Arun Som: translation genius who brought Soviet books to Bengali massesThis article by Evgeny Spirin is reproduced with thanks from the Krasnoyarsk-based Russian Marxist journal Za Pobedu! (For Victory!).
The translator was Indian scientist Dr Amit Dhakulkar, founder of the project ‘Mir Titles’, which has created the largest open internet archive of Soviet books translated into foreign languages.
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Today, when scholars in India or Russia write about the history of cultural ties between India and Russia, the name of Arun Som is mentioned alongside that of Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin, who pioneered the route from Russia to India, and Gerasim Lebedev, a Russian traveller and musician who founded the first European-style theatre in Calcutta, with a troupe and orchestra composed of local residents.
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