Vivek Shanbhag on ‘Hyphen’, and bridging the gap in India’s translation landscape
What happens when you cradle a seed of an idea and nurture it for almost 20 years? For novelist and playwright Vivek Shanbhag, it led to the founding of Hyphen, a literary journal to celebrate India’s multilingual heritage with an exclusive focus on translations from Indian languages into English. “I grew up reading translations from other languages, whether it was Malayalam or Russian.
- ▪What happens when you cradle a seed of an idea and nurture it for almost 20 years?
- ▪For novelist and playwright Vivek Shanbhag, it led to the founding of Hyphen, a literary journal to celebrate India’s multilingual heritage with an exclusive focus on translations from Indian languages into English.
- ▪“I grew up reading translations from other languages, whether it was Malayalam or Russian.
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What happens when you cradle a seed of an idea and nurture it for almost 20 years? For novelist and playwright Vivek Shanbhag, it led to the founding of Hyphen, a literary journal to celebrate India’s multilingual heritage with an exclusive focus on translations from Indian languages into English. “I grew up reading translations from other languages, whether it was Malayalam or Russian. But I have always felt that while Indians have so much access to writers from outside the country, there is little access to writers from our own neighbouring States. It was this desire to read writers from other Indian languages that led to Hyphen. We named it six years ago when we started Bahuvachana Prakashana, our publication house, but no one noticed it then,” says Shanbhag.
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