Lost in Translation

IN Media Watch Briefs | 13/06/2015

A less superficial knowledge of Hindi by the country's leading English daily, The Times of India, might be in order. An edit page piece, 'The Ballad of Lalu and Nitish,' refers to the upcoming electoral battle in Bihar between the BJP and other non-BJP parties as a kaante ki takkar. The well known term has been translated in parenthesis as a 'thorny struggle'. Most people who speak Hindi will tell you the phrase actually means an evenly matched fight.

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