New release from Bloomsbury India

[Vidya Pai]

Hope you like the book.

Vidya Pai.

[Jeanne Hromnik]

Dear Vidya

I do like -- and have been waiting for just this. Translation that connects worlds. Particularly this Goan fictional world written in Konkani. Its English fictional counterpart in the Goan context is often disappointing, although Goans seem to replace their native tongue with English quite readily. 

Writing fiction in English in a non English environment is a challenge, I think, particularly when it comes to dialogue. The reverse I expect is equally so. How, for example, does one translate the Yorkshire dialect in Wuthering Heights into Konkani or Russian or whatever? Good translators are heroes and heroines. 

To have the book in digital form completes the circle. Thank you and Bloomsbury India.

Jeanne

On Thu, 30 Jul 2026, 21:18 Vidya Pai, <vidya...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hope you like the book.

Vidya Pai.

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[Selma Carvalho]

Congratulations, Vidya. I will order a copy.

Warmly,

Selma Carvalho

Author of Guts, Glory & Empire: The Epic Story of Goans in Zanzibar, 1865-1910, Sisterhood of Swans and Notes on a Marriage, all published by Speaking Tiger. 

On Thursday, 30 July 2026 at 20:18:24 BST, Vidya Pai <vidya...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hope you like the book.

Vidya Pai.

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[William Robert Da Silva]

Dear Vidya, I have read your earlier translations. At present I am busy working on Konkanni Bhaxechi Bandavoll and Konkanni Utramdaiz. I would be interested in the copy. How to pay you? I am at 501 Peters Cote, Balikashrama Road, Kankanady-Mangalore 575002. 

I would appreciate to know if you are from 'amchigele koddiyalli' community or Goan Pai. I ask this because the Konkanni language speech form from them is different from catholic konkanni and Goan. 

All the best in your excellent endeavours. My mobile: 9980323912.

William Robert Da Silva

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