Recently reissued Basti by Pakistani Intizar Husain, arguably ‘the finest novel on Partition,’ underscores the numerous difficulties of literary translation.
Publishing Intel from RAND Corporation
By Daniel Kalder SANTA MONICA: For over 60 years now the RAND Corporation has carried out research and analysis for governments, organizations, and institutions around the world. Famously, it was the work of Dr. Herman Kahn — a RAND employee –- that provided the seed for the military doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (Kahn was lampooned by Peter Sellers in …