Class XI girl lauded for translating ‘Aathichudi’ to Hindi

Trichy: A class XI student of a private school in Trichy has won the praise of Trichy district collector, S Sivarasu, for translating ‘Aathichudi’, a collection of single line quotations by Tamil poetess Avvaiyar, in English and Hindi.

She has also translated ‘Kondrai Vendhan’ – a Tamil moral book of the same author-and released it as a book.

This is not the first time that ‘Aathichudi’ and ‘Kondrai Vendhan’ has been translated to other languages but N S Apsara, from Sowdambikaa school, has translated the books in two different languages besides coming out with the transliteration of the works, which has made her feat unique.

The collector met Apsara on Tuesday and appreciated her for her attempt to take popular Tamil books to non-Tamil readers.

Her tryst with Aathichudi – a collection of 109 phrases which teach moral values- happened in class VII when she recited them for a school competition.

It was Apsara’s father, K Sasi Kumar, who motivated her to come up with the translation in Hindi as she used to learn the language after her school hours.

“Initially, Apsara started taking help of an online dictionary for translation but later got her work corrected by Vijayalakshmi, Hindi teacher at Cauvery college for women,” Sasi Kumar said.

Apsara plans to translate many more popular Tamil books to Hindi.