Priya Sarukkai Chabria is an award-winning translator, poet and writer. Her books include two speculative fiction novels Clone (Zubaan, 2018) and Generation 14 (Zubaan, 2008); literary nonfiction Bombay/Mumbai: Immersions (Niyogi, 2013); four poetry collections, most recently, Sing of Life: Revisioning Tagore’s Gitanjali (Westland/Amazon, 2021); and translations from Classical Tamil, including Andal: The Autobiography of a Goddess (Zubaan, 2016), winner of the Muse Translation Award 2017. She is founding editor of poetry at Sangam (poetry.sangamhouse.org) and is editing World Poetry in Translation (SpeakingTiger Books, 2023). Chabria channels Sanskrit rasa aesthetics and Tamil Sangam (4–2 BCE) poetics into her work. She has collaborated with dancers, filmmakers, and photographers.
Find her at www.priyasarukkaichabria.com.
Translation Folio
Spring 2023
Whose Words Are Rubies: Excerpts from “Tiruvcakam”
Translator’s Note There is no exact lexical substitute in Indic languages for “translate” though molipeyarpa in Tamil and anuvad in Hindi, meaning “follow,” are among the adaptations in use. Until […]