Tolstoy famously said about translation that translation is an inverted translation. And the Italian saying goes that Traduttore, traditore! That is, translation is betrayal! That is, betrayal in the original language....
A friend of mine, Sughosh Majmundar, like many others, has the disease of hoarding books, and in his closets, cupboards, storage rooms, on the stairs, on the refrigerator, on the sofa,...