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Ranjit Hoskote

Ranjit Hoskote
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.


What South Asia’s Literary Classics Reveal About Its Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

Ranjit Hoskote on the Interplay Between Written, Oral and Corporal Expression in Indian Literature
January 31, 2025  By Ranjit Hoskote
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