This is a freewheeling session about the act and art of translation as a practice. Two eminent and award-winning translators would reflect on their practice as translators, their styles; what they choose to translate, and what they do not.

V Ramaswamy has translated into English, almost without exception, some of the most underappreciated work in Bengali literature. His early fame rested on having brought the unapologetically avant-garde Subimal Mishra to the English tongue; which was followed, somewhat naturally, by Shahidul Zahir, Adhir Biwas, Shahaduz Zaman, and Manoranjan Bapari. He has held residencies at Sangam House, University of Liberal Arts, Dhaka, and Ledig House, New York among others; and has been awarded a Charles Wallace Fellowship, The PEN Presents Award from PEN, UK, and the New India Foundation Translation Fellowship. He lives in Kolkata.