How We Used to Love

Name: How We Used to Love
Start: 2025-01-18T13:00:00.000+0
End: 2025-01-18T14:30:00.000+0
Location: Bangalore International Centre (BIC)

Schedule

Sat Jan 18 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:30 pm

UTC.000+0

Location

Bangalore International Centre (BIC) | Bangalore, KA

Being immune to the charms of poetry is a crime that is its own punishment, the Sanskritic tradition tells us. Join us as we discover the allure of Sanskrit and Prakrit love poetry and the travails of translating doe-eyes and elephant-thighs into English with Anusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh, co-translators of the verse anthology, How to Love in Sanskrit (HarperCollins 2024).How to Love in Sanskrit is a poetic exploration of the maze of modern dating: flirting, daydreaming, yearning, and breaking up, through the eyes of Kalidasa, Bana, Vidya, and many other, often anonymous gifted poets.Moderated by Radhika Chadha, the translators will discuss their inspiration for the book, their approach to translation, misconceptions about Sanskrit poetry, and the challenges of translating pre-modern poetry, drawing from both classic and forgotten texts to paint a picture of what love feels like in Sanskrit. The session will conclude with a reading of their favourite verses from the book.