Re: Modern Indian Novels in Translation -Reply

Rao Palaka (PALAKA@simon.wustl.edu)
Wed, 22 May 1996 09:00:23 -0500

I am surprised at the following thread. The original message said the
project aims at traslating about 40-50 indian novels in the next 4-5 years
and listed the ones that have already been translated ( about 11?). I am
surprised at the expressions of surprise and disappointment at this stage!!!

regards,
-rao

>Devaraju Mohan wrote:
>> Surprised and disappointed to see that there
>> is not even one Telugu Novel in the list!
>
>Me too.
>
>> What's that this is telling us ?
>
>That telugu, the second largest spoken language in
>India, did not come to the attention of project
>proponents.
>
>> This shouldn't 've been posted in SCIT?
>I would like to wait what others have to say.
>
>> Throwing a challenge to Telugus to pick up
>> the project ?...Mixed feelings
>Sure. that will be a positive reaction.
>
>Madan Mohan
>
>