Thank you for giving home to this excerpt @wwborders.bsky.social ! Thanks for being patient with me Padma Viswanathan. Thanks also to @kalyanasc.bsky.social and @saltatchicago.bsky.social for supporting my translation of this novel Saigon Puducherry by Nagarathinam Krishna!

✨ PRESENTING the @nwu.org Translators Organizing Committee at #ALTA48 ✊ Nov 6: Don’t Mourn, Organize! @nwu.org Solidarity Drop-in ✊ Nov 7&8: Rate-sharing Edit-a-thons ✊ Nov 8: Envisioning the Perfect Contract: What to Know & Where to Learn More *better working conditions 4 literary translators*

Congratulations also to @theriveter.bsky.social for winning the Special Jury Mention for her translation from Tamil of Saigon Puducherry by Nagarathinam Krishna! 💖💖💖

My translation in Usawa! www.usawa.in/issue-12/tra...

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Another 2500 words completed! Less than 120 pages to go! Yay!

From the date of my last update on Pettai translation, I could only do 5 more pages. Hoping to catch up today. 130 pages to go, approximately 36500 to complete

It’s morning in South Asia, a perfect moment to follow/request to join my South Asian lang/lit starter pack!

Pettai update - 135 pages and approximately 38k words to go. Hoping to finish it before this year end, take a short break and get to the editing mode next year.

Dr. Mack literally wrote the book on end of the universe scenarios, and she did it with brilliance, good humor, and enough bone-chilling fear to make it scary. And, well, fun. Anyways, if you want a crisis, read her book.

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Starting this on Wednesday hoping it'll be a rewarding experience!

130 pages of Pettai to go before submitting the translation to Westland!

Translating some sections of Pettai by Tamil Prabha doesn't feel like work! So much life, violence and romance! It's a full-on Tamil masala movie in a novel!

Thrilled to share that I'll be translating my first full-length book from Tamil under the guidance of N Kalyan Raman! Congrats to all the other SALTxALTA mentees! salt.humanities.uchicago.edu/2024/02/06/s...

‘Fossils need curators. A raw lump of stone must be prepared and cleaned before it can be studied as a fossil; scientists of the past may well have inadvertently destroyed interesting surface layers.’ Liam Shaw on the evolution of palaeontology: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Algorithms don't feel" www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/01...

New, 2021–2023 edition of the comprehensive bibliography of #translation & #interpreting directionality @mapfelthaler.bsky.social @creativecommons.bsky.social doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... Always use this link/the DOI to automatically get the latest version of the bibliography

Same. The Chennai girl in me rebels every time I have to get out of my MN home.

Saudamini Deo on the golden age of Soviet children's literature, which also touched my 80s childhood in Hyderabad thefederal.com/category/fea... Cc @roughghosts.bsky.social

Began the year on a somewhat good note - super glad to have my first translation of the year out in ASAP CONNECT supported by The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts! Link here: asapconnect.in/post/670/sin... Do give it a read! 🎠🌠