Professor N. Dharmarajan has worked for 56 years translating over 170 works from various languages into Tamil. In an article in The Hindu we have learned that his very first work of translation was Sean O’ Casey’s The Worker Blows the Bugle appearing as Uzhaippaliyin Sanganatham in Janasakthi in 1958.
Professor Dharmarajan’s work includes translating many works into Tamil including all the works of Tolstoy (excluding War and Peace). The work of a translator in bridging works and ideas across cultures is not an easy one and Professor Dharmarajan is responsible with introducing several new coinages into Tamil.
We are very proud indeed that Professor Dharmarajan’s wonderful journey began with a step hand in hand with Sean.
