Raising the issue during the Zero Hour, Gokhale demanded that English must be used for government business. Gokhale said the government has recently passed three new criminal laws in Parliament and these laws have been given very complicated Hindi names. Gokhale said, "Our Constitution chose to retain English as an official language along with Hindi". "However, the attempts by the …
Published : Jul 09, 2022 06:00 IST - 12 MINS READ I ask Shanta Gokhale, novelist, translator, theatre critic and sounding board for most of Mumbai’s intellectual community, whether we can begin by talking about the economics of translation. ‘No name, no fame, no money.’” Now that Shanta Gokhale has won the richly deserved Sahitya Akademi award for her translation …
“This festival has always had a mysterious life of its own, and it is literally taking me for a ride along with it. Acclaimed writer, editor, publisher, and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival [JLF>, Namita Gokhale was given the Sahitya Akademi Award for her 2016 novel Things to Leave Behind in Delhi on Friday. Hours before the scheduled Sahitya …
The Sahitya Akademi on Thursday announced its awards for 2021 for literary works in 20 languages, including novels in Assamese and English by Anuradha Sarma Pujari and Namita Gokhale respectively. In a statement, the national academy of letters said seven books of poetry, five of short stories, two plays, one each of biography, autobiography, criticism and epic poetry had won …