While machines can churn out Mills & Boon romances word-for-word, they still stumble when it comes to capturing the soul of literature. Take Munshi Premchand’s 'Gaban'; a single line about 'Triveni' isn’t just geography, it’s suicide. AI doesn’t know that. It doesn’t feel that. At Ashoka University’s translation conference, experts agreed: machines can handle formula, but not feeling. Translators aren’t obsolete; they’re the guardians of context, culture, and human experience. And as one panelist put it, if publishers choose AI over humans, the blame lies with them; not the translators. So next time you read a beautifully translated novel, remember: behind those words is a person who didn’t just translate sentences; they translated emotions.