Rewriting the “Vanishing Present”

Abstract

The present paper explores how the translators mediate between languages and cultures to rewrite the classical texts, tucked away in the margins and peripheries, and being incomprehensible and inaccessible to the western world on account of their language and location. The present study also examines how the translator's act of “rewriting” empowers the translated text and also the culture it performs, promotes an understanding of other cultures and eventually enables the evolution of a “universal culture.”