Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar's epic 'Sarpa Satra'

Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar’s epic ‘Sarpa Satra’
The work is a subversive retelling of the apocalyptic rite of snake sacrifice, which is the opening myth of The Mahabharata.
Arun Kolatkar.
In its theoretical discourse, translation has often been described as “discovery”, “recovery”, “rewriting”, “retelling”, “criticism”, and so on. However, it has never been conceptualised as an act of “mourning” or a process of “grieving”, even though the tradition of grieving is one of the oldest in the history of human civilisation.
Theorists like Sigmund Freud and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross have clearly underlined the importance of allowing the process of mourning to run its full course because it’s only after grieving the loss of a loved one that one becomes capable of loving again. Interestingly, in his famous letter to his mother, Roman philosopher Seneca advised to her to confront her grief rather than delaying it with distractions like travelling abroad, checking accounts, and administering estate etc.

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