Sexist translation of Tagore’s poems stirs controversy in China

Source: Times of India
Story flagged by: Akhil Kumar

Chinese writer has kicked up a major controversy by publishing a distorted translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s poems. The translation misinterprets Tagore’s lines to give them pornographic meaning.

The writer, Feng Tang, does not know Bengali and has apparently used available Chinese translations of Tagore’s works to give his own interpretation, literary sources said. More.

See: Times of India

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Sexist translation of Tagore's poems stirs controversy in China
LilianNekipelov
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Really disgusting, not the vulgar part Jan 18, 2016

but that anyone would attempt to translate the gems of world poetry, the real treasures that the human kind was capable of producing (not too many things are of great value that the civilization has produced) using such inaccurate, unprofessional methods, most likely even MT. Total ignorance on the part of the translator. How vulgar and inaccurate could the existing translations have been? I do not buy it, somehow. He probably just put it through the mincer.

[Edited at 2016-01-18 08:08
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but that anyone would attempt to translate the gems of world poetry, the real treasures that the human kind was capable of producing (not too many things are of great value that the civilization has produced) using such inaccurate, unprofessional methods, most likely even MT. Total ignorance on the part of the translator. How vulgar and inaccurate could the existing translations have been? I do not buy it, somehow. He probably just put it through the mincer.

[Edited at 2016-01-18 08:08 GMT]
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