The opening ceremony of the 2024 CIUTI International Conference at Shanghai International Studies University on Tuesday. "Maybe over time, humans and machines will come together in any industry that allows each to do a little bit of the work, but I don't think machines will replace humans altogether," he said in an interview during the conference themed "Reshaping the Translation …
Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The prize, to be announced on Thursday, has had its share of controversies, and lots of misses – famously, Leo Tolstoy did not win the Prize despite the fact that he was very much around and his great books which are relevant to this day including War and Peace and …
However, to the outside world, these translators garner not just praise but, to a great extent, criticism. Even after all these years, the infamous phrase ‘lost in translation’ crops up quite frequently in conversations almost as if to question whether the essence of the original text is ever retained when translated. “When visiting Varanasi, we take a bottle of water …
