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'''Arshia Sattar''' (born 1960) is an [[India]]n translator and writer.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kulkarni |first1=Archana Pai |title=We should all be free to see Rama as we choose: Translator Arshia Sattar |url=https://www.shethepeople.tv/books/scholar-translator-arshia-sattar-interview/ |website=SheThePeople TV |access-date=6 January 2021 |date=30 November 2019}}</ref><br />
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Sattar obtained her PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mummy, Why did Rama send Sita to the forest if he loved her? {{!}} Azim Premji Foundation |url=https://azimpremjifoundation.org/content/mummy-why-did-rama-send-sita-forest-if-he-loved-her |website=azimpremjifoundation.org |access-date=6 January 2021}}</ref> Her doctoral advisor was [[Wendy Doniger]], a renowned [[Indologist]]. Her abridged translations of the epic [[Sanskrit]] texts, ''[[Kathasaritsagara]]'' and [[Valmiki]]'s ''[[Ramayana]]'' have both been published by [[Penguin Books]]. Her book reviews and articles appear regularly in ''The Times of India,'' ''The Illustrated Weekly of India'' and the ''Indian Review of Books.''<br />
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She has also worked with [[documentary]] film and theatre. Most recently, she taught Indian Studies at the [[Mahindra United World College of India]] in [[Pune]] for five years. She currently works as a freelance writer and researcher. She was previously the programming director at [[OpenSpace]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infochangeindia.org/aboutus.jsp |access-date=February 2, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108150419/http://infochangeindia.org/aboutus.jsp |archive-date=January 8, 2007 }}</ref> an [[NGO]] committed to promoting awareness of issues such as globalization. She has also been a visiting lecturer at [[Middlebury College]], teaching courses on Indian cinema and cultural politics. In 2005, Sattar was the program director for the [[Rangashankara]] theater festival in [[Bengaluru]]. She also sometimes lectures at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, and the [[Srishti School of Art Design and Technology]], Bangalore, India where she gives a week-long class on Indian narrative.<br />
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Arshia Sattar, along with G W Gibson co-founded the Sangam House Writing residency in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sangamhouse.org/the-people/ |access-date=6 January 2021|title=The People &#124;}}</ref> This is the first and only fully funded writer's residency in India.<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* {{cite book<br />
| title=Tales from the Kathāsaritsāgara<br />
| last=Sattar<br />
| first=Arshia <br />
| author-link=Arshia Sattar<br />
| year=1994<br />
| publisher=Penguin Books<br />
| isbn=9780140247213<br />
}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Sattar|first=Arshia|title=The Rāmāyaṇa by Vālmīki|publisher=Viking|year=1996|isbn=978-0-14-029866-6}}<br />
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