Babli Moitra Saraf

Babli Moitra Saraf , formerly Principal of Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, taught in the Department of English and in the Department of Multi-Media and Mass Communication. She holds an MPhil in English and PhD in Sociology, and is fluent in several Indian and foreign languages. As a translator and scholar of Translation Studies she has several globally acclaimed publications and is a member on research and editorial boards of Indian and international journals and academic...See more

Babli Moitra Saraf , formerly Principal of Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, taught in the Department of English and in the Department of Multi-Media and Mass Communication. She holds an MPhil in English and PhD in Sociology, and is fluent in several Indian and foreign languages. As a translator and scholar of Translation Studies she has several globally acclaimed publications and is a member on research and editorial boards of Indian and international journals and academic bodies. She was a fellow and Visiting Faculty at the Nida School of Translation Studies and has received the Indo-Italian Cultural Exchange Program scholarship, the Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrator fellowship, the Distinguished Teacher Award of the University of Delhi, the 27th Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Memorial National Award for Teachers, the C.F. Andrews Distinguished Alumnus Award for Lifelong Pursuit of Excellence of the St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Her publications include La Cattura and La Preda e altri Racconti (translations into Italian of Mahasweta Devi's works with Maria Federica Oddera), Rajouri Remembered (trans. and ed.), Hey Diddle Diddle: Tun-Tun Tara-Tara , Hindi adaptations/translations of popular English nursery rhymes, Selected Hindi Short Stories in English (ed.), and Performing Shakespeare in India: Exploring Indianness, Literatures and Cultures (co-ed). See less