Anita Gopalan

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Anita Gopalan is a translator and stock investor. Her translations from Hindi include Geet Chaturvedi’s The Memory of Now (Anomalous Press, Chapbook Contest winner), Simsim (Penguin Random House, PEN/Heim grant and JCB Prize for Literature longlist), and The Funeral (featured in Best Literary Translations Anthology, Deep Vellum).

  • A nebula in deep space

    We Count Humans by the Dead

    By Geet Chaturvedi
    June 24, 2025 Geet Chaturvedi
    Photo by Narin Sapaisarn / Adobe Stock The city is a bad wind,the suburbs, nauseating heat waves,and the streets, breath wheezed out of fevered lungs.People swarm like microbes.Their numbercalculat…
  • The translation of The Diamond Sutra by Kumārajīva of the Yao Ch’in dynasty

    Two Poems from the Hindi

    October 4, 2016 Geet Chaturvedi
    The translation of The Diamond Sutra by Kumārajīva of the Yao Ch’in dynasty, in a handwritten version by Zhang Jizhi of the Southern Song Dynasty in 1253. Kumārajīva had established…