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  University OF Pune Deptt. of Foreign Languages An international conference on COMMUNICATION OVER BOUNDARIES Current Approaches towards Intercultural Understanding 7 th to 9 th January 2008   The means and ends of communication                                                                                   - Prof. Dr. Neeti Badwe    The 1990s have indeed been the “turning years” for India due to two major factors. One : The electronic and digital technology which revolutionised the means of communication and changed the co-relation between time and s...

  Translating Literatures – Translating Cultures Seminar on Translation, FL, Pune 24/03/2015 0.     Basic concern The title is at the same time my argument : Translating literatures means translating cultures.   Why do we translate literary works? And why do we the urge to read literature in translation? To know more about the author, contents, style, about culture, …Many a times it’s a new idea that fascinates us, sometimes it’s a new point of view to look at the world and to interpret it. Sometimes it’s the new perspective that amazes us. When I translated Kafka, I was completely fascinated by his style and applicability of his texts to the contemporary world. His works have the capacity to cross spatial and temporal boundaries.   1.     Scope of a language It is said, that the boundaries of your language are the boundaries of your world. Look around, you have said it all. Whenever you identify or imagine anything, you find a n...