One example will give the reader a taste of the experience. How could roses be arranged in a saucer, I thought, especially when the dining room is clearly meant to sound very grand? A glance at Sahni revealed that the saucer had been turned into a vase in his version:. Arm in arm, they proceeded towards the dining room.
In its centre stood a big, circular dining table, of black mahogany. A lampshade hanging low from the ceiling right above the table shed its light on a copper vase filled with red roses. I felt suddenly plunged into confusion. Had I misread all these words? This was one of many passages Ratan had omitted. Or did he just not think the description was relevant?
With this in mind, I moved on to Google image search, an excellent tool for translators trying to finesse their understanding of the appearance of certain objects. But no. Instead it was image after image of flying saucers. On the internet, UFOs are more popular than tea sets. In the end, I handled the passage as follows.
They set out for the dining room, their arms around each other. Of all the rooms in the house, Liza liked this one best. Directly in the middle of the round, black oak table lay a brass tray full of carefully arranged red roses.
Directly above the tray hung an electric lamp with a lattice-work shade. A circle of lamplight illuminated the tray of roses and the mottled light filtered through the shade and fell upon the beautiful china plates set out on the table with red napkins placed next to them.
He edited the literary journal, Nayi Kahaniyan, from , and was the general secretary of the All-India Progressive Writers' Association from Sahni was awarded the Padma Bhushan in , and the Shalaka Award, the Delhi government's highest literary prize, in She paints under the takhallus, or alias, Lapata Urdu for 'missing' , and has shown her artwork widely.
Apart from her essays on literature and art, she has written Upendranath Ashk: A Critical Biography, The Little Book of Terror-a book of paintings and essays on the global war on terror-and the novel Taste.
She has translated a collection of Ashk's short stories, Hats and Doctors, and Falling Walls both published in Penguin Classics , a widely acclaimed translation of Girti Divarein, the first volume of Ashk's epic novel cycle. Her translation of Bhisham Sahni's iconic Partition novel Tamas is regarded as the definitive English rendition of that work. Visit Seller's Storefront.
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