Aditya Haksar
| PersonType | Category:Authors of English Works Category:Translators |
|---|---|
| FirstName / namefirst | Aditya |
| LastName / namelast | Haksar |
| namemiddle | Narayan Dhairyasheel |
| MainNamePhon | Aditya Haksar |
| SortName | Haksar, Aditya |
| bio | Aditya Narayan Dhairyasheel Haksar was born December 3rd 1933 in Gwalior, central India. He was educated at The Doon School, Allahabad University, and Oxford University.
He was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service, serving as Indian High Commissioner to Kenya and the Seychelles, Minister in the United States, Ambassador to Portugal and Yugoslavia, and also as Dean of India's Foreign Service Institute and President of the UN Environment Programme's Governing Council. As a translator: He's best known for a substantial body of Sanskrit-to-English translations, with a particular focus on kathā (narrative) Sanskrit literature—a manuscript tradition he's noted as estimating runs to some 40,000 volumes. His translations include the Jātakamālā, Bhāsa's plays (1993), Daṇḍin's Tales of the Ten Princes (1995), the Hitopadeśa fables (1998), the Siṃhāsana Dvātriṃśikā (1998), the Śuka Saptati (2000), the Subhāṣitāvali (2007), Kṣemendra's The Courtesan's Keeper and other satires, and Vātsyāyana's Kāma Sūtra (2011), among others—most published as Penguin Classics. |
| YearBirth | 1933 |
| BornIn | Gwalior, central India |
| IsInGyatsa | No |
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