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A sequel to the widely acclaimed Translation as Discovery, this volume not only builds on the ground of the earlier book but also seeks to extend it. It includes a perceptive account of the long history of translation in India, study of multiple translations of single texts using perspectives of ‘book history’ as well as literary criticism, observations on translation as a craft, ‘nearly equal’ to art but not quite so, assessment of the pedagogic and ...
Test cricket is all about a few people playing and many people watching. But what about the cricket most of us have played-in back-gardens and by-lanes, in school and in college, for a club or for one’s employer-which not many have watched and nobody, at least in India, has written about? This book looks back fondly upon such cricket played at various levels, all of which lead upwards, narrowing inexorably, to the apex. The author may not have reached ...