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Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh trans., "Baidehisha Bilasa: The Amorous Plays of Si…

6/4/2026 • 54 min

Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh bring into English for the first time a long-inaccessible masterpiece of South Asian literature Baidehisha Bilasa: The Amorous Plays of Sita’s Husband (2025). Composed in the late seventeenth century by Upendra Bhanja — the Odia prince-poet hailed as Kavi Samrat, the Emperor of Poets — the work is a Ramayana that privileges shri… Play episode

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Terao Tetsuya and translated by Kevin Wang, "Spent Bullets" (HarperVia, 20…
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious W…
Gregory Kenicer, "Scottish Plant Names: An A–Z" (Birlinn, 2026)
Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski
Patrick S. D. McCartney, "Sanskrit-Speaking' Villages, Linguistic Utopias …
Learning Languages on Social Media
Matthew R. Crawford and Aaron P. Johnson, "Cyril of Alexandria: Against Ju…
Elina Penner, 'Nightberries" (CMU Press, 2026)
Yosef Grodzinsky, "How Deeply Human Is Language?: Chomsky, the Brain, and …
Georgia C. Ennis, "Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Me…
Italo Calvino on the Written and the Unwritten Word
Yiddish: Biography of a Language
Aya Elyada, "A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish…
Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis
David Krolikoski, "Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in C…
Elena Foulis, "Embodied Encuentros: Oral History Archives of Latina/o/e Ex…
The (Un)imagined Work of Linguistic Inclusion
Nathaniel Greenberg, "The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in …
Myung-jin Han with Nicolas Levi, "I Was a North Korean Diplomat: Inside th…
Elizabeth Rosner, "Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listen…
Ted Goossen on translating Hiromi Kawakami’s “Third Love”
Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Pr…
Older Adults Learning English in Berlin
Dominik Berrens, "Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science: …
Yiddish Children’s Literature and Jewish Modernity: A Conversation with Mi…
Zhou Meisen, "Property of the People" (Sinoist, 2025)
Asif Iqbal, "Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural …
Teaching English Pronunciation
Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Cen…
Yiddish in Israel: A History
Danny Bate, "Why Q Needs U: A History of Our Letters and How We Use Them" …
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller eds., "The Erasure and Revitalizati…
Hiromi Ito, "The Thorn Puller" (Stone Bridge Press, 2022)
Margherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. An…
Margherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. An…
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Sapoznik
Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan eds., "Autotheories" (MIT Press, 2025)
Damion Searls, "The Philosophy of Translation" (Yale UP, 2024)
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (…
Sophie Salvo, "Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nin…
Renny Thomas and Sasanka Perera, "Decolonial Keywords: South Asian Thought…
Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission
Elaine M. Fisher, "The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Mo…
Manchán Magan, "Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landsc…
Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Pr…
Daniel Eastman An, "Fear of God: Practicing Emotion in Late Antique Monast…
Sylvia D. Hoffert, "Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and …
Radio ReOrient 13.7: "Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran…

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