Description: Ten Indian Classics showcases translations from a vast array of India's literary traditions, Hindi, Kannada, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Urdu, with a foreword by the award-winning poet and translator Ranjit Hoskote. It is an invitation to explore classic literature that continues to shape modern South Asian culture and aesthetics.
Brief description: Poet, translator, and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote has authored more than thirty books of poetry, art criticism, cultural theory, and translation. His translation of the poems of the fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic Lal Ded has been published as I, Lalla. His translation of a selection of the eighteenth-century Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir's poetry has just appeared as The Homeland's an Ocean.
Review Quotes: The Murty Classical Library of India sifts through multiple languages and thousands of years to bring a nation's literary treasures to English-language readers.--Tunku Varadarajan "Wall Street Journal" (3/14/2025 12:00:00 AM)