Building Bridges

This a debut collection of two youngsters. We must acknowledge that in their first attempt itself, they have succeeded in making the poems of Kannada and Hindi languages bloom in English. Both the translators have been translating their favorite poems occasionally and have brought out the same as an anthology now. There are differences in the translations of Kannada and Hindi poems. As expressed in one of the poems, even after the realisation of their difficult positions of belonging to different shores, the translators have aspired to build a bridge of love between these two languages. They are commendable for this effort. Instead of building new walls and confinements between people, languages, literatures, and cultures breaking them is more necessary in today’s world. And similarly, building bridges, any kind of bridges is better than burning bridges today. Dr Shivarama Padikkal , Professor, Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies University of Hyderabad