Rita Kothari

Rita Kothari
Rita Kothari, December 2017
Born (1969-07-30) 30 July 1969
Occupation Author, translator, professor
Language Gujarati
Residence Ahmedabad
Nationality Indian
Education
Alma mater
Notable works
  • Translating India (2003)
  • The Burden of Refuge: The Sindhi Hindus of Gujarat (2007)
  • Unbordered Memories (2009)
Signature
Rita Kothari
Academic background
Thesis Indian Literature in English Translation the Social Context (1999)
Doctoral advisor Suguna Ramanathan
Academic work
Website
ittgn.academia.edu/RitaKothari

Rita Kothari (Gujarati:રીટા કોઠારી) is a Gujarati and English language author and translator from Gujarat, India. In an attempt to preserve memories and her identity as Sindhi, she wrote several books on partition and its effects on people. She translated several Gujarati works in English and edited some.

Life

She was born on 30 July 1969. She completed Bachelor of Arts in 1989 from St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad and Master of Arts in 1991 from University of Pune with English literature. She got her M.Phil for her research in The Experience of Translating Hindi Prose in 1995 under R.A. Malagi from Gujarat University. She received a Ph.D in 2000 for research work in Translating India : The Cultural Politics of English under Suguna Ramanathan from Gujarat University.[1]

Kothari teaches in the English department at Ashoka University, Sonipat. She worked from 2007 to 2017 with the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.[2] She taught Indian Literature in English and Translation at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad from 1992 to 2007.[3] Following, she joined as a professor in Culture and Communication at the MICA.[1]

Kothari's teaching interests include literature, cinema, ethnography, and cultural history. Movement across languages, contexts, and cultures from the fulcrum of her interests, making translation the prism through which she sees the Indian context.[4]

She lives in Ahmedabad.[5]

Works

In an attempt to preserve memories and her identity as Sindhi, she wrote Translating India: The Cultural Politics of English (2003) and The Burden of Refuge: The Sindhi Hindus of Gujarat (2007), Unbordered Memories : Partition Stories from Sindh (2009) and Memories and Movements (2016).[2]

She has co-translated Modern Gujarati Poetry and Coral Island: The Poetry of Niranjan Bhagat (selected poems of Niranjan Bhagat). He translated Joseph Macwan's Gujarati novel Angaliayat as The Stepchild and Ila Mehta's Vaad as Fence (2015) into English. She co-edited Decentring Translation Studies : India and Beyond (2009) with Judy Wakabayashi and Chutnefying English : The Phenomenon of Hinglish (2011) with Rupert Snell. She is the editor and translator of Speech and Silence : Literary Journeys by Gujarati Women.[6][7][8]

Bibliography

  • Rita Kothari (8 April 2014). Translating India. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-64216-9.
  • Rita Kothari; Rupert Snell (2011). Chutnefying English: The Phenomenon of Hinglish. Penguin Books India. ISBN 978-0-14-341639-5.
  • Rita Kothari (1 February 2007). The Burden of Refuge: the Sindhi Hindus of Gujarat. Orient Longman. ISBN 978-81-250-3157-4.
  • Rita Kothari (30 September 1999). Indian literature in english translation the social context. Gujarat University.

References

  1. 1 2 "Rita Kothari - Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar". Academia.edu (in Afrikaans). 2015-08-03. Retrieved 2016-11-24.
  2. 1 2 Adhyaru-Majithia, Priya (3 February 2013). "Dr Rita Kothari explores Idea of border and trauma of Partition". dna. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Indian Review of Books. Acme Books Pvt. Limited. 1998. p. 22.
  4. ↑ University, Ashoka. "Faculty/Staff | Ashoka University". Ashoka University. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  5. ↑ "Rita Kothari - Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar". Academia.edu. 2015-08-03. Retrieved 2016-11-24.
  6. ↑ "Rita Kothari". The Re:Enlightenment Project. Retrieved 2016-11-24.
  7. ↑ "Is Multilingualism a 'new' discovery?, Rita Kothari – Multilingualism". Multilingualism – Boğaziçi University. 2016-03-02. Retrieved 2016-11-24.
  8. ↑ "Rita Kothari". Jaipur Literature Festival. 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2016-11-24.
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