Rita Kothari
Rita Kothari, a multilingual scholar and translator whose work spans different disciplines, is Professor of English and Co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation at Ashoka University. Kothari has translated extensively from Gujarati and Sindhi into English and occasionally vice versa. She is a Vani Distinguished Translator and recipient of the Fulbright, Rockefeller fellowships and awards. Her book, Translating India: The Cultural Politics of English, was the first seminal study of translation. The edited volume, A Multilingual Nation, and the monographs, The Burden of Refuge and Uneasy Translations, are among her notable works. Kothari is currently working on a Hindi translation of Shah Abdul Latif's Sindhi Sufi poetry.
