CATA

 

Centre for Academic Translation and Archiving

 

Current Projects

 

Translations

 

“Selected Essays of Shrilal Shukla”: a collective translation project

Contributors:

         Hina Nandrajog, Nupur Mittal, Afzal Mohammed, Akhilesh Kumar, Abhishek Bhaskar, Ragini Nayak, Kanika Sharma, Prem Kumari Srivastava, Maaz Bin Bilal, Gautam Choubey, Lalit Kumar, Himanshu Kumar​

         Translation of Apuk Apaga Rairei Khare: France Khava, 1917-18, By S. Kanrei. Translated from Tangkhul by Luithui Khanthing. The Centre will publish this soon with Through War, Rebellion and Riot another World War I memoir by Ronen Sen.

“Meet the Author”

A series of video-interviews with eminent writers from diverse Indian languages:

Sheoraj Singh Bechain

Gangumei Kamei

Manglesh Dabral

Desmond Kharmawphlang

Namwar Singh

 

Manuscripts

The centre has begun discussions with the following authors to acquire digital copies of their manuscripts, unpublished writings and private papers.

Street-Lit, or popular literature in the following languages

Meitei

Assamese (70 Books)

Bodo (6 Books)

Odia

Hmar

Bhojpuri

Maithili

Bishnupriya Manipuri

Bangladeshi

Tangkhul Naga

Rongmei

 

Little Magazines

Assamese
Damol  (Special Issue), November 2004 – Feb
ruary 2005 

Damol (11th Year, 1st Issue), 2006

Manipuri

52 issues of The Legacy (Tangkhul-English Journal)

Crime and Violence (Meitei magazine on gender and crime in Manipur)

 

Rare Periodicals

 

Dicham (1971-73)

Harishchandra’s Magazine (1873-75)

Marwari Gazette

Sudarshan

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