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The intangibles of translation are complex and layered. Good translations provide cultural, linguistic and social context. Navtej Sarna, former diplomat, author and translator; Yolanda Castaño, award winning Spanish translator, and Oscar Pujol, a distinguished scholar and translator of Sanskrit into Spanish explore the creative negotiations that carry texts across geographies and histories.
Navtej Sarna has served as India’s Ambassador to the United States, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, and Ambassador to Israel. He has also been Secretary to the Government of India and Foreign Office Spokesperson. Sarna’s literary works include the novels Crimson Spring,,The Exile, and We Weren’t Lovers Like That, with the former having won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2025. His non-fiction works include Indians at Herod's Gate, Second Thoughts, and The Book of Nanak, as well as translations of Zafarnama and Savage Harvest. He is a prolific columnist, and commentator on literature and foreign policy.
A poet and cultural manager, with an international literary career spanning over thirty years, Yolanda Castaño is the recipient of the 2023 National Poetry Prize, and is a two-time winner of the Spanish Critics' Prize, among other accolades. She has published eight poetry collections, and has exhibited in over forty five countries, with her work having been translated into more than thirty languages.
Oscar Pujol has published several translations of Sanskrit classics, as well as two Sanskrit dictionaries: the Sanskrit-Catalan and the Sanskrit-Spanish. In 2002, he assisted in establishing Casa Asia in Barcelona, and founded the Instituto Cervantes at New Delhi in 2007.
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The intangibles of translation are complex and layered. Good translations provide cultural, linguistic and social context. Navtej Sarna, former diplomat, author and translator; Yolanda Castaño, award winning Spanish translator, and Oscar Pujol, a distinguished scholar and translator of Sanskrit into Spanish explore the creative negotiations that carry texts across geographies and histories.
Navtej Sarna has served as India’s Ambassador to the United States, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, and Ambassador to Israel. He has also been Secretary to the Government of India and Foreign Office Spokesperson. Sarna’s literary works include the novels Crimson Spring,,The Exile, and We Weren’t Lovers Like That, with the former having won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2025. His non-fiction works include Indians at Herod's Gate, Second Thoughts, and The Book of Nanak, as well as translations of Zafarnama and Savage Harvest. He is a prolific columnist, and commentator on literature and foreign policy.
A poet and cultural manager, with an international literary career spanning over thirty years, Yolanda Castaño is the recipient of the 2023 National Poetry Prize, and is a two-time winner of the Spanish Critics' Prize, among other accolades. She has published eight poetry collections, and has exhibited in over forty five countries, with her work having been translated into more than thirty languages.
Oscar Pujol has published several translations of Sanskrit classics, as well as two Sanskrit dictionaries: the Sanskrit-Catalan and the Sanskrit-Spanish. In 2002, he assisted in establishing Casa Asia in Barcelona, and founded the Instituto Cervantes at New Delhi in 2007.
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