My Translated book released

 December month (2022) made me gone into a new era. Translation work is not new for me and I already translated Mario Puzo's The God Father, Ernest Heminway's The Old man and the sea, D.H.lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy apart from couple of other books. This time some beautiful Oriya stories penned by Sri Gourahari Das have been translated by me into Telugu language. Without having a real taste experienced, translation would become a sour work in all aspects. A true reader could feel the difference with it and a rendering with love into destined language is something to relish, trust me, rarely we will get that opportunity. That's why most of translations remained unread unto the last page.

After going through Sri Gourahari Das, I have had a strong desire to translate them into Telugu. Reasons are to be disclosed at the moment. First of all, all the characters in the stories are taken from the lives that we keep seeing in our surroundings and at the same time the reader would grasp the cultural landscape from the descriptions. All the 13 stories came out in a book form under the title of "Gourhari Das Kathalu" in Telugu. And in the last month, December -2022, this book was released in the town of Berhampur (Orissa) with the attendance of both Telugu and Oriya literary dignitaries.

( With renowned Oriya Story teller Sri Gourahari Das)

Here there are some pics regarding this event. Hope you all like it and one more thing. This is just a small account as there were many things to say from the talks of attended writers and other dignitaries. Both Oriya and Telugu media outlets gave reasonable coverage for the event. Many copies reached to the readers in the meeting and there was still requisition for more copies to have. Berhampur , though it's an Oriyan town, has good size of Telugu population. So we can see how confluence of both cultures would go hand in hand here. A beautiful sight indeed. 

--- Murthy Kvvs