-are-to-tomorrow-a-conversation-with-saudamini-deo/
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Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books.
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Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Roopika Risam
3 months ago
Hard to not feel like we are living amid the death of the U.S. research university — for all its problems, a truly important institution.
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Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/
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Dave Bonta
3 months ago
This week in the poetry blogs with
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@robmclennan.bsky.social
@pearlpoet.bsky.social
@willsjack.bsky.social
@salenagodden.bsky.social
@shotscarecrow.bsky.social
@victoriamoul.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 41
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poetry-blog-digest-2025-week-41/
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It’s nice that, like an apple, I have skin.
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I like having a body
I have realised that, as embarrassing as it may be, I like having a body. I like that on any given afternoon, I can dip my fingers in a plate full of steaming rice and squeeze the brains of a…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/10/08/i-like-having-a-body/
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It’s nice that, like an apple, I have skin.
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I like having a body
I have realised that, as embarrassing as it may be, I like having a body. I like that on any given afternoon, I can dip my fingers in a plate full of steaming rice and squeeze the brains of a…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/10/08/i-like-having-a-body/
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Dave Bonta
4 months ago
This week in the poetry blogs w/
@pearlpoet.bsky.social
@roguestrands.bsky.social
@saudaminideo.bsky.social
@shawnalemay.bsky.social
@robmclennan.bsky.social
@emmalee1.bsky.social
@kimmoorepoet.bsky.social
@kristybowen.bsky.social
@kent-nj.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 37
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poetry-blog-digest-2025-week-37/
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The Louvre and the ass of a horse:
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The Louvre and the ass of a horse
The first time someone visits the Louvre, they either go to see the famously cryptic smile of Monalisa or Venus de Milo or Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss and even Liberty Leading the People. There …
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/09/10/the-louvre-and-the-ass-of-a-horse/
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Susanna Crossman
4 months ago
Thrilled to share extracts from my novel The Orange Notebooks
@pressassembly.bsky.social
in
@electricliterature.com
introduced by
@rachelcantor.bsky.social
🙏 "Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost."
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Telling My Lost Child the Story of His Life - Electric Literature
An excerpt from THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS by Susanna Crossman, recommended by Rachel Cantor
https://electricliterature.com/the-orange-notebooks-by-susanna-crossman/
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Dave Bonta
5 months ago
This week in the poetry blogs with
@kent-nj.bsky.social
@saudaminideo.bsky.social
@racheldacusauthor.bsky.social
@shawnalemay.bsky.social
@robmclennan.bsky.social
@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
@mcrucefix.bsky.social
@suefinch.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 33
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poetry-blog-digest-2025-week-33/
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"I would like to die in a forest somewhere looking through a telescope."
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The Rings of Saturn
One could lie down on the grass at night for hours looking at stars. Though one quickly discovers that apart from stars, there are also planets, meteors, flying planes, the moon, and Elon Musk’s St…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/14/the-rings-of-saturn/
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Dana Stevens
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
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Theo Nash
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This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
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"I would like to die in a forest somewhere looking through a telescope."
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The Rings of Saturn
One could lie down on the grass at night for hours looking at stars. Though one quickly discovers that apart from stars, there are also planets, meteors, flying planes, the moon, and Elon Musk’s St…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/14/the-rings-of-saturn/
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"I had no idea where the village of Paris began and ended." Banlieues Chéries:
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Banlieues Chéries
What is a banlieue? It took me some time to understand it. At first I didn’t understand it at all. I lived in Paris but if I walked 200 metres, I was no longer in Paris and found myself in Gentilly…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/09/banlieues-cheries/
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"I had no idea where the village of Paris began and ended." Banlieues Chéries:
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Banlieues Chéries
What is a banlieue? It took me some time to understand it. At first I didn’t understand it at all. I lived in Paris but if I walked 200 metres, I was no longer in Paris and found myself in Gentilly…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/09/banlieues-cheries/
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Dave Bonta
5 months ago
This week in the poetry blogs w/
@beckyltuch.bsky.social
@saudaminideo.bsky.social
@robmclennan.bsky.social
@wendypratt.bsky.social
@kimmoorepoet.bsky.social
@billymills.bsky.social
@matthewepaul.bsky.social
@kathrynanna.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 31
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poetry-blog-digest-2025-week-31/
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I am sometimes in the 21st and sometimes in the 15th century. What does it all mean? Nothing except that we don’t know anything.
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Rue du chat qui pêche
In the 5th arrondissement of Paris, next to the street of the cat that fishes, is an old 16th century building from the depths of which people can sometimes hear music. It seems almost like a surre…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/04/rue-du-chat-qui-peche/
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I am sometimes in the 21st and sometimes in the 15th century. What does it all mean? Nothing except that we don’t know anything.
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Rue du chat qui pêche
In the 5th arrondissement of Paris, next to the street of the cat that fishes, is an old 16th century building from the depths of which people can sometimes hear music. It seems almost like a surre…
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/04/rue-du-chat-qui-peche/
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