Rohee Dholakia is a poet, translator and educator from Ahmedabad, India. She was an attendee at the South Asian Literature in Translation workshop 2024 (the SALT project) held by University of Chicago in Colombo and a mentee at 2025 American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Emerging Translator Mentorship Program. She was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2026 for her translation of a Gujarati short story “Nityakram” written by Panna Naik. She teaches creative writing at Mahatma Gandhi International School and National Institute of Fashion Technology, Gandhinagar. Her writing and translation have appeared in The Hooghly Review, Lakeer Magazine, The g5a Imprint Magazine, Scroll, The EKL Review, The Usawa Literary Review, The Remnant Archive, The Missing Slate and Verse of Silence. You can find her on Instagram: @a_treechild, X: @ShahRohee, or at https://roheedholakia.weebly.com/.
In her translation of Gujarati literary giant K.M Munshi’s “Ek Patra,” Rita Kothari uses language to reveal not just the story, but the hidden realities of the lives inhabited by the characters. By Rohee Dholakia