Translation – Page 2 – THE HOOGHLY REVIEW

ASAP Corner - Books

The Ustad Who Stole Harmony — Review of Ustad Allauddin Khan’s My Life: Story of an Imperfect Musician

5 November 2025

Anjana Basu — Excerpt: Revered as the founder of the Maihar Gharana and guru to greats such as Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, and Nikhil Banerjee, Allauddin Khan left behind not only a musical legacy but also a personal account of his extraordinary journey.

Continue Reading

Related Posts

“When the River Remembers: Umar Nizarudeen’s The Moplah Speaks of the Rivers” by Haimanti Bagchi
17 October 2026

“The Geography of Unfinished Memory: Trauma, Belonging and the Ethics of Return in Umair Ahmed Khan’s The Valley of Unfinished Songs” by Wani Nazir
8 October 2026

“The Unease Beneath the Ordinary: Review of Geet Chaturvedi’s Scent of the Nameless, tr. Anita Gopalan” by Tarang Sinha
2 October 2026
ASAP Corner - Books

Translating the Ache in The Dead Fish: Mahua Sen and the Many Voices of Rajkamal Choudhary

30 October 2025

Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Choudhary doesn’t write about real life in the usual way; his world is strange and frenetic. The holy and the vile walk hand in hand. Sometimes a prayer turns into a protest. Sen has a hard job expressing that tilt, when faith turns into irony.

Continue Reading

Related Posts

“When the River Remembers: Umar Nizarudeen’s The Moplah Speaks of the Rivers” by Haimanti Bagchi
17 October 2026

“The Geography of Unfinished Memory: Trauma, Belonging and the Ethics of Return in Umair Ahmed Khan’s The Valley of Unfinished Songs” by Wani Nazir
8 October 2026

“The Unease Beneath the Ordinary: Review of Geet Chaturvedi’s Scent of the Nameless, tr. Anita Gopalan” by Tarang Sinha
2 October 2026
ASAP Corner - Books

The Poetic Performance of Fracture: A Review of Yashodhara Raychaudhuri’s The Poem, In Pieces

4 September 2025

Basudhara Roy — Excerpt: A poem is read as much by the ear as by the eye. It establishes a relationship with the reader as much by defying as by conforming to poetic norms. Raychaudhuri’s poems stimulate both vision and sound.

Continue Reading

Related Posts

“When the River Remembers: Umar Nizarudeen’s The Moplah Speaks of the Rivers” by Haimanti Bagchi
17 October 2026

“The Geography of Unfinished Memory: Trauma, Belonging and the Ethics of Return in Umair Ahmed Khan’s The Valley of Unfinished Songs” by Wani Nazir
8 October 2026

“The Unease Beneath the Ordinary: Review of Geet Chaturvedi’s Scent of the Nameless, tr. Anita Gopalan” by Tarang Sinha
2 October 2026
Translation - Weekly Features

The Next Wednesday: English Translation of the Gujarati short story, નિત્યક્રમ (Nityakram), written by Panna Naik

3 August 2025

Translated by Rohee Dholakia — Excerpt: One afternoon, on your way from work to the post office, you notice Prerna from 20 feet away near the glass pane of the Manhattan bagel cafe.

Continue Reading

Related Posts

“The Writer’s Nose” by Wawan Kurniawan
11 October 2026

The First Snow
19 April 2026

In the Shadow of an Absence
9 November 2025
Translation - Weekly Features

Poems from Bhartrihari’s Shatakatraya (The Three Hundreds)

15 June 2025

Translated from the Sanskrit by Louis Hunt — Excerpt: Where else can one find such useless stuff / if not in youth’s ramshackle house?

Continue Reading

Related Posts

“The Writer’s Nose” by Wawan Kurniawan
11 October 2026

The First Snow
19 April 2026

In the Shadow of an Absence
9 November 2025

Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)

The Writers Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye (June 2026 onwards)

The Many Lives of Atlas A, Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition

“Breasts” by Allison Field Bell published in Issue 4, chosen for Best Microfiction 2026 by Diane Seuss

Fictile Feelings, guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi

Editors’ Interview: Bookbot Theory | S2E29 | How Literary Magazines Shape Author Branding | YouTube | Spotify | Amazon Music

Murals, guest-edited by François Bereaud