A multilingual Digital Humanities archive
India’s stories,
across India’s languages.
SHABD India preserves, translates and opens access to underrepresented literary traditions—bringing every story into conversation with every language.
languages × 22 stories
One selected story from each scheduled language, progressively translated into the other twenty-one.
01 / The idea
One corpus.
A network of relations.
One culturally significant short story from each scheduled language.
Each source story moves progressively into the other twenty-one languages.
Every version carries people, provenance, notes, rights and review status.
03 / Featured story
Heengwala
The Asafoetida Seller
A story of an itinerant asafoetida seller and the bonds of trust that persist through an atmosphere of communal tension.
Open the story object ↗04 / Archive in progress
Incompleteness,
made legible.
These are corpus facts, not marketing counters. Every number grows from the published records.
Translate
Work from an existing source text with editorial and language review.
Learn more →02Narrate
Create accessible audio with documented consent and recording rights.
Learn more →03Suggest
Propose a significant story with contextual and rights information.
Learn more →04Digitise
Help preserve source editions through careful transcription and QA.
Learn more →06 / Research & updates
An archive that also studies its own conditions.
SHABD India brings literary preservation into dialogue with multilingual computing, archival access, translation, accessibility and postcolonial Digital Humanities.
Explore the research