No Story is Small: Deepa Bhasthi and Sana Goyal in conversation with Sayari Debnath
We're pleased to announce the first live event – part of the second Bhashavaad: National Translation Conference – with our inaugural International Translator in Residence, Deepa Bhasthi: 'No Story is Small'.
The event – organised by the Ashoka Centre for Translation with The New India Foundation – will see Deepa in conversation with translator and journalist, Sayari Debnath, and Wasafiri's Editorial Director, Sana Goyal.
Taking place 29-30 August at the India International Centre, New Delhi, BHASHAVAAD 2.0 will bring together translators, writers, publishers, and scholars working across Indian languages to reflect on the practice, politics, and possibilities of translation in contemporary India.
When: Friday, 29 August, 7.50-8.30pm
Where: India International Centre, New Delhi
Deepa Bhasthi is a writer and International Booker Prize winning writer-translator working in the Kannada-English language pair. Her cultural criticism, essays, columns and journalism have been published extensively in Indian and international publications. Her published translations include two collections of short stories by Kodagina Gouramma and Banu Mushtaq, and a novel by Kota Shivarama Karanth. She is also the recipient of an EnglishPEN Award for her translation of Banu Mushtaq’s short stories.
Sayari Debnath is a culture journalist at Scroll where she writes about books, art, and literary trends. She translates from Bengali and Hindi into English. She is the winner of the 2025 Rabindranath Tagore Award for Translation presented by the Benaras Lit Fest. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation and longlisted for the 2025 Valley of Words Book Awards for English Translation.
Sana Goyal is the Editor and Publishing Director of Wasafiri magazine. She has an MA in Postcolonial Studies and a PhD in literary prizes from SOAS, University of London. Her reviews have appeared in The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Vogue India, and elsewhere. She was a judge for the 2025 International Booker Prize.