Kolkata, India · English ↔ Bengali

The right word exists in
two languages. I find it.

Translator, author and editor. Three decades of working with language at the level of the sentence — carrying Bengali stories into English, and English readers into Bengal.

Literary Translation
Translator of Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide, Upamanyu Chatterjee & Fazal Sheikh
Valley of Words
Award 2024, for Jhupli's Honey Box (Indian edition)
Translator-in-Residence
British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia
Senior Editorial Roles
Thirty years in Indian newsrooms — The Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Statesman & Ei Samay
WHAT I DO

Language work,
end to end

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A translation should keep the book's own voice — its rhythm, its register, the way it sounds in its own language.

— On translating The Hungry Tide
SELECTED TRANSLATIONS

Books carried across languages

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