Reposted by @aswritingsaves.bsky.socialCatherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 06/01/2025darkness all morning in this shifting sea of mist traces of crowflight 04515
Reposted by @aswritingsaves.bsky.socialCatherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 01/01/2025the year’s last sunlight drawn away under the bridge never meant to go 15411
Reposted by @aswritingsaves.bsky.socialAskme @askme99.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Religion and morality are 2 separate concepts and there's nothing moral about religion. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal 1321
Reposted by @aswritingsaves.bsky.socialisabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Why you should always use a professional translator, number I-don't-know-I've-lost-count, in a series that is far less occasional than it should be... 🤦♀️ #xl8 2317542
aswritingsaves.bsky.social @aswritingsaves.bsky.social · 12/12/2024 ‘When I taught a translation workshop this summer…I banned both terms. I find them disturbingly sexual—the implication is that a faithful translator does sleep around, and a translator who takes liberties is something like a rapist.’ The ever entertaining #DaisyRockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social 021
aswritingsaves.bsky.social @aswritingsaves.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Geetanjali Shree speaks to me on the cumulative effect of small violences and the liberal confusion as a factor in the process of communalization of our cities. frontline.thehindu.com/books/geetan...frontline.thehindu.comGeetanjali Shree Interview: Language as Protest in ‘Our City That YearInternational Booker winner on how language becomes an act of resistance and identity in her latest novel, translated by Daisy Rockwell. 020
aswritingsaves.bsky.social @aswritingsaves.bsky.social · 11/12/2024@shreedaisy.bsky.social speaks to me on the process of recreating a text in another language in this engaging and insightful interview. frontline.thehindu.com/books/transl...frontline.thehindu.comINTERVIEW | We Now Have Means to Actively Build a Community and Train and Help Emerging Translators: Daisy RockwellThrough her translations of Hindi/Urdu novels, the translator has brought out the best of post-Independence writers in English. 050
aswritingsaves.bsky.social @aswritingsaves.bsky.social · 02/12/2024“किसी शहर से परिचित होने का शायद सबसे आसान तरीक़ा यह है कि यह जानने की कोशिश की जाए कि उसमें रहने वाले लोग काम किस तरह करते हैं, प्यार और मुहब्बत किस तरह करते हैं और मरते किस तरह हैं।” –अल्बेयर कामू 000
aswritingsaves.bsky.social @aswritingsaves.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Man with his trophy, Mumbai . 0272
aswritingsaves.bsky.social @aswritingsaves.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Good to see this review: Revisiting the 1990 Rath Yatra Through Fiction: thewire.in/books/revisi...thewire.inRevisiting 1990's Rath Yatra Through Fiction 010
aswritingsaves.bsky.social @aswritingsaves.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Aamir Aziz: dai.ly/x7s0xekdai.lyDailymotion 000
aswritingsaves.bsky.social @aswritingsaves.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Reading Mira Sethi: ‘Lahore revived to an early-evening clamor: crows gashed black against the sky, horses drew carts skittish on the roads…the azaan rose above the blare of car horns, —a mesh of sound that evoked Lahore at its most stark, its most beautiful.’ 020
