
It features an extraordinary group of characters across twelve hair-raising stories. Translated by the noted translator Indrani Majumdar, this is a tribute to Ray’s literary genius and to his centenary birth anniversary in 2021. The book, translated from the Assamese, covers her upper-middle-class Calcutta roots, elopement with her lover at a young age, abandonment on getting pregnant, seeking refuge in a brothel, and more. During her time, she became one of Bengal’s most powerful women. The 1920 Bengali classic Shikshita Patitar Atmacharit is Manada Devi’s life story. Manada Devi An Educated Woman in Prostitution: A Memoir of Lust, Exploitation, Deceit The deft use of language, striking imagery, and strong characters are hallmarks of Indira Goswami’s writing. These impactful narratives, translated from the Assamese, depict the lives of the rural poor, the circumstances of widows, the plight of the urban underclass, and the various social constraints under which such people are forced to live.

While most will be initially released first in India, several will also be published in the US and the UK. Below is a small selection of notable 2021 books in English translation-as highlighted by their publishers-from Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, and Tamil.

While this has amply proved that some of the best literature from the subcontinent has been and continues to be written in non-English languages, there is a lack of global visibility and, indeed, demand for these works. Over the last decade or so, we’ve had a profusion of literary translations from many of these languages into English. That figure does not include the many language isolates or dialects that are impossible to fully account for. Cinematic and ambitious in its scope, this is a keenly researched and splendidly executed period drama about one man’s struggle to preserve his father’s legacy and of the price extracted by the throne and the homeland.SOUTH ASIA-which, per the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation definition, includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives-is the most linguistically diverse region with more than 650 individual languages across six major language families: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic, Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, and Great Andamanese. And what could be better than the enemy’s own brother-in-law willing to hand him the rat on a platter.Ī moving portrait of an often misunderstood braveheart, Vishwas Patil’s Sambhaji is a massive bestseller that has sold over a 100,000 copies in Marathi. He must now fight Aurangzeb, who has spent twenty years trying to smoke out the ‘mountain rat’, and whose presence in the Deccan poses an increasingly grave threat to the Maratha empire. On 3 April 1680, Shivaji dies unexpectedly, and it is finally time for Sambhaji to rise to the challenge.

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