They have and are making the right moves. They have brought into focus what needs to be done and have also shown how it could be done. But the task cannot be confined to a handful of activists. It needs to become a national cause. We have to open up career opportunities for translators.
Translators too have to make a living.
The wages they receive, the rewards they deserve should be such as to draw the best of talent to the field. The honors and awards, now being granted to them by literary fora, need to be significantly augmented. Perhaps, that charge is justified. But that is deliberate. Let me now revert to the horse that needs to be put first, the horse in this case being the training ground for aspiring translators.