Translator’s tale: There’s many a slip twixt heart and head

When babies start talking their malapropisms are family lore. ‘He calls umbrella Laila!’ we tell glassy-eyed guests, who will think of mackerels if they are Malayali, having registered only the ‘aila’. Words travel in mysterious...

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