Arts
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar is a doctor by profession who has authored six books so far, including The Adivasi Will Not Dance, The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey and My Father’s Garden, among others. He has translated from Santhali and Hindi into English and is now trying to translate from Bengali. In conversation with music programmer and broadcaster Sarthak Kaushik, Shekhar talks about the process of translation, the challenges and finding one’s own voice. This episode was recorded in march at the Jaipur Literature Festival.