This lecture is about why the present world has to rethink the problem of universality, why postcolonial translation plays so preeminent a role in restaging the universal, and how to translate the universal across linguistic or cultural boundaries to the satisfaction of all concerned. The author asserts that we are living in a world besieged with crises on all sides and the world needs to begin with new beginnings, redefining modernity and its coordinates. The first step towards imagining new beginnings is, by way of postcolonial translation, turn the concept of universality into a political space of (re)negotiation between the local and global, the hegemonic and the subaltern, and the West and the rest, so as to reflect or represent different ways of being human, different political legacies, and different cultural traditions in the globally shared concepts of development, democracy, and happiness.
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