Read: "Of translation, transgression, and transcreation: A conversation on knowledge across languages"

[Vivek Pinto]

By: Doyeeta Majumder, Anuj Misra, Bill Mak, Subha Prasad Sanyal & Biju Paul Abraham [Doyeeta Majumder is an Assistant Professor of English at Jadavpur University.

Anuj Misra is Professor of the History of Science and the History of Knowledge at Freie Universität Berlin and leads the Max Planck Research Group “Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia” (ASTRA).

Bill Mak is Professor of History of Science at the University of Science and Technology of China and Research Associate at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, with research interests in the history of science in Asia, Buddhist translation, and Sino-Indian studies.

John Mathew is Dean of the Arts and the Humanities and Professor of the History of Science at the Asian University for Women, where his work focuses on natural history, disease, and environmental history in South Asia.

Sourav Bhattacharya is Professor of Economics at IIM Calcutta, with interests spanning the economics of organisations, political economy, and development.

Biju Paul Abraham is Professor of Public Policy in the Public Policy and Management Group at IIM Calcutta.

Subha Prasad Sanyal is a Kolkata-based Bengali literary translator and winner of the 2018 Harvill Secker Young Translator’s Prize, noted for translating Hawa Hawa and Other Stories.

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Published in: Scroll

Date: March 29, 2026

Source: https://scroll.in/article/1091632/of-translation-transgression-and-transcreation-a-conversation-on-knowledge-across-languages

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"The academics spoke about translation, authority, disciplinary boundaries, science communication, and AI and its risks."