Welcome to Celebrate: The Podcast!

This is a 10 episode series that looks to honour, acknowledge and thank 10 Indian Authors whose writing has been positively impacting people by encouraging them to question, challenge, reflect and introspect on many aspects of our society and nation.

You are listening to Episode 9. I am your host ambalika and our guest for today is noted Hindi language author and columnist, Ashutosh Garg.

Ashutosh writes majorly in the mythology genre and 'Indra' and 'Ashwathama' are two of his noted bestsellers. Till date he has translated more than 40 bestsellers including, the NY Times bestseller, The Girl on The Train.

Heartiest welcome to Ashutosh & what a privilege to have him on the show!

Episode Highlights:

• A mythology genre author translating thrillers: what's going on? 🙂
• What happened first - becoming an author or a translation?
• Why doesn't India focus more on translation?
• The role of translators in making Indian literature global
• How to become very good with translation
• A win- win formula for translators & publishers
• Re-telling of mythology: good or bad?
• How not to spoil mythology re-telling

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