Translation
Chaudhuri has translated extensively from Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Sukumar Ray, Rajshekhar Bose and other classic Bengali writers, and many modern Bengali poets. His Select Nonsense of Sukumar Ray (New Delhi: OUP, 1998) is a wonderful recreation in English of Sukumar Ray's whimsical nonsense poems, and is probably the closest it is possible to get to expressing their spirit in a foreign language. He is General Editor of the Oxford Tagore Translations (five volumes published between 2000 and 2006). He has also authored Translation and Understanding (New Delhi: OUP, 1999).
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