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What drew you to translation in the first place?I did my first book-length translation in 1992 at the request of the writer Shankar when I translated his novel Chowringhee from Bangla to English. This was after I had translated some short stories from Bangla for a city magazine that some of us used to bring out in Calcutta. That translation was not meant for publication at that point. It was meant for, I believe, a French publisher to read and decide whether to publish Chowringhee in French or not. 14 years later, when…

It wasn’t too long ago that the phrase “OLED laptop” implied a luxury product. But, over the past few years, that tide has slowly begun to shift. Samsung has begun mass-producing OLED panels for more portable form factors. And while they’re still not exactly commonplace, we’ve begun to see sub-$1,000 OLED devices trickle onto shelves. But Acer made an announcement today that should make folks who want to see more affordable, accessible OLED (like myself) very excited. The Acer Swift 3 — hailed by many outlets, The…

In 2014, it was tough to be a keyboard nerd. I was using a 4-year-old keyboard I’d bought from Mattias that used Alp white switches similar to what had been found in old Mac keyboards. I desperately wanted something with the then-fabled Cherry Blue switch, but it was hard to find anything outside of a smattering of hard-to-find Corsair keyboards and imports from Ducky based in Taiwan. Eight years later people actually can understand everything I just typed above. Okay, maybe not everyone, but the size of the…